Monday, November 25, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. – Ten total Great Northwest Athletic Conference women’s soccer players earned 2013 Daktronics All-West Region honors, including five on the first team.
2013 GNAC Player of the Year Kristin Maris highlighted a list of four Western Washington players receiving Daktronics All-West Region honors. Sophomore forward Catherine Miles and junior defender Brianna Jones joined Maris on the first team.
Miles led the GNAC in scoring, and pushed her season total to 15 with a goal in the Vikings’ 2-0 Division II quarterfinal victory over St. Edward’s on Sunday afternoon. Maris contributed 10 goals this season for WWU, and Jones earned GNAC Defensive Player of the Year honors while pushing forward for four goals offensively.
Junior Danielle Brandli of Central Washington and sophomore Laura Moore of Seattle Pacific also received first-team Daktronics All-West Region honors. Brandli helped the Wildcats to their first-ever GNAC tournament berth, leading CWU with nine goals this season. Moore was the Falcons’ leading scorer with eight goals, and she also turned in four assists in 21 starts this season.
Second-team Daktronics All-West Region honors went to Kim Cooper of WWU, Savanna Moorehouse and Tarah Duty of CWU, Shayla Page of SPU and Becca Hoiland of Western Oregon.
Cooper, a junior this season, anchored the Vikings’ midfield and started all 22 games for a team that has allowed just eight goals all season.
Moorehouse played in tandem with Brandli up front for CWU, contributing six goals and four assists this season. Duty, a senior defender who led the Wildcats with six assists, started all 18 matches on CWU’s back line.
Page, named a second-team Daktronics All-West region pick for the second year in a row, started all 22 games for the Falcons and was the team’s defensive anchor. Page’s effort helped her team capture its first-ever GNAC tournament championship title.
Hoiland, another senior defender, started all 19 games for WOU and was a key contributor to the team’s GNAC-leading 12 shutouts. She helped the Wolves reach the GNAC tournament for the second-straight season.
Maris repeated as a first-team Daktronics All-West Region selection for the second-straight season, while Jones was a second-team pick in 2012. Nine of the Daktronics All-West Region selections were first-team all GNAC picks, and one earned second-team all conference honors.