Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell Women's Soccer to Welcome Seven Newcomers in 2009
2/26/2009 7:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Feb. 26, 2009
LEWISBURG, Pa. – Bucknell head women's soccer coach Ben Landis has announced that seven student-athletes have committed to join the Bison next season. The members of the Class of 2013 who will play at Bucknell are Taryn Boucher of Cutchogue, N.Y., Corinne Collins of Orinda, Calif., Meghan Fitzpatrick of Verona, N.J., Sandita McDermott of Rhinebeck, N.Y., Emily Trosch of Reisterstown, Md., Jenna Tryon of Fairfax Station, Va., and Kayla Yee of Centennial, Colo.
The talented seven-player class joins a Bison team that graduated only three seniors off of last year's 11-6-3 team, although the three departing seniors all played critical roles. Landis' fourth Bucknell recruiting class features student-athletes from coast to coast, with every position on the field accounted for.
“Coming into this recruiting period we knew that replacing three outstanding seniors in Kelly Boswell, Jennifer Dervarics and Nicole Marotta was going to be an extremely difficult task considering the careers that they had,” said Landis. “However, there is some real talent throughout this class. We feel that we have strengthened the roster at every position, particularly at center back, goalkeeper and midfield, which were areas of emphasis. The best part about the class is that they are all quality student-athletes who have reputations as hard workers. That has been a trademark of our Bucknell teams and has been the foundation of our success. This is also an athletic group. They all have outstanding speed and quickness, which will make us an overall faster team.”
A projected midfielder, Boucher will graduate this spring from Mattituck High School in Eastern Long Island. She played four years of varsity soccer there and served as team captain her senior year. Boucher had the assist on the game-tying goal in the 2008 Suffolk County Championships, then she scored the winning goal in the second overtime period. An all-conference selection as a junior and senior, she helped her team win the 2005 New York Class B championship. Boucher played club soccer for the Commack Blasters and for the Stony Brook Hornets. The latter team captured the bronze medal at the 2006 Como Champions Cup in Italy and Switzerland. Boucher also lettered in basketball, track and field and softball at Mattituck.
Collins is a fullback and midfielder who comes from a strong soccer program at Miramonte High School in Orinda, Calif. She captained the team as a senior and was named First Team All-Diablo Foothill Athletic League in 2008. The team captured its third straight DFAL title this past fall, and in 2008 it won the North Coast Section crown. Collins, whose father Tim played football at Bucknell from 1981-84, was also the team captain of the Lamorinda Soccer Club, United 90.
Fitzpatrick will play in the back for the Bison after an outstanding four-year career at Verona High School in New Jersey. She earned First Team All-Colonial Hills Conference honors in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and she was a two-time First Team All-Essex County selection. Fitzpatrick also played club soccer for the Montclair Aristocats and helped that side win New Jersey Cup titles in 2003, 2006 and 2007. The club captured the Super Y League national championship in 2006 and was a Region I semifinalist in 2008.
A very promising goalkeeper, McDermott was a captain in two of her five varsity seasons at Red Hook High School, where she broke the program record for career shutouts. She was a second team all-conference selection as an eighth-grader, then she captured first team honors in each of the next four seasons. She was also an all-section and all-state honoree and was named to the Poughkeepsie Journal's all-star team three times. A five-time New York State All-Academic Team member, McDermott helped Red Hook claim a pair of Mid-Hudson Athletic League titles as well as a Section IX championship in 2007. As a member of the Mamaroneck Panthers club team, she backstopped the squad to the 2008 Score at the Shore title in North Carolina, and she helped the Middlepath X-treme win the Orange Classic in 2007.
Trosch becomes the second member of her family to be a varsity student athlete at Bucknell, as her sister Lauren is a junior outfielder on the Bison softball team. Emily Trosch captained the soccer team at McDonogh, located in the Baltimore suburb of Owings Mills, where she was a 2008 IAAM Conference All-Star. She played her club soccer with the Baltimore Bays. Trosch is also a two-year captain of the McDonogh softball team as well as a member of the track team.
Tryon has been an outstanding cross country and track and field athlete at South County Secondary School in Virginia, where she completed her first year with the soccer team this fall. She was a regional qualifier in cross country and a regional placewinner in the 400-meter dash and 4x400-meter relay in track. Tryon did play club soccer with the BRYC Blue Thunder, which reached the Virginia State Cup final four in four straight years. She will be a midfielder at Bucknell.
Yee will play forward with the Bison after earning four varsity letters in both soccer and basketball at Heritage High School in Littleton, Colo. The team's offensive MVP last season, Yee earned honorable mention all-state honors. She was also a two-time all-league pick, earning first team honors in 2008 and second team accolades in 2007. Yee played club soccer for the Riverside Renegades 90-91, a team that competed in the 2008 Far West Regionals in Hawaii.
