Poughkeepsie, NY – Senior goalie Kelsey Rodgers (Anaheim Hills, CA/Canyon/Fullerton JC) and Head Coach Pat Beemer headlined the 2010 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Water Polo postseason honors awarded Friday. Beemer was named the 2010 Anaconda Sports MAAC Coach of the Year, while Rodgers earned Defensive Player of the Year for the second straight season.

Rodgers led the nation with 472 saves while owning an 8.78 goals against average and a .628 save percentage over 34 games played in goal for the Seahawks. She made 13.88 saves per game, the most in MAAC history and was named Defensive Player of the Week five times this season.
Beemer, in his sixth season at the helm of the Seahawks program, has led his squad to an overall record of 16-19, including a 6-4 mark in the MAAC, en route to earning the third seed in the 2010 MAAC Women's Water Polo Championship. He currently has a 52-16 (76.5%) record against Conference opponents and sports a 115-88 overall record. This is his second Coach of Year honor - he shared the award in 2005.

Earning First Team All-MAAC selections are Iona's Leonard, Mackenzie Mone and Maggie Wood; Marist College's Angela Rampton, Rachel Sunday and Samantha Swartz; Andrea Dolnay from St. Francis (N.Y.) College; Siena College's Camille Norman; and Rodgers from Wagner.

Four of the eight members on the Second Team All-MAAC are from Wagner. They include sophomore Chelsea Beck (Reading, PA/Wilson), sophomore Lauren French (Shillington, PA/North Penn), junior Natalie Pyrz (Harleysville, PA/North Penn), and junior Laura Vanderbent (Shillington, PA/Governor Mifflin).

Seven Seahawks were named to the All-Academic team. They included Beck, French, Pyrz, Rodgers, junior Dana DeCinque (Collegeville, PA/The Hill School), junior Carina Giles (Mohton, PA/Governor Mifflin), and sophomore Becca Hannings (Lansdale, PA/North Penn). To be eligible for the MAAC All-Academic Team, a student athlete must complete two semesters at their institution and hold a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a 4.0 scale.