FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S SOCCER

2003- Tenth Season
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SENIOR
 

Stephanie Zych

 

2003: All-AMCC second team selection…. Started all 21 games in senior season… Posted a 16-5 overall record and helped the Bobcats to a third straight AMCC championship and a third straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament… Made 96 saves and allowed only 28 goals on the year… Recorded 5 shutouts and posted a 1.40 goals against average… Set a school record with 48 career wins and a stingy 1.54 goals against average… She also holds school marks for shutouts (19) and saves (443)…. Holds the record for most matches played by a Frostburg player with 81 and most minutes played by a goalkeeper with 6799 minutes… Was the net-minder for FSU’s first NCAA tournament win with a 3-2 victory over regional foe, Westminster…
2002: All-AMCC honorable mention selection for the second straight year ... Started all 22 games ... Posted a 10-8-4 overall record and a 1.43 goals against average ... Made 137 saves and allowed only 32 goals … Recorded four shutouts and combined for two more shutouts ... Became FSU’s career leader in wins (32), saves (345) and shutouts (14) ... Blanked regionally ranked Carnegie Mellon, 1-0 ... Stopped three of four penalty kicks in a shootout win over La Roche in the AMCC Championship game ... Named AMCC Goalkeeper of the Week a league-high four times ... Also earned ECAC Goalkeeper of the Week after her performances in the AMCC Tournament ...
2001: Earned All-AMCC honorable mention honors ... Started all 22 games and played all 2,015 minutes ... Went 17-5 with a 1.34 GAA ... Had nine shutouts ... Set a Bobcat single-season record for wins ... Allowed 30 goals and made 148 saves ... Named to the Gwynedd Mercy All-Tournament Team after making a combined 20 saves in 1-0 wins over Hartwick and Gwynedd Mercy ...
2000: Played in 16 games with nine starts ... Posted a 5-4 record and a 2.40 GAA ... Had one shutout ... Made 62 saves and allowed 26 goals

2003 Women’s Soccer Roster

 

No.      Name             Yr.       Pos.            High School/Hometown

0        Jackie Tonsing          So.             GK                Westlake/Waldorf/Waldorf, MD

1        Stephanie Zych         Sr.             GK                Guilderland/Slingerlands, NY

2        Erika Neuser               Jr.              M                Fallston/Forest Hill, MD

3        Danielle Carter           Fr.             M                Rockville/Rockville, MD

4        Karen Kotofski          Jr.               F                Northeast/Glen Burnie, MD

5        Jodie Gittleson           So.            M                Wooton/Rockville, MD

6        Clair Duhigg               So.             B                South Carroll/Mt. Airy, MD

7       Micaela Karinshak     So.             M           Loudon County/Leesburg,VA                       

8        Shera Rowan              So.             F                Bishop Walsh/Frostburg, MD

9        Beth Hlebasko           So.             B                Linganore/New Market, MD

11      Becky Rambo             Jr.              M                Hereford/Freeland, MD

14      Aimee Sprague          Jr.              M             Dennis-Yarmouth/Yarmouth, MA            

15       Lynnea Finch            Jr.              B                Franklin/Owings Mills, MD

16       Candi Burkhardt       Jr.              B                Parkville (Essex CC)/Silver Spring, MD

17       Laurie Reinholt         Jr.               B                Glasgow/Middletown, Del.               

18       Beth Yetter                Jr.              M                Holy Cross (MC)/Silver Spring, MD

22       Alyse Reed               Jr.              M                Cherry Hill/Cherry Hill, NJ

24       Erin Carraghan         So.             M                Walkersville/Walkersville, MD

26       Teri Galt                    So.              B                Good Counsel/Silver Spring, MD

                Head Coach: Brian Parker (Frostburg State ’92, 2nd season)

                Assistant: Denise Rogers (Elon ’03, 1st season)

                                   Jamie Olson (Campbell ’03, 1st season)

 

 

   2003 Season Highlights

 

                Frostburg State names Denise Rogers and Jamie Olson to the coaching staff as graduate assistants. Rogers, a 1999 graduate of Urbana High School (MD), played four years of high school varsity soccer for the current FSU head coach and served as team captain for those four seasons. After high school Rogers attended University of Mississippi, where she played two years before transferring to Elon College (NC). Both programs are division 1 teams. Olson, a 1999 graduate of Chambersburg Area High School (PA), also played four years of varsity soccer but as a goalkeeper. After high school she attended Campbell University (NC) playing four years as a goalkeeper. Olson also played semi-professional soccer for the Northern Virginia Majestics for the 2002 season.

                The Bobcats were chosen for the second straight year to finish first in the preseason coaches’ poll and junior Karen Kotofski was voted to be the Preseason Player of the Year and senior goalkeeper Stephanie Zych was voted as one of the other players to watch in the conference.

            Frostburg was favored to three-peat as AMCC Champions and that’s just what they did when they met conference foe, Penn-State Behrend, in the finals once again and once again the Bobcats came out on top defeating the Lions of Behrend 4-2. Frostburg came into the match as the number 1 seed, finishing the conference with an undefeated 6-0 record.

                After winning their third straight AMCC Championship Frostburg received it’s third consecutive invitation to the NCAA Tournament and it’s first time hosting a first round match. For the first round Frostburg hosted familiar foe, Westminster and pulled out a stellar 3-2. This win advances Frostburg to the regional semifinals of the NCAA Division III Soccer Championship for the first time in the program’s history. Frostburg faced the #2 ranked team in the nation, University of Scranton, for the regional semi-finals. Unfortunately the Bobcats fell 1-0 and ended a stellar season, the best yet for the program.

                FSU finished the 2003 season with a 16-5 overall record and a 6-0 undefeated conference record. Kotofski was named AMCC Player of the Year, freshman Danielle Carter was named Newcomer of the Year, and Coach Parker was named Coach of the Year. Kotofski was also named to the 2003 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Division III Great Lakes Regional First Team as well as to the 2003 Verizon/CoSIDA Academic All-District II Second Team.

                This season came with many individual record breakers. Kotofski set the single-season school records with 24 goals and 53 points, as well as school career records 62 goals and 138 points. She was also recognized in the whole NCAA for Division III where she ranked tied for 13th in the nation for goals per game with 1.22 and tied for 22nd in the nation for points per game with 2.72 through November 9th, 2003. Goalkeeper Stephanie Zych finished out her spectacular soccer career as FSU’s all-time leader with 48 wins, 443 saves, and 19 shutouts. She also owns the top 2 spots for wins in a season, posting 17 wins in 2001 and 16 in 2003. Zych is the only player not returning for the 2004 season.

                Off the field, the Bobcats were rewarded for their success in the classroom. For the first time in the program’s history Frostburg won a NSCAA Team Academic Award for carrying a 3.10 team GPA.

 

 

 
 
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