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Jourdan Roemer drives toward to goal in an NCAA Tournament game against Boston College in Syracuse, N.Y.
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Women's Lacrosse

MAAC 40th Year Celebration – Women’s Lacrosse Team

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) will be celebrating its 40th anniversary throughout the 2020-21 academic year, continuing its mission to provide student-athletes the opportunity to succeed in both academics and athletics.
 
The 40th Anniversary Women's Lacrosse Team highlights some of the best student-athletes in MAAC history. MAAC Women's Lacrosse traces back to 1997, with the league's first postseason tournament taking place in the spring of 2000. The 2000 season saw Manhattan capture the first MAAC Championship with an 11-8 win over Niagara. Since then, Canisius leads the conference with six championships overall, followed by Fairfield's five championship crowns and Le Moyne College, a former MAAC member, with four titles. The MAAC Women's Lacrosse Championship is set to return April 30-May 2, 2021, with games hosted by the league's top overall seed.
 
The five former Griffs honored on the MAAC 40th Anniversary Women's Lacrosse Team are Whitney (Card) Buchli '08, Erica Evans '18, Kristy Grossman '08, Tori Quinn '15 and Jourdan Roemer '19. Additionally, former head coach Scott Teeter was honored as one of the league's top coaches.
 
Women's Lacrosse Honorees
The 2006 MAAC Offensive Player of the Year and the 2006 Canisius Female Athlete of the Year, Whitney (Card) Buchli won four varsity letters with the program from 2005-08. In her career, she scored 137 goals and tallied 27 assists in 63 career games, with her 41 markers in 2005 setting the program record for goals in a season by a freshman… A three-time MAAC Midfielder of the Year selection and the 2015 MAAC Rookie of the Year, Erica Evans holds the honor of being the first player in school history to score more than 200 career points by her junior campaign. In 2016, Evans set the program record with 91 points, highlighted by 72 goals, including an eight-goal game in a win over Monmouth… Kristy Grossman was a four-time All-MAAC selection, including three All-MAAC First Team honors, and she holds the distinction of being the first former Canisius women's lacrosse player to be inducted into the school's Sports Hall of Fame… In her time with the Golden Griffins from 1998-01, she scored 14 goals to go with 11 assists, but she made her mark on defense, where she is the program's all-time leader in career ground balls (215) and caused turnovers (187)… Ranked second in school history with 251 career points, Tori Quinn scored 154 goals and dished out 97 assists in her career from 2012-15. One of four players in program history with 150-plus career goals, Quinn ranks third in the program record book with 97 career assists, with 36 of those coming in the 2015 campaign… The only player in program history with more than 100 career goals (157) and 100 career assists (102), Jourdan Roemer was a three-time All-MAAC selection and was honored as the 2018 MAAC Offensive Player of the Year. The school's career leader in points (259), she had 19 assists as a freshman in 2016, which is the most for a newcomer in a season in program history.
 
The winningest head coach in MAAC Women's Lacrosse history, Scott Teeter served as head coach at Canisius for 15 years from 2003-17. Under his guidance, Teeter changed the culture of the program and was named MAAC Coach of the Year in just his third season after leading the Blue and Gold to an eight-win improvement in 2005. In 2011, Canisius won a school-record 14 games and capped the successful campaign with the program's first MAAC Tournament title. The Griffs added postseason championships in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. In the run from 2011-14, the team became the first school in MAAC women's lacrosse history to win four-straight conference titles. Canisius also claimed regular-season crowns in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 after sweeping through conference foes without a loss.
 
He was named the league's coach of the year again in 2015, 2016 and 2017 after becoming the first three teams in MAAC history to post a perfect 8-0 regular-season record. Teeter is currently the head coach of the women's lacrosse program at Louisville.
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Players Mentioned

Erica Evans

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Jourdan Roemer

#23 Jourdan Roemer

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Players Mentioned

Erica Evans

#11 Erica Evans

5' 8"
Senior
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Jourdan Roemer

#23 Jourdan Roemer

5' 7"
Senior
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