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Goalie Wins NCAA Scholarship
 It is difficult to determine where Toby Wilmet '01 shone brightest at Washington College-in the classroom, in the art studio or on the hockey field. At the end of her college career, the humanities and art major from Dalton, PA, walked away with a post-graduate scholarship that recognized all her accomplishments-the NCAA scholarship. It is one of 22 such scholarships awarded to Division III student-athletes across the nation.
Wilmet will use the $5,000 award for post-graduate studies-perhaps anthropology, an interest piqued during her studies abroad. In her junior year, she spent the spring semester at Rhodes University in South Africa, where, in addition to her comparative studies of rock art, she volunteered every day at the Amasanga Daily Bread & Trust, working with school children in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of Grahamstown. Her experience in South Africa later became the basis for her senior art show, a culminating artistic exercise for the dual-sport athlete.
At the athletic awards banquet, Wilmet received the Senior Athlete Award in recognition of her contributions to the athletic program during the past four years. A Student Athlete Mentor and a member of the SAM Council, she has been active in organizing programs for athletes and this year served as a Character Coach at Garnett Elementary School. In addition to her contributions in field hockey-she earned MVP honors this year-she also excelled on the softball diamond as the team's starting catcher.
Last year, Wilmet was named a National Field Hockey Coaches Association First Team All-American and became the first field hockey player from Washington College to earn first team honors. A four-year starter for the Shorewomen, she stepped into the lineup as a freshman and quickly became the premier goalkeeper in the Centennial Conference.
Since then, she has led the team to a combined record of 53-21, a Conference Championship and appearances in both the NCAA and ECAC Championships.
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