GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – ACC regular-season champion Duke earned four major individual awards and placed eight student-athletes on the 2017 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Soccer Team announced on Thursday.
Blue Devil senior forward Imani Dorsey was selected the ACC Offensive Player of the Year by the league’s head coaches, while classmate Rebecca Quinn earned Midfielder of the Year honors. Duke senior Schuyler DeBree was voted the ACC Defensive Player of the Year, and head coach Robbie Church was selected the ACC Coach of the Year.
Louisville’s Emina Ekic and North Carolina’s Alessia Russo were voted the ACC Co-Freshmen of the Year.
Dorsey, Quinn and DeBree joined fellow senior EJ Proctor and junior Kayla McCoy to give Duke five members on the All-ACC first team. Duke led all schools with eight players voted All-ACC first-, second- or third-team. Russo, voted to the first team, led seven North Carolina selections.
Dorsey enters this weekend’s ACC Women’s Soccer Championship semifinal round ranked fourth among ACC players in total points (27) and in goals scored (10). The Elkridge, Maryland, native also ranks fourth in assists (7) and shots (58). Three of her goals this season have been game-winners. Dorsey leads all ACC players in conference games with five assists in nine matches.
Quinn has also been a steady force for a Duke squad that currently owns an 18-match winning streak. The redshirt senior from Toronto has played 1,420 minutes while starting 17 matches, coming back strong from injuries that sidelined her for all but four matches last season. A member of the Canadian National Team that captured the bronze medal in the 2016 Olympic Games, Quinn is a steady defender who has also contributed a pair of goals and an assist.
DeBree leads a Blue Devil backline defense that has allowed just nine goals in 19 games and yielded only three scores in 10 ACC regular-season matches. The Blue Devils have posted 12 shutouts, eight of which came in ACC regular-season games. The Fair Haven, New Jersey, native has started every match for the second consecutive season and ranks second on the team in minutes played with 1,703.
Church has guided Duke to an 18-1-0 mark thus far, and the Blue Devils won all 10 of their conference regular-season games to become the first team since 2013 to go unbeaten and untied in ACC play. Duke has been ranked among the top five in the United Soccer Coaches, Soccer America and TopDrawerSoccer.com polls for seven consecutive weeks and holds the No. 2 spot for the second-straight week. The Blue Devils also hold the No. 4 spot in the latest NCAA RPI rankings. Church, in his 17
th season at Duke, earned ACC Coach of the Year accolades for the second time after first being recognized in 2011.
Ekic leads Louisville and ranks among the ACC’s top 10 in goals scored (7) and shots (50). Russo is tied for the conference lead in goals scored in ACC matches (6), and her eight goals in 14 overall matches (0.57) ranks fourth among ACC players. Ekic and Russo lead the 11-member All-ACC Freshman Team.
The ACC Women’s Soccer Championship continues this weekend with the semifinals and finals to be played at MUSC Health Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. Fourth-seeded Virginia (11-4-4) will face top-seeded Duke (18-1-0) in the first semifinal on Friday, Nov. 3, at 5:30 p.m., while No. 3 NC State (14-4-1) meets No. 2 North Carolina (13-2-2) in the second semifinal at 8 p.m. Both games will be carried by the leagues Regional Sports Network. The winners will meet Sunday, Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. in the Championship game, which will be broadcast on ESPNU.
The complete 2017 All-ACC Women’s Soccer Team and All-Freshman Team are listed below.
Offensive Player of the Year: Imani Dorsey, Sr., F, Duke
Midfielder of the Year: Rebecca Quinn, Sr., M, Duke
Defensive Player of the Year: Schuyler DeBree, Sr., D, Duke
Co-Freshmen of the Year: Emina Ekic, Fr., M, Louisville and Alessia Russo, Fr., F, North Carolina
Coach of the Year: Robbie Church, Duke
First Team
Imani Dorsey, Sr., F, Duke
Rebecca Quinn, Sr., M, Duke
Kayla McCoy, Jr., F, Duke
Schuyler DeBree, Sr., D, Duke
EJ Proctor, Sr., GK, Duke
Deyna Castellanos, So., F, Florida State
Natalia Kuikka, Jr., D, Florida State
Alessia Russo, Fr., F, North Carolina
Tziarra King, So., M, NC State
Sandra Yu, GS, M, Notre Dame
Veronica Latsko, Sr., F, Virginia
Second Team
Sam Staab, Jr., D, Clemson
Ella Stevens, So., F, Duke
Taylor Racioppi, Jr., F, Duke
Emina Ekic, Fr., M, Louisville
Joanna Boyles, Sr., M, North Carolina
Dorian Bailey, Jr., M, North Carolina
Julia Ashley, Jr., D, North Carolina
Natalie Jacobs, So., F, Notre Dame
Megan Reid, Sr., D, Virginia
Maddie Huster, Sr., M, Wake Forest
Lindsay Preston, Sr., GK, Wake Forest
Third Team
Samantha Coffey, Fr., M, Boston College
Ashton Miller, Sr., M, Duke
Gloriana Villalobos, Fr., M, Florida State
Jennifer Westendorf, So., F, Notre Dame
Ricci Walking, So., M, NC State
Bridgett Andrzejewski, So., M, North Carolina
Emily Fox, Fr., M, North Carolina
Taylor Otto, R-Fr., D, North Carolina
Courtney Brosnan, Sr., GK, Syracuse
Taryn Torres, Fr., M, Virginia
Phoebe McClernon, So., D, Virginia
Bayley Feist, Jr., M, Wake Forest
*Due to a tie in voting an extra member was named to the All-ACC Third Team.
All-Freshman Team
Samantha Coffey, Fr., M, Boston College
Mariana Speckmaier, Fr., F, Clemson
Taylor Mitchell, Fr., D, Duke
Gloriana Villalobos, Fr., M, Florida State
Emina Ekic, Fr., M, Louisville
Alessia Russo, Fr., F, North Carolina
Emily Fox, Fr., M, North Carolina
Lulu Guttenberger, Fr., D, NC State
Sammi Fisher, Fr., M, Notre Dame
Taryn Torres, Fr., M, Virginia
Vicky Krug, Fr., D, Wake Forest