GRANTHAM, Pa. – A day after advancing into the final eight of the NCAA Tournament with a gutsy shootout performance against Hardin-Simmons, the Swarthmore College women's soccer team (18-3-2) concluded its season with a loss to the top-ranked Messiah Falcons (22-0-2) on Sunday, Nov. 22.

Messiah scored four first-half goals en route to a 5-0 win and a berth in the Final Four. Senior keeper Reba Magier, the hero of the shootout against Hardin-Simmons, made 12 saves in the final game of her storied Swarthmore career.

Swarthmore caps off the best year in program history with 18 wins and has now posted a winning record in 10 consecutive seasons. The Garnet set program records for goals (83), assists (75), and shutouts (16) as they made the deepest run into the NCAA Tournament of any Swarthmore team in recent history. The Garnet also posted a goals-against average of less than 1.00 for the fourth consecutive season and opened the campaign as the last team across all three NCAA divisions to allow a goal, a streak that lasted just over 725 minutes.

A total of 21 different players scored a goal during the season and 26 of 29 field players totaled at least one point. Marin McCoy set the single-season program record with 40 points on 15 goals and 10 assists and Hannah Lichtenstein's 34 points (12 goals, 10 assists) and Katie Dougherty's 28 (11 goals, 6 assists) put them top-five all-time. Six players earned All-Centennial Conference recognition as McCoy, Lichtenstein, and Caroline Khanna landed on the First Team while Magier, Melissa Curran, and Miranda Saldivar took home Second Team honors. Katherine Zavez was also recognized on the Capital One Academic All-District IV Division III Women's Soccer Team presented by CoSIDA.

Swarthmore graduates nine seniors in Magier, Emily Telford-Marx, Amanda Bosworth, Melissa Trofa, Cappy Pitts, Emily Gale, Aine Schanche, Tazmin Bailiff-Curtis, and Caela Long and is slated to return 24 letterwinners for the 2016 season.