University of Massachusets Athletics
Anderson To Be Inducted into National Lacrosse Hall of Fame
May 31, 2016 | Women's Lacrosse
SPARKS, Md. - One of the all-time great players in UMass women's lacrosse history, Margie Anderson will be inducted into the 2016 class of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame as announced by the U.S. Lacrosse Board of Directors. Anderson is part of a nine-member class that will officially be inducted on Saturday, Sept. 10 at The Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Md.
Anderson joins Kim Basner, Joanne Connelly, Julie Dayton, Michele LeFevre Doyle, Glen Miles, Mike Morrill, Robert Shek and John Tucker as part of the 2016 class.
For the Needham, Mass., native, this marks the fourth hall of fame she has been inducted to: U.S. Lacrosse New England Chapter Hall of Fame (1999), UMass Hall of Fame (2004), U.S. Lacrosse Eastern Mass Chapter Hall of Fame (2015).
A two-sport student-athlete during her UMass career, Anderson played attack for the women's lacrosse team and forward on the women's soccer team, earning a total of seven letters from 1978-1982. In 1982, she was the captain of the women's lacrosse team that captured UMass' first NCAA title. She led the team to a 10-0 record that season and was named team MVP, while scoring a goal in NCAA final victory over the College of New Jersey.
Over the course of her four years, Anderson led the Minutewoman lacrosse team to an overall record of 46-8, including the 1982 national championship and a national runner-up finish in 1979. She still ranks among UMass' all-time leaders in career points (180 / seventh), career goals (121 / seventh) and career assists (59 / seventh), while standing 10th on the single-season list for goals scored (47 in 1981).
On the women's soccer team, Anderson totaled 83 career points on 34 goals and 15 assists, while leading the team to an overall record of 41-9-4 during her three seasons. She held the school records for both goals and points scored at the time of her graduation, and still ranks sixth in goals and seventh in points today. In 1978, Anderson scored 12 goals while leading the Minutewomen to an overall record of 15-0-1, which remains the only undefeated season in school history.
Following her graduation from UMass, Anderson was a member of the United States women's lacrosse national team from 1981-1990. She scored the winning goal in sudden death overtime to lead the U.S. team to the gold medal at the 1989 World Cup, and was the leading scorer of the 1986 World Cup when the U.S. won the silver medal.
Anderson also served as the head women's lacrosse coach (1985-1993) and head women's soccer coach (1985-1995) at the University of New Hampshire. She compiled a 75-36-1 record in lacrosse, leading the Wildcats to six ECAC and three NCAA appearances (1985, 1986 and 1991) as well as two ECAC championships (1986 1987). As a soccer coach, Anderson compiled an 86-80-12 record.
Tickets for the 2016 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, sponsored by RPS Bollinger and the Markel Insurance Company, will be available to the public for purchase beginning August 1. Tickets will be sold online at uslacrosse.org/HOF.
The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, a program of US Lacrosse, was established in 1957 to honor men and women who by their deeds as players, coaches, officials and/or contributors, and by the example of their lives, personify the great contribution of lacrosse to our way of life. Over 400 lacrosse greats are honored in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, which is located alongside the National Lacrosse Museum at the new US Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks, Maryland.
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