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LUNDBERG turn away % per season (F/S/J)
Gina Lundberg
89/91/92
Strong Offense, Strong Defense Senior Hockey Players Have Their Teams Covered This Winter by Bob York
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Winter 2011
They play the same sport, but have a completely different perspective of the game that will accompany them to the collegiate ranks next year. Alex Ward ’11 is a forward on the Big Green boys hockey team. He puts pucks in the net. Shenae Lundberg ’11 is a goalie on the girls hockey team. She keeps pucks out of the net. And from all indications, it has been a case of so far, so good for both these Deerfield athletes. Ward has proven to be one of the Big Green’s most consistent point producers over the past two years, netting 35 points on 16 goals and 19 assists. Last winter, as a junior, he averaged nearly a point per game, finishing fourth on the Deerfield scoring charts with 19 points on 10 goals and nine assists in 26 games. During his sophomore season, which marked his rookie campaign in the New England prep school
circuit, he produced six goals and 10 assists for 16 points. Lundberg, meanwhile, has been every bit as consistent at the other end of the rink. Her goals against average has steadily decreased over the past three seasons, dropping from 2.32 as a freshman . . . to 1.87 as a sophomore . . . to 1.68 as a junior. Her save percentage, meanwhile, has continued to rise. As a rookie, she turned away 89 percent of the shots she saw, while that figure rose to 91 and 92 percent over the past two winters, respectively. Her stingy stats have not only earned her a spot amongst the elite prep school girls hockey goalies in New England, they’ve put her in the same sentence with the premier goaltenders in her age bracket throughout the country as well. In fact, Lundberg spent the first week of the new year half a world away, playing for Team USA’s
Under-18 team in the World Championships in Sweden. “She’s top of the class in her age group,” said Big Green girls hockey coach Gregg Meier of his goaltender, who helped lead the Under 18 National Team to a sweep of the Canadians during a three-game exhibition series this past summer at Lake Placid. “She’s just a tremendous talent at any level of play.” Ward, meanwhile, has fashioned an impressive resume of his own. Prior to signing on with Deerfield, the six-foot, 185-pound native of Burlington, VT, spent a year with the Green Mountain Glades of the Eastern Junior Hockey League. And his point production—17 points in 23 games—placed him third on the team scoring charts. His freshman year was spent at South Burlington High School, where he earned second-team All