Men's Soccer

Two Men's Soccer Players Earn All-Region Honors

Two Men's Soccer Players Earn All-Region Honors
Posted: Nov 30, 2022

STANDISH, Maine – The United Soccer Coaches All-Region honors have been announced and a pair of Saint Joseph's College players have earned accolades.

Graduate midfielder Austin Ward (Exeter, N.H.) is a Second Team All-Region I honoree while junior defender Will Wood (Franklin, N.H.) is listed on the All-Region I Third Team.

Ward, a 2022 First Team All-Conference selection, finished his college career this fall by posting his finest season with personal highs in goals (16), points (37), PK goals (5), and game winners (4) in 19 contests. He ranked second in the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) in goals, points, and game clinchers in 2022 and, for his career, netted 37 goals with 18 assists for 92 total points with nine game winners in 79 games.

The three-year team captain leaves Saint Joseph's ranked among the program's career leaders in points (2nd), points per game (1.16, 2nd), goals (3rd), goals per game (0.46, 3rd), shots (203, 3rd), game winners (4th), and assists (5th).

Wood, a sophomore transfer from NCAA DI program University of Albany, played a huge role in the Monks' success this fall. The outside back tied for the team lead with five assists and added a goal for seven total points while starting all 19 games in his first season at Saint Joseph's. Wood also earned Second Team All-GNAC honors following the 2022 campaign.

Under the watch of fourth-year Head Coach Will Pike '11, Saint Joseph's posted a 13-5-1 overall record with an 11-1-0 mark in GNAC play during the 2022 season. As the top seed in the conference tournament the Monks blanked #8 Anna Maria College, 4-0, in a GNAC quarterfinal on October 29th, but the season ended abruptly three days later with a 2-0 loss at the hands of eventual conference champion University of Saint Joseph.

 

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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.

 

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