March 1, 2007

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Six members of the National Champion field hockey team were named to the Academic All-ACC team, the Atlantic Coast Conference recently announced. Among the six honorees were Honda Award winner and National Player of the Year Paula Infante and second team All-American Kristina Edmonds.

To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.0 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.0 cumulative average during her academic year. A total of 31 student-athletes were selected to the academic all-conference squad.

The six honorees are tied for the second most of any of the six teams. Senior Paula Infante (Santiago, Chile), a Physical Education major, was named the national player of the year for the second-straight season. Senior Kristina Edmonds (Emmaus, Pa.) is on the team for the second-straight year. She is a Kinesiology major and was also an All-ACC performer this season.

Sisters Ameliet and Berber Rischen (Rotterdam, Netherlands), Emily Trycinski (Nazareth, Pa.) and Kim Ziegler (Harford, Md.) were also named to the team. A junior, Ameliet is a Biological Sciences major and Berber is a graduate student at the Smith School of Business. As a freshman, Ameliet started in 22 of the Terps' 25 games and scored six goals. Berber transferred from Kent State University to complete her collegiate eligibility. She started in every game, scoring seven goals and dishing out 11 assists, which ranked second on the team. She was also named Mid Atlantic All-Region.

Trycinski scored the only goal in the championship game vs. Wake Forest, giving Maryland its second-straight NCAA title. A kinesiology major, she tallied a career-high seven goals in her final season as a Terrapin. Ziegler is an engineering biology major and also scored a career high five goals on the season, making 10 starts.

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