Northwestern University Athletics
Northwestern Names Hilton Garden Athletes of the Week
5/23/2005 12:00:00 AM | General
May 23, 2005
EVANSTON, Ill. --Sophomore Kristen Kjellman (Westwood, Mass./Westwood) of lacrosse and junior Pat McMahon (Mundelein, Ill./Carmel) of baseball have been named this week's Northwestern Hilton Garden Inn Athletes of the Week after concluding their respective seasons with exclamation marks.
Kjellman earned NCAA Tournament MVP honors after Northwestern's run to a perfect season and the NCAA title. She scored the Wildcats' first five goals in a back-and-forth first half against Virginia in the title game, helping NU keep pace with the Cavaliers before the Wildcats' ran away with the title in the second half. Kjellman, one of five finalists for the Tewaaraton Trophy, also scored a pair of goals in Northwestern's 8-4 semifinal victory against Dartmouth.
With two hits in Sunday's game against Michigan State, McMahon set the Northwestern single-season record for hits with 82. He went 2-for-4 in the game and ended the 2005 season with a .400 (82-for-205) batting average. He is the first Wildcat since Mark Loretta (1993) to hit .400 in a season. McMahon recorded school history in the fifth inning when he lined an RBI single to center field. He also had an RBI double in the bottom of the first inning. McMahon passed Tom Hildebrand (1985) and Jeremy Kurella (2000) for the record.
