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Women's Soccer Takes Ivy Awards, Lussi is Suburban Transit AOW Honoree
October 13, 2014 | Women's Soccer
Tyler Lussi and Mikaela Symanovich each won an Ivy League weekly women's soccer honor and Lussi was also named the Suburban Transit GoPrincetonTigers.com Athlete of the Week after a 2-0 week for the Tigers, who sit atop the table in the league.
Lussi was named the Ivy League Player of the Week for the first time this season and the second time in her career (Oct. 9, 2013). She's scored seven goals in her last three games, with five of those goals coming this week in a two-goal game at Lehigh in a 4-1 win and her first career hat trick in a 5-0 win over Brown.
Lussi now has nine goals on the season and 19 for her career, the third-most in program history for a player before the end of her sophomore season. Linda DeBoer '86 had 24 goals over her first two years and Sue Mooney '85 had 23. Lussi is already 12th on the Princeton career scoring list and could do a lot of moving up before the season is out, as the seven players directly in front of her on the list are between 23 and 26 goals. a list that includes senior teammate Lauren Lazo at 25 goals.
Symanovich had her first two-assist game in the win over Brown and scored her first career goal last Wednesday night at Lehigh. It's her first Ivy weekly award and she becomes the third Tiger to be named Ivy Rookie of the Week this year, after Vanessa Gregoire (Sept. 29) and Beth Stella (Sept. 15). It's the first time in the history of the award, which dates back to 1989, that three different Tigers have won it in the same season.
Princeton, 4-3-3 overall and 2-0-1 in the Ivy, will head to Army Tuesday night at 7 for the regular season's final non-conference road game.
Suburban Transit Athlete of the Week Honor Roll for Oct. 13, 2014:
Drew Hoffenberg, Men's Water Polo: Nine goals, four assists, 11 steals, seven ejections drawn in 3-2 week for the team
Maddie Copeland, Field Hockey: Scored team's goal against Delaware
Chad Cowden, Sprint Football: Threw for 145 yards on 17 completions against Cornell
Joe Saitta, Men's Soccer: Scored game-winning goal in OT against Brown
Sara Goodwin, Women's Tennis: Won two singles matches at Vanderbilt tournament
Rohan Hylton, Football: 18 tackles including seven solo tackles against Colgate
Nicole Kincade, Volleyball: 26 kills, four solo blocks and five assisted blocks in 1-1 weekend for the team