Centennial Conference Silver Anniversary Team 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 Monday, the Centennial Conference released the list of 28 women's cross country performers who were named to the Silver Anniversary team. The Haverford College women's cross country team has won three Centennial Conference Championships (1993, 1995, and 1996) during the first 25 years. The Fords were represented with seven honorees on the Silver Anniversary team.
The purpose of the Centennial Conference is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share high academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports. Its full-time members include Bryn Mawr, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Gettysburg, Haverford, McDaniel, Muhlenberg, Swarthmore, Ursinus and Washington Colleges, along with Johns Hopkins University.
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 Women's Cross Country Silver Anniversary Honorees (by class year)
Meredith Unger '97
- Two-time Centennial Conference Performer of the Year (1995, 1996)
- Two-time All-American (seventh in 1996; 19th in 1995)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 1995 and 1996; second in 1994; and was also a first-team All-MAC runner with a sixth place finish in her rookie season)
Rachel Mosher '99
- 1998 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Two-time All-American (ninth in 1998; 34th in 1997)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 1997; second in 1996; sixth in 1997)
Kristen Wilson '03
- 2001 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2001; third in 2000; fourth in 1999)
Jane Steinemann '04
- Two-time All-American (15th in 2002; 20th in 2003)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (second in 2003; fifth in 2002; sixth in 2001)
Jane Weber '08
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (fourth in 2007; fifth in 2006; sixth in in 2005)
Emily Lipman '09
- 2009 Centennial Conference Performer of the Year
- 2009 All-American (24th)
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (first in 2009; second in 2011; sixth in 2008)
Katie Sullivan '18
- Three-time first-team All-Centennial Conference (sixth in 2015 and 2016; seventh in 2017)