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Five Blue Devils Earn Women's Soccer All-ACC Honors
11/7/2002 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Nov. 6, 2002
Greensboro, N.C. - ACC regular-season champion North Carolina led the 2002 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Women's Soccer teams with five players on the first and second team combined. Clemson, Duke, Maryland, and Virginia had three selections apiece followed by NC State and Wake Forest with two each. Florida State had one player named to the squad.
Duke's sophomore midfielder Casey McCluskey and junior goalkeeper Thora Helgadottir were named to the All-ACC First Team, while senior midfielder Liz Wagner was named to the second team. Defender Kate Seibert and forward Carolyn Riggs were named to the All-Freshman Team.
Clemson's Deliah Arrington, a senior forward from Pawleys Island, S.C., won the ACC Player of the Year award. She is the Tigers leading scorer with 15 goals. She also leads the team in points with 37. Arrington is a four-time first-team All-ACC selection.
North Carolina's Lindsay Tarpley was named ACC Rookie of the Year. Tarpley is North Carolina's leading scorer with 11 goals and 12 assists. She also leads the Tar Heels with four game-winning goals.
Shannon Higgins-Cirovski of Maryland was named ACC Coach of the Year after being inducted, as a player, into the National Soccer Hall of Fame on October 14 of this year. This is her second ACC Coach of the Year award, having also won the honor in 1999. This season, she has led the Terrapins to its most regular season victories since 1997, with 11.
The 2002 ACC All-Freshmen team was also announced with Duke, Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia all leading the way with two selections. Clemson, Florida State, and Wake Forest had one selection apiece.
2002 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Team First Team Deliah Arrington Clemson Heather Beem Clemson Casey McCluskey Duke Thora Helgadottir Duke Cindy Shofield Florida State Katie Ludwig Maryland Catherine Reddick North Carolina Lindsay Tarpley North Carolina Adrienne Barnes N.C. State Annika Schmidt N.C. State Kelly Worden Virginia
Second Team Paige Ledford Clemson Liz Wagner Duke Mallory Mahar Maryland Kimmy Francis Maryland Jenni Branam North Carolina Leslie Gaston North Carolina Alyssa Ramsey North Carolina Darci Borski Virginia Gillian Hatch Virginia A.B. Robbins Wake Forest Katherine Winstead Wake Forest
2002 All-Freshman Team Allison Graham Clemson Carolyn Riggs Duke Kate Seibert Duke Leah Gallegos Florida State Ali Andrzejewski Maryland Mallory Mahar Maryland Lindsay Tarpley North Carolina Lori Chalupny North Carolina Kelly Hammond Virginia Sarah Hoffman Virginia Sarah Kozey Wake ForestPlayer of the Year: Deliah Arrington, Clemson
Rooke of the Year: Lindsay Tarpley, North Carolina
Coach of the Year: Shannon Higgins-Cirovski, Marylan
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