Alvarez, Bollin, DeVona & Schnelzer Named WLax All-Stars; Cunningham to Coach
SPARKS, Md. (May 25, 2018) – The IWLCA has announced the rosters for the
2018 Senior All-Star games and the Empire 8 had four student-athletes and one coaches selected to the Division III North Team.
The Senior All-Star games will be held on Tierney Field at US Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks, Md. on Saturday, June 2, 2018. The Division III teams will cap off the event with their game at 2:30 pm. Admission for all games is free of charge. The games will also be web-streamed live on IWLCA-tv.com.
Nazareth College's Haley DeVona, St. John Fisher College's Claire Bollin, Stevens Institute of Technology's Victoria Alvarez and Stephanie Schnelzer were selected to play, and Stevens head coach Celine Cunningham, who recently announced her retirement from coaching, was selected to lead the North team.
Just 44 players were selected from across all of Division III to play in the game.
"I'm honored that I have the opportunity to coach the best of the best in this years's senior class," said Cunningham. "The IWLCA does such an amazing job with this event and I am happy that I get to be a part of it. Being named the North coach and therefore being able to coach Steph and Vicki in their last collegiate game is an incredible privilege and I'm happy the three of us will get to be on the field together one last time."
Both Bollin and DeVona were named first team Empire All-Region, while both Alvarez and Schnelzer were named to the All-Boardwalk Region Team this season. Alvarez was First-Team All-Empire 8 and Schnelzer was Second-Team.
DeVona finished out her senior season strong, leading the Golden Flyers in goals (45), assists (24), points (69) and draw controls (50).
Bollin led Fisher offensively in 2018 with 61 points, which included 38 goals, 23 assists, 97 shots, 31 ground balls, and 15 caused turnovers.
Alvarez finished with 16 caused turnovers and 14 ground balls this season. She played in 18 games and made 17 starts in 2018.
Schnelzer started all 19 games in goal and had a 14-5 record on the year. She posted 123 saves with a .480 percentage in 965 minutes between the pipes while facing 333 shots.
Cunningham and the Duck staff were named the Empire 8 Coaching Staff of the Year after leading Stevens to the regular season Empire 8 title and the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2011.