Monmouth's Garden Bachop, Rider's duo of Vandam & Brosious Repeat as Women's Soccer Weekly Award Winners

Monmouth's Garden Bachop, Rider's duo of Vandam & Brosious Repeat as Women's Soccer Weekly Award Winners

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Offensive Player of the Week
Georgia Garden Bachop, Monmouth
Dunedin, New Zealand / Queen Margaret
Georgia Garden Bachop continued her strong play on the front line with a two-goal weekend.  The senior notched what proved to be the game-winning goal in the come-from-behind win against Sacred Heart to secure the Hawks at least a share of the MAAC Regular Season title.  With her 13th goal of the year, Garden Bachop has scored in five straight games and seven of the last eight outings.  She now has six game-winning goals on the year.

Defensive Player of the Week
Lena Vandam, Rider
Brasschaat, Belgium
Sophomore goalkeeper Lena Vandam posted a .880 save percentage to go along with a 1.34 goals-against average in the cage in a pair of wins for Rider last week. In a 2-1 overtime MAAC win against Fairfield, Vandam made 13 saves, including seven in the overtime periods. She followed that up with nine saves in a 4-2 victory at Lehigh.

Rookie of the Week
Carly Brosious, Rider
 Drexel Hill, PA /  Monsignor Bonner/Archbishop Prendergast
Freshman Carly Brosious had a big week for the Broncs, scoring three goals as Rider went 2-0. In a 2-1 overtime win against Fairfield in MAAC play, she scored both of the team's goals. Her game-winning strike in the second overtime period versus the Stags was her conference-leading fifth of the season. Brosious ended the week with a marker in a 4-2 non-conference win at Lehigh.

About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 38th year of competition during the 2018-19 academic year. Current Conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.