Biscoe, Kennedy, Mahar Honored By ACC
11/5/2003 7:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Nov. 5, 2003
CARY, N.C. - Maryland had three players honored by the ACC on Tuesday as the league announced its conference teams. Senior midfielder Jen Biscoe (Baltimore, Md.) and sophomore midfielder Mallory Mahar (Medina, Ohio) were named to the All-ACC Second Team. Freshman defender Ashly Kennedy (Edgewater, Md.) was named to the ACC All-Freshman Team.
Biscoe has played in all 18 games, starting 16 and has 10 points on three goals and four assists and has been the team's engine in the midfield as a senior capatin.
Mahar has started the last 10 games in a row, playing in 17 after coming back from a torn ACL suffered in April. Mahar also has 10 points on four goals and two assists. Mahar also earned All-ACC honors last season.
Kennedy started the first 17 games of the season and has been a stallwart on defense. She has played 1462 minutes of a possible 1566. She has helped the defense to a 1.25 goals against average. She scored her first career goal at George Mason on Oct. 22.
Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season champions North Carolina placed six players on the 2003 All-ACC Women's Soccer teams with four players appearing on the first team and two on the second.
Clemson had four selections over the two squads, while Duke and Virginia had three each and Florida State and Maryland had two selections apiece.
The 2003 ACC All-Freshmen team was also announced, featuring three players from North Carolina and Virginia, two from Florida State and one apiece from Clemson, Duke, Maryland and Wake Forest.
North Carolina's Lindsay Tarpley, a sophomore forward, was named the ACC Player of the Year, after garnering ACC Rookie of the Year accolades last season. Tarpley leads the league this season in goals per game (1.00), shots per game (4.83) and points per game (2.61) and has helped guide the Tar Heels to an 18-0 record entering the ACC Championship. She is a two-time first-team All-Conference selection.
Virginia defender Becky Sauerbrunn was tabbed ACC Freshman of the Year, after starting in all of the Cavaliers' 18 games this season and dishing out two assists.
North Carolina's Anson Dorrance was named ACC Coach of the Year for the seventh time in his career. Dorrance led the Tar Heels to a perfect 18-0 season, the only school in the country to go undefeated and untied this season.
