ALBANY – The College of Saint Rose appears more than any other NCAA Division II institution on the 2009 NSCAA first-team All-America list with three players earning the prestigious honor and a fourth being named a third-team recipient.
Junior midfielder
Amanda Deck has been tabbed a first-team pick for the second consecutive year, which establishes her as the lone player in Saint Rose women’s soccer annals to be twice named a first-team All-American. She is joined on the first-team by a pair of junior backs in
Katie Whiting and
Kelly Guerin. Meanwhile, sophomore midfielder
Brittany Godin earned third-team All-America honors.
Deck helped lead a balanced attack that featured 18 players who figured in the scoring column for a Saint Rose club that finished 24-1, advanced to its second straight NCAA Championship Finals, and became only the third squad in Northeast-10 Conference history (1985) to win three consecutive postseason league titles. The Golden Knights furthermore ran off 24 straight victories, before falling 3-2 in overtime to eventual national champion Grand Valley State (MI) in an NCAA Tournament semifinal encounter.
Deck wound up among the conference’s top-10 in each major scoring category with a team-leading 25 points on nine goals and seven assists. Six of her nine strikes represented game-winners, which placed her second among the NE-10 leaders in that category.
Whiting, a third-team selection a year ago, and Guerin directed a defensive corps that paced the NE-10 and finished third in the nation with a 0.36 goals-against-average. Saint Rose was also fourth with a 0.72 shutout percentage. The Golden Knights allowed a mere eight goals all season, none in the first half during its 24-game win streak, and only seven of those came during the flow of play.
As for Godin, the speedy midfielder recorded six goals and a pair of assists on the year. She accounted for the game’s lone tally in a 1-0 NE-10 Tournament quarterfinal triumph against New Haven, and also added an unassisted insurance marker in the Golden Knights 2-0 conference semifinal win against Merrimack. She furthermore scored the second Saint Rose goal in its setback to Grand Valley State.
The NSCAA All-America selections will be recognized at the annual All-America Luncheon, held in Philadelphia on January 16 as part of the 2010 NSCAA Convention.
NSCAA DIVISION II ALL-AMERICA TEAM