It wasn’t the season they had hoped for, but for a handful of Simon Fraser University women’s soccer players, the end came with some consolation.
Selected for Great Northwest Athletic Conference honours, as part of the preamble to the GNAC playoffs, were forward Emma Pringle, midfielders Jenna-lee Baxter and Katelyn Erhardsen, and defender Allyson Dickson.
After another impressive goal-scoring campaign, Pringle was selected to the 2017 GNAC Women’s Soccer All-Conference Team.
Pringle, the 2016 Freshman of the Year, picked up right where she left off after her rookie season by tying for the league-high of 14 goals.
That ranked her No. 18 in NCAA. Pringle, who averaged 3.93 shots per game this year, has scored 23 goals in 32 career games for SFU over two seasons.
In late September the North Vancouver product put together a four-goal week to collect the United Soccer Coaches National Player of the Week honour for Oct. 3.
Pringle was also a GNAC first-team selection and West Region second team in 2016 when she scored nine goals.
Joining Pringle is Baxter, a Clan junior midfielder. In 16 appearances, Baxter set the national pace with 13 assists, tops in NCAA in both total assists and assists per game (0.81).
The junior from Surrey finished with two goals and 13 assists and was named all-conference for the first time.
Simon Fraser also had two players chosen all-conference honourable mention: Dickson, a third-year defender, and Erhardsen, a junior midfielder.
Dickson, a Burnaby native, registered two goals and two assists while Erhardsen was third in team scoring with three goals and six assists.
SFU finished the season with a 7-9-0 overall record and 5-7-0 in the GNAC, placing fifth in the conference.
Last year, the Clan reached their first-ever GNAC Championship tournament after finishing fourth in the conference and posting an overall record of 9-7-1.
