GUILFORD'S EVANS NAMED ODAC WOMEN'S SOCCER PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Greensboro, NC (11/07/01) -- Guilford College senior Amy Evans (New Bern, NC/New Bern) received the Old Dominion Athletic Conference's (ODAC) 2001 Women's Soccer Player of the Year Award by a vote of the league's head coaches Tuesday. The conference office released the all-conference teams and post-season awards Wednesday.
Evans becomes Guilford's first ODAC Women's Soccer Player of the Year and four-time All-ODAC selection. Guilford junior Alex Hutton (Collierville, TN/Hutchison School) earned second team all-conference honors.
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forward, Evans led the ODAC in goals and scoring with 22 goals and 11
assists for 55 points. She set Guilford school records for goals and points in a
season, breaking the marks she set as a sophomore in 1999. Evans ranked
14th among NCAA Division III scoring leaders as of October 28 with 2.75 points
per game. The team captain scored in 12 of Guilford's 20 contests and notched
five game-winning goals. She hit for a career-high five goals and one assist in
a 14-1 rout of Averett September 5, one of her seven multiple-goal matches this
season. A two-time ODAC Player of the Week, Evans scored two goals and a
school-record four assists in the Quakers' 7-0 win at Peace October 10. She
notched her school-record seventh career hat trick with three goals and a
assists in a 5-0 home triumph over Hollins September 28.
Evans leaves Guilford with seven school records, including career goals and points. Her 69 goals stand fourth in ODAC history and her 159 points rank sixth. Evans' 21 career assists rank second in Guilford history. She did not miss a game in her four seasons and started all 74 career matches, another school standard. The Quakers recorded 30 wins in Evans' four seasons, more than any other four-year period in the program's 17-year history. A six-time ODAC Player of the Week in her career, she was a first-team all-conference selection in 2000 and 2001 after earning second-team laurels as a freshman and sophomore.
Hutton
contributed two goals and three assists for seven points in her first season
since joining the Quakers from Division I Mississippi State. She started all 20
matches at sweeper on Guilford's defense, which yielded 1.83 goals per game, the
second-lowest figure in school history. Hutton scored the game-tying goal
in the 86th minute of the Quakers' 4-3 come-from-behind win at league-rival
Randolph-Macon Woman's College September 25. She also scored in the 7-0 win over
Peace and contributed single assists in three difference matches.
Evans and Hutton helped Coach Forrest Collier's Quakers to an 8-11-1 overall record, matching the third-highest win total in school history. Guilford went 4-7 in the league and reached the ODAC Tournament for the 11th straight season when it lost to eventual league champion Lynchburg, 4-0, in the opening round. The Quakers will lose Evans and two other seniors to graduation from this year's club, but return Hutton and 15 other letterwinners in 2002.
