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Londonderry's Thompson is girls' lacrosse Player of Year

Londonderry High spent the girls' lacrosse season facing enormous pressure to maintain one of the nation's longest win streaks, all while staying focused on a Division I three-peat.

The team relied heavily on juniors. One of them transformed from draw-control specialist into the state's premier full-field force.

Midfielder Jenny Thompson — the prospect several Division I college coaches hope to land — is the headliner on the 12-girl New Hampshire Union Leader All-State team as Player of the Year. Maureen Wentzell, who guided fourth-year Plymouth Regional to its first Division III championship, is Coach of the Year.

New Hampshire's only U.S. Lacrosse high school All-American this spring, Thompson is the second straight Lancer to win the statewide newspaper's top honor. She's also the first underclassman to earn the award in the six years since the inaugural All-State team debuted.

“When you hear someone won Player of the Year, that's a big deal. Marcie (Marino) got it last year. I saw it in the newspaper. Her picture was right in the middle,” Thompson said. “It's just such an honor.”

Wentzell — whose 140 career points as an attacker for Plymouth State University (Class of 1976) at one time topped the list — echoed the sentiment.

In its brief history as a varsity team, Plymouth (15-2 Div. III) hadn't won more than six games in a season, let alone a tournament tilt.

“We managed the last two years to get into the playoffs, but we got bumped in the first round,” said Wentzell, lauding assistant coach Tom Cowie, and seniors Nika Mosenthal, Rachel Schwaner, Maryanna Swanson, Lucy Tomkiewicz and Liz Gailey. “We said, ‘Let's get into the semifinals, let's see our name in the semis. Anything after that is just wonderful.'” Wentzell's club, the No. 1 seed, scored 51 goals in three tourney wins.

High expectations were new to Plymouth. Thompson, however, was familiar with them.

Teams targeted the junior's every move. She was a magnet for double teams. She saw triple teams, too.

“I can honestly say I like playing under pressure. When people target me, when they're watching me, that makes me play better. It's not going to make me back down,” said Thompson, who posted a team-high 70 goals and shared the top honor in points (80).

Terrific in transition, Thompson was most dangerous in 7-on-7 situations.

NCAA Probation and Division I College Basketball « SportsDelve.com

A few weeks ago I analyzed NCAA probation and major college football.  This week I will analyze NCAA probation and major college basketball.   Below is a list of current Division 1 basketball programs that have been placed on NCAA probation.

Just as I wrote in the NCAA Probation and College Football article, it’s important to keep in mind that violations in other sports often bring attention to a school’s entire athletic program.  Sometimes the basketball violations paled in comparison to violations in other sports, but if the basketball program was involved I still listed them.

I also didn’t list exact dates of probation.  Instead listing the season(s) affected.  If the probation occurred mid-season, I listed the month/year that the probation began and ran through.

Unlike the NCAA Probation and College Football article I didn’t list the dates in which violations occurred.  Perhaps this is a project for another day.  There were simply too many cases of NCAA probation in college basketball, to effectively look at each case under the microscope in a reasonable amount of time.  You could honestly dedicate a blog to NCAA probation and never run out of content.

There are times when a conference will put a school on probation, and the NCAA won’t.  I only listed NCAA mandated probation, or instances conference probation adopted by the NCAA.  Sometimes schools will also give themselves a tournament ban in anticipation of NCAA sanctions.  I included these bans in the list, if the NCAA acknowledged those self imposed bans.

*1 The NCAA encouraged it’s member to abstain from scheduling Kentucky during the 1952-53 season.  Essentially giving Kentucky the “death penalty” for that season.

*2 San Francisco shut down it’s own men’s basketball program down for the three seasons it was under NCAA probation.

*3 SE Louisiana shut down it’s own men’s basketball program in 1989 for financial reasons.  While the program was shutdown the NCAA put the school under probation for five years.

*4 Tulane shut down it’s own men’s basketball program for three seasons, due to NCAA violations.

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