#8 Melanie Becker Season 2015-16
Midfield
Class
Senior
Hometown
Moorestown, N.J.
High School
Moorestown High
HONORS
2019 IWLCA Honor Roll
2019 AAC Second Team
2019 AAC Weekly Honor Roll (4/2/19)
2019 AAC Weekly Honor Roll (4/30/19)
2017 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll
2016 First Year SEC Academic Honor Roll
CAREER HIGHS:
Goals: 5 vs. William & Mary, (3/5/18)
Assists: 2 vs Kennesaw State (2/16/19)
Points: 6 vs. William & Mary, (3/5/18)
Draw Controls: 7 at ECU (3/31/19)
Caused Turnovers: 4 at Louisville (2/27/19)
Ground Balls: 4 vs Furman (2/24/19)
Senior (2019):
- One of Vanderbilt’s three team captains
- She started all 16 games for the Commodores to start 63 consecutive games
- She posted 21 points on 17 goals and four assists, including one game-winning goal
- She was third on the team with 31 draw controls
- Also hauled in 23 ground balls and forced 16 caused turnovers
- Was twice named to the AAC Weekly Honor Roll as well as earning a spot on the AAC second team
Junior (2018):
- One of Vanderbilt’s four team captains
- Started all 17 games as a midfielder in her junior season, posting 25 points on 20 goals and five assists
- Finished second on the team with 39 ground balls, fourth on the team in goals and draw controls and fifth in points, shots and caused turnovers… 20 goals is a new career-high, 25 points ties her career-high (2017)
Sophomore (2017):
- Started all 15 games during her second season for the Commodores
- Tallied 16 goals, nine assists, 25 points, 19 ground balls, 24 draw controls and nine caused turnovers
- Third on the team in draw controls and assists and fourth in ground balls
- Scored a career-high three goals against Furman and Johns Hopkins
- Also won a career-high four draw controls against Johns Hopkins
- Named to the 2017 Spring SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Freshman (2016):
- Started 15-of-16 games during her freshman campaign at midfield
- Totaled two goals, five assists, 22 ground balls, six draw controls and nine caused turnovers
- Second among Commodore freshmen in points with 11
- Second on the team in ground balls
- Earned first career start against Furman
- Scored first collegiate goal at home against Penn State
- Tallied her first collegiate points against Elon with two assists
- Season high in ground balls came at Marquette with five
- Named to 2016 First Year SEC Academic Honor Roll.
High School:
- Four-year letterwinner and starter for coaches Deanna and KC Knobloch at Moorestown High School
- Named to US Lacrosse All-American first team in 2015 and also named US Lacrosse Academic All-American
- Helped Quakers win four New Jersey South Group 3 championships, four New Jersey Group 3 state championships and three Tournament of Champions titles
- Named to first team All-South Jersey
- Named to first team All-Burlington County… Selected to Philadelphia Inquirer All-South Jersey first team
- Served as captain her senior year in which she scored 44 goals, dished out 16 assists and collected 34 ground balls
- One of five Commodores to play high school lacrosse at Moorestown HS in New Jersey
Personal:
- Melanie Becker
- Born May 14, 1997 in Livingston, N.J
- Daughter of Scott and Susan Becker
- Has two sisters, Meredith, and Meghan
- Father played basketball at Muhlenberg (Pa.) College and mother was synchronized swimmer at Villanova
- Majoring in Psychology