NEWTON, MA- Lasell's junior goalkeeper Elizabeth Stickley (Mashpee, MA) earned regional recognition from the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) as the New England Co-Defensive Player of the Week. Stickley also picked up accolades from the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) as the women's soccer Goalkeeper of the Week.
The junior net minder was selected during a week that she recorded two individual shutouts, making ten saves in two contests. She started with seven saves in a 1-0 victory over Johnson & Wales University during a GNAC battle for second place in the league. Stickley then notched three saves in the Lasers' quarter final win over Emerson on Sunday. The games marked Stickley's third and fourth solo shutouts of the season. Stickley has not surrendered a goal in her past three outings.
Stickley is currently ranked 2nd in the GNAC In goals-against-average (.88) and save percentage (.85) and is tied in 4th place for shutouts (4). In the NCAA, Stickley ranks amongst the top 150 Division III women's soccer goal keepers in the nation at 117th in save percentage and 136th in GAA.
Stickley is sharing the ECAC honors with Katie Coscia, a freshman goalkeeper from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.