Women's Soccer gets three first-team All-MIAC picks

November 12, 2009

Conference runner-up St. Thomas had six players get All-MIAC mention in women's soccer on the honor teams released Thursday.

Coach Sheila McGill's team, which plays Saturday in Rock Island, Ill., in the NCAA playoffs, had two repeaters among 20 first-team honorees -- forwards Erin Sprangers (SR-Woodbury/Hill-Murray) and Kirsten Moran (SR-Southlake, Tex./Carroll).

Kirsten Moran has seven goals and 10 assists in 39 games over two seasons with the Tommies.

Sprangers has 71 points in 71 career games (30 goals, 11 assists), and UST is 24-2 on her career when she scores a goal. The Toms are 24-4-6 when she’s played the last two seasons. The 2008 conference Player of the Year, an All-Region honoree and a two-time all-conference recipient, Sprangers has a 3.70 gpa in Psychology. She’s also a track and field All-American and has contributed to seven MIAC team championships in soccer and track and field.

Forward Lexie Fisher (JR-Buffalo/Rockford) made the elite first team for the first time. Fisher has five goals and seven assists over the last two seasons.

Forward Regina Horak (S0-Elm Grove, Wis./Brookfield East) and defender Tess Hanson (SO-Rochester/John Marshall) were among 17 named honorable mention All-MIAC. Emily Burgmeier (SO-Dubuque, Iowa/Wahlert) was named to the MIAC All-Sportsmanship Team.

Horak missed last season with an injury but has made several important goals in her career. All nine of Horak's career goals have provided the winning margin, and St. Thomas is 9-0 when she scores a goal.

Hanson was named to the ESPN the Magazine CoSIDA Academic All-District V team. She was honored on the second team. She's one of a select group of Tommie student-athletes to maintain a 4.00 grade-point average. Hanson has started all 38 games on her career and helped the Tommies post 27-6-5 record in that span.

Burgmeier has played in 36 games the last two seasons and has scored two assists.

Click here to view MIAC news release:

http://www.miac-online.org/news/2009/11/10/WSOC_1110091757.aspx