Women's Soccer Release (2003) - All-ODAC - Guilford College
GUILFORD WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYERS HONOREDGreensboro, NC (11/12/03) -- Junior Kimberly Mullen (Massapequa Park, NY/Massapequa [Nassau CC]) and freshman Jennifer Mundy (Murrells Inlet, SC/Waccamaw) earned Second Team All-Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) honors according to a vote of the league's 10 head coaches. Junior Flo Lance (Georgetown, SC/Georgetown), sophomore Heather Ruggiero (Lexington, MA/Lexington), senior Megan Barolet-Fogarty (Gainesville, FL/Gainesville), freshman Rachel Gwin (Titusville, NJ/Pennington School) and senior Lori Layton (Westerville, OH/New Albany) received honorable mention laurels.
A
forward, Mullen earned second-team all-league honors for the second
straight season. Despite missing three games with a knee injury, she still
finished second on the team with 26 points on a club-high 12 goals and two
assists. She ranks second among ODAC goals per game leaders (0.75) and sixth in
points per game (1.62). Mullen's 12 goals mark the 11th-highest total in
school history and give her 34 career tallies, the fourth-best total in school
history. She stands third on Guilford's career scoring list with 81 points on 34
goals and 13 assists. Mullen scored goals in eight of her 16 contests and
had three multi-goal games. She netted a season-high seven points in the
Quakers' 7-0 win at North Carolina Wesleyan on three goals and an assist. Her
tally lifted Guilford past Dallas, 1-0, September 13.
Mundy,
a midfielder, led the Quakers in scoring and ranks 10th in the ODAC with 28
points on 12 goals and four assists. She stands seventh among the league's goals
leaders and 10th in points per game. Her 28 points and 12 goals each stand 11th
on Guilford's season charts. Mundy captured the league's Player of the
Week Award for the week of September 22. She scored six goals in three ODAC wins
that week, including a career- and team-high four goals in a September 22 win
over Emory & Henry. Mundy found the back of the net in seven games,
including three times in an 8-0 ODAC triumph over Sweet Briar. Her four assists
stood third on the team.
Lance
(left) finished fifth on the team in scoring with 14 points on six
goals and two assists in her first season since transferring from Smith College.
She scored 13 of her points in ODAC contests and enjoyed two-goal outings in
league wins over Randolph-Macon Woman's College and Sweet Briar. Lance had
a three-point match at Hollins with a goal and an assist.
Ruggiero
split time between defense and forward in her second season, after playing
exclusively in the back as a freshman. She responded with a career-high 16
points on five goals and six assists. Ruggiero ranked fourth on the team
in scoring and second in assists. She tallied the game-winning goal and two
assists for a personal-best four points in the Quakers' 7-0 win over Emory &
Henry. Her goal was the difference in Guilford's 1-0 league win over
Randolph-Macon October 4, the team's first over the Yellow Jackets since 1985.
The Quakers were 6-1 when Ruggiero scored a point.
A
center midfielder, Barolet-Fogarty (left) enjoyed her fourth and
finest soccer season at Guilford. She finished third on the team in scoring with
seven goals and nine assists for 23 points, all career highs. Her nine assists
lead the ODAC and rank fourth in school history. Barolet-Fogarty started
all 20 matches for Guilford, which extended her streak of consecutive starts to
79, a Quakers' record. She earned the ODAC's Women's Soccer Player of the Week
Award October 27 for scoring a goal and four assists during Guilford's 2-1 week.
Barolet-Fogarty leaves Guilford ranked fifth in school history with 52 points. Her 20 career assists mark the program's fourth-highest total and her 16 goals stand ninth. She is a dean's list triple major in sociology and anthropology, international studies and African-American studies and earned Verizon Academic All-District III honors this year.
One
of two freshmen to start all 20 matches, Gwin (right) totaled two
goals and four assists for eight points from her outside midfielder's position.
She netted her goals in the Quakers' 7-1 ODAC win at Randolph-Macon Woman's
College, including the game-winner. Gwin added two assists in Guilford's
7-0 league triumph at Hollins.
Layton
started the year in the midfield but moved to the back following a
season-ending injury to Becky Craig. Layton, a team captain,
developed into the club's top defender and helped the Quakers post eight
shutouts and a 1.81 goals against average. Both figures stand second in school
history. Her lone goal of the year broke a 1-1 tie with league-rival Bridgewater
and gave the Quakers the 2-1 win. Layton won four letters at Guilford and
concludes her career with four goals and six assists for 14 points in 73 career
contests.
The six players helped coach Eric Lewis' club post an 11-9 record, which ties the school mark for overall wins in a season. The team's 7-4 ODAC record set the school standard for league victories. Guilford reached the ODAC Tournament for the 13th straight time before falling in the quarterfinals at Eastern Mennonite, 2-0. The Quakers expect 25 letter winners back in 2004.


