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Jennifer Gordon -- 2007 HCAC Player
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TERRE HAUTE, IND. --
The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology women's soccer team
swept three major awards and placed 10 players on the
all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference team in results
released today by the league office.
Senior Jennifer Gordon
(Zionsville) earned HCAC Player of the Year honors, Molly Richardson (Orange Park, Fla./St. John's Country Day)
captured league Freshman of the Year accolades, while
Brad Hauter was named conference Coach of the Year.
In addition to Gordon and Richardson,
first-team all-league honorees included junior Morgan Coan (Indianapolis/
Cathedral), Sarah Graber (Cypress, Texas/Cy-Fair), senior Rachel
Miller (Spring, Texas/ Klein Collins), junior Liz Ridgway (Grosse Pointe,
Mich./ Northwestern U.) and senior Julie Roebel (Cincinnati, Ohio/Seton).
Rose-Hulman players capturing second-team all-league accolades included freshman
Caroline Bundrick (Harrisonburg, Va./Ashby), freshman Ame Turner
(Evansville/North) and junior Jen Lyman (Irwin, Pa./Penn Trafford).
Gordon leads all NCAA
soccer players (male or female in Division I, II and III) with
26 assists and 1.24 assists per game this season. She has
added seven goals to share the conference scoring lead with 40
points.
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Molly Richardson -- 2007 HCAC
Freshman
of the Year |
Gordon's career has
featured school records with 49 career assists, in addition to
her conference record 26 assists this fall. The biomedical
engineering and mechanical engineering double major has earned
two ESPN The Magazine academic all-district honors in her
career and is a finalist for the Academic All-America Team this
fall.
Richardson sparked the
Rose-Hulman offense with 17 goals and ranks third in the
conference, behind Gordon and Roebel, with 39 points. Her
efforts have included seven game winning goals, including the
lone score in the HCAC championship game victory over
Transylvania University last weekend.
Richardson's efforts also
include the only score in Rose-Hulman's 1-0 conference wins over
Defiance and Mount St. Joseph, along with her first college hat
trick at the University of Dallas.
Hauter has coached the
Engineers to a school record 19-2 mark this season, including 16
conference victories entering the team's first NCAA Division III
Tournament appearance that begins this weekend against Denison
University.
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Brad Hauter -- 2007 HCAC Coach
of the Year |
His efforts include six
consecutive winning seasons for the Fightin' Engineer women's
soccer program and a record of 85-38-6 as the team's head coach.
Hauter has also led the men's soccer team to a 39-16-4 record
since 2005 and second-place finishes in the HCAC in 2006 and
2007.
Coan started all 21 games
at defender for the Engineers and helped anchor a defensive
effort that resulted in Rose-Hulman outscoring the opposition
81-15 entering NCAA Tournament play. She has started 54
games over the past three seasons in the Engineer lineup.
Graber ranks third in
school history with career statistical totals of 41 goals and 99
points. She ranks fourth on the team and fifth in the HCAC
with 11 goals and 31 points this fall, and is tied for second on
the squad with nine assists.
Miller led the HCAC in
goals against average (0.60) and victories (19), and ranks among
the national top 100 in save percentage at .839. Her
efforts include six of the team's school record 12 shutouts and
a career goalkeeping record of 33-9-2.
Ridgway earned her second
career first-team all-HCAC honor after a season that featured
three goals, seven assists and 13 points. Her career
totals include 14 goals and 41 points in just two seasons at
Rose-Hulman.
Roebel stands second in
school history with 122 points and 53 goals, and is tied with
Gordon for conference-high honors with 40 points. She
leads the HCAC with 19 goals this fall and has recorded three
hat tricks this season. Roebel also joins Jessica Farmer
as the only four-time all-conference honorees in the history of
Rose-Hulman women's soccer.
The second-team honorees
include Bundrick, Lyman and Turner. Bundrick has scored
six goals and started all 21 games as a freshman with three
game-winning efforts. Lyman has started all 21 games this
year and 42 in her career with four goals and 11 points.
Turner started the first 19 games at defender before suffering
an injury and emerged as a key force in the team's school record
setting defensive effort.
Rose-Hulman earned its
first conference championship in women's soccer this fall and
also tallied the first league title in women's athletics history
at the college. The Engineers square off with Denison on
Saturday, then would face either Washington University or
Webster if the team can defeat the Big Red in round one. |
