Zych Wins Guilford Student-Athlete of the Week Award
Greensboro, N.C. (10/31/06) -- Senior Veronica Zych won the Guilford College Student-Athlete of the Week Award for the week ending Oct. 29. The weekly prize is made by Guilford's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
Zych, a goaltender on the Quakers' soccer team, recorded two shutouts in the Quakers' 1-0-1 week. She made seven saves, including three in overtime, to preserve a 0-0 double-overtime draw at crosstown-rival Greensboro College Oct. 24. She notched her fourth straight shutout and her school-record eighth whitewashing in Guilford's 3-0 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Tournament quarterfinal victory over Randolph-Macon Oct. 28. Zych had two first-half saves in the match in which she passed former teammate Danielle Brisotti '06 and Jen Harrison '92 on the Quakers' season shutouts list.
Zych has played all but 70 minutes in goal in her first season as a starter. She has a 1.47 goals against average and ranked sixth in the ODAC through matches of Oct. 25 in that category. Zych has a career-high 90 saves and a .756 save percentage. She ranked sixth among conference save percentage leaders through matches of Oct. 25.
Coach Eric Lewis' Quakers (13-5-2) are the number-two seed in the ODAC Tournament and seek their second straight trip to the ODAC Tournament final Wednesday (11/1) when they host third-seeded Eastern Mennonite on Haworth Field at 2:30 p.m. The Royals dealt Guilford its lone regular-season league setback Sept. 20, 3-2, in Harrisonburg, Va.
Guilford's SAAC is comprised of representatives from each of the school's 16 varsity teams. The group meets regularly to discuss the state of Guilford Athletics and seeks to build community among student-athletes and non-student-athletes on the campus. Recent Guilford SAAC activities include a canned-food drive to benefit local charities and dodgeball competitions among representatives from Guilford's administration and athletic teams.