This season the ECNL will feature the college corner, a section highlighting standout ECNL alums who were named Players of the Week from their respective NCAA Division 1 conferences around the country. This week features a number of players who were outstanding on the field for their college teams.
ACC Offensive Player of the Week
Ellie Ospeck - Notre Dame
ECNL Club - Mustang SC
Ospeck tallied a goal and five assists in Notre Dame's pair of conference victories last week. In Thursday's 3-1 home victory over Boston College, the Danville, California, native posted a pair of assists and recorded the eventual game-winning goal in the 72nd minute, as the four-point effort was the first of her collegiate career. In Sunday's win over Miami, Ospeck notched an assist hat trick in just 53 minutes on the pitch, as her combined seven points for the two-match span was the most in the ACC last week.
Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week
Lexi Missimo - Texas
ECNL Club - Solar SC
Missimo registered the most points (6) and goals (3) in the Conference last week. The Solar SC alum netted two goals in the Longhorns' 3-1 win at UCF, which marked her fourth brace of the season. The two goals not only placed her as the first Longhorn to score 15 goals and have 15 assists in a single season, but also set the program record for points in a season (50). She then converted her fifth penalty kick of the year in the 2-1 win over Iowa State. Missimo now has 17 goals this season and is tied for UT's program record single-season goals.
Big 12 Freshman of the Week
Sam Courtwright - Texas Tech
ECNL Club - DKSC
Courtwright claimed her second consecutive Freshman of the Week honor after helping Texas Tech take the lead in the Conference standings. In a tough matchup against then-No. 7 BYU, she scored TTU's first goal in the 2-2 draw. It was her second goal in back-to-back matches. Against TCU, the midfielder took one of the three shots on goal for Tech. Logging 1,051 minutes of action on the pitch, the freshman has registered 14 points in 15 contests.
Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week
Regan Dalton - Michigan State
ECNL Club - Midwest United
Dalton provided two assists in Michigan State's 3-2 win over No. 14 Michigan, helping the Spartans to their first win in Ann Arbor since 1994. The award is her first career Defensive Player of the Week honor.
Big Ten Freshman of the Week
Piper Coffield - Indiana
ECNL Club - Pittsburgh Riverhounds
Coffield helped limit Purdue to two shots on goal as the Hoosiers recorded their eighth shutout of the season in their 1-0 win over the Boilermakers. The award is her second Freshman of the Week honor.
Pac 12 Offensive Player of the Week
Reilyn Turner - UCLA
ECNL Club - SoCal Blues
Turner scored a goal and recorded an assist in the Bruins 6-0 shutout win over Oregon State and then recorded her third career hat trick in UCLA's 4-0 win over Oregon. Turner is now ranked third in career hat tricks (3) at UCLA, fifth in career goals (39), sixth in career game-winners (14), and seventh in career points (92).
Pac 12 Goalkeeper of the Week
Hannah Dickinson - USC
ECNL Club - Crossfire Premier
Helped the Trojans secure their sixth and seventh shutouts of the season after wins over Oregon and Oregon State. Dickinson now owns a 0.64 goals against average on the season after allowing just four goals across seven games, good for the fourth-best goals against average in the conference.
SEC Defensive Player of the Week
Marz Josephson - Kentucky
ECNL Club - NC Courage
Josephson was huge for the Wildcats in a 1-1 draw on the road in Knoxville, tallying six saves including one on a Volunteer's penalty kick late in the second half. The graduate student followed up this performance with her seventh shutout of the season against Vanderbilt, making two saves in the winning effort, her eighth win this season. Josephson's seven shutouts this year lead the SEC, while her 0.46 GAA is also tops in the conference.
SEC Freshman of the Week
Reagan Schubach - South Carolina
ECNL Club - PDA
Schubach has continued her excellence as a freshman this season, nabbing her first career SEC game-winner against LSU (her third GW of the season). The Gamecocks and Tigers were locked up 0-0 continuing into the second half, until Schubach was able to get her shot past two Tiger defenders and their keeper and sink into the upper left of the net in the 55th minute to put her team on top. The goal was her sixth of the season, which ties for the most as a freshman in the SEC, and places her at No. 2 on the team for total goals and points (13).
America East Offensive Player of the Week
Kate Bossert - Vermont
ECNL Club - Scorpions SC
Bossert scored two second half goals in Vermont's 3-0 win over UMBC. The game marked the second brace of the year for the junior. The award is her Offensive Player of the Week award this season.
Atlantic Sun Offensive Player of the Week
Kelly Van Gundy - Central Arkansas
ECNL Club - DKSC
The junior scored two goals on the week, both game-winners, bringing her total on the season to five. The award is her first Player of the Week honor.
Atlantic Sun Defensive Player of the Week
Lydia Hindt - Lipscomb
ECNL Club - Minnesota Thunder Academy
Hindt scored the game-winner in the final minute of Lipscomb's 1-0 win over Stetson. The junior also helped limit Stetson and FGCU to just eight combined shots on goal during the week.
Big Sky Defensive Player of the Week
Erika Tilford - Sacramento State
ECNL Club - Davis Legacy
In addition to her work on the back line for the Hornets, Tilford added the game-winning goal in her team's 1-0 win over Eastern Washington, converting a penalty in the second half for her first collegiate goal. She spearheaded a defense that limited the Eagles to 10 total shots and only four on frame. Two days later, Sacramento State held Idaho to just six of 16 shots on frame in a 1-0 loss, while Tilford contributed a pair of shot attempts of her own over 90 minutes.
Big South Offensive Player of the Week
Sloan Spees - Presbyterian
ECNL Club - Atlanta Fire
Spees scored both goals in Presbyterian's 2-0 victory over Gardner-Webb on Wednesday, the team's lone match of the week. She opened the scoring at the 14:43 mark for PC, capitalizing on a dish from teammate Lina-Marie Müller for the first goal of the contest. The sophomore tallied another goal in the second half doing so in the 60th minute once again off an assist from Müller. Spees finished with four points and four shots – three on goal – in 77 minutes of action.
Big South Defensive Player of the Week
Hailey Sapinoro - USC Upstate
ECNL Club - Sting Austin
Sapinoro assisted on the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win at High Point before helping limit a potent Radford offense to just one goal. On Wednesday, she found teammate Margret Edda Bjarnaddotir for what proved to be the only goal of the match in the 21st minute. Sapinoro also anchored a defense that held the Panthers to just four shots on target in the shutout victory, two less than the mere six shots on goal allowed in the Spartans' 3-1 home win over the Highlanders on Saturday night. The freshman combined to play all 180 minutes in the two matches.
Big South Freshman of the Week
Peyton Curney - Longwood
ECNL Club - Beach FC (VA)
Curney scored the equalizer in Longwood's 1-1 draw against High Point on Saturday, the team's only match last week. Trailing 1-0 in the second half, the freshman broke through in the 70th minute with her fourth goal of the season, evening the match and boosting the Lancers to a pivotal point in the league standings. All four of Curney's goals this season have gone down as either game-winning or game-tying scores.
Big West Offensive Player of the Week
Cherrie Cox - Long Beach State
ECNL Club - Beach FC (CA)
The Torrance native netted two tallies against CSUN during a decisive 3-1 victory. Cox bookended Long Beach State's scoring efforts with goals in the 20th and 59th minutes respectively. This was the first muti-tally performance of Cox's collegiate career.
