Women's Soccer

Downey Named GNAC Goalkeeper of the Week

Posted: Sep 27, 2022

STANDISH, Maine – The Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) weekly honors have been released and Saint Joseph's College junior Carly Downey (Yarmouth, Maine) has been selected as the GNAC Women's Soccer Goalkeeper of the Week.

Downey earns the first weekly conference honor of her career after logging nearly 74 minutes of shutout play in a pair of GNAC victories last week. The junior netminder made seven saves in a 2-0 win at Simmons on Wednesday and turned away five shots in 57+ minutes in a 4-0 triumph over Norwich on Saturday.

In eight games this fall, Downey has posted two shutouts with a 2.00 goals-against average and a .788 save percentage with 52 saves in 630 minutes in net. She currently ranks second in the GNAC in shutouts and saves and sixth in minutes played.

Saint Joseph's will play at Emmanuel College on Wednesday at 7:00 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.