"General Release - Guilford's Carter, Niedosik Earn Academic All-District Soccer Honors" - Guilford College

  • GUILFORD SOCCER'S NIEDOSIK, CARTER WIN ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT HONORS

 

      Greensboro, NC (11/3/05) -- Guilford College's Lenny Niedosik and Jennah Carter earned Second Team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III soccer honors Thursday from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

 

      The all-district squads are comprised of soccer student-athletes from Division II and III institutions in the five-state area from Virginia to Florida. Nominees were starters or important reserves of sophomore academic standing or above who maintained at least a 3.2 grade point average.

 

Niedosik (nih-DUH-shik), a 6-3 senior defender, captained a young Quakers' team that placed ninth in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) and recorded three shutouts. He started 16 of Guilford's 17 matches and totalled one goal and two assists for four points. A two-year starter, Niedosik compiled six points (2g, 2a) in 53 career appearances.

 

A five-time dean's list student, Niedosik is a double major in criminal justice and German. He has completed Officer Candidate School for the U.S. Marine Corps and will be commissioned as an officer with the Marines upon graduation. Niedosik has been on Guilford's Student-Athlete Honor Roll five times and is a three-time Academic All-ODAC honoree.

 

      Coach Liam Behrens' Quakers finished the season with a 6-7-4 record, 2-6-1 in the ODAC. Guilford failed to qualify for the ODAC Tournament for the first time in six years.

 

      Carter, a 5-6 junior forward, has led the Quakers to Saturday's ODAC Tournament final for the first time in school history. She has started all 21 of Guilford's matches this season and scored a school-record 23 goals, plus eight assists for a league-best 54 points. A two-time ODAC Player of the Week, Carter ranks 19th in Division III in points per game (2.60), leads the ODAC in goals and is tied for third place in assists. Her tally in Wednesday's night's 1-0 ODAC Tournament semifinal upset of fourth-ranked and previously unbeaten Virginia Wesleyan marked her team-best seventh game-winning goal of the year. She ranks third among Guilford's career leaders in goals (31) and is fourth in points (80).

 

      Since transferring to Guilford from Flagler last fall, Carter has twice been a member of Guilford's Student-Athlete Honor Roll. She received Academic All-ODAC honors in 2004-05. Carter plans to graduate next May with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a concentration in business law.

 

      Wednesday's win marked coach Eric Lewis' club's school-record 13th win of the season. Guilford (13-5-3), the ODAC Tournament's number-four seed, plays at third-seeded Lynchburg Saturday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. for the league title and its automatic NCAA Division III playoff berth.