2017 MIAC WOMEN'S SOCCER AWARDS

MINNEAPOLIS -- Augsburg University's Mike Navarre earned Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Coach of the Year honors for the second time in a four-season span, and forward Ashley St. Aubin (SO, Burnsville, Minn./Burnsville HS) was named the MIAC's Player of the Year on Offense, leading a group of five Auggies who earned MIAC women's soccer postseason honors on Thursday.

St. Aubin was named to the All-MIAC team, along with Auggie forward Ciara Gregory (SO, Cottage Grove, Minn./Park HS) and defender Lauren Jennings (SR, Rochester, Minn./Lourdes HS). Defender Jada Olson (SO, Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS) was named All-MIAC Honorable Mention, and defender Abby Enrici (SR, Huntley, Ill./Huntley HS) was named to the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team. It's the second straight year that St. Aubin has earned All-MIAC honors, after being named the league's Rookie of the Year last season. Gregory was an All-MIAC Honorable Mention honoree last year, and it's the first conference honors for Jennings, Olson and Enrici.

Navarre, who was also named the MIAC's Coach of the Year in 2014, shared the league's coaching honors with St. Catherine coach Jesse Campos. The dean of the MIAC's current crop of women's soccer coaches, Navarre finished his 19th season as the Auggies' mentor in 2017 (no other current MIAC women's soccer coach has been at their school longer than 11 years). He guided the Auggies to their second MIAC regular-season title in a four-year span in 2017, finishing 12-4-2 overall, 8-1-2 in MIAC play. The Auggies reached the MIAC postseason playoffs for the fourth straight season, fifth time in the last six years and ninth time in program history.

In his 19 years at Augsburg, Navarre now has a 189-123-42 (.593 winning percentage) career record, more than double the combined number of wins by the prior five coaches (76-138-11) in the first 14 seasons of Augsburg's program. The Auggies have finished with double-figure win totals each of the last six years, and eight or more wins in 14 of the last 16 campaigns.

St. Aubin continued her career as the conference's most dynamic scorer, leading the MIAC's overall statistics for the second straight year in both goals (16) and points (36), adding four assists. In MIAC games-only, her 11 goals and 26 points were also tops, with her four assists tied for second-most. She had a goal or assist in 12 of Augsburg's 18 games, with the Auggies 11-0-1 in those games. She had five multi-goal and seven multi-point games this season.

Her 16 goals scored this season tied her 2016 total for the third-most in a single season in school history, with her 36 points tied for fifth-most. In her 41 career games, St. Aubin now has 32 goals and 11 assists for 75 points, including 15 game-winning goals. Her 75 career points are sixth-most in Augsburg history, with her 32 goals fourth-most.

Gregory joined St. Aubin in creating one of the best forward attacks of any team in the MIAC, as the Auggies finished second among MIAC teams in overall scoring (38 goals, 106 points), while leading the MIAC in both goals (21) and points (60) in league games-only. Individually, Gregory finished her sophomore season with six goals and four assists for 16 points -- each total tied for 11th-most among MIAC players in overall statistics. In league games-only, her three goals, three assists and nine points were all tied for sixth-most.

Gregory had a goal or assist in seven games this season, with two multi-goal games. In her 40-game Augsburg career, Gregory now has 11 goals and nine assists for 31 points, including three game-winning goals.

 Jennings and Olson were both steady forces on an Augsburg defense that surrendered just 12 goals this season -- second-fewest among MIAC teams -- with its 0.64 team goals against-average also second-best among MIAC teams. In league games-only, the Auggies' seven goals allowed and 0.61 GAA were also both second-best.

Jennings started 13 of her 14 games played this season, with an assist in 1,039 minutes played (74.2 minutes played per-game), while Olson started 16 of 17 games, with two goals in 1,224 minutes (72.0 minutes played per-game). 

Jennings, who battled injuries throughout her career, played in 34 games in her four seasons (2,213 minutes, 65.1 minutes per-game), with two career assists. Olson has played in 33 games in her Auggie career (1,774 minutes, 53.8 minutes per-game), with two goals and four points.

Enrici was named to the All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team, as 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.

Enrici played in 11 games this season, starting five, with five shots recorded as a reserve defender/midfielder. She played in 52 games in her Augsburg carer, with three career assists to her credit.