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WASHINGTON -- University of Delaware lacrosse standouts Curtis Dickson for the Blue Hen men and Emily Schaknowski for the UD women have been named to the Tewaaraton Player of the Year Trophy pre-season Watch List.

The lists are made up of the top lacrosse players across all three divisions of collegiate lacrosse and are the early hopefuls for the 2010 Tewaaraton Trophy. Watch list nominees are screened and selected by two Selection Committees. The Selection Committees are comprised of college coaches, one committee for the men and one committee for the women.

Dickson (top right) who currently leads the nation in goal-scoring, is one of 64 candidates for the award while Schaknowski (bottom left), who has two goals and four assists for the UD women, is among 52 candidates.

A native of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Dickson has been named to the award watch each of the last three seasons. He is a three-time All-Colonial Athletic Association honoree and was named a U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association honorable mention All-American in 2008. He has been red-hot to open the 2010 season, leading the No. 14 ranked Blue Hens to a 4-1 record and two straight wins entering Saturday’s home game vs. No. 15 Stony Brook.

Dickson, who already has scored eight goals vs. Albany and seven against UMBC this season, has scored 24 goals and dished out eight assists for the season and leads the nation in goals per game and ranks third in points per game. He ranks No. 2 among all active NCAA Division I goal scorers with 124 and his streak of scoring a point in 45 straight games is just two shy of the UD all-time record.

Schaknowski, a senior midfielder from Wading River, N.Y. (Shoreham-Wading River High School), is a two-time All-CAA selection, earning second team honors in 2009 after earning first team honors in 2008 and All-Rookie laurels as a freshman in 2007. She is Delaware’s active career point-scorer with 130 points and is No. 2 with 69 goals entering Saturday’s home game vs. No. 14 Penn State. The Blue Hens are 1-3 this season with two losses coming by a single goal.

Dickson is one three Colonial Athletic Association players named to the men’s list and was joined by Hofstra junior attackman Jay Card and Massachusetts defenseman Diogo Godoi.

Schaknowski is one of five Colonial Athletic Association players named to the women’s list and was joined by Towson midfielder Hillary Fratzke, Hofstra midfielder Corrine Gandolfi, James Madison midfielder Kim Griffen, and William & Mary midfielder Grace Golden.

The Tewaaraton Award was formally established in August of 2000 and is the pre-eminent lacrosse award, which is given annually to the NCAA men's and women's lacrosse player of the year. Tradition dictates that each year the Tewaaraton Award celebrates one of the six tribal nations of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Cayuga, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and the Tuscarora. This will be the 10th annual awards ceremony and is the "Year of the Seneca".

The award will be presented on June 3, 2010 at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.