Bowdoin College senior women’s lacrosse player Lindsay Picard has been named All-New England Small College Athletic Conference in awards handed out by the league on Thursday.
Picard was named Second Team All-NESCAC, closing out a sensational career that sees her rank among the top scorers in program history.
This spring, Picard finished tied for the team lead with 46 points, scoring 33 goals and dishing out a team-best 14 assists. She also led the team with 43 draw controls, 24 groundballs and 18 draw controls.
For her career, Picard ranks among Bowdoin’s all-time leaders in points (164, sixth), goals (125, seventh), assists (39, eighth) and groundballs (102, eighth).
Men
Six members of the Polar Bears have been recognized in All-Conference awards handed out by NESCAC on Thursday. No team in the conference received more honorees than Bowdoin and the six recipients are the most-ever for the program in All-NESCAC awards.
Head coach Jason Archbell was named the NESCAC Coach of the Year, while Clayton Wright was recognized as the NESCAC’s Rookie of the Year. Goaltender Peter Mumford was tabbed as a First Team All-NESCAC selection, while Brett Kujala, Matthew Crowell and Parker Sessions were named Second Team All- NESCAC choices.
Mumford paced the league with 9.12 goals against average and a .581 save percentage, and ranked fourth in total saves (198). The junior has posted a 12-4 mark for the top scoring defense (9.11) in the NESCAC.
Sessions helped backbone Mumford’s defensive corps, ranking second on the team with 14 caused turnovers and fourth on the squad with 24 groundballs. Kujala was Bowdoin’s top sharpshooter this spring, notching a team-high 43 goals, the most by a Bowdoin player since Kyle Courtiss scored 47 in 2003. Crowell has been outstanding in the Bowdoin midfield, ranking second behind Kujala with 31 goals this season, while adding 11 assists.
Wright is the first Bowdoin player in league history to earn NESCAC Rookie of the Year. He leads Bowdoin and is tied for sixth in the league with 27 assists to go along with 20 goals for 47 points, which paces all conference rookies.
Archbell was named NESCAC Coach of the Year for the first time in his career. In his fourth season at the helm, Archbell guided the Polar Bears to the third seed in the conference championship after posting an 8-2 record in league play, just one year after Bowdoin missed the playoffs. He is the second Polar Bear coach to receive the award, as Tom McCabe collected the honor in 2012.
Bowdoin will play Middlebury in the NESCAC Semifinals on Saturday at Tufts. Face-off is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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