The field hockey team may have suffered an early exit from the NCAAs, but that did not stop the Longstreth/National Field Hockey Coaches Association from giving three Jumbos All-American honors.
Tufts tied Skidmore with two players on the first team — senior Tamara Brown and junior Taylor Dyer. Senior midfielder Amanda Roberts was named to the second team.
Brown, a two-time defending NESCAC Player of the Year, has now been named to the All-American team for three years running. Her 24 goals and seven assists helped launch Tufts to a regular season conference title.
Dyer's defense earned her NESCAC Defensive Player of the Year honors. This is her first All-American team selection.
Roberts had only one goal and four assists this season, but her command of the Jumbos attack earned her a third All-American selection. For the past two years, the senior has been named to the third team, but this year, she moved up to the second team.
The 2010 Jumbos lost in the NCAA Second Round to Middlebury. Tufts' NESCAC archrival Bowdoin — a team that the Jumbos beat 1-0 in the season finale but then lost to 3-0 in the NESCAC Championship and the 2008 National Championship game — took home its third national title in four years with a shootout win last week in the finals against Messiah.
