#17 Alexa Kunowsky Season 2015-16
Midfield
Honors
2015 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
2015 BIG EAST All-Academic Team
2014 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
2013 ALC All-Tournament Team
2015 (Junior): Played and started in all 16 games… Joins fellow senior Mallory Schonk as only two active players who have played in every game of career (50)… Named to All-BIG EAST Second Team… Ranked second on team with 27 goals and tied for eighth most in BIG EAST… Behind only Schonk in shot percentage at .519… Had nine games with multiple goals… Tied career-high with five goals (on six shots) in win at Liberty… Ranked fourth on team with 26 ground balls and set career-high with five ground balls in first two games of season against Kennesaw State and Liberty… Her 20 draw controls were fifth-most on team… Also had 12 caused turnovers, including career-high three in win against Marquette… Named to Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll and BIG EAST All-Academic Team.
2014 (Sophomore): Played and started in all 17 games — joining fellow sophomore Mallory Schonk as the only two returning players who started every game in 2014… Scored 16 goals, had five assists and 21 points… Sixteen goals and 22 ground balls were fifth-most on team… Also had 21 draw controls for fourth-most on the team… Scored a season-high four goals in win over Liberty… Followed that perfromance up with two goals against North Carolina.. Also had two-goal games against Harvard and Northwestern… Tied her career-high with five draw controls against Ohio State… Grabbed career-high three ground balls against Northwestern… Named to Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll.
2013 (Freshman): Joined Mallory Schonk as the only freshman to start all 17 games… Scored 19 goals (fourth-most on the team) and was second to only Abby Wheeler in shooting percentage, making 19 of 37 shots (.514)… She was named to the ALC All-Tournament Team after scoring a career-high five goals against Penn State in the American Lacrosse Conference Tournament quarterfinals… Scored in 11 games… Multiple goals against Kennesaw State (3), Penn (3) and Penn State (5)… Her five goals tied for the most by a Vanderbilt player all season… Then-senior Carly Linthicum scored five goals five times… Led the team with 31 draw controls… Career-high five draw controls against Harvard… One of three VU players with five draw controls in a game last year.
HIGH SCHOOL:Four-year started for coach Renie Sotiropoulos… Named a U.S. Lacrosse All-American and ESPN High School Honorable Mention All-American… Also named a first-team All-Anne Arundel County selection… Team MVP as a senior in 2012… Twice named a Washington D.C. Under Armour All-Star and named to the Inside Lacrosse Rising Senior Watch List… Also earned four letters in basketball and three in field hockey… Captain of all the three teams… Played club ball for coach Bev Altig’s Maryland United Lacrosse Club… Helped squad to 2010 IWLCA President’s Cup Tournament championship and two Summer Showcase Tournament titles.
PERSONAL:Alexa Christina Kunowsky… Born on Jan. 28, 1994, in Annapolis, Md….. Daughter of Greg and Christina Kunowsky… Sister to Jack (16) and Grant (12)… Human and organizational development major… Joined teammate Ashlin Dolan and eight other Vanderbilt student-athletes on Soles4Souls service trip to Cuba in July 2015.