Men's Soccer

Wood Earns All-Region Accolades

Posted: Nov 28, 2023

STANDISH, Maine – The United Soccer Coaches All-Region honors have been announced and Saint Joseph's College senior defender Will Wood (Franklin, N.H.) has earned All-Region I Second Team accolades.

Wood, a 2022 Third All-Region honoree, claims Second Team accolades after netting a goal with two assists for four total points as a senior defender. In two seasons at Saint Joseph's the 2023 team co-captain has played in 37 games with two goals and seven assists. The University of Albany transfer also garnered First Team All-Conference honors this fall.

Wood is one of three Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) men's players to earn United Soccer Coaches postseason accolades. He is joined by Johnson & Wales University grad students Aidan Bagley and Jonathan Baker on the All-Region I Second Team.

The Monks posted a 12-4-3 overall record with an 11-2-1 mark in GNAC play under the watch of fifth-year Head Coach Will Pike '11 during the 2023 season. With 34 standing points, St. Joe's earned the #1 seed in the conference tourney for the sixth time in the last seven seasons and advanced to the GNAC semifinal round with a 3-0 triumph over #8 Regis College before falling in the second round to #5 Norwich University, 1-0, three days later.

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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.