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Lussi, Asom Get Top Drawer Soccer Nat'l Honors, Four Tigers Get ECAC Awards
December 16, 2015 | Women's Soccer
TopDrawerSoccer.com announced its national "Best XI" and freshman teams Wednesday and honored a pair of Tigers, junior Tyler Lussi and freshman Mimi Asom.
Lussi was recognized as a third-team Best XI, one of nine forwards nationally to be honored. Asom was a first-team freshman Best XI, one of three forwards to receive that recognition. Lussi and Asom were the only Ivy Leaguers to be recognized.
The pair, with 27 goals and nine assists between them, accounted for more than half of Princeton's 46 goals on a season that saw the Tigers finish 14-4-1, win 11 in a row, go unbeaten in 13 straight games, win the Ivy League with a 6-0-1 mark, and win the program's first NCAA tournament game in the eight-season history at Roberts Stadium to advance to the second round of the NCAAs for the second time in four years. Lussi and Asom each had a pair of goals in that 4-2 first-round win over Boston College.
Lussi, an NSCAA second-team All-America and one of 15 MAC Hermann Trophy semifinalists, was recognized as the Ivy League's Offensive Player of the Year for the second straight year and could be the first player in Ivy history to win three straight Player of the Year honors next year. Also during her senior season, she'll be chasing the program's all-time records, now with 43 goals, four short of the record, and 98 points, 14 short of the record.
Asom's 12 goals tied the program record for a freshman, set in 1982. She earned Ivy League Rookie of the Year honors and was a six-time Ivy League Rookie of the Week, the most such honors in league history.
The announcement from Top Drawer Soccer can be found here.
Thursday, Lussi earned the ECAC Offensive Player of the Year award while Asom was the ECAC Rookie of the Year, sophomore midfielder Vanessa Gregoire was a first-team ECAC honoree along with Lussi, and first-year coach Sean Driscoll was named the ECAC Coach of the Year.
Gregoire led the Ivy League with eight assists while also chipping in four goals to earn first-team All-Ivy League recognition. Driscoll set a personal best in wins as an NCAA head coach in his first year leading the program, becoming only the third coach in Ivy League history to take a team to the NCAA tournament in his first year and just the second coach in Ivy history to win an NCAA tournament game in his first season with the program. Driscoll was named the Ivy League Coach of the Year for his accomplishments.
For the full ECAC announcement, click here.