Capping off a tremendous senior campaign, Sara Frey was named an NAIA All-America honorable mention, the national office announced Tuesday afternoon.
One of four graduating student-athletes on the John Brown University women's soccer team, Frey finished an award-laden year with an All-Conference first team honor and an SAC Player of the Year selection, only to be followed by the program's 10th NAIA honorable mention.
While the honorable mention was the first of her career, Frey's first-team selection was her fourth, completing a perfect 4-for-4 effort en route to landing her first-career Player of the Year selection.
Starting all 21 games this season, Frey finished third on the team in points (25), scoring nine goals and seven assists this season, all career highs. Her lone game-winner on the season was in a 2-1 win over No. 25 MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) in the season opener on Aug. 25. In SAC play, Frey netted six goals and four assists to total 16 points and had a pair of two-goal outings against Central Christian (Kan.) and Southwestern Christian (Okla.), on Oct. 21 and 28, respectively.
"Sara is deserving of this award for so many reasons," head coach Kathleen Paulsen said. "She not only had a fantastic season, but she has had a great career over her four years at JBU. This is a fitting award in light of her accomplishments and her impact on our team's present and past success."
The Golden Eagles finished the season at 18-3-0 tying a single-season program record in wins (18) and win percentage (.881 percent), while appearing in the SAC tournament championship game for the fifth-consecutive season.
Sports on 12/10/2017