Chelsea Strodel

Position:
Defense
Height:
5-11
Class:
Senior
High School:
Skaneateles
Hometown:
Skaneateles, N.Y.

Senior Year: Named to the All-BIG EAST Second Team … Appeared in 13 games with 11 starts … Missed six games due to injury … Recorded 19 ground balls, 15 caused turnovers and six draw controls … Named the WomensLacrosse.com Player of the Week and the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week after her performance versus Notre Dame … Against the Irish, recorded three caused turnovers in the first half and then held the BIG EAST’s leading scorer without a point in the second half … Posted two caused turnovers against Georgetown and Northwestern … Scooped up four ground balls at Georgetown and three against Virginia, Notre Dame and Connecticut.

Junior Year: Earned All-BIG EAST Second Team accolades … One of four players to start all 16 games … Recorded 25 ground balls and caused 14 turnovers … Picked up a career-best six ground balls at Virginia … Grabbed three ground balls against Connecticut and Colgate … Also forced three turnovers against Colgate … BIG EAST Academic All-Star … Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll in the spring semester.

Sophomore Year: Started in 10 of 11 games played … Picked up 23 ground balls … Tallied two ground balls against Albany … Grabbed three ground balls against Binghamton … Recorded two ground balls against Virginia … Registered three ground balls at Georgetown … Grabbed five ground balls at Harvard … Picked up two ground balls at Massachusetts and Connecticut … Tallied three ground balls against Cornell … Grabbed one ground ball at Dartmouth.

Freshman Year: Appeared in six games, including a start against Dartmouth … Recorded two ground balls versus Dartmouth.

High School: Four-year member of the lacrosse, soccer and hockey teams at Skaneateles … Helped guide the lacrosse team to the sectional championship in 2003 … Two-time first-team all-league selection … All-Central New York honorable mention pick in 2002 … 2003 All-Central New York third-team selection … Recipient of team’s Most Valuable Attack Player Award in 2003 … Also earned the team’s Scholar-Athlete of the Week and Scholar Athlete of the Year Awards … Played hockey for the Syracuse Stars in 2000 … Helped the Stars to the section and state championships, and a third-place finish at the national tournament.

Personal: Born February 1985 … Daughter of Neil and Christine Strodel … One sister, one brother … Both attended Syracuse … Uncle, Mike Navaroli, played football at Syracuse … Majoring in communication and rhetoric.