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Five Gauchos Named WDIA All-American

May. 7, 2008

Denver, CO - Five UCSB players have been selected for WDIA All-American honors and one of them also earned a Player of the Year award. During the US Lacrosse WDIA Tournament Awards Banquet at the Denver Renaissance Hotel senior captain Kristyn Gherardi (San Mateo, CA) was named Defensive Player of the Year for all of the 170 team WDIA. The award followed up on Gherardi being named First Team All-American for the second time.

First-time UCSB All-Americans are seniors Kristen Dickey (Davis, CA), Emily Ruby (Davis, CA) and junior Katie Moran (San Rafael, CA) who were all selected to the First-Team. Sophomore Maggie Aker (Oakland, CA) was named Second Team All-American. Aker scored her 50th point of the season earlier in the day during the Gauchos win over the club from Boston College when she assisted freshman Ashley Antoon-Algieri (San Ramon, CA) on the final UCSB goal of the game.

Dickey is the leading scorer on a balanced UCSB attacking unit with 46 goals and 12 assists following the first round play-off game vs. BC. Ruby's tally currently sits at 28 goals and 21 assists heading into the quarterfinal with Lindenwood on May 8th. Moran has numbers to write home about all over the field. The converted defender now unleashed to roam the whole field has 27 goals, 16 assists, 53 draw controls, 51 ground balls and 46 caused turnovers. Gherardi's contributions are similar with 21 goals, 3 assists, 32 draw controls, 51 ground balls and 57 caused turnovers.

UCSB Individual Post-Season Honors

WDIA Defensive Player of the Year
Kristyn Gherardi

WDIA First Team All-American
Kristen Dickey (Attack)
Emily Ruby (Attack)
Katie Moran (Midfield)
Kristyn Gherardi (Defense)

WDIA Second Team All-American
Maggie Aker (Midfield)