Cara Filippelli Class: Junior Hometown: Devon, Pa. High School: Archbishop Carroll Height: 5-6 Position: Midfield

2009 (Sophomore): Earned All-BIG EAST First Team honors after leading the conference in caused turnovers per game (2.29)... Picked up BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week laurels three times during the season, more than any other player in the conference... Named the team's most valuable player... Started all 17 games... Led the Greyhounds with 46 ground balls and 39 caused turnovers... Also scored 15 goals and assisted on five others for 20 total points... Controlled 24 draws... Set a school single-season record for caused turnovers per game, topping the 2.14 Jen Albright caused in 2000... Her 39 total caused turnovers were good for second in single-season history... Finished the year ninth in career caused turnovers (51)... Scored three goals in wins over two ranked opponents, James Madison (3/21) and Georgetown (4/15)... Caused a career-high five turnovers against Connecticut (4/3) and had four on four other occasions... Scoped up four ground balls against both Davidson (3/15) and at Cincinnati (4/11)... Controlled four draws at Notre Dame (3/29)... Named the Womenslacrosse.com National Defensive Player of the Week on March 24 after Loyola defeated two ranked teams, James Madison and Cornell.

2008 (Freshman): Played in all 16 games, starting 14, during her first collegiate season... Well-rounded first campaign, scoring nine goals and assisting on two others, along with 20 ground balls, 14 draw controls and 12 caused turnovers... Scored her first goal at Loyola on a free-position shot against Towson (3/1)... Scored a career-high three goals, and recorded a career-best four draws against Connecticut (3/15).

High School: Earned eight varsity letters - four in field hockey, four in lacrosse - at Archbishop Carroll High School in Radnor, Pa... Named to the All-America First Team and an Academic All-American in 2006... Also earned All-Main Line, All-Catholic League First Team and All-Delaware County First Team honors that season... A finalist for the United States U-19 team... Scored 68 goals and had 16 assists in 2006 and finished her prep career with 139 goals and 30 assists... Helped her team win four Philadelphia Catholic League titles... Earned All-Catholic League First Team honors in 2005 and was named All-Main Line and All-Delaware County Second Team... Helped her field hockey team win three Catholic League championships and earned All-Catholic League and All-Main Line Second Team honors in 2005.

Personal: Cara Marie Filippelli... Daughter of Frank and Ria Filippelli... Born in Devon, Pa... Her older sister, Kate, played at Loyola... Has an older brother, Patrick, who is a lacrosse player at Dickinson College... Also has two younger siblings, Emmett and Margaret... Her father played lacrosse at Villanova, while her mother played basketball at Georgetown... Majoring in speech pathology.

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