Making history

Three months after a historical season came to a close, the talented women’s soccer team that made it to the NCAA Women’s Division III National Tournament continues to add to their list of “firsts”. Senior biomedical and mechanical engineer Jennifer Gordon was named Third-team All-American, becoming the first female Engineer to be named to an All-American list.

The honors, which come from d3kicks.com, are complimented by second-team all-region honors from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. As the first female to earn the honor at Rose, she becomes the 63rd Engineer in school history to receive the honor. Gordon led 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 added seven goals to share the conference scoring lead with 40 points.

Gordon’s career featured school records with 49 career assists, in addition to her conference record 26 assists this fall. She also earned “ESPN The Magazine” first-team Academic All-America honors this past fall.

In addition to Gordon, senior civil engineer Julie Roebel and senior biomedical engineer Rachel Miller earned spots on the d3kicks.com all-region team.

Roebel has claimed second place in school history with 122 points and 53 goals, and is tied with Gordon for the conference-high 40 points. She led the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) with an impressive 19 goals last fall and recorded three hat tricks.

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 an outstanding career goalkeeping record of 33-9-2.

Rose-Hulman finished 19-3 in women’s soccer to earn its first HCAC championship and received its first bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament in the short history of Rose women’s sports.

Also receiving honors on the men’s side of Engineer soccer was senior civil engineer Matt Trowbridge. Trowbridge earned first-team all-region honors from d3kicks.com and was named second-team all-region by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Trowbridge ranked 11th nationally in goals and 15th in points per game among all NCAA Division III men’s soccer players this season. His totals of 21 goals and 47 points were double of every player in the HCAC, with one exception, and rewrote the Engineer single-season record book.

Trowbridge’s career totals of 45 goals and 110 points put him in second place in the Rose-Hulman record books in each category. His efforts helped lead the Engineers to a 39–16–4 record since 2005.

Rose-Hulman men’s soccer completed its third consecutive winning season with its second straight second-place finish in the HCAC standings in 2007.