2002 Miracle Yearbook

Cu V en Led by co-captains Michelle Ruhlman and Danielle Davidson,the Cedarville University Yellow Jacket Women's Soccer team completed an excellent season,placingsecond in the NCCAA Midwest Region finals. As the top women's soccer player in Cedarville University's history,Senior co-captain Michelle Ruhlman finished her career strongly. She wassecond on the team in goals and points,despite playing in only 12 games. Following this season, Ruhlman held Cedarville University Women'ssoccer records for most career points with 95 and most career goals with 34. Additionally,seven seniors provided the team with an immense amountofdepth as Jessica Alexander,Lisa Hockenberry,andJenny Walker completed their fourth years as Lady Yellow Jackets. Building upon herfreshman year, Jane Adams was one offive sophomores to make outstanding contributions. She led Jane Adams protects the ball as she takes it up the field 38 Athletics the team in goals and assists,finishing with 35 points,which is second on the career scoring list for Cedarville University. Juniorco-captain Danielle Davidson anchored a solid defense in front ofsophomore goalkeeper Melissa Fawcett. With a 1.66 goals against average and aschool-record,seven shutouts,Fawcett carried on the torch ofexcellent goaltending. Only Malone, Wittenberg,and Tiffin scored more than 2goals against her. At the beginning ofthe season, a tough schedule stared the LadyJackets in the face with games against defending champion Tiffin and new rival Houghton College. Despite the tough schedule,they represented the school well with a double overtime tie to NAIA powerhouse Houghton and an exciting 1-0 overtime victory over AMC rival Shawnee State. They completed the season 11-9-2 overall and 9-5-2 in the AMC. Jen Rock shows her freshman talent as she keeps the ball from the opposing double team strat- egy. After recuperating from a shoulder injury last season, Melissa Fawcett makes an impressive comeback perfor- mance as goalie. Senior Alicia Anderson fights her opponentfor control of the ball.