University of Portland Athletics

• The 2005 team went 23-0-2 to win the program’s second NCAA National Championships in four years.
• They became only the second NCAA Division I to ever to go undefeated through an entire season.
• UP also became the second school ever to win multiple NCAA Championships.
• The Pilots out-scored their opponents 79-9 on the season and registered 17 shutouts.
• Senior Christine Sinclair scored an NCAA record 39 goals en route to winning her second MAC Hermann Trophy; that NCAA record still stands today.
• A then-NCAA record 40,841 fans packed into Merlo Field that season as Portland became the first school ever to crack the 40,000-fan mark.
• The NCAA Quarterfinal match-up with Notre Dame sold out in less than 10 minutes
• Portland swept the West Coast Conference awards as Christine Sinclair was named conference player of the year, Stephanie Lopez was tabbed the defensive player of the year, Megan Rapinoe was voted the league’s freshman of the year and Garrett Smith took home coach of the year accolades
• Five Pilots were named All-Americans (Lindsey Huie, Stephanie (Lopez) Cox, Megan Rapinoe, Christine Sinclair, Angie (Woznuk) Kerr) and eight players (Natalie (Budge) Fields, Kari Evans, Huie, Cox, Rapinoe, Lisa (Sari) Chambers, Sinclair, Kerr) garnered all-conference honors.
• Sinclair was also awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup (awarded to the top NCAA athlete across all levels and all sports) and was named the CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year and the NSCAA Scholar All-American of the Year.