East Stroudsburg, Pa. - East Stroudsburg University's Rachel Miller and Kate Dideon have been chosen on the Astro Turf National Field Hockey Coaches' Association Division II All-America field hockey team announced Thursday.

Miller, a junior midfielder from Tunkhannock, was a first team selection while Dideon, a junior forward from Lancaster, was chosen on the second team. It marked the ninth straight year that the Warriors produced one or more All-America players.

A total of 32 players, 16 on the first team and 16 on the second, were selected in a balloting of the head coaches of the nation's 24 Division II field hockey teams. National champion Lock Haven had the most selections with four first team players and one second teamer.

Miller was considered to be the team's most consistent player in leading the Warriors to a 14-7 record and a runner-up finish in the ECAC Division II championships. She scored two goals and made four assists.

She has been a two-year starter for ESU after transferring from Lock Haven where she was a member of the Lady Eagles' 1998 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship team. She was an All-State second team player for Tunkhannock High School and was chosen as the team's MVP twice.

Dideon led the Warriors in scoring with 16 goals and six assists, which was third high in the conference. She scored goals in ten games including a 'hat trick' against Mansfield and two goals apiece in wins over UMass-Lowell, C.W. Post and Slippery Rock.

A three-year starter, Dideon now has career totals of 29 goals and 13 assists. She was a two-time All-Conference forward for Living Word Academy High School.

Both Miller and Dideon had made the All-PSAC first team.

Other first team selections were: Lock Haven - Tara Beach, Erika Grap, Shannon Spease, Shanna Vitale; Bloomsburg - Leah Conte, Krista Engle, Heather Weikel; Bentley - Allyson Bunce, Tara Zraunig; IUP - Julie Hess, Jen Lawler; St. Michael's - Sarah Alves, Angela Potts; Assumption - Melissa Shamgochian; Longwood - Claire Reyes.

On the second team were: Bentley - Kristyn Bates, Ann Marie Sheridan; Longwood - Cheryl Andrukonis, Heather Kintsler; St. Michael's - Morgan Phillips, Megan Scalley; Assumption - Tracie Andrew, Stephanie Fleming; Kutztown - Justine Baer; Franklin Pierce - Kristen Clarke; Lock Haven - Jen Denault; Catawba - Elizabeth Howard; Bloomsburg - Trisha Leitzel; Mansfield - Gretchen Reschke; UMass-Lowell - Kelly Ward.

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