Soccer's Mundy Named First Team All C-USA
10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM | Soccer
Oct. 31, 2006
HOUSTON - University of Houston senior Sophia Mundy (Katy, Texas/St. Pius X/Portland State) was named All-Conference USA First Team, the league announced today in Dallas on the eve on the C-USA Championship.
Mundy, a First-Team All-League selection a year ago, is the first soccer player in school history to earn first team honors twice. She was UH's leading scorer this season with 10 goals, seven assists and 27 points.
Mundy leads C-USA in shots (93) and shots per game (4.89) and also holds the UH career record for shots (188) and shots on goal (96). She also holds three school single-game records and has had five-career multiple-goal games.
She tallied 24 career goals in a two-year period, three off the school record of 27, and also closed out her career with 60 career points, three shy of the school mark of 63. She was named C-USA Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 25 and earned the C-USA Preseason Offensive Player of the Year honor.
Mundy was an adidas/NSCAA All-Central Region Third Team honoree last year. This past summer, she trained with the U.S. U-21 National Team, becoming the first Houston player to achieve that honor.
SMU, the top-seeded team in the C-USA Championship, produced both the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Year award winners. Forward Olivia O'Rear enters the championship with 29 points and 16 in C-USA regular season matches. Goalkeeper Ashley Gunter repeated as a C-USA first team selection and earned Defensive Player of the Year honors after posting nine shutouts this season. SMU head coach John Cossaboon was named the C-USA Coach of the Year. Colorado College's Emily Beans was named the C-USA Freshman of the Year.
Memphis midfielder Maiko Higashiyama earned the league's inaugural Newcomer of the Year honor after transferring to the Tigers this season from Martin Methodist. Higashiyama also was named to the All-Conference USA first team.
Shoko Mikami of Memphis, UCF's Roberta Pelarigo and Hanna Wilde, Rice's Beth Martin, ECU's Kat Norris and Colorado College's Molly Uyenishi round out the First Team.
