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Men's Soccer Earns Seven All-Conference Awards (11-14-09)

Three Eagles Named To First Team All-Big South

ROCK HILL, SC—The annual Big South Conference Men’s Soccer Awards were announced and Winthrop earned six All-Big South awards for the 2009 season.

 

Leading the way were seniors Matthew Skonicki, Stephen Nsereko and Michael Luk, who were all named to the All-Big South First Team. Freshman Daniel Di Biagio was named to the All-Big South Second Team as well as the All-Freshmen Team. Joining Di Biagio on the All-Freshmen Team is keeper Enrique Miranda.

 

Skonicki finished the regular season with 11 goals and seven assists and was one of the nation’s top ten scorers. Nsereko was voted to the first team for the third straight season while it was Luk’s first selection to the team. Luk finished the regular season with four goals and nine assists.

 

Di Biagio started all but one game at center back while Miranda has played every single minute of the season in net. Sophomore Matt Horn was selected to the Big South All-Academic Team.

 

Player of the Year

Djamel Bekka, Coastal Carolina

 

Freshman of the Year

Shawn Sloan, High Point

 

Coach of the Year

Dustin Fonder, High Point

 

Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Trent Kozman, Gardner-Webb

 

FIRST TEAM ALL-BIG SOUTH

Forwards

Matt Skonicki, Winthrop

Gerard Hefferon, Gardner-Webb

Darren Amoo, Liberty

 

Midfielders

Djamel Bekka, Coastal Carolina

Stephen Nsereko, Winthrop

Michael Luk, Winthrop

Shawn Sloan, High Point

 

Defenders

Alex Russell, Coastal Carolina

Michael Ward, Liberty

Jovan Ivanovich, Gardner-Webb

Chris Mandell, Liberty

 

Goalkeeper

Scott Angevine, Coastal Carolina

 

At Large

Matt Tuttle, High Point

 

SECOND TEAM ALL-BIG SOUTH

Forwards

Tim Bullock, Liberty

Brian Bartels, UNC Asheville

Fejiro Okiomah, High Point

 

Midfielders

Romeo Kabanda, Gardner-Webb

Matt Schroeder, Coastal Carolina

James Stapleton, Coastal Carolina

Chris Phillips, Liberty

 

Defenders

Daniel Di Biagio, Winthrop

Jon Ole Reinhardsen, Gardner-Webb

Ayao Sossou, VMI

Todd Ray, High Point

 

Goalkeeper

A.J. Madero, Liberty

 

At Large

Myles Jones, Radford

 

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All Freshman Team

Luis Faz, Coastal Carolina

Sean McCormick, Coastal Carolina

John Sargent, Gardner-Webb

Shawn Sloan, High Point

Fejiro Okiomah, High Point

Myles Jones, Radford

James Jordan, Radford

Patrick Donahue, High Point

Enrique Miranda, Winthrop

Daniel Di Biagio, Winthrop

(Tie) David Parra, UNC Asheville

(Tie) Zachery Odum, UNC Asheville

 

All-Academic Team

Trent Kozman, Gardner-Webb

Juan Guzman, Liberty

Adam Hatem, High Point

Matt Horn, Winthrop

Sam Eastridge, Presbyterian

Justin Zimmer, Radford

Sonny Landry, VMI

Jake Hagedorn, UNC Asheville

Robert Hunter, Coastal Carolina

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