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The 1992 William Smith field hockey team is the second squad to be named a Heron Team of Distinction, joining the 1988 soccer team. The 1992 field hockey team posted program records for wins in a season (22) and winning percentage (.957). The Herons’ run to the program’s first national championship (the College’s second) included a then record 17 consecutive wins.
At 22-1, few would challenge the Herons’ dominance, but that doesn’t mean things were easy. William Smith won nearly twice as many games by a single goal (13) than it did by three or more (7). Four of the season’s first six matches and a total of six matches during the campaign needed overtime for a winner to be declared, including the lone blemish, a 1-0 double overtime setback against Bloomsburg.
William Smith played five straight one-goal matches to reach the championship against two-time defending national champion Trenton State on the Lions’ home field. Liz Scribner Repetto ’93 batted home her own rebound early in the first half to give the Herons a 1-0 lead. Trenton State put William Smith under intense pressure in the second half, but the defense, anchored by goalie Jen Kulesa-Kast ’93 (13 saves), posted its 10th shutout of the year to make the goal stand up.
The team boasted the National Coach of the Year, Sally Scatton; three All-Americans, Ann Lynch Burnes ’93, Melanie Nelson-Ginsberg ’95, and Mani Martin Harwich ’93; and six All-Region picks, Lynch Burnes, Nelson-Ginsberg, Martin Harwich, Schribner Reppeto, Kulesa-Kast, and Samantha Emmet Janney ’93, who led the team with 30 points (12-6).
Four members of the team have been inducted into the Heron Hall of Honor,
Lynch Burnes (Class of 2002),
Jennifer Bertsch Dolce ’95 (2007), Head Coach
Sally Scatton (2007), and
Pam DuMond Tarnowski ’96. Additionally, Cindy Oyler Teerlinck ’93 is the president of the Heron Society Board of Directors.
