April 14, 2011
WASHINGTON - The Georgetown University women's athletics program is ranked among the top in the country for the Capital One Cup, a program rewarding NCAA Division I athletics programs for their cumulative on-field performance across multiple sports.
Georgetown is currently ranked No. 29 in the Capital One Cup women's standings.
"We're very pleased to see Georgetown among the teams in the Capital One Cup standings," Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Lee Reed said. "It's been a very good year for our entire department, but we're particularly impressed with the BIG EAST and national success of several of our women's teams. It is a great time to be a Hoya."
The 2010-11 year has been an impressive one for several of the Georgetown women's athletics teams.
The cross country team finished in second place at the BIG EAST Championship and followed that up with a fourth place finish at the NCAA Championship, led by junior Emily Infeld (University Heights, Ohio/Beaumont), who was the national runner-up.
The women's soccer team, led by First Team All-American and BIG EAST Midfielder of the Year Ingrid Wells (Upper Montclair, N.J./Montclair), set a school record with 15 wins and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament after wins over Siena, Maryland and Minnesota.
The winter did not change the success level as Head Coach Terri Williams-Flournoy led the Hoyas to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament after impressive wins over Princeton and Maryland. Georgetown, which lost in the Sweet Sixteen to Connecticut, finished the2010-11 season with a 24-11
The women's indoor track & field team had four individuals - sophomore Rachel Schneider (Dover, N.H./St. Thomas Aquinas), senior Deidra Sanders (Memphis, Tenn./Eastern), freshman Chelsea Cox (Manahawkin, N.J./Southern Regional) and junior Katie McCafferty (Convent Station, N.J./Oak Knoll) - earn All-American honors after their finish at the NCAA Championships.
The Capital One Cup women's standings were led by Stanford with 82 points. Georgetown was one of four BIG EAST schools ranked among the top-30, joined by Connecticut, Notre Dame and Villanova.
The Capital One Cup is awarded annually to each of the top men's and women's Division I college athletics programs in the country. Points toward the Capital One Cup are earned and tracked throughout the year based on final standings of NCAA Division I Championships and final official coaches' polls. One winning men's and one winning women's program will be crowned after the completion of the final NCAA spring championships. Each winning athletic program will receive the Capital One Cup and $200,000 to fund student-athlete graduate-level scholarships. Winners will be announced at the annual ESPY awards.
