Brown earns first D2CCA honor in career
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Division II Conference Commissioner's Association Women's Soccer All-East Region Team
EASTON, Mass. (November 14, 2018) – The Stonehill College women's soccer team saw Kaitlin Brown named to the Division II Conference Commissioner's Association (D2CCA) Women's Soccer All-East Region second team, as announced by the association on Wednesday.
Brown earned her first recognition from the D2CCA being selected to the second team, after most recently being name the Northeast-10 Conference Goalkeeper of the Year and an All-Conference first team selection.
This season, Brown averaged 1.26 goals against, giving up 24 goals from opponents. The junior tallied 102 saves in the 19 games started and played in accumulating a record of 13-6-0. Brown also registered eight shutouts for a career high and a combined total of 10 in her two years of starting in goal.
The junior kicked off the season with four-straight shutouts, the best start since 2016 when the team tallied six-straight wins and received their first NCAA Division II Tournament bid in program history. She then helped the team to an almost perfect October when she was in goal for seven-straight wins, the longest winning streak since the 1999 team, when they went 17-4 with a 13-win start.
Brown was named Stonehill's fifth NE10 Goalkeeper of the Year |
This season, she was named NE10 Goalkeeper of the Week twice. Throughout the NE10, Brown is ranked first in wins (13), second in shutouts (8), third in saves (102), eighth in save percentage (.810), ninth in goals against average (1.26), and 16th in goals against (24). Brown has also been named to the NE10 Commissioner's and Athletic Director's Honor Roll. The 2016 graduate from Walpole High School was a four-year letter winner in soccer and basketball and was named soccer captain her senior year.
Stonehill made its second appearance in three years in the NE10 Tournament this season and has one of the best records in program history, a 13-7 overall record and a 10-4 Conference mark. The Skyhawks tallied eight shutouts, which is tied for fifth all-time. In the month of October, the 2018 squad went on a seven-win run, its longest since the 1999 team that holds the best record in history of 17-4. Stonehill also made its second appearance in the NCAA Division II Tournament in three years, as the Skyhawks fell to the University of Bridgeport, 2-1, in the first round on Friday.
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