WESTERVILLE, Ohio – On Wednesday morning, the Ohio Athletic Conference announced the selections of eight Capital University women's lacrosse representatives as All-Conference team honorees as well as four player of the years and one coach of the year.

Winning the conference's player of the year awards were Luci Kanowsky (Attacker), Brooke Delara (Midfielder), Molly Searles (Co-Defender), and Grace Osborn (Rookie). In addition to these four special award winners,head coach Stacey Florence was named the Coach of the Year as well. 

For all four special award winners, these are their first career Player of the Year awards, while the honor is Coach Florence's second Coach of the Year award as she earned the distinction in 2016 as well.  

In addition to the special awards, Luci Kanowsky, Molly Searles, Grace Osborn and Brooke Delara were named All-OAC First Team honorees. Alongside those four were another four All-OAC Honorable Mention selections in the form of Julia Foresi, Hanna Searles, Maddy Radanof, and Bee Kuehn. The eight selections ties a program record for most All-OAC honors in a single season with eight – also accomplished in 2016.

Kanowsky, who is now the third different Comet to be named the OAC Offensive Player of the Year (joining Regan Hanood and Kara Hines x2), picked up her second consecutive first team honor. During the regular season, Kanowsky finished with 74 goals, 23 assists, 30 ground balls, 22 caused turnovers and three draw controls. 

Delara is the third different Comet to be named as the OAC Midfielder of the Year (joining Kat Walton and Kara Hines). She also earned her third consecutive All-OAC first team honor. During the regular season, Delara scored 63 goals, added 72 assists, and also contributed 33 ground balls, 19 caused turnovers and 28 draw controls. She also set the new Capital career point and assist records this season along with a bevy of other accomplishments. She finished the regular season as the No. 2 point-getter in all of NCAA Division III. 

Molly Searles is the third defensive player of the year for Capital joining Alex Lowry and Maddie Wilson. This year's First Team All-Conference award is her second career postseason award as she was named honorable mention last season. At the end of the regular season, Searles finished with two goals, 47 ground balls, 35 caused turnovers and five draw controls. 

Osborn is Capital's first OAC Rookie of the Year and along with her All-OAC First Team honor picks up her first career postseason awards. At the end of the regular season, Grace finished with 102 goals scored, 27 assists, 63 ground balls, 38 caused turnovers, and 110 draw controls. She led all three NCAA divisions with goals scored, broke Capital records for goals scored in a season, goals scored in a game, draw controls in a season, and already sits in the top-seven in career goals. 

Foresi had a critical role as a reserve and as a starter in seven contests, scoring 19 times and handing out 14 assists. Julia also added 37 ground balls, 16 caused turnovers, and a pair of draw controls. This is her first postseason accolade. 

Hanna Searles played her way to her first postseason award with two goals, one assist, 37 ground balls, 18 caused turnovers, and three draw controls. 

Radanof is another first-time postseason award winner and picks up the honorable mention honor on the heels of a season in which she scored three times, picked up 20 ground balls and caused 15 turnovers. 

Kuehn also won her first All-OAC honor after finishing the regular season with 93 saves and a goals-against-average of 7.06. She broke the program record for wins in a season going a perfect 17-0 in the regular season as Capital's last-line of defense. 

Coach Florence won her second Coach of the Year award after guiding the Comets to a perfect 17-0 season this year.  Alongside assistant coach Kaela Smith, Florence guided the team to their first ever OAC Regular Season and Tournament trophies, while also garnering NCAA postseason qualification for the first time as well. In the final regular season game of the season, the Comets' 20-3 win over Heidelberg was the 100th win in the coaching career of Florence – and the 100th in program history as well. 

Capital, now 19-0 after the OAC Tournament, remains in the hunt and will travel to the University of Chicago this coming Saturday, May 14th to play Hamline in the NCAA First Round. The winner will then play Chicago on Sunday.