Shannon McSweeney

Class:
Senior
Height:
5-6
Hometown:
Boxborough, MA
High School:
Phillips Andover Academy

2013|Stats: Team tri-captain…Named Honorable Mention All-Ivy at the conclusion of the season…Also earned Academic All-Ivy Honors…Played and started all 17 games… Led the Ivy League in with 172 saves on the season and ranked third with a save percentage of 0.771…Recorded a career-high 24 saves against Maine…Made 20 saves in Brown’s Ivy contest against #9 Princeton…Had double digit save in seven games…Led the Bears to a 6-11 record, highlighted by a 2-1 overtime win over Harvard in conference play ... NFHCA National Academic Squad selection.

2012|Stats : Named Second Team All-Ivy … Played every minute of the season in goal … Set a new Brown record for saves in a season with 185, which ranked first in the Ivy League … Earned a 2.75 GAA, fifth in the Ivy League, and a .794 save percentage, 7^th in the nation and 2^nd in the Ivy League … Also posted one shutout, against Holy Cross … Recorded double digit saves in nine games, including a career-high 22 in 2-1 win over Rutgers … Also had 18 at Penn … Named Ivy League Player of the Week after stopping 46 shots in a 2-1 week for the Bears … Recipient of the team’s John L. Danforth ’52 Award as the unsung hero … Named to the NFHCA Division I All-Academic Squad.

2011: Earned Honorable Mention All-Ivy recognition … Recipient of the team’s Outstanding Rookie Award … Played every minute of every game in net … Recorded a 3.59 GAA and a .721 save percentage … Earned Ivy Rookie of the Week honors after posting a 2-0 record, 13 saves, a 1.50 GAA and an .813 save percentage in wins over Quinnipiac and Fairfield … Named to the NFHCA Division I All-Academic Squad.

Before Brown: A four-year starter in goal at Phillips Andover, McSweeney was also a four-year starter for the softball team, captaining both teams as a senior … Posted a four-year record of 50-10-4 while at Andover, including 36 shutouts … Helped to lead Andover to the NEPSAC Class A Semi-Finals three times and the Quarterfinals one time during her career … Recipient of the Abbot Athletic Award in 2011 … Selected to National Futures Championship five times (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) … Named an alternate for the 2007 Junior Olympics … Was a 2009 Junior National Camp selection, Olympic Development Select … Played with the 2010 Olympic Development Select Travel Team (National U19 Squad) for the USA Women’s Argentina Tour … Also played club field hockey for Cape Ann Coalition … Four-year honor roll student at Phillips Andover … Selected to Ambassador’s Board of Head Tour Guides for Admissions in 2009.

Personal: The daughter of Kevin and Cynthia McSweeney, Shannon has two brothers, John and James … Cousin, Kate Macdonald, is a senior on the women’s lacrosse team at Northwestern … Concentrating in Engineering.

McSweeney’s Career Highs
Saves: 24, vs. Maine (9/15/13)
Goals Against: 0, 2x, last vs. Holy Cross (10/23/13)
GAA: 0.00, 2x, last vs. Holy Cross (10/23/13)
Save %: 1.000,2x, last vs. Holy Cross (10/23/13)

McSweeney's Career Stats
	GP/GS	Min	GA	GAA	S	Save%	W-L	ShO	Shots Faced
2011	17/17	1208:32	62	3.59	160	.721	4-13	0	393
2012	17/17	1221:39	48	2.75	185	.794	6-11	1	368
2013	17/17	1168:54	51	3.05	172	.771	6-11	0	368
TOTALS	51/51	3599:05	161	3.13	517	.762	16-35	1	1129