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Co-Rookie of the Year Nabatoff Among Four All-Ivy Women's Soccer Tigers
November 12, 2009 | Women's Soccer
Nabatoff, a co-winner of the Ivy rookie award, was one of four All-Ivy honorees from Princeton, with senior defender Melissa Seitz and junior goalkeeper Alyssa Pont on the first team. Nabatoff and freshman midfielder Caitlin Blosser received honorable mention.
The two freshmen are the first rookies from Princeton to be honored by the league at either the first-team, second-team or honorable mention level since Diana Matheson's first-team award in 2004.
Nabatoff, Pont and Seitz were part of a Princeton defense that held Ivy League opponents to a league-low total of five goals in Ivy matches, including a shutout list that counted Brown, Columbia, Cornell and league champion Harvard.
Ivy League games were to be the only contests considered by the league's coaches, who voted on the honors.
It is the second straight first-team All-Ivy League honor for Pont, who completed her second season as the full-time starting goalkeeper for the Tigers. Pont played every one of the team's 1,624 minutes on the season and counted eight shutouts including the five in league play.
Over the season, Pont's goals-against average was 0.78 and her save percentage .833. In Ivy games, Pont limited opponents to an 0.66 GAA, making 88.1 percent of her saves, which totaled a league-high 37. No other Ivy goalkeeper counted four shutouts in league games in 2009, and no other Ivy keeper had more than five shutouts overall compared to Pont's eight.
Pont is now just the fourth goalkeeper in Ivy League history and second Princetonian to win multiple first-team All-Ivy honors, joining fellow Tiger Kelly O'Dell (1980, 1981, 1982), Tracee Whitley of Harvard (1984, 1986, 1987) and Kristin Luckenbill of Dartmouth (1997, 1998, 1999, 2000).
Last season, Pont became the fourth Princeton goalkeeper to win first-team All-Ivy honors, joining O'Dell, Dodie Colavecchio (1985) and Catherine Glenn (2001).
Seitz, a co-captain in her final season, concluded her third straight campaign of starting every game and playing every minute of the season for the Tigers. Against Fairfield on Sept. 29, Seitz scored the first goal of her career on a penalty kick.
Nabatoff joins Linda DeBoer (1982), Emily Behncke (2002) and Diana Matheson (2004) as Princeton's Ivy Rookie of the Year winners. The last three have come during the 15-season tenure of head coach Julie Shackford, who won her 200th game as an NCAA head coach this season. Princeton continued a streak of non-losing seasons into a 13th campaign and 14 of 15 seasons under Shackford.
Blosser came away with a goal and an assist in her first year as a Tiger, scoring at Dartmouth and assisting on a goal in a win over St. John's.
Princeton has placed a player on the first-team All-Ivy League for 11 straight seasons, including multiple players in 10 of those years.