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For the sixth straight week, Princeton forward Mimi Asom has won or shared the Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor. For the first time, she is also the Ivy League Player of the Week.
Asom scored Princeton's first goal and had an assist on Tyler Lussi's goal later in the game as Princeton won at Harvard 2-1, the team's first win there since 2009. The win also gave Princeton sole possession of first place in the Ivy with two games to play and gave the Tigers the potentially crucial head-to-head tiebreaker for the NCAA bid with Harvard, which is the only other team mathematically alive for the Ivy title.
Princeton, which has won 10 in a row and is 12-3 overall, 5-0 Ivy, will win a share of the Ivy title and the Ivy's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament with a win Saturday over Cornell at Roberts Stadium, set for a 1 p.m. start.
Asom's goal was her 10th on the year, catching Lussi's total from two years ago as the second-most in a season for a freshman in program history. Linda DeBoer '86 had 12 in her rookie season of 1982.
Asom shares both honors this week with Brown's Celia Story, which advances Asom's Ivy record for Rookie of the Week honors in a season.
The Player of the Week award is Princeton's sixth this year, giving Princeton the most Player of the Week honors in a season in league history. Vanessa Gregoire has contributed two Ivy Player of the Week honors to that total and Lussi added five. The six rookie awards put Princeton in a four-way tie for the league record for a school in a season, and Princeton's 12th combined award this season advances its Ivy record there.
Tuesday, Asom was named to Top Drawer Soccer's Team of the Week, one of 11 players nationally, while Lussi was one of seven more players selected as honorable mention. Asom was also named to the team on Sept. 22 and Oct. 6, while Lussi also earned honorable mention on Sept. 22.