FieldTurf Announces 2007 NCAA Lacrosse Awards

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- FieldTurf announced the winners
of its NCAA Lacrosse awards for the 2007 season today. Award-winners were named
in all three divisions for Men's and Women's Lacrosse. This year's winners are:

* NCAA Division 1 Coach of the Year (Men's Lacrosse):
Jeff Tambroni (Cornell)
* NCAA Division 1 Coach of the Year (Women's Lacrosse):
Julie Myers (Virginia)
* NCAA Division 2 Coach of the Year (Men's Lacrosse):
Mike Pressler (Bryant College)
* NCAA Division 2 Coach of the Year (Women's Lacrosse):
Ginny Martino (West Chester)
* NCAA Division 3 Coach of the Year (Men's Lacrosse):
Jim Berkman (Salisbury)
* NCAA Division 3 Coach of the Year (Women's Lacrosse):
Missy Foote (Middlebury)
* NCAA Team of the Year: Cornell University
JEFF TAMBRONI, Cornell Big Red (Division 1 -- men): As a player, as a coach, and
as an ambassador for North America's fastest growing sport, Jeff Tambroni knows
a lot about winning in Lacrosse. As Head Coach of Men's Lacrosse at Cornell
University, Jeff Tambroni has led his program's return to prominence on the
national stage. In only five years at the helm, his players have earned a
combined 13 All-American honors. Tambroni led the 2007 team to a Final Four
Appearance and its fifth Ivy League Championship in a row, with a 6-0 record. He
also guided them to a 15-1 overall record, and a 1st place national ranking.

JULIE MYERS, Virginia Cavaliers (Division 1 -- women): Virginia Head Coach Julie
Myers, the 2007 IWLCA South Regional Coach of the Year, helped Virginia advance
to the NCAA finals for the eighth time in her career in 2007. In each of her 12
seasons at the helm of the Cavaliers, Myers has guided her team to the NCAA
Championships -- a feat matched by no other Division I coach in the same period.
In addition, the 2007 Cavaliers won the ACC Tournament for the second
consecutive year and for the third time in four years. Virginia has played in
the title game of the ACC Tournament in 8 of the 11 years it has been contested
-- more than any other team in the conference. It is a remarkable consistency
matched by no other Division I coach in the country.

MIKE PRESSLER, Bryant Bulldogs (Division 2 -- men): Mike Pressler began his
second year as the Head Men's Lacrosse Coach at Bryant University in Smithfield,
Rhode Island in the spring of 2007. During the 2007 season, Bryant tied a school
record with 10 consecutive wins including an undefeated 9-0 mark in the
Northeast-10. Among those wins was an overtime victory against defending
national champion Le Moyne, snapping the Dolphin's 70-game win streak. The
Bryant Bulldogs, ranked as high as No. 4 nationally in 2007, have gained the No.
1 regional ranking for the entire month of April.

GINNY MARTINO, West Chester Golden Rams (Division 2 -- women): Heading into her
10th season on the sidelines, West Chester University Women's Lacrosse Head
Coach Ginny Martino has built the Golden Rams' program into a perennial national
power over the past decade, methodically orchestrating one of the most
impressive runs in college athletics. Last spring, Martino guided her charges
back to the NCAA Division II championship game for the third consecutive season
after capturing the school's third straight conference title and 18th overall.
The Rams' 18-3 record equaled the program's top performance from 2004.

JIM BERKMAN, Salisbury Sea Gulls (Division 3 -- men): Yet another impressive
season by Jim Berkman and the Sea Gulls as Jim's squad posted a 23-0-0 record in
2007. With another NCAA D-III national championship in 2007, the team's total
number of national titles is now 7. Year after year, the Sea Gulls are picked to
be the top team in NCAA D-III Lacrosse and Jim Berkman is a huge reason why. In
2006, Jim was the winner of the 2006 FieldTurf D-III Lacrosse Coach of the Year
Award -- and with good reason. Salisbury University also holds a NCAA record
69-game win streak (2003-2006).

MISSY FOOTE, Middlebury Panthers (Division 3 -- women): Three members of the
Middlebury College Women's Lacrosse team earned All-American honors -- to no
one's surprise. Middlebury recently completed another impressive season,
advancing to the NCAA semifinals and winning the NESCAC Championship with a
record of 16-2. Head Coach Missy Foote is now in her 31st year on the Middlebury
athletic staff and her 27th year as head coach of women's lacrosse. She has led
the Panthers to 14 straight appearances in the NCAA semifinals, along with five
NESCAC Championships, and has an overall record of 319-72-1.

CORNELL BIG RED (NCAA Team of the Year): Cornell's 2007 season proved to be one
of the greatest in recent years as the Big Red capped an undefeated regular
season (13-0) with the program's first trip to the national semifinal since the
1988 campaign. Cornell, the fourth seed in the NCAA tournament, held the top
spot in both national polls for the final nine weeks of the season and finished
the year with a 15-1 record, one victory shy of the school record (16 in 1976)
and eighth all-time in NCAA history for wins in a season. The Big Red finished
its Ivy League schedule with a perfect 6-0 record, winning its second outright
league title in the past four years and garnering at least a share of the
conference crown for the past five seasons.

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University, U.S. Military Academy, New York Institute of Technology, Brown
University, Rutgers Preparatory School, Fairleigh Dickenson University,
University of Virginia, and Carnegie Mellon University, among many others.

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