COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. – Three members of the Ursinus College field hockey team – senior midfielder Megan Keenan (Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson), junior defender Aliki Torrence (Reading, Pa./Exeter), and junior forward Amber Steigerwalt (Warrington, Pa./Central Bucks South) – were named Longstreth/NFHCA Division III All-Americans, the organization announced today. Keenan and Torrence were selected to the first team, marking the first time that two Bears were honored as first-team All-Americans in the same season since 2009, while Steigerwalt collected a second-team nod.
Keenan is a first-team All-American for the third consecutive season, a well-deserved laurel after leading the Centennial Conference in goals (21), assists (20), and points (62) en route to earning conference Player of the Year and Tournament MVP honors as the Bears corralled their 11th league championship in the last 12 years and reached the NCAA semifinals for the first time since 2010. She finished the 2015 campaign third in Division III in assists per game (0.91) and 10th in points per game (2.64).
One of the top performers in CC history, Keenan's final season in Collegeville was accompanied by a litany of historic accomplishments. She became the first player ever to earn four straight first-team all-conference honors, as well as the first to be selected South Region Player of the Year in back-to-back years; she also made the all-region first team for the fourth straight year.
The Bears' first three-time first-team All-American since Kaitlyn Sutherland (2006-08), Keenan is the program's all-time leader in shots (519). She stands second in school history in goals (76), assists (52), and points (204), all of which rank within the top five in the CC record books. Keenan joins Sutherland and Alyssa Thren (2009-11) as three-time All-Americans in Ursinus history.
Torrence moved up to the first team after a third-team nod on the All-America squad a year ago. The leader of a stout defensive unit that conceded only a goal per contest (good for 12th in Division III) and produced 13 shutouts, Torrence started all 23 games on the Bears' back line. She recorded a defensive save, the eighth of her career, and even netted her first collegiate goal in a 10-0 rout of Bryn Mawr. Torrence was a first-team all-region selection for the second straight season; she was a second-teamer in 2013.
Steigerwalt ascended to the top of the conference ranks with a breakout, 52-point campaign that resulted in first-team all-CC and all-region honors. She matched Keenan with 21 goals to tie for the league lead and place 15th in the nation, also adding nine assists (third in the conference). Steigerwalt recorded six game-winning goals in 2015, including the opening tally in Ursinus' NCAA Tournament victories over Stevens and Rochester, and went off for three goals and an assist in the CC semifinals against Rochester before assisting on the game's lone tally as the Bears concocted a 1-0 triumph at Franklin & Marshall in the title game.