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May 2, 2002
Virginia’s Lauren Aumiller (Baltimore, Md./Notre Dame Prep), who leads the nation with 5.76 points per game and 64 goals, was named the national player of the week by insidelacrosse.com. This is the second such national honor for a Virginia player as Captain Tiffany Schummer was so named on March 25th.
Aumiller had two consecutive seven-point games as the Cavaliers upset #4 Loyola 13-10 before defeating the #12 Vanderbilt Commodores 17-13 in Nashville. Aumiller has scored in every game this year and she, along with teammate Amy Appelt (Garden City, N.Y./Garden City), become just the fifth and sixth players in Virginia history to score in every game in the regular season.
This season Aumiller led the ACC in scoring and draw controls and is the only player in the nation to rank in the top-20 in goals, assists, points and draw controls, and she ranks in the top-10 nationally in all four catagories. A repeat on the All-ACC team, Aumiller holds the Virginia record for draw controls in a career with 137 and ranks third all-tme in scoring at The University with 205 career points.
In 2002, Aumiller has notched a hat trick in 12 of Virginia’s 17 games and has 98 points, which already ranks 17th for scoring in a single season in the history of intercollegiate lacrosse at the Division I level. Her 98 points ranks second alltime for scoring in a year at Virginia and her 64 goals sits just one goal behind Dawn Wisniewski’s record 65. In addition, she trails Cathy Large from Old Dominion for the record of goals in a season in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Large had 67 goals in 1987. Aumiller’s 98 points trails only Lindsay Sheehan’s 125 which she scored in 1986 both at Virginia and in the Commonwealth.
Virginia will learn its NCAA fate as the bids are announced on Sunday, May 5.