Five Panthers named to All-SCIAC women's soccer team
ORANGE, Calif. – A quintet of Chapman University women's soccer players were named to the 2013 All-SCIAC Women's Soccer team Wednesday by the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The Panthers tallied the second most selections in the conference following a 10-10-1 season that led to their second-straight conference postseason tournament appearance.
Senior M Val Sobol and sophomore M Haley Fedden headline the Panthers' all-conference class, earning first-team selections. Meanwhile, senior D Aisha Elmasri is joined by the freshman duo of F Rosie Kerstetter and M Katie Bell earning second-team honors.
Sobol, who capped off her Chapman career with a stellar senior season, finished tied with Kerstetter for the team lead in points, tallying 15 points with six goals and three assists. Her name appears all over the Chapman record book, ranking second all-time in points (75) and games played (80) while tying for fourth all-time in assists (13).
Head coach Courtney Calderon had to be pleasantly surprised by the superb play of freshmen Kerstetter and Bell, who finished amongst the team leaders in offensive output. Kerstetter, who played in just 917 minutes, tied with Sobol for the team lead in points (15) and goals (6) while leading the team with four game-winning goals. Bell, who started 17 matches in her debut season, led the team with four assists while finishing just behind Kerstetter with five goals and 14 points.
Fedden earned her first all-conference selection with a solid sophomore season in which she set career-best in goals (4) and points (10). The midfielder was not only consistent, but clutch, coming up with two game-winning goals.
Elmasri anchored a Chapman defense that tallied six shutouts, allowing less than two goals per game. She played in 21 games, making 17 starts and scored her first career goal on Oct. 12 at Claremont-M-S.
The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was established in 1915. The league is currently comprised of nine private colleges and universities in Southern California: California Institute of Technology, California Lutheran University, Chapman University, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges, University of La Verne, Occidental College, Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, University of Redlands, and Whittier College. The conference recognizes outstanding athletic achievements of its student-athletes on a weekly and annual basis.
Release: http://www.thesciac.org/sports/wsoc/2013-14/releases/All-sciac
by Ryan Cavinder
Sports Information Assistant
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