Brittany Smith - 2016 Women's Lacrosse - LIU Post
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#9 Brittany Smith
Position: Defense
Height: 5-5
Class: Senior
Hometown: Dix Hills, N.Y.
Previous School: Half Hollow Hills West
2016: IWLCA All-America First Team … IWLCA All-North Region First Team … ECC Defensive Player of the Year … recipient of LIU Post’s Dr. Roy Ilowit Award … started all 21 games as key mark-up defender for the Pioneers … totaled 22 ground balls and 18 caused turnovers … had two ground balls and one caused turnover in a season-opening 21-0 rout of Nyack (Mar. 1) … amassed three ground balls and two caused turnovers in a 15-2 win against Assumption (Mar. 8) … scooped up three ground balls and forced a turnover in a 16-6 victory over Molloy (Mar. 23) … scored her first collegiate goal in a 19-0 drubbing of UDC (Apr. 9) … caused two turnovers at No. 12 Dowling (Apr. 13) … earned two ground balls and forced a turnover in a 16-2 win over Mercy (Apr. 30) … won three draws in a 6-2 edging of Mercy in an ECC Tournament semifinal (May 5) ... caused two turnovers in a 7-6 triumph versus No. 9 Dowling in the ECC Championship (May 7).
2015: All-ECC Second Team ... made 19 starts on defense for the Pioneers ... scooped up 24 ground balls, caused 19 turnovers and won 18 draws ... registered a season-high six draw control victories and collected three ground balls in win over Dowling (Apr. 8) ... won two draw controls, including one that led to her first career goal, in an 18-1 shellacking of Queens (N.Y.) on Apr. 26.
2014: Played in 15 games (five starts) … scooped up two ground balls and caused one turnover in a 19-6 win at Saint Leo (Mar. 13) … added one ground ball and one draw in a 14-13 victory at New Haven (Apr. 24) … corralled a pair of ground balls in an 18-19 triumph versus St. Thomas Aquinas (Apr. 26) … totaled two ground balls and one caused turnover in an NCAA National Semifinal against Adelphi (May 17).
2013: Saw action in six games.
Prior to LIU Post: Played four years of varsity lacrosse for Lauri Harebach … earned the Coaches' Award, the Unsung Hero Award and the Army Reserve Award … helped the Colts to the postseason in back-to-back seasons (2011 & 2012) … also played two years of both varsity volleyball and varsity basketball.
Personal: One of Steven and Elsie’s five children … has an older brother, Zach, and three younger siblings, Ella, Maximus and Roman … enjoys playing volleyball and basketball… her brother, Zach, played collegiate lacrosse at Stony Brook University ... her favorite athlete is Rajon Rondo … her father, Steven, was a collegiate wrestler ... aspires to be a physical therapist ... majoring in health science with a minor in business.
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