St. Mary's College of Maryland's Gia Trionfo and Goucher College's Kristin Carey were both two-time CAC Women's Lacrosse Players of the Year - in fact, sharing the award in 1998 - and four-time first-team all-conference selections and are among the 25 players named to the CAC's Silver Anniversary Women's Lacrosse Team. Trionfo was one of a CAC-best nine players named to the team from St. Mary's.

Entering its 25th year of varsity competition, the CAC selected a Silver Anniversary Team in 19 championship sports, primarily based on season-ending conference awards as voted by the conference coaches. Each Silver Anniversary Team will feature 25 former or current standouts. Men's and women's indoor track & field, which became a CAC championship sport in 2012, was combined with men's and women's outdoor track & field. The Silver Anniversary Golf Team has just eight members because the sport was added to the CAC championships list just seven years ago.

The teams will be announced early in the regular-season for its respective sport. Each Silver Anniversary Team honoree will receive a commemorative gift from the conference, and many will be recognized by their institution/alma mater at some time during the academic year.

The University of Mary Washington, a charter member of the CAC, led the conference with 153 current and former student-athletes on the Silver Anniversary Teams, including 40 in men's and women's tennis combined. Salisbury University, which joined the CAC in the 1994-95 athletic season, was second with 121 Silver Anniversary Team honorees. CAC charter members York College of Pa. (59) and St. Mary's College of Md. (35) were next in line for most Silver Anniversary Team honorees.

The CAC was organized as a six-team affiliation in 1989 and began championship competition with the winter sports during the 1990-91 season. Membership changes in the last decade ultimately created a 10-team conference that has become one of the strongest in NCAA Division III.

CAC teams have won 18 national team championships, and dozens of other teams have finished in among the top four in NCAA Division III competition.

In 2013-14, the CAC advanced more than 25 teams to post-season competition. Four CAC athletic programs finished among the Top 60 in the final Learfield Cup – the only conference in the Middle Atlantic Region to accomplish that feat. One team won a national championship (Salisbury University women's lacrosse) and three others played in the national championship game. Nineteen CAC teams won at least one game in NCAA Tournament competition and 10 advanced to at least the NCAA Sweet 16.

In the last two years, CAC student-athletes have combined to win six individual national championships at NCAA swimming or track & field competitions. The CAC student-athletes collected a record 11 Capital One Academic All-America awards in 2013-14 as well as an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship and the Josten's Award, recognizing a Division III women's basketball player for her achievements on the court, in the classroom and contributions to the community.

In the classroom, the CAC boasts 81 Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-Americans, including one Academic All-American of the Year award winner, 12 NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship winners, five NCAA Elite 89 award winners, two Honda year-end award winners and a Josten's Award winner in women's basketball. The CAC also features an annual Academic Honor Roll that recently honored nearly 1,200 students for their academic achievements. Thousands of other student-athletes have received Player of the Year, All-America or All-Region recognition in their respective sports.

Carey was a first-team all-star from 1995-98, earning the Player of the Year award her final two seasons for the Gophers. Similarly, Trionfo earned four-straight first-team All-CAC nods during her career, shared the 1998 Player of the Year award with Carey then won the trophy outright in 1999.

The only other Player of the Year award winner to earn first-team all-star recognition throughout her career was Mary Washington's Catherine Kennedy, who won the Player of the Year award as a junior in 2011, two years after capturing the CAC Rookie of the Year award.

Among the nine St. Mary's honorees on the Silver Anniversary Team are Jen Chumley and Sarah Sloan, who were both four-time first-team all-stars after gaining Rookie of the Year recognition as a first-year student, and current Seahawks Sports Information Director Nairem Moran, a three-time first-team all-star.

Kennedy, along with teammate and three-time first-team All-CAC player Allie Kimmelman, were among the six Mary Washington standouts named to the Silver Anniversary team, a number matched by Salisbury University. Highlighting the Sea Gulls' contingent are two-time CAC Player of the Year honorees Sue Ackermann and Katie Bollhorst.

A trio of 2013 York College of Pa. graduates were also among the Silver Anniversary honorees, led by three-time first-team all-stars Kim Wayson and Katie Vautier.

CAC Women's Lacrosse Silver Anniversary Team Honorees

Name, Last Year of Competition, Institution
Linda Ackermann, 2005, Salisbury University
Sue Ackermann, 2008, Salisbury University
Jenny Atmar, 2012, University of Mary Washington
Melissa Ballance, 1999, University of Mary Washington
Mary Bateman, 2006, Salisbury University

Melissa Block, 2004, University of Mary Washington
Katie Bollhorst, 2013, Salisbury University
Kristin Carey, 1998, Goucher College
Lauren Carrier, 2009, St. Mary's College of Md.
Jen Chumley, 2004, St. Mary's College of Md.

Kelly Fetter, 2000, St. Mary's College of Md.
Bridget Geiman, 2001, University of Mary Washington
Kathy Holmes, 2002, St. Mary's College of Md.
Catherine Kennedy, 2012, University of Mary Washington
Allie Kimmelman, 2012, University of Mary Washington

Jen Mezzadra, 2001, Salisbury University
Nairem Moran, 1999, St. Mary's College of Md.
Mia Oliver, 2004, St. Mary's College of Md.
Carol Schmoeller, 2004, St. Mary's College of Md.
Leah Schultz, 2013, York College of Pa.

Sarah Sloane, 2005, St. Mary's College of Md.
Gia Trionfo, 1999, St. Mary's College of Md.
Kate Vautier, 2013, York College of Pa.
Kim Wayson, 2013, York College of Pa.
Ashton Wheatley, 2014, Salisbury University