USA’s Allison, Oram, Hernandez Are Part Of 10 SBC Players Selected For All-South Region Team
The University of South Alabama Women’s Soccer team pose after wining their first-ever Sun Belt Conference Championship by defeating Western Kentucky 1-0 on Sunday in San Marcos, Texas. | sunbeltsports.org
Ten Sun Belt Conference women’s soccer players were selected for the NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA All-South Region team as announced by the NSCAA office.
Highlighting the list was Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player and Freshman of the Year Lauren Allison. She led the conference in points, points per game, goals, goals per game, assists, assists per game and game-winning goals. She and teammate Jessica Oram were both selected to the All-South Region First Team.
Jaguars Clarrisa Hernandez was selected to the second team.
Along with the three Jaguars, UL-Lafayette’s Grace Howell-Harries, who was selected SBC Defensive Player of the Year, was selected to the second team and Annika Schmidt was selected to the third team.
Troy freshman Necee Jennings was selected to the Third Team. WKU’s Nora Abolins, Chrissy Tchoula and Iris Dunn were all selected to the Second Team with Chandler Clark being selected to the Third Team.
Allison, Dunn, Jennings and Schmidt are all freshman and are just four of several players returning who will be impact players for the 2014 season. Additionally, each of the four returning players are ranked in the top ten in goals scored this season.
Howell-Harries is a junior and will also return for the 2014 season.
Sun Belt soccer looks to be a very exciting season.