February 26, 2007

GREENSBORO, N.C. - Thirteen All-Conference honorees including the ACC Offensive Player of the Year and Soccer America's National Player of the Year, secured spots on the 2006 All-Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Women's Soccer Team as announced by Commissioner John D. Swofford. All 11 schools in the league competing in women's soccer are represented on the honors team.

To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the previous semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.

Players earning first team or second team All-ACC honors this past fall are North Carolina's Yael Averbuch. Heather O'Reilly and Tobin Heath, Wake Forest's Elizabeth Remy and Kristina Hanley, Florida State's Katrin Schmidt and Kelly Rowland, Boston College's Jennifer Maurer, Duke's Rebecca Moros, Maryland's Nicole Resnick, Virginia's Becky Sauerbrunn, and Clemson's Julie Bolt.

Averbuch, a sophomore midfielder and the ACC Offensive Player of the Year, led the league in goals per game (0.60) and finished second in scoring (1.40). O'Reilly, the Honda Award winner and the Soccer America Player of the Year this past fall, led the ACC in scoring (1.70) and tied for third in goals scored (0.50).

Repeaters from last year's academic team include Boston College's Mary Gene Dane, Heather Ferron, and Jennifer Maurer; Clemson's Britten Meyer, Duke's Rachel-Rose Cohen and Christie McDonald; Florida State's Katrin Schmidt; Maryland's Nicole Resnick; North Carolina's Yael Averbuch and Heather O'Reilly; NC State's Tami Krzeszewski and Michelle Massey; Virginia's Christina DeVries and Becky Sauerbrunn; Virginia Tech's Heather Hallberg, Ashley Kinser and Mallory Soldner, and Wake Forest's Elizabeth Remy.

The 2006 All-ACC Academic Women's Soccer team is as follows:

2006 All-ACC Academic Women's Soccer Team

Name, Class, School 	                Pos. 	Major

*Yael Averbuch, So., North Carolina 	M 	Undeclared

Julie Bolt, So., Clemson 	        MF 	Psychology

Mary Casey, Fr., Maryland 	        D 	Kinesiology

*Rachel-Rose Cohen, Sr., Duke        	D 	Biological Anthropology & Anatomy

*Mary Gene Dane, Sr., Boston College 	D 	Accounting

*Christina DeVries, Sr., Virginia 	GK 	Health & Physical Education

Rebecca Edwards, Fr., Florida State 	M 	Business

Whitney Engen, Fr., North Carolina 	M 	Undeclared

Kristi Eveland, Fr., North Carolina 	D 	Business

*Heather Ferron, Sr, Boston College 	M 	Mathematics

Kaley Fountain, Fr., Wake Forest 	M 	Undeclared

Jessica Gillman, Jr., Miami 	        M 	Marketing

*Heather Hallberg, Jr., Virginia Tech 	M 	Human Nutrition, Foods & Exercise

Kristina Hanley, Jr., Wake Forest 	M 	Psychology

Kelly Hathorn, So., Duke 	        D/M 	Undeclared

Ali Hawkins, Fr., North Carolina 	D 	Undeclared

Tobin Heath, Fr., North Carolina 	M 	Undeclared

Elizabeth Jobe, Jr., Clemson 	        MB 	Animal Vet. Science

*Ashley Kinser, Jr., Virginia Tech 	D 	Management

*Tami Krzeszewski, So., NC State 	M 	Social Work

*Michelle Massey, Sr., NC State 	D 	Math Education

*Jennifer Maurer, Sr., Boston College 	M 	Elementary Education

Lauren McAdam, Jr., Miami 	        GK 	Psychology

*Christie McDonald, So., Duke        	F 	Undeclared

Shelley McDuff, Jr., Maryland      	M 	Kinesiology

Kia McNeill, Jr., Boston College 	F 	Human Development

*Britten Meyer, Sr., Clemson     	D 	Communication

Rebecca Moros, Sr., Duke        	M 	Psychology

*Heather O'Reilly, Sr., North Carolina 	F 	Education

Laurie Beth Puglisi, So. Virginia Tech 	F 	Marketing

Elisabeth Redmond, Fr., Duke    	F/M 	Undeclared

*Elizabeth Remy, Sr., Wake Forest 	F 	Psychology

*Nicole Resnick, Sr., Maryland  	GK 	Marketing

Anna Rodenbough, So., North Carolina 	GK 	Biomedical Engineering

Kelly Rowland, Sr., Florida State 	D 	Management 

Allie Sadow, Fr., Wake Forest     	F 	Undeclared

*Becky Sauerbrunn, Jr,, Virginia 	D 	English Language & Literature

*Katrin Schmidt, So., Florida State 	D 	Social Science

Amy Smerdzinski, So., Wake Forest 	M 	Undeclared

*Mallory Soldner, Sr., Virginia Tech 	GK 	Industrial & Systems Engineering

Sheuneen Ta, Jr., Miami         	M 	Marketing

Kirsten VanDeVen, Jr., Florida State 	F/M 	Psychology

*Denotes repeater from the 2005 team