COLCHESTER, Vt. - Saint Michael's College field hockey senior Joelle Cameron (West Bridgewater, Mass./West Bridgewater) was named Northeast 10 Conference Goalkeeper of the Year on Thursday, as voted upon by the league's head coaches. She also claimed a spot on the NE10 All-Conference first team.

Cameron is the third Purple Knight netminder to land NE10 Goalkeeper of the Year, joining two-time selection and SMC Athletic Hall of Famer Meghan Scalley '02 (2000, 2001) and Jackie Chisholm '15 (2014). Saint Michael's has now put a player on the NE10 All-Conference first team four of the past five seasons, while Cameron, Chisholm, Scalley and Nicki Collette '99 (1996) are the lone keepers to ever be placed on the top squad.

Cameron broke a 22-year-old NCAA Division II record with 429 saves this fall, the most by a goalkeeper in any of the NCAA's three divisions since 1997. Along the way, she also surpassed long-standing NE10 (2003) and program (1988) records for season saves. Cameron's 604 career saves are another school standard, put her 10th in NE10 annals, and are the most by all active NCAA goalkeepers. She will graduate ninth in Saint Michael's history with a .830 career save percentage after averaging an NCAA-high 25.2 saves per game this season alone.

Along with setting saves records, Cameron stands fourth in Division II in save percentage (.835), leaving her second among NE10 keepers. In league play, that figure rises to .860. The captain owns the top five game save totals in Division II this season and eight of the best nine. On Sept. 7 against defending national runner-up Kutztown University, Cameron tied a 33-year-old Division II record with 45 saves, also surpassing a 44-year-old school mark and a 24-year-old league standard. Just 10 days later, she reset all records with another 48 stops against defending national champion Saint Anselm College. Cameron added back-to-back 34-save outings in mid-October.