Men's Soccer

Walbridge Earns Second Weekly Honor

Posted: Oct 05, 2021

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly honors have been released and Saint Joseph's College graduate student David Walbridge (Hampden, Mass.) has been selected as the GNAC Men's Soccer Goalkeeper of the Week for the second time this season.

Walbridge made five saves and picked off a handful of balls in the box to help the Monks defeat Johnson & Wales, 1-0, in a rematch of the 2019 GNAC Championship on Saturday. The graduate student keeper also logged 60:29 minutes of scoreless play in a 4-1 win over Regis on Wednesday.

In 10 games this fall, Walbridge has posted a 0.80 goals against average with a 7-1-2 record and three shutouts over 901 minutes in goal. He sports an .855 save percentage with 47 saves and eight goals allowed and ranks first in the conference in games and wins, second in minutes, and third in goals against average and save percentage.

Saint Joseph's will play at Rivier University on Saturday at 4:00 PM.

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Founded in 1912 by the Sisters of Mercy in Portland, Maine, Saint Joseph’s College is Maine’s Catholic liberal arts college in the Mercy tradition. We are inclusive of all faiths, including no faith. The 474-acre campus, located on the shore of Sebago Lake in Standish, Maine offers more than 40 undergraduate programs and a Division III athletic program to a population of approximately 1,000 on-campus students. A pioneer of distance education since the 1970s, the College also provides online certificates and undergraduate and graduate degrees for thousands more working adults who reside in more than 20 other countries. In 2015 the College was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching to receive its Community Engagement Classification, highlighting the College’s focus on community service throughout its mission and daily interactions within local, regional, and global communities. In 2018, Princeton Review recognized SJC as one of its “Green Colleges” for its sustainability initiatives. Learn more at www.sjcme.edu.