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SPU Has Seven Named to All-Region Women's Soccer Selection
November 24, 2004
Jennifer Hull Shannon Lovejoy
Michelle Sanders Sarah Melby
Michelle Everson Carolyn Nason

Repeat selections Jennifer Hull (top left), Shannon Lovejoy (top right), Michelle Sanders (middle left), Sarah Melby (middle right), Michelle Everson (lower left), and Carolyn Nason (lower right) were voted first team all-Far West Region.

SEATTLE (Nov. 24) ­ Repeat selections Jennifer Hull and Shannon Lovejoy were among six Seattle Pacific University women's soccer players voted first team all-Far West Region by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Hull (Sr., Eugene, Or./Sheldon), led NCAA Division II goalkeepers in goals-against average during the regular season. Lovejoy (Jr., Seattle, Wa./Seattle Prep), a midfielder, scored seven goals and had nine assists.

They were joined on the first team by forward Michelle Sanders (Sr., Centralia, Wa.), the team's top scorer with 10 goals; midfielder Sarah Melby (Sr., Mukilteo, Wa./Kamiak) and defenders Michelle Everson (Jr., Tacoma, Wa./Stadium) and Carolyn Nason (So., Lafayette, Co./Broomfield). Everson led the GNAC in assists, with a school-record 11.

Sarah Martinez (Fr., Bothell, Wa./Cedar Park Christian) was voted to the second team. All regional selections are eligible for the All-America teams, to be selected next month.

No other team in the region had more than three first-team selections or four overall. GNAC players for nine of the 11 first-team selections and 13 altogether.

Seattle Pacific won its third straight conference championship, qualified for the NCAA playoffs and finished 19-1-2.


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