Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary release
HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Centennial Conference is celebrating 25 years as one of the elite small college athletic conferences in the country with the announcement of its Silver Anniversary teams. With criteria selected by conference officials, the Silver Anniversary teams are designed to highlight the best of the best over the conference's first quarter-century.
For inclusion on a Silver Anniversary team, a student must have a degree from their institution and meet one of the following qualifications:
- Three-time or four-time first-team All-Centennial performer
- Two-time Centennial Conference Player of the Year
- First-team All-America AND two-time first-team All-Centennial performer
- Two-time All-America (first, second, or third team)
For individual sports such as swimming and track & field, the accomplishments must have occurred in the same event.
On Tuesday, the Centennial Conference released the list of 35 field hockey performers who were named to the Silver Anniversary team. The Haverford College field hockey team has surged up the Centennial Conference standings in recent history, with each of its eight Centennial Conference Tournament appearances coming in the past nine seasons. The Fords played in the conference championship match during the 2010 and 2012 seasons. Roxanne Jaffe '12 represented the field hockey program on the silver anniversary team.
The Conference was founded in 1981 as the Centennial Football Conference and began competition as an all-sports conference in the fall of 1993. The Conference crowns champions in 24 sports.
Haverford College Field Hockey Silver Anniversary Honorees
Roxanne Jaffe '12
- 2011 third-team NFHCA All-American
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (2009, 2010, 2011)