University of North Carolina Athletics
Ward & Waters Named DI Co-Goalies of the Year
June 17, 2016 | Women's Lacrosse
CHAPEL HILL—North Carolina's goalie tandem of Megan Ward and Caylee Waters are the 2016 Division I National Goalies of the Year, Inside Lacrosse announced on Friday. Waters earns the honor for the second year in a row after earning consensus national goalie-of-the-year honors in 2015 as well.
The Tar Heel goalie due split time in the cage all season for the 2016 national champion Carolina squad.
Ward, a senior from Annapolis, Md., picked up the victory in the cage in the 2016 NCAA championship game against Maryland after doing the same as a freshman in the 2013 national title game against the Terrapins.
Waters, a junior from Darien, Conn., earned the win in this spring's NCAA semifinal victory over Penn State.
The honor for Ward and Waters joins the National Coach of the Year award Jenny Levy won from Lacrosse Magazine earlier this week.
Here's what ILWomen had to say about Ward and Waters:
ILWomen Division I Co-Goalkeepers of the Year: Megan Ward, North Carolina, Sr. & Caylee Waters, North Carolina, Jr.
North Carolina's Megan Ward and Caylee Waters share the Division I national Goalkeeper of the Year honor after leading the Tar Heels to their second NCAA championship in just four years. Ward (8.78 GAA; 50%), who anchored the Heels' championship effort in 2013, led the Heels in her final game donning Carolina Blue with a career-high 14 saves against Maryland in the national championship. Waters, who got the starting nod in 14 of the 17 games she appeared in this season, gave up just 7.67 goals per game and turned away 48.4% of the shots she faced. Her eight saves vs. Penn State in the national semifinal lifted the Heels back to its third NCAA championship appearance in four seasons.
