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All-Ivy Women's Soccer -- 2009
Created: 11/12/2009 2:14:05 PM
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PRINCETON, N.J. — In a season that saw much parity around
the League, this year's women's soccer All-Ivy team is reflective of that theme,
with seven of eight Ivy teams represented on the first team and only one program
with more than two honorees.
Leading the way with three first team members is Dartmouth, who used strong
play from its veteran midfield to finish in tie for third-place with Penn. Senior
midfielders Myra Sack, Kelsey Quick and Allison
Hubbard all earned first team accolades for the Big Green.
Sack earns her third All-Ivy selection, and second straight as a first-teamer,
after starting all 17 games for Dartmouth. She finished third on the team with
10 points on three goals and four assists. Quick, an honorable mention performer
a season ago, was the Big Green's second leading scorer with 12 points on three
goals and six assists. She finished in the League's top ten in shots (35), points
(12), assists (6) and game-winning goals (3). After a second team and honorable
mention nod as a sophomore and junior, Hubbard becomes a first team pick for
the first time. She had three assists and a goal on the year.
League runner-ups Yale were one of two teams to ring in with two first teamers
-- 2009 Ivy League Player of the Year Becky Brown and senior
defender Sophia Merrifield.
Brown, a junior forward and the only player to receive unanimous votes from
the Ivy coaches, becomes the first Bulldog to earn the League's highest individual
honor since Jen Teti won back-to-back Player of the Year awards in 1992 and
1993. An honorable mention and second team selection as a freshman and sophomore,
Brown exploded for 13 goals this season, good enough for second in the Ivies
and fourth most in Yale single-season history. She also added four assists for
30 points on the year.
Merrifield becomes the only member of this year's women's soccer Ivy graduating
class to earn All-Ivy honors in each of her four years. It is her second first
team selection after helping anchor a Yale defense that posted seven shutouts
and yielded just 16 goals all season.
Princeton rounds out schools with multiple first team honorees with senior defender
Melissa Seitz and junior goalkeeper Alyssa Pont.
Seitz and Pont both started all games and spearheaded a dominant Tiger defense
that ranked first in the League in goals allowed (14), goals against average
(0.78) and shutouts (8). Individually, Seitz added a goal on the year, while
Pont led the Ivies in save percentage (.833) and saves (70).
Harvard, who won its second consecutive League title and first outright in exactly
a decade, had one first team honoree in junior forward Katherine Sheeleigh.
The former Ivy Rookie of the Year tallied eight goals and was relentless up
front for the Ivy champs, leading the League in shots (69). Her clutch two-goal
performance versus Dartmouth in the second-to-last weekend of the season, carried
the Crimson to a huge win and, at the time, clinched a share of the Ivy crown.
Brown senior defender Bridget Ballard becomes a three-time
All-Ivy selection, after earning honorable mention honors as a sophomore and
second team accolades last season as a junior. She started all 15 games this
season for the Bears and just last week was named to the 2009 CoSIDA/ESPN the
Magazine Academic All-District women's soccer team.
Last season's Player of the Year Sophie Reiser of Columbia
returns to the first team for the third time. The senior forward ends her career
as one of the top women's soccer players in school history and sits atop the
Lions' all-time career assists list, ranking second in points and third in goals
scored. Reiser tied for the team lead in points this year with seven goals and
four assists.
Last but certainly not least on the first team is Penn senior forward Jessica
Fuccello. After missing almost all of her junior campaign with an injury,
Fuccello returned with a bang, scoring an Ivy-best 16 goals in just 15 games
-- tying a school record -- while also leading the League with 35 points. She
finishes her career with 36 goals which is second all-time behind Katy Cross
(50 from 2001-04).
Princeton's Alison Nabatoff and Yale's Kristen Forster
were voted Co-Rookies of the Year, becoming the first honorees to share the
award since 1996 for only the second time in Ivy League women's soccer history.
Nabatoff was a welcomed addition to Princeton's stingy defense that held Ivy
League opponents to a league-low total of five goals in Ivy matches, including
a shutout list that counted Brown, Columbia, Cornell and league champion Harvard.
She is the fourth Tiger in program history and first since 2004 to win the award.
Forster, a freshman midfielder relished her role as Yale's setup person, registering
a League-best nine assists to go with her two goals. Those nine assists tied
her with Crysti Howser for the most by a freshman in a season in Yale history.
Coincidentally, Howser was the last Bulldog to capture Rookie of the Year honors.
Harvard led the way with four second team members, followed by Penn with three
and Columbia with two.
2009 Women's Soccer All-Ivy
First Team
Bridget Ballard, Brown (Sr., D, Los Angeles, Calif.)
Melissa Seitz, Princeton (Sr., D, Basking Ridge, N.J.)
Sophia Merrifield, Yale (Sr., D, Honolulu, Hawaii)
Sophie Reiser, Columbia (Sr., M, Seattle, Wash.)
Myra Sack, Dartmouth (Sr., M, Wynnewood, Pa.)
Kelsey Quick, Dartmouth (Sr., M, Bernardsville, N.J.)
Allison Hubbard, Dartmouth (Sr., M, Marshfield, Mass.)
Katherine Sheeleigh, Harvard (Jr., F, New Vernon, N.J.)
Jessica Fuccello, Penn (Sr., F, Bricktown, N.J.)
*Becky Brown, Yale (Jr., F, Lawrenceville, N.J.)
Alyssa Pont, Princeton (Jr., GK, Sterling, Va.)
Second Team
Lindsey Kowal, Harvard (So., D, East Meadow, N.Y.)
Elizabeth Nichols, Harvard (Sr., D, Princeton, N.J.)
Michelle Drugan, Penn (Sr., D, Altadena, Calif.)
Melissa Kim, Brown (Sr., M, Bethesda, Md.)
Ashley Mistele, Columbia (Sr., M, Ross, Calif.)
Jess Rothenheber, Penn (Sr., M, Chalfont, Pa.)
Sarah Friedman, Penn (Jr., M, Villanova, Pa.)
Kristen Forster, Yale (Fr., M, Trumbull, Conn.)
Ashlin Yahr, Columbia (So., F, Rancho Sante Fe, Calif.)
Melanie Baskind, Harvard (So., F, Framingham, Mass.)
Lauren Mann, Harvard (Sr., GK, Encinitas, Calif.)
Honorable Mention
Allison Kagawa, Brown (So., D, Mililani, Hawaii)
Meggie Ford, Columbia (Sr., D, St. Petersburg, Fla.)
Sidra Bonner, Cornell (So., D, Denver, Colo.)
Melissa Krnjaic, Dartmouth (Jr., D, Washington, D.C.)
Kaitlin Campbell, Penn (Jr., D, Perkasie, Pa.)
Alison Nabatoff, Princeton (Fr., D, Burke, Va.)
Caitlin Collins, Yale (Sr., D, Raytown, Mo.)
Kala Neilson, Cornell (Sr., D, Hollywood, Fla.)
Gina Wideroff, Harvard (Jr., M, Boca Raton, Fla.)
Caitlin Blosser, Princeton (Fr., M, Pacific Palisades, Calif.)
Chrissy Butler, Columbia (Jr., F, Shaker Heights, Ohio)
Aly O'Dea, Dartmouth (So., F, Irvine, Calif.)
Becky Poskin, Dartmouth (Sr., M, Leawood, Kansas)
Marin McDermott, Penn (So., F, Rhinebeck, N.Y.)
Miyuko Hino, Yale (So., F, Potomac, Md.)
Player of the Year
Becky Brown, Yale (Jr., F, Lawrenceville, N.J.)
Co-Rookies of the Year
Alison Nabatoff, Princeton (Fr., D, Burke, Va.)
Kristen Forster, Yale (Fr., M, Trumbull, Conn.)
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