Green Brook Girl Helps Lead Muhlenberg Lacrosse to Victory

A Muhlenberg College freshman goalkeeper from Green Brook has been recognized as helping to lead her lacrosse team to its winning record this year.

Kiersten Mulvey assisted her women’s team in achieving its winning record for 2013.

“It was a great feeling to come onto this team and instantly feel like I was a part of a family,” she said.

According to a release from the college, the team recently played in the Centennial Conference, one of the strongest Division III women’s lacrosse leagues. The team won its final three games.

The team finished the season at 8-7, which is a three-win improvement from 2012.

Mulvey, the release said, participated in seven games, and started her college career against Swarthmore. She also recorded eight saves.

Mulvey finished the season with a goals-against average of 8.75, the release said.

In addition, the release said, Mulvey was part of a defense section that recorded two shutouts in the season for the first time in the program’s history.

Mulvey said she has only been playing lacrosse for five years, having started during her freshman year of high school at Rutgers Prep. Before, she had been a soccer player.

“The team was without a goalie just a few days before the season started, and my varsity soccer coach let the lacrosse coach know that it would be a good idea to stick me in goal,” she said. “So just a few days later, my best friend Arielle Sherman, who also attends Muhlenberg and is on the team, dragged me to the first practice and I guess you could say that I fell in love with it.”

As a member of the team, Mulvey said her favorite part is the many friendships she has made.

“I consider everyone on the team one of my best friends, someone who I can talk to on and off the field and really look up to,” she said. “That’s just the kind of people we all are, and I couldn’t be happier to play with such a great group.”

At Muhlenberg, Mulvey said she plans to double major in psychology and biology.

“My goal is to be a research psychologist and study Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinson’s Disease, as well as other brain diseases and disorders,” she said. “These two diseases hit me close to home, and I hope to one day figure them out, you could say.”

But for now, Mulvey is pleased to be a part of the team.

“We worked so hard everyday at practice, as well as off the field, and it was great to see it all come together in the end with getting our first winning record since 2010,” she said.