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Diana Matheson Named Ivy League Women's Soccer Player of the Year
November 19, 2007 | Women's Soccer
PRINCETON ? Diana Matheson had already helped two others to Ivy League Player of the Year honors with her outstanding play in the midfield for the Princeton women's soccer team.
Monday, the Ivy League announced the league's coaches decided this year was Matheson's time for the prize.
Matheson provided many of the assists that helped Esmeralda Negron to Ivy League Player of the Year honors in 2004, when both also earned NSCAA All-America honors on the way to an NCAA College Cup semifinal berth. The following year, Matheson's passes helped Emily Behncke earn the Ivy League Player of the Year award.
It is Princeton's fourth Ivy League Player of the Year honor in the last five years and fifth in seven years. Heather Deerin (2001), Negron (2003, 2004) and Behncke (2005) are the other recent winners, while Prescott (1982) and Dodie Colavecchio (1985) make Matheson's award the program's seventh all-time.
Matheson also earned a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League honor for the fourth straight year, becoming Princeton's third four-time first-team All-Ivy honoree after Lynette Prescott '85 and Deerin '03.
This year, the honor comes despite Matheson missing Princeton's first seven games to play for Canada in the Women's World Cup. Upon her return, Matheson started Princeton's last 10 games and led the team on the season with six goals and seven assists.
In just her second game back, against Rutgers, Matheson assisted on all four goals scored by Princeton players and set single-game and career records in the process. Matheson finished her career with 26 goals and 26 assists, becoming the only 20 goal/20 assist player in school history between both the men's and women's soccer programs.
Matheson followed the Rutgers performance with her highest point output of the season, scoring two goals and an assist at Brown to move Princeton to 2-0 in the Ivy League.
Matheson led the Ivy League in points per game at 1.9 with Penn's Jessica Fuccello as the next closest competitor at 1.53. In assists per game, Matheson, at 0.7, led Penn's Jess Rothenheber and Columbia's Sophie Reiser (0.53).
Two more Tigers earned league honors on defense as senior Melissa Whitley and junior Taylor Numann were named to the second-team All-Ivy. Numann earned first-team All-Ivy honors in 2006 while this honor is the first for Whitley, who also had a goal and two assists in her final season at Princeton.
Monday, the Ivy League announced the league's coaches decided this year was Matheson's time for the prize.
Matheson provided many of the assists that helped Esmeralda Negron to Ivy League Player of the Year honors in 2004, when both also earned NSCAA All-America honors on the way to an NCAA College Cup semifinal berth. The following year, Matheson's passes helped Emily Behncke earn the Ivy League Player of the Year award.
It is Princeton's fourth Ivy League Player of the Year honor in the last five years and fifth in seven years. Heather Deerin (2001), Negron (2003, 2004) and Behncke (2005) are the other recent winners, while Prescott (1982) and Dodie Colavecchio (1985) make Matheson's award the program's seventh all-time.
Matheson also earned a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League honor for the fourth straight year, becoming Princeton's third four-time first-team All-Ivy honoree after Lynette Prescott '85 and Deerin '03.
This year, the honor comes despite Matheson missing Princeton's first seven games to play for Canada in the Women's World Cup. Upon her return, Matheson started Princeton's last 10 games and led the team on the season with six goals and seven assists.
In just her second game back, against Rutgers, Matheson assisted on all four goals scored by Princeton players and set single-game and career records in the process. Matheson finished her career with 26 goals and 26 assists, becoming the only 20 goal/20 assist player in school history between both the men's and women's soccer programs.
Matheson followed the Rutgers performance with her highest point output of the season, scoring two goals and an assist at Brown to move Princeton to 2-0 in the Ivy League.
Matheson led the Ivy League in points per game at 1.9 with Penn's Jessica Fuccello as the next closest competitor at 1.53. In assists per game, Matheson, at 0.7, led Penn's Jess Rothenheber and Columbia's Sophie Reiser (0.53).
Two more Tigers earned league honors on defense as senior Melissa Whitley and junior Taylor Numann were named to the second-team All-Ivy. Numann earned first-team All-Ivy honors in 2006 while this honor is the first for Whitley, who also had a goal and two assists in her final season at Princeton.
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