Goalkeeper, Jr., 5-8, Washington, DC

Two-year starter in goal… ranks among the top returning goalies in the ODAC… a technically solid netminder with a knack for making big saves… communicates well with the back line… 1998: Earned honorable mention All-ODAC laurels… posted the fifth-lowest single-season goals against average (GAA) in school history… notched the third-best single-season shutout total (5) in Guilford history… made a career-high 21 saves versus Division I High Point… stopped 19 shots in a 3-1 ODAC win over Virginia Wesleyan… 1997: Earned the starting nod in a preseason battle among four keepers… saw season shortened by a broken wrist… made a season-high 12 saves versus Randolph-Macon… Personal: One of 44 Dana Scholars at Guilford… serves as a college marshal… one of 14 national participants in the 1999 NASA Summer Institute… conducted research in the atmospheric chemistry branch of the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD… one of two Guilford students to participate in the Glaxo-Welcome Women in Science Scholars Program… received Guilford's CRC Freshman Chemistry Award in 1998… two-time Academic All-ODAC team member… named to Guilford's Student-Athlete Honor Roll every semester… volunteer goalkeeper coach at Greensboro Page High School… coaches soccer at YMCA… honorable mention All-Independent Schools League performer and team captain for Coach Bea Fuller's Georgetown Day School team… daughter of Jerome and Susan Akman… three-time dean's list chemistry major.