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Tyler Lussi and Mimi Asom
Lussi, Asom Earn Top Drawer Soccer National Honors
August 16, 2016 | Women's Soccer
With opening night coming just a week from Friday, Princeton rising senior Tyler Lussi has been included on Top Drawer Soccer's Best XI Teams for the upcoming campaign, and both Lussi and rising sophomore Mimi Asom were included in the site's national Top 100 player ranking.
Lussi, the reigning two-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, was the only Ivy Leaguer included among the 44 players across three Best XI teams and one all-freshman lineup. Lussi joined Cal's Arielle Ship and Virginia Tech's Murielle Tiernan as the three forwards on the second-team Best XI. Later in the week, Lussi was ranked 17th on Top Drawer Soccer's Top 100 players list, which had Asom at No. 90.
Lussi will enter the 2016 season just four goals and 14 points behind Esmeralda Negron '05 for those career program records, piling up 43 goals and 98 points over her first three seasons. With Lussi's 15 goals leading the team last year, Princeton won the Ivy League and a first-round match in the NCAA tournament, both for the second time in four years, defeating Boston College at Roberts Stadium to advance last fall.
Asom scored 12 goals as a rookie, tying Princeton's freshman record and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Year and second-team All-Ivy League honors.Â
Princeton's 2016 schedule will match the Tigers against two other Top Drawer Soccer Best XI honorees, with West Virginia's Ashley Lawrence and Kadeisha Buchanan getting first-team recognition. Both Mountaineers spent the summer as Canadian Olympic teammates of Princeton alum Diana Matheson '08. Six players from the Top 100 list are on the schedule, including Buchanan (No. 2), Lawrence (No. 9) and fellow Mountaneers Michaela Abam (No. 39) and Carla Portillo (No. 66), Harvard's Margaret Purce (No. 41) and Monmouth's Alexis McTamney (No. 81).Â
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Lussi, the reigning two-time Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, was the only Ivy Leaguer included among the 44 players across three Best XI teams and one all-freshman lineup. Lussi joined Cal's Arielle Ship and Virginia Tech's Murielle Tiernan as the three forwards on the second-team Best XI. Later in the week, Lussi was ranked 17th on Top Drawer Soccer's Top 100 players list, which had Asom at No. 90.
Lussi will enter the 2016 season just four goals and 14 points behind Esmeralda Negron '05 for those career program records, piling up 43 goals and 98 points over her first three seasons. With Lussi's 15 goals leading the team last year, Princeton won the Ivy League and a first-round match in the NCAA tournament, both for the second time in four years, defeating Boston College at Roberts Stadium to advance last fall.
Asom scored 12 goals as a rookie, tying Princeton's freshman record and earning Ivy League Rookie of the Year and second-team All-Ivy League honors.Â
Princeton's 2016 schedule will match the Tigers against two other Top Drawer Soccer Best XI honorees, with West Virginia's Ashley Lawrence and Kadeisha Buchanan getting first-team recognition. Both Mountaineers spent the summer as Canadian Olympic teammates of Princeton alum Diana Matheson '08. Six players from the Top 100 list are on the schedule, including Buchanan (No. 2), Lawrence (No. 9) and fellow Mountaneers Michaela Abam (No. 39) and Carla Portillo (No. 66), Harvard's Margaret Purce (No. 41) and Monmouth's Alexis McTamney (No. 81).Â
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