2005's "Most Amazing Performance" Poll Results

We asked you to vote for the "Most Amazing Performance" of WC Athletics in 2005 and 527 of you did. Here are the results of the poll.

FIRST PLACE - 169 votes (32%)
December 6th
Kyle Stem scores 23 points in the final 5:06 to rally the men's basketball team to an 83-81 win over Haverford. In the final 5:06, Stem shot 7-for-7 from the field, including 4-for-4 from beyond the three-point arc, and 5-of-6 from the charity stripe. He totaled a career-high 34 points in the game. Washington trailed by 14 points with just under seven minutes to play and by 10 points with just under four minutes to play before Stem's heroics won the game.

SECOND PLACE - 108 votes (20%)
May 1st
Michelle Laque three-hits Gettysburg on the final day of the regular season to send the softball team to the postseason for the first time ever. Laque's three-hit, 6-0 shutout of the Bullets, the Shorewomen's first win over Gettysburg in eight years, kept Washington's hopes for a Centennial Conference playoff spot alive. Laque was just the second pitcher of the season to shut out Gettysburg. A Haverford win over Muhlenberg two days later officially clinched the Shorewomen's spot in the playoffs.

THIRD PLACE - 52 votes (10%)
October 29th
Laura Mozzer scores in the final minute of the second overtime to give the women's soccer team its first-ever win over McDaniel in the final game of the season. Mozzer headed in a pass from Stephanie Bradley with 52 seconds left in the second overtime. The assist was the 13th of Bradley's career, tying the all-time career assist record at Washington. Washington had been 0-6 all-time against McDaniel until the win.

45 votes (9%)
March 14th
The Washington College baseball team scores 10 runs in the eighth inning and rallies from a 10-run deficit to defeat Villa Julie, 18-16. Washington trailed, 16-6, heading into the bottom of the seventh inning before plating two runs to cut it to 16-8. The Shoremen then scored 10 runs in the bottom of the eighth to complete the improbable comeback. Jim Barossi went 4-for-6 at the plate with three doubles, six RBI, and a run scored for the Shoremen.

39 votes (7%)
April 30th
The women's first varsity eight wins its race by a half-second to give the WC rowing teams the regatta victory in the Mother and Son Regatta. The Shorewomen's first varsity eight won in 5:58.7, finishing one-half second in front of second-place Mary Washington. The varsity eight race was one of the most exciting races I've ever seen," remarked Washington head coach Mike Davenport. Courtney Ackerman was the Shorewomen's coxswain; Jennifer Bockmiller sat stroke.

37 votes (7%)
February 18th-20th
Ally Simons wins three gold medals at the 2005 Centennial Conference Championships for the women's swimming team. Simons earned her first gold medal by winning the 200 individual medley in a WC season-best time of 2:11.17. The following night, she won the 100 butterfly in a WC season-best time of 58.87. On the final day of the championships, Simons swam an NCAA "A Cut" and WC season-best time of 2:07.51 to win the 200 butterfly and automatically qualify for the NCAA Division III Championships.

26 votes (5%)
May 6th
Chris Read scores six goals and assists on another in a Centennial Conference semifinal win for the men's lacrosse team over Dickinson College. Read, then a freshman and playing against his older brother, racked up his career highs in goals and assists in a 15-10 win to send the Shoremen into the Centennial Conference Championship game.

20 votes (4%)
February 8th
Regina Barrett ties a school-record with seven three-pointers in a 65-54 women's basketball win over Haverford. Barrett made her seven three-pointers in just 11 attempts and canned six of them in the second half. She finished the game with a career-high 25 points. Her seven three-pointers match the school record set by Lee Ann Lezzer in 1995 and matched twice by Katie Piringer during the 2002-03 season.

19 votes (4%)
October 1st-3rd
Men's tennis player Arturo Solis loses just one set in six matches to win the ITA Southeast Regional Singles Championship. Solis plowed through the competition, winning his matches by scores of 6-0, 6-3; 6-1, 6-0; 6-4, 6-2; 6-1, 6-0; 6-2, 6-1; and 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, respectively. He went on to finished third in Division III Singles at the ITA National Small College Championships.

12 votes (2%)
October 22nd-23rd
Competing in its second-ever offshore event, the WC sailing team finishes second at the MacMillan Cup. WC finished in front of seven other teams, mostly maritime and military academies, in the nation's oldest collegiate sailing regatta and one of the top offshore events in the United States. Washington finished fifth, third, first, seventh, fifth, second, and first, respectively, in the event's seven races, beginning with the opening race. Alex Hood skippered WC's eight-person crew.