CAPE COD, Mass. - The ECAC announced its 2009 ECAC Division III South Women's All-Stars and Frostburg State University junior forward Lauren Russell (Waldorf, Md./Westlake) was named the Offensive Player of the Year while Bobcat freshman Amanda Wharton (Mt. Airy, Md./South Carroll) nabbed the league's Rookie of the Year honor. Senior Lauren Lentine (Princeton, N.J./WWP North) accompanied the duo as an all-star as she was selected to the second team. The three are the first ECAC All-Stars in the history of the FSU women's soccer program.

Russell, the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Player of the Year, led the Bobcats in several categories and set FSU single-season records in goals (27), assists (16) and points (70). She finished the year ranked fifth in the country in points per game (3.18), ninth in assists per game (0.73) and 11th in goals per game (1.2).

Wharton, the AMCC Newcomer of the Year, turned in an excellent effort in her first season in a Bobcat uniform with 24 goals, nine assists and 57 points. She finished 19th in the nation in points per game (2.59) and 25th in goals per game (1.09). Lentine, a four-time All-AMCC selection and 2008 AMCC Player of the Year, capped her final season with five goals, nine assists and 19 points.

Frostburg State finished the year 18-4 overall, won its fifth AMCC Tournament Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth time in the program's history.

Johns Hopkins' goalkeeper Karen Guszkowski was named the ECAC South Defensive Player of the Year after posting eight shutouts, with a .912 save percentage and a 0.42 goals against average. She helped the No. 7 ranked Blue Jays to an NCAA Elite Eight berth.

Both Frostburg State and Hopkins placed two athletes on the ECAC All-Star first team and one on the second team, while Manhattanville had three total all-star selections, including two on the second team.

The ECAC is the nation’s largest athletic and the only multi-divisional conference with approximately 300 Divisions I, II, and III colleges and universities from Maine to North Carolina and westerly to Illinois. Established in 1938, the ECAC, a non-profit service organization, sponsors nearly 100 championships in 37 men’s and women’s sports, assigns more than 4,400 officials in 12 sports, administers nine affiliate sports organizations and six playing leagues and recognizes more than 2,000 student-athletes through the public relations arm of the conference.

2009 ECAC South Women's All-Stars (pdf)