Coming off its fifth North Coast Athletic Conference championship and trip to the NCAA Div. III Tournament, seven members of The College of Wooster women's lacrosse team landed on the all-conference team, as announced by the league office on Tuesday. Highlighting this year's selections was senior Carly Carey (Northfield, Minn. / Academy at Charlemont (Mass.)), who was selected as the 2009 NCAC Offensive Player of the Year.

Wooster players joining Carey included fellow seniors Hillary Darragh (Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township) and Taryn Higgins (Marblehead, Mass. / Marblehead) on the All-NCAC First Team, sophomore Nina Dine (Tuckahoe, N.Y./ E.C. Fieldston School) and seniors Romy Eberle (New Haven, Conn./ Hopkins) and Jamie Dannenberg (Framingham, Mass./ Framingham) on the All-NCAC Second Team, and junior Britta Harman (Hudson, Ohio / Western Reserve Acad.), who was tabbed honorable mention.

Carey earns her third all-conference honor and second-straight first-team nod after serving as Wooster's top attacker, including a team-high 53 goals. She finished tied for second on the team with 12 assists for 65 total points, while starting all 16 games. Carey tallied a hat trick 11 times this season, highlighted by back-to-back six-goal games against Ohio Wesleyan University on April 15 and Adrian College on April 18, and also collected 18 groundballs during her final season.

Darragh, a repeat first-team honoree and four-time all-conference performer at midfield, continued to be a force for the Scots in 2009. A starter in all 16 games, she netted 41 goals and assisted on another 12 for a 53-point campaign to finish second on the squad in scoring. Darragh, who tied her career-high with seven points on seven goals against Wittenberg University on April 25, was a standout in other areas as well, posting 17 groundballs and 22 draw controls.

Higgins, who moved up to the All-NCAC First Team after being a second-team recipient the last two springs and an honorable mention selection her freshman year, was a key component to Wooster's success, providing a variety of intangibles as a midfielder. She once again led the Scots in two categories – groundballs (40), and caused turnovers (18), and was second in draw controls (45). Her average of 2.50 groundballs per game tied atop the conference statistics. Scoring wise, she registered 30 points on 25 goals and five assists, highlighted by a career-high five goals versus Kenyon College in Wooster's 15-14 triple-overtime win on April 4.

Dine followed a solid first campaign with a more productive spring, finishing as the team's third-leading scorer with 50 points. An attacker who has started all 32 career contests, Dine tossed in 33 goals, highlighted by the game-winner during Wooster's NCAC tournament 13-10 semifinal victory against Denison University on May 1, and passed out a league-high 17 assists. Also noteworthy, she notched a career-high eight-point performance (5 goals, 3 assists) against Gwynedd-Mercy College on March 19, and recorded 17 groundballs on the season.

Eberle, a four-time all-conference selection, again proved to be one of the top defensive players in the league, anchoring a backfield that held opponents to 9.57 goals per game. She started all 16 contests, and statistically, totaled 29 groundballs, ranking third on the Scots, including a season-high six against Allegheny College on April 8. Additionally, Eberle collected 15 caused turnovers.

A three-year starter between the pipes for Wooster, Dannenberg racked up her second all-NCAC award following a solid senior campaign. She led the NCAC with her 9.57 goals against average, and her .482 save percentage ranked second. The fourth-year Scot racked up 145 saves on the campaign, including a season-best 17 saves during Wooster's 15-14 triple-overtime thriller against Kenyon on April 4, and held opponents to 10 goals or fewer in 13 of Wooster's 16 contests.

Harman started all 16 games for Wooster. She made a significant impact for a defense that limited opponents to 10 or less goals in 13 of the 16 contests, producing the second-highest amount of groundballs with 31, and the third-most caused turnovers on the squad with 12, to go with 13 draw controls. Recently, Harman earned a spot on the all-NCAC tourney team.

The Scots won their fifth NCAC title, earning the top seed for the league tournament via a 6-0 regular season NCAC record, and then knocked off the No. 4 seed Denison University by a 13-10 in the semis and No. 2 seed Kenyon 11-6 in the finals. That gave Wooster the NCAC's automatic bid into the NCAA Div. III Tournament, in which it lost a first-round game at St. John Fisher College 17-12, capping the Scots' season at 12-4.