Melissa Pearsall

Position:
Midfield
Height:
5-1
Class:
Senior
High School:
Cortland
Hometown:
Cortland, N.Y.

Senior Year: Played in 16 games with three starts … Recorded six points on five goals and one assists … Scored a career-best two goals against Harvard … Also posted goals versus Albany, Rutgers in the BIG EAST Tournament and Vanderbilt in the NCAA First Round … Registered an assist at Connecticut … Picked up 11 ground balls, including a season-best two against Binghamton, Harvard and Northwestern in the NCAA Quarterfinals … Named to the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll during the spring semester.

Junior Year: Played in 15 games with three starts … Picked up 18 ground balls and posted four points on one goal and three assists … Scored first career goal against Loyola on a free position shot … Recorded assists against Harvard, Albany and Northwestern … Grabbed five ground balls against Colgate and three against Albany.

Sophomore Year: Started in all 17 games … Picked up 30 ground balls … Grabbed five ground balls against Albany … Picked up two ground balls against Binghamton and Virginia … Had two ground balls at Georgetown … Tallied four ground balls at Harvard … Grabbed two ground balls at Massachusetts … Had one ground ball at Connecticut … Picked up three ground balls against Brown … Had two ground balls against Cornell … Picked up two ground balls against Notre Dame … Tallied one ground ball at Colgate … Grabbed four ground balls in NCAA first round at Dartmouth.

Freshman Year: Appeared in 15 games, starting 12 … Fifth on the team with 22 ground balls … Had a career high six ground balls versus Dartmouth.

High School: Four-year member of the lacrosse team … Also competed in basketball and gymnastics … Lacrosse team captain as a senior … Scored 117 goals and had 37 assists at Cortland … Team MVP in 2002 and 2003 … Recipient of the Norma T. Riley Award as the school’s outstanding athlete in 2003 … 2002 and 2003 first-team all-league pick … Second-team all-league selection in 2001 … Earned 2000 all-league honorable mention honors … 2003 All-Central New York honorable mention.

Personal: Born April 1985 … Daughter of Steve and Kathy Pearsall … Two brothers, one sister … Brother, Chris, played lacrosse at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute … Sister, Natalie, played field hockey at Ithaca College … Majoring in psychology.