2012 Women's Lacrosse Roster
Becky Lynch
- Position:
- Attacker
- Height:
- 5-8
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Garden City, N.Y.
- High School:
- Garden City
Junior (2011) - Set a Carolina single-season record with 36 assists, shattering the previous record of 26 set by Bosica in 2008 ... Named second-team All-America by SynapseSports.com ... Named first-team All-South by the IWLCA ... Finished the season with 40 goals and 36 assists ... Her 76 total points tied as the second-highest single-season figure in Carolina history ... Kellie Thompson had 76 points in 2002 and Corey Donohoe had a school-record 77 in 2010 ... Ranked ninth in the nation in assists, 13th in points and 17th in assists per game ... Named to the All ACC Tournament Team after posting three consecutive dominant games ... Earned the honor for the third year in a row ... Her 11 goals were the most by an individual in a single ACC Tournament in conference history ... Tallied 11 goals and seven assists in three conference tournament games, including three goals and five assists against Virginia (setting a career high with eight points), four goals and two assists against Duke and four goals against Maryland in the championship game ... Tied his career high two weeks later with eight points against High Point (four goals and four assists) ... Scored at least one goal in 17 of 21 games ... Started all 21 contests ... Led Carolina in points (76), assists (36) and ground balls (39) ... Tops among Tar Heel starters with a shooting percentage of .597 ... Tied her career high with four goals versus Vanderbilt, Duke (ACC Tournament), Maryland (ACC Tournament) and High Point ... Put up 38 points in the final eight games of the season on 22 goals and 16 assists ... Had seven goals and eight assists in five regular season ACC games ... Recorded five goals and four assists in three NAA Tournament contests.
Sophomore (2010) - Blossomed in her first season as a starter ... Ranked second on the team in scoring with 66 points on 41 goals and a team-high 25 assists, both of which were career highs ... Second on the team in goals ... Led the Tar Heels in ground balls (43), fourth in draw controls (23) and fifth in shots (73) ... Boasted a shooting percentage of 56.2 ... Named to the All-ACC Tournament team after scoring four goals with four ground balls in the ACC semifinal win over Duke ... Started all 20 UNC games on the season ... Scored at least one goal in 17 of 20 contests ... Tallied multiple scores in 14 games ... Had a career-high four goals and two assists for a career-high six points in the overtime loss at Virginia ... Also scored four goals against Duke in the ACC Tournament ... Had at least one point in 19 of 20 games (all except the ACC Tournament final against Maryland) ... Had multiple assists eight times on the year ... Gathered a career-high seven ground balls in back-to-back games against Florida and Penn early in the season ... Led Carolina with 20 points (11 goals and a team-high nine assists) in five regular-season ACC games ... Tallied six goals and a team-high in four assists in three NCAA Tournament contests.
Freshman (2009) - Carolina's top freshman scorer with 24 points on 14 goals and 10 assists ... The squad's sixth-leading scorer overall ... Often was one of the first Tar Heel players off the bench early in games ... Saw action in 20 of 21 games, starting four ... Scored a season-high two goals in five separate contests ... Had two goals and an assist against Duke in the ACC Tournament, earning All-ACC Tournament honors ... Followed with a goal and two assists in the NCAA Tournament opening round against Towson ... Tallied two goals and an assist in the win at Duke that clinched a bye for Carolina in the ACC Tournament ... Scored twice apiece in wins over Virginia Tech and Ohio State ... Had two goals and an assist against Richmond ... Gathered a season-high three ground balls against Virginia Tech ... Caused a season-high three turnovers against Richmond and Virginia Tech.
High School - A first-team All-America in 2008 at Garden City High School in Garden City, N.Y. ... Also earned honorable mention All-America honors in 2007 ... Named All-Long Island in 2008 and all-county in 2007 and `08 ... Won the Donna Walsh Award in 2008 ... Team captain ... MVP of the 2007 N.Y. state championship game ... Played for the Long Island Empire girls club lacrosse team, winning a gold medal with the squad in 2008 and leading the team to an undefeated season in `07 ... Played four years of varsity lacrosse, three years of varsity basketball and three years of varsity soccer ... Named the basketball team's most outstanding player as a senior ... Won the Florence Finneran Award for athletic achievement and sportsmanship ... Won the Garden City HS Outstanding Female Athlete Award.
Personal - Born on July 24, 1990, in Bronxville, N.Y. ... Rebecca Marie Lynch is the daughter of Judy and Jeff Lynch ... Her brother, Justin, is a junior at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Penn lacrosse team ... Her father played lacrosse at UNC ... Psychology major.
Becky Lynch's Career Statistics
Year GP/GS Sh G A Pts GB CT DC 2009 20/4 39 14 10 24 14 8 8 2010 20/20 73 41 25 66 43 9 23 2011 21/21 67 40 36 76 39 10 46 Total 61/45 179 95 71 166 96 27 77
