End of Season Update

Saucy Nancy completed our 2011 season with a 5^th place finish at nationals. This is the best finish the team has seen since 2005 and a tie for the team’s highest place finish in the history of the program. Our road to the finals ended with a hard-fought lost to Oregon in quarters, the defending champions, who were later defeated by Michigan in semis.
Overall, we were extremely happy with how our season went. We ended with a 32-7 record, placed 1^st in 3 of the 6 tournaments we competed in, and placed in the top 5 at each of the tournaments. It was the first taste of nationals for each of the girls on the current team and left us hungry for more. Until then, I’ll conclude this season with awards and announcements.

Robyn Fennig: 1^st team NC All-Region, 2^nd place nationwide Callahan award, Team MVP

Katie Johnson: 2^nd team NC All-Region

Anna Pritchard: Rookie of the Year

Erin Vorland: Most Improved

Chelsea Twohig: Spirit of the Game Award

Mike Lun: NC Coach of the Year

We will be graduating 3 saucies from the team – Kelli Parsons, Katie Johnson, and Robyn Fennig. These girls have all been great teammates and will be very missed on the field. Fortunately we’re hoping to still be seeing a lot of them in the future as saucy alumni, helping to continue building our program.

Alyx Averkamp, Bekah Hickernell, and Liza Minor were chosen as captains for the 2011-2012 season. We’ve already started planning for the fall season and excited to see where saucy nancy will go.

Big thanks to our coaches - Mikey, Steve, and DK for all your help this season at practices and tournaments as well as to Chris and Gordon Sedgwick for filming and photographing!
Videos from nationals produced by Gordon will continue to be posted - check out http://www.vimeo.com/sedgdad