Points scored by Rebecca Armstrong (2001-04) in her career. The women

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100
Points scored by Rebecca Armstrong (2001-04) in
her career. The womens soccer standout is one of
only five players voted to the All-Centennial
Conference first team all four years. She also is
the only player in Mule history to earn
all-region honors four times.
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99
Matches with double figures in kills (out of 119
played) for Julie Lauro (2002-05), the volleyball
player of the decade. The only All-America
selection in team history, Lauro earned
first-team All-Centennial Conference honors all
four years and is the programs all-time leader
with 1,793 kills more than 450 ahead of second
place.
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98.6
Career rushing yards per game in football for
John DeLuca. The 2008 Centennial Conference
offensive player of the year is in second on the
teams all-time list with 4,041 yards.
DeLuca also is the mens lacrosse player of the
decade. A defenseman, he was the Mules first
two-time first-team All-CC selection. DeLuca was
an All-American in both sports and an Academic
All-American in football. He is Muhlenbergs
co-male athlete of the decade.
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97-41
Centennial Conference record for Mule teams in
2001-02, an extraordinary year that saw football,
womens soccer and womens tennis win or share CC
championships. Volleyball tied for the
regular-season title, and both basketball squads
captured division crowns. Five teams (womens
soccer, wrestling, womens basketball, baseball
and womens tennis) set or tied their school
records for wins in a season.
The success extended to the classroom Jennie
Vroman, a first-team All-CC womens soccer
midfielder, was the valedictorian of the Class of
2002.
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96
Three-pointers by Alexandra Chili during her
freshman season of 2008-09. No one in Division
III made more threes, and Chili obliterated the
previous school record of 64 threes in a season.
Nine of the three-pointers came in a 33-point
effort against Moravian. That was the most points
scored in a game by a Muhlenberg womens
basketball player in the decade.
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95
Career wins for tennis player Mackenzie Parke
(2001-04). A three-year team captain, Parke was
named to the All-Centennial Conference first team
for both singles (2001) and doubles (2002). She
graduated as the schools all-time leader with 78
combined wins in spring dual matches. Mackenzies
95 overall wins topped her older brother Cameron
Parke, who recorded 88 total wins for the Mule
mens team from 2000 to 2003. The Parkes are one
of several sets of siblings who played for
Muhlenberg in the decade. Other brother-sister
combinations who played the same sport include
the Millers (Eric and Nicolette) in soccer, the
Kegelmans (Nancy, Paul and Harry) in track and
field and the Armstrongs (Taylor and Zach) and
Morrongiellos (Carlo and Ruth) in lacrosse.
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94th
Elson graduated in 2003 as the holder of 12
school records, four of which still stand, and
was a seven-time Centennial Conference champion.
He is the male track athlete of the decade. Elson
also had great success as a coach at his alma
mater later in the decade.
Finish by Will Elson at the 2002 NCAA Cross
Country Championships. It was the first of three
NCAA events that year for Elson, the first
athlete in school history to participate in the
national championships in three sports. In track
and field, he earned All-America honors both
indoors (second in the 1,500 and fifth in the
DMR) and outdoors (third in the 800) in 2003. His
second-place finish in the indoor 1,500 is the
best ever by a Mule athlete or team at an NCAA
Championship.
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93-77
Combined standings (in favor of Muhlenberg) for
the 10 Matte Awards presented in the decade
(covering the 1999-2000 to 2008-09 years). The
decade marked a turning of the tide in the
all-sports competition. Moravian never lost the
Matte Award from 1989 to 2003, but Muhlenberg has
never lost it since 2004. The Mules won the
trophy in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2009, and
there was a tie in 2008. They are in good shape
to extend their run into the next decade, with a
7-2 lead in the 2009-10 standings.
Lacrosse played a big role in Muhlenbergs Matte
success. The Mule women went 7-0 and the men 6-0
against their Greyhound counterparts.
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Wins, against only 21 losses, by the womens
basketball Class of 2009 Lauren Boyle, Kaitlin
Strumph, Bethany Enterline and Erin McSherry. The
quartet was part of three Centennial Conference
championship teams. In Muhlenberg athletic
history, only the softball Class of 1992 (98-36)
had more wins.
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10
Combined career points by twin sisters Kasey
(left) and Kimberly (right) Hacker of the womens
soccer team (2006-09). The Hackers were one of
four sets of twins competing with the same team
the last two years of the decade. Nearly half of
the womens soccer starting lineup consisted of
sisters, as the Hackers were joined by twins
Ashley and Christina OGrady and their younger
sister Meghan OGrady.
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Other same-gender siblings who played the same
sport for the Mules include the Smallwoods (Evan
and Ryan) and Leischners (Greg and Tim) in
soccer, the Gibsons (Chris, Colin and Patrick) in
wrestling, the Strachans (Anthony and
Christopher) in basketball, the Williamses
(Courtney and Brittany) in volleyball, the Dyers
(John and Joseph) in track and field and the
Carpenters (Garrett and Jordan) in golf.
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90.8
NCAA-leading scoring average of the 2003-04
womens basketball team. Using the Grinnell
system, Muhlenberg rewrote the record book,
setting Division III standards for three-pointers
made and attempted in a season. They scored 100
or more points eight times and finished with a
19-7 record.
Despite playing only 16.3 minutes per game due to
the Mules mass substitutions, Jill Friedman
averaged a team-leading 13.7 points per game.
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89-25
Career record of wrestler Rob Kein (2006-09). A
two-time national qualifer, Kein earned
All-America honors by placing eighth at 141
pounds in 2009. He was ranked as high as seventh
in Division III at his weight class and was 34-3
in dual meets for his career.
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88
School-record career assists for womens lacrosse
player Taylor Armstrong (2005-08). She set a
school record with 50 assists as a senior,
ranking fifth in Division III in helpers per game
(3.13). Her 82 points that year were two short of
the school record.
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0.87
Career goals-against average in mens soccer for
Peter Bennett (2004-07). A three-year starter, he
became the first All-America goalie in Muhlenberg
history when he was named to the third team as a
senior. He had a 33-15-4 record in 52 career
starts, helping the Mules to the Centennial
Conference championship in 2005 and a share of
the CC regular-season title in 2007.
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86
Yardage of the longest play from scrimmage for
the football team in the decade. It came on a
pass from Eric Santagato to Erik Snyder in the
first quarter of the Mules 28-21 Homecoming win
against Johns Hopkins in 2007. Muhlenberg had
several kickoff returns of more than 90 yards in
the decade, and its longest play was a 95-yard
interception return by Cameron Ahouse, also
against Hopkins, in 2006.
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85
Events won by Muhlenberg at Centennial Conference
track and field championship meets (combining men
and
women, indoors and outdoors). The event that has
accounted for the most Mule golds? The pole
vault, with 13, including four by Meghan
Douglas-Snyder (2002-05). Lex Mercado contributed
to three of the 85 wins at the 2006 indoor meet,
capturing the 800 and running on the first-place
4x400 and 4x800 relay teams.
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84-41-2
Career record of Robby Richman (1998-2001), the
mens tennis player of the decade. As a senior,
Richman was named to the All-Centennial
Conference first team for both singles and
doubles and reached the doubles final of the CC
Individual Tournament. He made the singles
semifinals in 2000, when he was an All-CC singles
selection.