Lily Sender knew she needed a hat trick in UNLV’s last game of the regular season to rewrite the women’s soccer program’s record book. So she went out and scored one.
The senior’s three goals in the Rebels’ 4-2 win at UNR on Oct. 28 not only clinched her team’s first Mountain West regular-season title since 2007, it gave her a school record for points in a season and tied the single-season program mark for goals.
Nearly a week later, Sender said the records still felt unreal to her. After all, she played in only one game as a sophomore and scored one goal as a junior.