Corvias ECAC Athletes of the Week for Oct 10-16
The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) has announced the Corvias Players of the Week for the week of play ending Oct. 16 and five Empire 8 student-athletes have been recognized.
Football – North
Defensive Player of the Week
Juwan Wilson – Utica College, Sr., LB
Wilson led the Pioneer defense with nine tackles, 1.5 sacks and one interception. He is now just the second player in program history to total over 300 career tackles. Wilson and the UC defense held the previously unbeaten and nationally-ranked No. 13 St. John Fisher College Cardinals to just six points on the afternoon.
Field Hockey – North
Defensive Player of the Week
Ashley Maynard – St. John Fisher College, So., GK
Maynard anchored a defense that held both of its opponents scoreless this week, giving the Cardinals a 2-0 record and increasing their win streak to 11 straight. In the week’s first game, she stopped all eight of the Union College Stateswomen shots. She would later be relieved of her goalie duties with 11 minutes to go as the Cardinals were up 4-0. She then outdid that performance with a complete shut out against conference-rival Washington & Jefferson College. Maynard played all 91:41 of the double-overtime win, turning aside 10 shots, half of which were recorded in the overtime periods.
Women’s Soccer – Metro
Offensive Player of the Week
Raba Nassif – Stevens Institute of Technology, Sr., M
Nassif had a monster two games, scoring six goals while adding two assists. Against Farmingdale on Wednesday, the senior tallied a pair of goals and an assist, including the game-winner, in a victory. In Empire 8 action Saturday, Nassif scored four goals on Senior Day, while adding an assist on nine shots to propel Stevens to an 8-0 win over Utica.
Women’s Soccer – North
Defensive Player of the Week
Amanda Banner – Elmira College, Sr., GK
Banner made a career-high 13 saves in Elmira's lone game of the week against Houghton. Six of her 13 stops came in the first half of the double-overtime game, while five others came in second stanza, including a save on a Highlander penalty kick in the 62nd minute.
Women’s Cross Country – Metro
Runner of the Week
Amy Regan – Stevens Institute of Technology, Sr.
Regan placed first to lead the Stevens Institute of Technology to a 10th-place team finish at the six-kilometer Rowan Inter-Regional Border Battle. Regan set a personal-best with a new course record time of 20:17.6.