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2021 Lacrosse Roster

Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin
Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin
Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin
Columbia University Athletics/Mike McLaughlin

9 Chelsea Witteck

  • Position A
  • Height 5-7
  • Class Senior
  • High School Smithtown West
  • Hometown Smithtown, N.Y.
  • School Columbia College

Biography

2020 (Junior)
Started all seven contests ... Scored six goals to go with a pair of assists.

2019 (Sophomore)
An important offensive piece for the Lions as a sophomore, making 13 starts in 14 appearances ... Ended the season third on the team in goals (19) and points (24) scored ... Career-best four goals in the win over Harvard on April 6 ... First hat trick of the season came in the win at Arizona State on Feb. 22 ... Recorded a hat trick in the season finale at Brown ... Posted three points behind two goals and an assist against Yale on April 13 ... Bettered both her goal and assist totals from the previous season.

2018 (First-Year)
Appeared in all 16 games, making 15 starts as a rookie ... Finished season with 22 points on 18 goals and four assists ... Tallied a score in the regular season finale vs. Princeton ... Four points on three goals and an assist in a win over Brown ... Scored the final goal in a road win at Yale ... Two goals on the road at Wagner ... A goal in a home win over Harvard ... Two goals and an assist on the road at East Carolina ... Three points on two scores and an assist in the Lions home win over Radford ... Two points on a goal and an assist vs. Arizona State ... Scored first career goal in collegiate debut at No. 10 Navy on Feb. 17.

HIGH SCHOOL
From the five-time league champion Smithtown High School West, attacker Chelsea Witteck brings her scoring prowess to Columbia. In four seasons, Witteck fired in 157 goals and 103 assists, including season-highs of 57 goals in 2016 and 41 assists in 2015.

Witteck is a two-time All-Suffolk County honoree with her first coming in 2016 after a run to the Suffolk County Championship. She was also touted as one of Newsdays Top 100 players to watch in her senior season.

A 2017 Academic All-American, Witteck also gained academic honors as an AP Scholar with Distinction, finishing in the top 10% of her class, and being members of the Math Honor Society, Italian Honor Society, English honor Society and National Honor Society.

PERSONAL
Enrolled in Columbia College.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2018Graduate Student

    Attacker
    9
  • 9

    2019Sophomore

    Attacker
    5'7"
    9
  • 9

    2020Junior

    Attacker
    5'7"
    9
  • 9

    2021Senior

    Attacker
    5'7"
    9