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Don Stoner

Allen, Muyres named NSCAA All-North Region

2014 NSCAA/CONTINENTAL TIRE DIVISION III WOMEN'S SOCCER ALL-NORTH REGION TEAMS

MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg College women's soccer players Olivia Muyres (SR, Rochester, Minn./Lourdes HS) and Molly Allen (SR, Stillwater, Minn.) were named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America/Continental Tire Division III All-North Region squad as first-team recipients, it was announced on Wednesday.

It was the second All-North Region honors for both Muyres and Allen, who were both second-team honorees earlier in their careers, Muyres in 2013 and Allen in 2012. This year, both Muyres and Allen earned All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors for the second time in their careers, with Muyres being named the 2014 MIAC Player of the Year.

8567Muyres finished as the MIAC's goal-scoring and point champion in overall play, finishing with 15 goals and 10 assists (second-most among MIAC players) for 40 points. Her 15 goals and 40 points are second-most in a single season in school history, behind her school records of 19 goals and 47 points last season. In conference games-only, her 11 goals and 27 points were also league-bests, with her five assists second-most. She had a goal or assist in 13 of her 21 games (1,580 minutes played) this season, incluidng four multiple-goal games and four multiple-assist games. She finished with seven game-winning goals, including the overtime game-winner in Augsburg's first-ever NCAA triumph, a 1-0 win over Wisconsin-Oshkosh last Saturday.

Muyres leaves the Augsburg program as the most prolific scorer in school history, setting school records with 46 career goals and 119 career points, along with 18 game-winning goals. In 77 career games, she also finished second in school history with 27 assists.

8539Allen finished the season as the top assist performer in the MIAC, leading the conference's overall statistics with a single-season school-record 15 assists, including an MIAC-leading nine assists in league games. Adding three goals, she finished the season with a career-best 21 points. Two of her goals were game-winners, in a 1-0 win at Gustavus on Oct. 25 and in the conference playoff championship game, a 1-0 triumph over Concordia-Moorhead on Oct. 8. She had a goal or assist in 13 of her 21 games this season (1,628 minutes played).

In her 78 career games (76 starts), Allen set Augsburg's school record for career assists with 38, and with four goals (two game-winners), her 46 career points are 11th-most in school history.

Under 16th-year head coach Mike Navarre, Augsburg claimed its first-ever MIAC regular-season and playoff titles in 2014, finishing with school records for wins in both overall (17-5-0) and MIAC (9-2-0) play. Augsbur claimed its sixth appearance in the MIAC postseason playoffs and second championship game in the past three seasons. Augsburg's berth in the NCAA Division III national tournament, reaching the second round, was also its first in the 30-season history of the program. 
(NOTE: Story includes information taken from previous press releases on Augsburg women's soccer.)
 
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