CAA Women's Soccer Report - Sept. 26, 2023
CAA Women's Soccer Report - Sept. 26, 2023
Catch up on the CAA women’s soccer weekly news, notes and awards.
SCHEDULE AND RESULTS
Thursday, September 21
Monmouth 1, Delaware 0 *
Hofstra 0, Charleston 0 *
Campbell 2, William & Mary 2 *
UNCW 1, Elon 1 *
Bye: Drexel, Hampton, Northeastern, Stony Brook, Towson
Sunday, September 24
Hofstra 2, UNCW 1 *
Monmouth 1, Stony Brook 0 *
Towson 5, Drexel 3 *
Northeastern 10, Hampton 0 *
William & Mary 2, Elon 0 *
Charleston 1, Campbell 0 *
Bye: Delaware
Tuesday, September 26
Monmouth 1, Elon 0 *
Makeup of Sept. 10 game
Thursday, September 28
Northeastern at Delaware * (DSN, FloFC)................. 6 p.m.
Stony Brook at Towson * (FloFC).................................. 6 p.m.
Charleston at Drexel * (FloFC)....................................... 6 p.m.
William & Mary at Hofstra * (FloFC)............................ 7 p.m.
Hampton at Elon * (FloFC).............................................. 7 p.m.
Bye: Campbell, Monmouth, UNCW
Sunday, October 1
William & Mary at Stony Brook * (FloFC)................ 12 p.m.
Monmouth at Drexel * (FloFC)....................................... 1 p.m.
Towson at Hampton * (None)......................................... 1 p.m.
Charleston at Delaware * (FloFC)................................. 1 p.m.
Northeastern at Hofstra * (FloFC)................................ 1 p.m.
UNCW at Campbell * (FloFC)......................................... 2 p.m.
Bye: Elon
WEEKLY AWARDS
CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Maggie Cochran, Northeastern
Sophomore | Forward/Midfield | Cape Elizabeth, Maine / Cape Elizabeth
Cochran scored her first three career goals to give Northeastern in its seventh hat trick in program history in Sunday’s win over Hampton. The sophomore from Maine scored the first goal of the game and added two more in a program-record 10-goal performance for the Huskies.
CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Jasmine Hamid, Towson
Senior | Forward | Alexandria, Va. / Bishop Ireton
Hamid notched two goals and an assist in Towson’s 5-3 win over Drexel to stay tied atop the CAA table. Both of Hamid’s goals came in a wild second-half stretch in which the Tigers and Dragons combined for five goals in the final 17 minutes of the contest. Hamid is the first player in the CAA to win multiple weekly awards this fall.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Shae Yocum, Charleston
Junior | Defense | Point Pleasant, N.J. / Point Pleasant Borough
Yocum helped Charleston to a pair of shutouts and an undefeated week that included a draw against one of the league leaders. The junior from South Jersey helped the Cougars blank defending CAA Champion Hofstra on Thursday before Charleston earned a shutout win over Campbell on Sunday. Yocum played all 180 minutes in the 2-0-0 week.
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Liza Suydam, Monmouth
Freshman | Midfield | Lancaster, Pa. / Manheim Township
Suydam scored the lone goal of Monmouth’s 1-0 win over Stony Brook on Sunday as part of a six-point weekend for the Hawks. Suydam’s game-winner came in the 59th minute on a rainy Great Lawn as Monmouth climbed to 10 points in the league standings in advance of a Tuesday makeup game.
2023 CAA WOMEN’S SOCCER WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Aug. 21: Olivia Pearse, Hofstra
Aug. 28: Annalena O’Reilly, Drexel
Sept. 4: Jasmine Hamid, Towson
Sept. 11: Vivian Akyirem, Northeastern
Sept. 18: Nia Christopher, Towson
Sept. 25: Maggie Cochran, Northeastern; Jasmine Hamid, Towson
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Aug. 21: Nora Green-Orset, William & Mary
Aug. 28: Lily Dunbar, Drexel; Riley Melendez, Towson
Sept. 4: Joella Chase, Drexel
Sept. 11: Kerry Pearson, Stony Brook
Sept. 18: Cassie Coster, Monmouth
Sept. 25: Shae Yocum, Charleston
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Aug. 21: Gabby Hoschek, Elon
Aug. 28: Alyssa Tucker, Campbell
Sept. 4: Lindsay Wilson, William & Mary
Sept. 11: Bella Antonio, Charleston
Sept. 18: Loren Gehret, Monmouth
Sept. 25: Liza Suydam, Monmouth
NEWS AND NOTES
LUCKY 13
Hofstra, Monmouth, and Towson are atop the CAA table at 13 points each entering this weekend’s competition.
The Tigers are 8-1-1 on the year and on a four-match winning streak with the lone loss a 1-0 setback at Maryland, while Hofstra is 7-2-1 and on a seven-match unbeaten stretch, and Monmouth has opened CAA play with five consecutive shutouts after Tuesday’s makeup win over Elon.
WIN, DRAW, OR... NOPE
Five CAA teams - William & Mary, Hofstra, Northeastern, Towson, and Monmouth - enter the week on undefeated streaks of five or more games.
William & Mary (6-0-5) is one of 13 remaining teams without a loss nationally, Hofstra and Northeastern are both undefeated in their last seven matches, and Towson has won four straight with a five-match unbeaten streak overall. Monmouth has shut out its first five opponents of CAA play.
POWERING UP
CAA teams picked up a pair of wins over Power 5 opponents in the opening week. Delaware blanked Syracuse, 1-0, in Newark with Raychel Speicher scoring the game-winner. Hofstra followed with a 1-0 win at Rutgers thanks to a late goal by Olivia Pearse.
The win over an ACC opponent was the CAA’s first since Hofstra over Boston College in 2020-21, while the victory over the Big Ten was the league’s first since Drexel beat Maryland in 2018.
MS. WORLDWIDE
CAA programs were well-represented at this summer’s FIFA World Cup.
UNCW alum Katrina Guillou was part of the Philippines’ first team to play in the World Cup, fellow Seahawk Sydney Schneider suited up as a goalkeeper for Jamaica, and Hofstra’s Diane Caldwell represented Ireland.
TEAM NOTES
- Amber Liston is the lone Campbell player to start all 11 matches so far this season.
- Shae Yocum is the first Charleston defender to win Defensive Player of the Week since Meredith Tunney on Sept. 10 2018; goalkeeper Savannah Barron collected an honor last year.
- Delaware’s 10 goals this season have come from nine different players.
- The eight-goal total in Sunday’s game was the most in a Drexel contest since a 4-4 draw with Stony Brook last season.
- Freshman Gabby Hoschek leads Elon in goals and points this season.
- Alexis Deveaux has made a nation-leading 104 saves for Hampton this season.
- Mathilde Braithwaite’s game-winner for Hofstra on Sunday was her first career goal.
- Monmouth’s five-match shutout streak is its longest since a 10-match run to close the 2019 season.
- Freshman Viktoria Hankova is tied for the UNCW team lead in goals this fall.
- Northeastern’s 10 goals on Sunday were a program record.
- Reilly Rich’s five goals this fall for Stony Brook are tied for third in the CAA.
- Sunday marked the fifth time over the last three years that Towson scored 5+ goals in a game; the Tigers achieved the feat twice in the prior 13 seasons.
- William & Mary is one of 13 remaining teams nationally without a loss in 2023.