University of North Carolina Athletics
ACC Player of the Year McPike Leads Three Tar Heel All-ACC Selections
April 18, 2002 | Women's Lacrosse
April 18, 2002
DURHAM, N.C. - University of North Carolina senior Christine McPike has been named the 2002 Atlantic Coast Conference women's lacrosse Player of Year. The conference anounced the honor at its annual banquet preceding the ACC Tournament, which begins on Friday on the campus of Duke University. McPike is the first Carolina player ever to win the award.
McPike and fellow Tar Heel seniors Lindsay Stone and Porter Wilkinson all were named to the All-ACC team at the banquet. Meanwhile, head coach Jenny Slingluff Levy was named the co-ACC Coach of the Year along with Virginia's Julie Myers.
McPike is sixth in the ACC in goals scored at 2.5 per game and 10th in the conference in scoring at 2.83 points per game. She also excels on the defensive end of the field, ranking second in the ACC in caused turnovers at 2.20 per game. The Farmingdale, N.Y., native is third among UNC players in goals scored with 30 and fourth with 34 points. She has been named All-ACC in each of the last two seasons and has been named a "Player to Watch" for the 2002 Tewaaraton Trophy, given annually to the National Player of the Year.
Stone, an attacker, was named All-ACC for the second season in a row. She leads Carolina with 35 goals, 16 assists and 51 points this season and is on pace to set career highs in all three categories in 2002. Stone is fifth in the ACC in scoring with 3.92 points per game, fourth with 2.69 goals per game, fifth with 1.23 assists per game and second with 2.69 draw controls per game. She was named ACC Player of the Week twice this season.
Wilkinson, a defender, wa named All-ACC for the third year in a row, becoming Carolina's first-ever three-time All-ACC honoree. One of the best defenders in the nation over the last three seasons, Wilkinson has started the last 48 games - every UNC game in the last three seasons. She is the leader of a Tar Heel defensive unit that leads the ACC in team defense this season at 7.23 goals allowed per game and is eighth in the ACC with 1.69 turnovers caused per game. She was a two-time All-America selection prior to this season.
Slingluff Levy was named the 2002 co-ACC Coach of the Year in a vote of the conference's coaches. Slingluff Levy shares the honor with Virginia's Julie Myers. The ACC Coach of the Year honor is the second in Slingluff's seven seasons as the Tar Heel head coach. She also won the award in 1998.
Carolina, riding a six-game winning streak, is the No. 2 seed in this weekend's ACC Tournament and will face No. 3 seed Duke on Friday afternoon at 3:30 at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C.
