Nov. 5, 2009

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - Five Miami University women's soccer players have been tabbed All-Mid-American Conference, the league office announced Thursday at the women's soccer award banquet on the eve of the MAC Tournament semifinals. Senior Jodi Zwingelberg and junior Brooke Livingston garnered First-Team All-MAC accolades, while seniors Allison Berkey and Krista Pace were selected to the Second Team. Freshman Jess Kodiak received All-MAC Freshman Team plaudits.

The two first-teamers are the most RedHawks on the squad since two landed on the First Team in 2005, while the five overall All-MAC honorees are the most since 2006, when Miami had one first-teamer, two second-teamers and two on the All-Freshman squad.

Zwingelberg (Elgin, Ill.), a midfielder who patrolled the flanks for the RedHawks this season, earned the second All-MAC accolade of her career, after being named MAC All-Freshman in 2006. She has started all 19 games this year for Miami, scoring a pair of goals (both in league play) while adding a career-best six assists, which ranks second on the team and fourth in the conference. She scored a goal and had an assist in the regular-season finale against Ball State--an 8-0 Miami win--for a three-point game and has 10 points on the year.

Livingston (Lisle, Ill.) has anchored a Miami defense that has allowed just 12 goals all year, including only six in 11 league games, or 0.63 per game (for the year), which is a Miami record and ranks second in the conference. She has started all 19 games in 2009, helping the 'Hawks pitch eight shutouts on the year (third in the league) while also scoring a career-best two goals. Her First-Team recognition is the first All-MAC honor of her career.

Berkey (Hopkinton, Mass.), a co-captain and forward for Miami, is second on the team with both six goals and four assists, while her career-high 16 points is tied for the team lead. Her six goals are double her career total from her first three years and are tied for fourth in the league, while her 16 points tie for third in the conference. Berkey, who has started all 19 games this year, had a pair of three-point games and is currently riding a three-game point streak. The Second-Team selection is her first-career all-league honor.

Pace (Toronto, Ont.) has played every minute in goal for Miami this year (1759:27), ranking third in the league in minutes played, while rewriting Miami's record book. She set the single-season shutouts record with eight this year (including clean sheets in her last three matches), which is second in the MAC, while also setting Miami's career shutouts record with her 11th career clean sheet Oct. 2 vs. Toledo (she now has 16 career shutouts). Pace became Miami's all-time winningest goalkeeper Oct. 18 at Ohio and now has 29 career wins in net, while her 0.61 goals-against average this year is also a Miami single-season record and is third in the league, as is her .879 save percentage. She has given up just 12 goals all year (six in league play), allowing more than one score in a game just once (two, Sep. 18 vs. Dayton). Pace has 87 saves on the season, including a season-high nine twice, and is already the RedHawks' single-season and career saves leader. She has now been named All-MAC twice, after making the All-Freshman Team in 2006.

Kodiak (Naperville, Ill.), a midfielder who has played in all but one game this year with five starts, has three goals on the year, which ties for fourth on the team, and one assist. She scored her first-career goal Sep. 18 against Dayton and tallied her first assist Oct. 29 in a win over Ball State, when she also scored a goal for a three-point game. Kodiak made her first start Aug. 23 in a win over Eastern Kentucky and has started Miami's last three games. She is just the ninth RedHawk to earn MAC All-Freshman Team accolades and first since 2007.

MAC regular-season champion Central Michigan claimed the majority of the women's soccer specialty awards, as Bailey Brandon was named MAC Freshman of the Year, goalkeeper Shay Mannino earned MAC Defensive Player of the Year and Tom Anagnost was tabbed MAC Coach of the Year. Eastern Michigan's Ashley Rodrigues, who leads the league with nine goals, was selected the conference's Offensive Player of the Year.

Sixth-seeded Miami faces second-seeded Eastern Michigan in the MAC Tournament semifinals Friday at 2 p.m. ET at the CMU Soccer Complex on the campus of Central Michigan.

2009 All-MAC Women's Soccer First Team
MF - Val Prause, Central Michigan
MF - Stephanie Martin, Central Michigan
MF - Katie Lozar, Eastern Michigan
MF - Jodi Zwingelberg, Miami
F - Chelsi Abbot, Central Michigan
F - Ashley Rodrigues, Eastern Michigan
F - Ali Leak, Toledo
D - Liesel Toth, Central Michigan
D - Julie Kaim, Eastern Michigan
D - Brooke Livingston, Miami
GK - Shay Mannino, Central Michigan

2009 All-MAC Women's Soccer Second Team
MF - Jordan Baranowski, Akron
MF - Megan Ridley, Ball State
MF - Kelsey Pichel, Ohio
MF - Nikki Rivera, Western Michigan
F - Stephanie Velez, Buffalo
F - Chelsea Detrick, Eastern Michigan
F - Allison Berkey, Miami
D - Samantha Bland, Bowling Green
D - Bailey Brandon, Central Michigan
D - Katie Marsh, Eastern Michigan
GK - Krista Pace, Miami

2009 All-MAC Women's Soccer Freshman Team
MF - Ashley Hughes, Akron
MF - Jess Kodiak, Miami
F - Katie Wise, Akron
F - Keely Chandler, Bowling Green
F - Stephanie Velez, Buffalo
F - Laura Twidle, Central Michigan
F - Autumn Hawkins, Central Michigan
F - Anina Cicerone, Western Michigan
D - Lauren Eberts, Northern Illinois
D - Bailey Brandon, Central Michigan
D - Bethany Allport, Central Michigan
D - Kathryn Slaughter, Central Michigan
D - Jessica Thomas, Eastern Michigan
GK - Nicole Wood, Ball State

Freshman of the Year: Bailey Brandon, Central Michigan
Offensive Player of the Year: Ashley Rodrigues, Eastern Michigan
Defensive Player of the Year: Shay Mannino, Central Michigan
Coach of the Year: Tom Anagnost, Central Michigan

--MURedHawks.com--

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