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2012 Women's Lacrosse

6 Jess Halpern

  • Height 5-5
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Longmeadow, Mass.
  • High School Longmeadow
  • Position Attack
  • House Affiliation Leverett

Biography

Eighth on the Harvard’s all-time goals list with 118tallies.
10th on the Harvard''s all-time points list with 140.

Career Highs
Goals: 6 (Holy Cross2/21/09)
Assists: 3 (at Albany 3/25/09)
Points: 6 (twice)
Ground Balls: 5 (Quinnipiac 3/16/08)
Draw Controls: 4 (twice)
Caused turnovers: 2 (Massachusetts 2/27/10)

Senior · 2012
Scored two goals and had one ground ball in win against BostonUniversity ... Had a hat trick and won two draw controls indouble-overtime victory against James Madison ... Scored a goal andhad one ground ball versus Penn ...Picked up one ground ball in winover Dartmouth ... Scored one goal against Penn in the Ivy Leaguesemifinals.

Junior · 2011
Received honorable mention All-Ivy League … Earned a spoton the Ivy League All-Tournament team … Started in 11 of 15games played … Third on the team in goals (29) and fourth inpoints (30) … Scored 100th career goal in game against No. 7Virginia … Collected six ground balls and won nine drawcontrols this season.

Junior · 2010
Suffered season-ending injury second game into theseason.

Sophomore · 2009
Named first-team All-Ivy League... Selected as the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week twice,March 2 and March 23 ... Named to womenslacrosse.com honor roll forfour goals and five points in game against No. 20 Cornell ... Ledthe Ivy League in goals per game (2.88) and points per game (3.44)and was ranked eighth in shots per game (5.06) ... Led the Crimsonin goals (46) and points (55) ... Ranked second on the team inground balls (28) and third in draw controls (30) ... Started all16 games at midfield ... Scored season-high five goals inback-to-back games versus Connecticut and No. 12 Boston University... Netted four goals and won five draw controls against No. 9Virginia ... Assisted on three goals and scooped up four groundballs against Albany ... Totaled a career-high six points in seasonopening win against Holy Cross and in victory over Connecticut ...Tallied three goals in overtime loss to No. 13 New Hampshire,including the game-tying goal with two seconds remaining inregulation.

Freshman · 2008
Named Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... Earned second-team All-Ivyhonors ... Started all 16 games at midfield ... Finished the seasonsecond on the team in scoring and eighth in the league with 34goals, 12 assists for 46 points ... Had a season-high five pointsin win over Holy Cross ... Scored four goals in a game three times... Scored in 15 of 16 games with multiple goals coming in 10 games... Named Womenslax.com Rookie of the Week after scoring four goalsand adding an assist in collegiate debut.

Before Harvard
Lettered all four years in soccer, basketball and lacrosse atLongmeadow High School ... Named Springfield Republican FemaleAthlete of the Year ... Longmeadow High School Female Athlete ofthe Year ... Won state lacrosse title freshman season ...Three-time first-team All-Western Massachusetts performer ... NamedUS Lacrosse All-American as a senior ... Twice named to Lower NewEngland first team ... Team won three Western Massachusettschampionships ... State finalists sophomore, junior and seniorseasons ... First-team all-state performer in soccer ... Three-timefirst team all-league soccer performer ... Named first-team AllWestern Massachusetts in soccer as a senior and twice a second-teamhonoree ... Three-time All Western Massachusetts performer inbasketball, first-team as a senior ... Three-time first-teamall-league basketball performer ... Volunteer at a Jewish nursinghome ... Business Service Award recipient ... Four-year member ofthe honor roll ... Vice President and treasurer of BusinessProfessionals of America .. National Honor Society member ... BayPath College Book Award recipient.

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Historical Player Information

  • 6

    2008First-Year

    M
    5'5"
    6
  • 6

    2009Sophomore

    M
    5'5"
    6
  • 6

    2011Junior

    Attack
    5'5"
    6
  • 6

    2012Senior

    Attack
    5'5"
    6