Senior Christine Fingerhuth has been named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Year, becoming just the third student-athlete in the conference's history to earn the award in back-to-back seasons. In addition, Head Coach Steve Jennings, was named the conference's Coach of the Year for a seventh time Tuesday while eight Eagles were named to the All-League teams.

Fingerhuth leads the Patriot League with a career-high 15 goals and 32 points, and was unanimously voted as the Player of the Year. She was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week a conference-record four straight times from September 27 – October 18, scoring 12 goals during an eight-match stretch. Fingerhuth has scored eight of her 15 goals against conference opponents this season, and currently ranks 22nd in the NCAA in goals per game (0.83) and 39th in points per game (1.78). Along with being named the Offensive Player of the Year, Fingerhuth has also been named to the All-Patriot League First Team for a third consecutive season.

Fingerhuth is now just the third Patriot League student-athlete to repeat as the Offensive Player of the Year and the first to do so since alumnae Camila Infante '07 accomplished the feat in 2004 and 2005. Fingerhuth is currently tied with Infante for fourth place in program history with 49 career goals, and ranks fifth all-time in the conference. Her 110 career points place her seventh in both program history and League annals.

Jennings has earned his seventh Patriot League Coach of the Year honor and sixth in a row after guiding No. 9 American to a 15-3 overall record and a 5-0 conference mark. The Eagles captured their eighth straight Patriot League Regular Season Championship last weekend and finished with an undefeated record in conference play for the seventh time in the last eight years. Jennings' Eagles currently rank fourth in the country in win percentage (.833), fifth in goals against average (1.06), and are sixth in both scoring average (3.44) and scoring margin (+2.39). Earlier this season American enjoyed a 12-match win streak, the team's third longest win streak under Jennings, in which they outscored their opponents by a margin of 46-10 and picked up five shutouts. The Eagles defeated five ranked opponents throughout the year, including a 3-2 win at then No. 4 Princeton on October 3, and have been ranked as high as No. 7 in the coaches poll.

The Patriot League also announced its All-League Teams on Tuesday, to which eight Eagles were named. Joining Fingerhuth on the first team are classmates Kirstin Gebhart and Anne van Erp, and sophomore Gina Hofmann. Gebhart has recorded one goal, 12 assists and 14 points this season, with her 12 helpers ranking 10th on the school's single-season assists list. This is Gebhart's first All-Patriot League First Team selection, after twice having been a second team honoree. Van Erp was named to the first team for a second straight year and is a three-time All-Patriot League selection. The midfielder has notched a career-high six goals, four assists and 16 points this season, and was named the Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week on August 30. Hofmann earned her first All-Patriot League selection after being named Defensive Player of the Week three times and recording seven goals, 10 assists and 24 points. Fingerhuth, van Erp and Hofmann were each unanimously selected to the first team.

Tatum Dyer, Shelly Montgomery, Constanza Palma, and Lotte van de Mierop were named to the All-Patriot League Second Team. Dyer, a three-time second team selection, has anchored the American defense which currently ranks fifth in the NCAA in goals against average (1.06). She was twice named the conference's Defensive Player of the Week and has totaled two defensive saves on the year. Montgomery and van de Mierop each rank seventh in the conference with eight goals and eighth with 18 points. Montgomery was honored as the Offensive Player of the Week on September 20 and was also named the Rookie of the Week on October 25. Van de Mierop, meanwhile, was twice recognized as Rookie of the Week. Palma has notched one goal, four assists and six points, and was named Rookie of the Week on September 13.

American's four selections to the first team are the most in program history, while the eight total All-Patriot League selections match the program record set in 2008.

American will host the 2010 Patriot League Tournament this Friday and Saturday, November, 5-6, at Jacobs Field. Top-seeded American will first play fourth-seeded Colgate on Friday at 11:30 a.m. with second-seeded Lafayette facing third-seeded Bucknell at 1:45 p.m. The winner of these games will then square off on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. to decide the 2010 Patriot League Champion. Tickets to the tournament are priced at $5 for adults and $3 for youth 17 and under and can be purchased the day of the game. Fans unable to make it to Jacobs Field in person can still catch all of the action live online via a subscription to Patriot League All*Access.