Huntington Alum a College All-American
After a season that saw her score 49 goals for the Hamilton College women’s lacrosse team, Liz Rave, a 2006 graduate of Huntington High School, was named an NCAA All-American.
It was the college junior’s first All-American honor, but far from her first award. Since landing on Hamilton’s campus in the town of Clinton, nine miles southwest of Utica, Rave has been magnificent as both a student and an athlete.
In addition to earning All-Academic honors, Rave has scored 94 goals, notched nine assists, picked up 112 ground balls, won 112 draw controls and caused opponents to turn over the ball 49 times.
This year the midfielder led Hamilton (16-3) in goals scored and ranked 10th in the Liberty League in goals per game. Rave, who wears number 15, was second on the team with 53 points and won a team-high 36 draw controls.
At Huntington, Rave was a member of the National Honor Society and received the President’s Education Award. She also won a Gold Key, Section XI’s highest award for athletic participation.
The Huntington alum has won varsity letters in all three years of college play, appearing in 60 games and starting 57 of them. She had a stunning stretch of games this spring. In the Liberty League semi-finals against William Smith College, Rave scored four goals and then added two more in the league finals to help upset Union College, 4-3. The six goals in two games earned her the Liberty League tournament’s Most Valuable Player Award.
In the NCAA regional finals against Middlebury College, Rave was dynamic once again, scoring five goals and adding an assist in a 13-9 victory. Hamilton, the defending NCAA Division III national champion, was knocked out of the post-season by Franklin & Marshall, 16-13. In that game Rave scored one free position goal and then added four others, skirting around a sea of defenders with a combination of pure speed and impressive agility. She also contributed an assist.
Hamilton College is a small liberal arts school with a target enrollment of 1,775. This year’s student body represents 49 states and 45 countries.
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