Kerry Falgowski

Position:
Forward
Height:
5-3
Class:
Sophomore
Hometown:
Landenberg, PA
High School:
St. Mark's

A team captain for the 2004 season ... Majoring in biology with a minor in chemsitry

2003: As a junior, started all 22 games ... Scored seven goals and added four assists ... Two of her goals came in a 3-1 win over Iowa in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge on Sept. 1 ... Named to the All-Southeast Region second team ... Recipient of the Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete Award ... Also selected for two team awards: the Players' Player Award (by a vote of her teammates) and the Marjorie Moses Schwab Unsung Hero Award ... Named to the NFHCA National Academic Squad

2002: As a sophomore, played in all 20 games at forward and started 19 ... Scored 11 goals to lead the team for the second year ... Her total of 23 points also ranked as a team high ... Scored six goals in a three-game span with two each against Louisville, Temple and Radford ... Also scored twice in a home win over Virginia on Sept. 22 ... Scored the game-winner in a 2-1 overtime victory against Iowa on Sept. 1 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge ... Assisted on Meredith Keller's game-winner in UNC's double-overtime win at Duke on oct. 5

2001: As a true freshman, played in all 21 games and started 14 ... Led team with 14 goals and ranked third in points with 29 ... Tallied a hat-trick with all three of the team's goals in a 3-1 win at Duke on Oct. 21 ... Scored two goals in the team's first win of the season over Duke, 5-0 at home on Sept. 29 ... Also had a two-goal game against Radford ... Named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll for the 2001-02 school year

At St. Mark's High School in Wilmington, Del.: Named first-team All-America and Delaware Player of the Year as a senior ... All-state in her junior and senior years and All-Catholic League in her sophomore, junior and senior years ... Four-year starter on the varsity team ... Also a four-year starter on the varsity soccer team, which won state championships in her junior and senior seasons ... Named All-Catholic League and second-team all-state in her junior and senior years

National/International: Played for the championship-winning Southern Charm in the United Airlines USFHA summer league in 2002 ... Also played in the league in 2000 and '01 ... Participated in A camp and B camp 1999-2000 ... Playing for Team Delaware, won the Under-19 crown at the National Field Hockey Festival in 1999 and 2000

Personal: Born Sept. 30, 1982, in Wilmington, Del. ... The daughter of Ken and Cindy Falgowski ... Has two sisters, Carly (18) and Katelyn (14), and a brother, Tim (17) ... Her father played ice hockey at the University of Delaware

More on Falgowski: Favorite pastimes are art, fishing, crabbing and beaching ... Favorite pregame meal is trail mix ... Favorite saying is "Absence of evidence doesn't mean evidence of absence" ... Favorite sport besides field hockey is disc golf ... Knows how to juggle ... After college, plans to go to graduate school to study genetics ... Dream job is to be a screenwriter and director ... Athlete she most admires is Andre Agassi "because of his longevity, talent and pure love of the game" ... If she could spend the day with anyone, she'd pick Leonardo da Vinci ... Something few people know about her is that she's an artist ... Spent the summer of 2004 on an internship in which she studied marine population genetics at the University of Delaware ... The people who have had the biggest impact on her field hockey career are her parents