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June 8, 2004
Virginia’s Amy Appelt, the Tewaaraton Trophy recipient and the Honda Sports Award winner for lacrosse, earned her third National Offensive Player of the Year award as the IWLCA tabbed her with that distinction. Head Coach Julie Myers was also honored as she was named the National Coach of the Year, her first such designation.
Appelt had one of the finest offensive seasons in the history of Division I women’s lacrosse, notching 90 goals and 121 points. She became only the third person in history to notch 90 or more goals in a season, and only the fourth person to reach 120 points or more in a single season. Appelt scored at least two goals in every game, notching a hat trick (three or more goals in a game) in 20 of Virginia’s 22 games, smashing both the ACC and NCAA records in the process. Her 90 goals is an ACC record and she finished the 2004 season with 201 career goals and 278 career points, and ranks in the top-20 all-time in Division I history with a full season to play. Appelt, the ACC Player of the Year, earned the Tewaaraton Trophy, the Honda Sports award, the first women’s lacrosse player in school history to be so designated.
Myers became the first person in collegiate women’s lacrosse history to win a national title as both a head coach and a player at the Division I level when the Cavaliers defeated Princeton 10-4 in the NCAA title game. She joins her predecessor Jane Miller as a national coach of the year, with both women earning the distinction in their ninth year at Virginia, winning their first national title in that year after losing a 10-9 game and going undefeated the remainder of the year en route to the gold trophy. Myers has a career record of 135-43 after guiding the Hoos to a school-record 19 wins in 2004.