MARLBOROUGH, Mass. – For the fourth straight season the No. 5 MIT women's soccer team has had the NEWMAC Athlete of the Year as Arianna Doss earning the award this year. Additionally, Sasha Ceol was named the NEWMAC Defensive Athlete of the Year, and Claire Zhang was named the Rookie of the Year. Overall, the Engineers have eight all-conference selections with seven first team members and one on the second team.
Doss also received the Laurels of Academic Excellence Award recipient for having the top GPA of all the student-athletes competing in the title game
Sasha Ceol
- First Team All-Conference
- Second all-conference award, was first team last season
- Anchored the Engineer defense which was a Division III best 18 clean sheets this season
Andrea Cummings
- Second Team All-Conference
- First all-conference award
- Had a hattrick in the season-opener against Gordon
- Collected seven goals and three assist for 17 points this season
Arianna Doss
- First Team All-Conference
- Second all-conference selection, was first team last season
- Has 12 goals and a career-best 13 assists this season
- Led the NEWMAC in assists and was second in points with 37
JoJo Miller
- First Team All-Conference
- Second all-conference nod, was second team last season
- Helped the Engineer defense allow just seven goals this season and only one during the NEWMAC regular season.
Madelyn Popilek
- First Team All-Conference
- First all-conference award
- Scored a career-high six goals this season
- Helped MIT put up 18 shutouts this season
Madeline Seebeck
- First Team All-Conference
- Third First Team All-Conference accolade
- Scored five goals and had three assists
Emma Wang
- First Team All-Conference
- First time on the all-conference team
- Helped MIT allow just seven total goals this season with 18 shutouts
Claire Zhang
- First Team All-Conference
- Led MIT in goals with 15 as she had four multi-goal games including a hattrick against Bridgewater St.
- Ranked second in the NEWMAC in goals and third in points (31).
MIT will host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The Engineers will play Eastern Connecticut State on Saturday, November 14 at 11:00 AM on Roberts Field.
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