The Colby women's soccer team is looking to make an unprecedented seventh post-season appearance in as many years. Led by captains Katie Egan '02, Abby Kussell '02, Michelle Mancuso '02, and Lizzy Rice '02, the team returns a talented core of players vying for a playoff birth in the second year of NESCAC Conference play. The 2001 season marked the birth of the NESCAC Conference as a playing league and a seven-team tournament follows a complete, regular season, round-robin schedule. On offense, the team returns the two-time, regular -season, league-leading scorer, Christine O'Donnell '03 and forwards, Lauren Gremelspacher '03, and Kate Liggio '03. Rice '02, the team's playmaker in the midfield, returns to lead the offense. Joining her in the midfield will be Egan '02, Julie Brown '03, Colleen Lacey '03, Emily Dattwyler '03, Stacey Thurston '03 , Meaghan Lane '04, and Marissa MacNaughton '04. Defensively, Mancuso '02 and veteran backs, Stephanie Hicks '03, Katie Tibbetts Œ03 and Alicia Ford '03 will look to replace three-time All New England defensive player, Sara Lovitz '01, and four-year, starting sweeper, Katie Rowen '01. Returning goaltenders, Kussell '02 and Ashley Harris '04 will compete for the starting position for the 2001 campaign. The returning players of the Colby women's soccer team will kick off the season with a ten- day tour of England, Holland, Belgium and Germany in August of 2001.

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