Program-Record Nine Tigers Earn All-Ivy Honors; Gregoire, Driscoll Earn Ivy Awards

Princeton women's soccer players have been earning All-Ivy League honors for four decades, but Wednesday's announcement of the 2017 All-Ivy League teams brought an unprecedented haul.

A program-record nine players were named to All-Ivy League teams while senior midfielder Vanessa Gregoire was named the Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Year and Sean Driscoll was named the Ivy League Coach of the Year for the second time in his three seasons. The number of All-Ivy honors surpass the eight that Princeton players won in 2012.

Driscoll, who guided the team to its second outright Ivy title and second NCAA tournament in those three years, has the highest winning percentage in program history at .769 (38-10-4), and is already the third-winningest coach in program history behind the program's first coach, Bob Malekoff, who won 52 games in five seasons, and predecessor Julie Shackford, who won 203 games in 20 seasons. Driscoll has won two of the four Ivy League Coach of the Year honors since the award was instituted for the 2014 season.

Gregoire, who has three goals and five assists on the season while helping shape a Princeton offense that has scored a league-high 36 goals on the season, earns her first and Princeton's third Offensive Player of the Year award since it was split from an overall Player of the Year honor for the 2013 season. Gregoire's honor is Princeton's 11th Ivy Player of the Year award in all and first since Tyler Lussi '17 won her second straight OPOY honor in 2015.

Sophomores Abby Givens and Courtney O'Brien and junior Mimi Asom join Gregoire on the first-team All-Ivy League. Gregoire completes her career with four All-Ivy recognitions, including honorable mentions in 2014 and 2016 and a first-team honor in 2015. Givens was an honorable mention as a freshman last season, and this year's honor is the first for O'Brien. Asom is now a three-time All-Ivy honoree, having earned second-team honors in 2015 and 2016 as well as being named the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2015.

Givens, O'Brien and Asom combined for 26 of the team's 36 goals on the season, with Givens and O'Brien co-leading the team with nine and Asom close by with eight. O'Brien has scored all nine of her career goals this season, while Givens tripled her total entering the season and Asom's number has lifted her to sixth on Princeton's all-time career list with 29.

A trio of senior defenders, Natalie Larkin, Mikaela Symanovich and Katie Pratt-Thompson, were named second-team honorees, while sophomore keeper Natalie Grossi and rookie Lucy Rickerson received honorable mention. Larkin completes her career with four second-team All-Ivy honors, while Symanovich received honorable mention in 2015 and Pratt-Thompson and Grossi each received her first career honor this year. Together, they've helped Princeton hold its opponents to just six goals on the season, six fewer than any other team in the Ivy.

The Tigers will pursue their third straight first-round NCAA tournament victory Friday at 7 p.m. when Monmouth comes to Roberts Stadium. Tickets for the game are available here.

CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Vanessa Gregoire, Princeton (Sr., M – Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada)

CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Michelle Alozie, Yale (Jr., F – Apple Valley, Calif.)

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Natalie Ambrose, Columbia (Sr., D – Sisters, Ore.)

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Murphy Agnew, Harvard (Fr., M – New Hope, Pa.)

COACH OF THE YEAR
Sean Driscoll, Princeton

FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
Abby Givens, Princeton (So., F – Charlotte, N.C.)
Mimi Asom, Princeton (Jr., F – Dallas, Texas)
Courtney O'Brien, Princeton (So., F – Pacific Palisades, Calif.)
*Michelle Alozie, Yale (Jr., F – Apple Valley, Calif.)
Abby Carchio, Brown (So., M – Lakeville, Mass.)
Natalie Neshat, Columbia (Sr., M – San Diego, Calif.)
Remy Borinsky, Dartmouth (Jr., M – Warren, N.J.)
Vanessa Gregoire, Princeton (Sr., M – Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada)
Noelle Higginson, Yale (So., M – New Orleans, La.)
Natalie Ambrose, Columbia (Sr., D – Sisters, Ore.)
Brittany Champagne, Dartmouth (Sr., D – Suffield, Conn.)
Carlin Hudson, Yale (Sr., D – Berkeley, Calif.)
Kitty Qu, Penn (So., GK – Foster City, Calif.)

SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Star White, Brown (Fr., F – Norfolk, Va.)
Emma Anderson, Columbia (Jr., F – Bethesda, Md.)
Amaris Hemmings, Columbia (Jr., F – Bronx, N.Y.)
Erin Kawakami, Dartmouth (Fr., M – Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.)
Dani Stollar, Harvard (Sr., M – Honolulu, Hawaii)
Murphy Agnew, Harvard (Fr., M – New Hope, Pa.)
Allie Trzaska, Penn (Jr., M – Yardley, Pa.)
Sydney Cummings, Brown (Fr., D – Millstone Township, N.J.)
Amalya Johnson, Columbia (So., D – Montclair, N.J.)
Mikaela Symanovich, Princeton (Sr., D – San Francisco, Calif.)
Natalie Larkin, Princeton (Sr., D – Washington, D.C.)
Katie Pratt-Thompson, Princeton (Sr., D – Long Beach, Calif.)
Sophie Whitehouse, Columbia (Jr., GK – Washington, D.C.)

HONORABLE MENTION ALL-IVY
Emily Koe, Columbia (So., F – Los Angeles, Calif.)
Celia Story, Brown (Jr., M – Bainbridge Island, Wash.)
Erica Higa, Penn (Sr., M – Los Altos Hills, Calif.)
Katy Schmidt, Brown (Sr., D – Corvallis, Ore.)
Reilly Lucas, Columbia (Jr., D – Freeport, N.Y.)
Bonnie Shea, Dartmouth (Fr., D – Atlanta, Ga.)
Chase Geffert, Penn (Fr., D – Mill Valley, Calif.)
Lucy Rickerson, Princeton (Fr., D – San Diego, Calif.)
Christine Etzel, Brown (Jr., GK – Madison, Conn.)
Natalie Grossi, Princeton (So., GK – Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada)

*Unanimous Selection
^First & Second Teams Expanded Due To Ties In Voting

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