Sarah Albrecht, who captained Northwestern to back-to-back NCAAchampionships, returns for her fourth season with the Crimson.Albrecht along with head coach Lisa Miller have turned the Harvardprogram around during their first three seasons.
Albrecht has helped the Crimson to its best three-year recordsince 1994-96. The Crimson has won two games againstnationally-ranked teams, beat Princeton for the first time innearly two decades, boasted two Ivy League Rookies of the Year andhad the league's leading scorer two years in a row.
Albrecht helped UMass to an 8-9 record in 2007 after wrapping upher career with the Wildcats in 2006 with a second straightnational title. She registered three goals in four assists in herfinal collegiate game to earn NCAA Championship Most OutstandingPlayer honors.
As an assistant at UMass, Albrecht assisted the head coach inall aspects of daily operations of the program, includingrecruiting, practice planning, development of fundamentals,administrative duties, academic oversight, athlete conditioning andediting of game film. She was responsible for planning andconducting stick skills, offensive drills and conditioning duringpractices. Albrecht was also involved with the defense and assistedin game strategy and substitution decisions.
The Braintree, Mass., native spent five seasons at Northwestern,missing the 2003 campaign with an injury and serving as a teamcaptain every year. Albrecht finished her career ranked fourthall-time at Northwestern in assists (71), sixth in points (199) andseventh in goals (128). In both 2005 and 2006, she was an IWLCAAll-America selection, all-tournament pick at the NCAA Championshipand first-team all-conference honoree.
In her four years on the field, Albrecht helped the Wildcats toa 58-15 record. As a team captain, she led the program in its risefrom its reinstatement as a varsity team in 2002 to a nationaltitle in 2005. In 2006, she received the N Club Scholarship andLisa Ishikawa Award for her leadership.
Albrecht remains active as a player and was recently named tothe U.S. Elite women's lacrosse team for the third straight season.She was named one of the top scorer's at the Prague Cup in June2008 and named to the FIL All-World team for her efforts in helpingTeam USA win the gold at the 2009 Federation of InternationalLacrosse World Cup. Albrecht scored 14 goals and handed out threeassists in seven games for her team. She scored the game-winner inthe USA’s first victory over Australia and scored four goalsin a win over England.
Albrecht graduated from Northwestern in 2006 with a degree inpsychology. As a student she volunteered with SpecialOlympics, the athletic department's field day for low-incomechildren and Northwestern Natural Ties, an organization creatingand supporting friendships between people with and withoutdisabilities. She graduated from Thayer Academy in 2001.
