Sloane Sweitzer is having quite a lacrosse season!
Last week she found out she was the first girl in Lyme-Old Lyme High School’s (LOLHS) history to be named an All-American. Yesterday, she learned she had been named the Shoreline Conference Player of the Year for 2016, and also made 1st Team All-Conference for 2016.
Sweitzer’s coach, Emily Macione, told LymeLine.com, “There is no first and second [All-American] team anymore; they select one team of girls. She [Sweitzer] was up against girls from all levels and school sizes across the state,” adding that it, “is obviously a pretty big accomplishment.”
Macione continued, “Sloane’s had an incredible senior season thus far and earning this honor is the metaphorical fruit of her labor. Furthermore, she has worked so hard these past four years, fought back from tearing her ACL last year, and we are just really, really proud of her.”
Sweitzer, who will be attending Bryant University (which plays Division I women’s lacrosse) in the fall, has been a four-year varsity member of the girls’ lacrosse team and is its captain this season. She was also captain of cross country in the fall and basketball in the winter, and has lettered not only in those three varsity sports during her high school career, but also in soccer.
Sweitzer was the 2016 CIAC female Scholar-Athlete of the Year for LOLHS and to date in her senior season has scored 63 goals, 43 assists, and 91 draw controls. In her remarkable career at LOLHS to date, she has notched 274 goals, 105 assists, and 214 draw controls. She was named First Team All-State in 2013, 2014, 2015 and will also be in 2016. Similarly, she was named All-Conference in 2013 and 2014 and is expected to do so in 2016.
She missed half of the 2015 season recovering from an ACL tear, so while she did not make All-Conference, she returned in sufficient time to be named All-State.
This evening she will lead her team in the Shoreline Conference final against Old Saybrook at Connecticut College, starting at 7 p.m.
Congratulations, Sloane … and Go Wildcats!
Sloane, great to see you are doing well–actually, terrific, incredible, super, marvelous, etc… and I never doubted it for a minute going back to your days at The Country School. All of us at Country are sooooooo happy and proud. So you were a Tiger, Owl, Wildcat and now a Bulldog!
Congrats from your former coach and teacher. Between you and Henry Hunt ( Country also) you put Lyme-Old Lyme on the map!!!!!
Best, Coach “W”