2009-10 ALL-MIAC WOMEN'S HOCKEY AWARDS

MINNEAPOLIS -- For the second year in a row, an Augsburg College women's hockey student-athlete was named as the recipient of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference's Sheila Brown Award, and four Auggies earned All-MIAC honors, it was announced on Thursday.

Senior forward Jess Olson (SR, Hamel, Minn./Wayzata HS) was named as the 2010 recipient of the Sheila Brown Award for women's hockey by the conference. The MIAC's Shelia Brown Award is named for Brown, the longtime athletic director at St. Catherine University who died from cancer in 2005. The award is given to a senior women's hockey player who has made a long-term contribution to her team's success and who has consistently competed with good sportsmanship. Recipients are chosen based on four criteria -- team leadership, sportsmanship and volunteer work, academic excellence and hockey skills/production.

A two-year co-captain for the Auggies, Olson appeared in 98 games in her Augsburg career (sixth-most games played in school history), with 14 goals and 18 assists for 32 points to her credit. Her points total ranks her 23rd in Augsburg history, while her goals and assists totals are both tied for 19th-best in school history. This season, she tied for the team's lead in points with 10, including a team-high seven goals.

A marketing major with a 3.7 grade-point average, Olson is a Dean's List student, and has earned Academic All-MIAC and AWHCA National Scholar-Athlete Award honors each of the last two seasons.

Olson also earned All-MIAC Sportsmanship Award honors for the second straight year. As a part of the conference's sportsmanship initiative, members of the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team are selected by their coaches and teammates as individuals who demonstrate ideals of positive sportsmanship both on and off the field of competition.

It's the second year in a row that an Auggie has been named the winner of the Sheila Brown Award. Last season, Augsburg's Tiffany Magnuson was named as the Sheila Brown Award recipient.

Three Auggies were named as All-MIAC honorable-mention recipients -- forward Kali Holst (SO, Mound, Minn./Mound-Westonka HS), goalie Toni Menth (SR, Buffalo, Minn.) and defender Andrea Toft (SR, Alexandria, Minn./Jefferson HS).

Holst finished this season tied for the team lead with 10 points, with five goals and a team-best-tying five assists. Her four power-play goals this season were also a team high. In her 50-game career at Augsburg, Holst has 14 goals and nine assists for 23 points, including seven power-play goals and two shorthanded goals. Her eight power-play points (four goals, four assists) this season were eighth-best among MIAC players in overall statistics.

It's the third time that Menth has earned All-MIAC honorable-mention honors, being previously honored in both 2006-07 and 2007-08. This season, Menth recorded 798 saves and had an .899 save percentage and 4.54 goals-against-average. She had the second-most saves of any goalie in the country in Division III women's hockey this season. This season, Menth recorded 50-plus saves six times and 35 or more saves 11 times.

In her four years as an Auggie (91 games, 87 starts), Menth recorded 3,145 saves in goal (.901 save percentage), a total 1,389 more than the second-place individual on Augsburg's record list. Her total puts her second-most in NCAA Division III history, behind the 3,202 saves of Kristin Suslowicz of Salve Regina (R.I.) from 2002-05. Menth finished with a .901 save percentage (third-best in school history) and a 3.93 goals-against-average (eighth-best in school history).

Toft finished this season with four goals and two assists for six points, including two power-play goals. A four-year veteran, Toft appeared in 96 career games as an Auggie (10th-most games played in school history), with 14 goals and 13 assists for 27 career points. Her point total is 26th-best in school history, while her goals total is 19th-best and her assist total is 29th-best.

Augsburg finished the 2009-10 campaign, the 15th under head coach Jill Pohtilla, with a 2-20-3 overall record, 2-13-3 in MIAC play.