BOSTON, Mass. – Eight members of the Wentworth Institute of Technology women's soccer program have been honored by the Commonwealth Coast Conference as the CCC has announced its major award winners and all-conference selections. Headlining the eight honorees are junior defender Mary Pastorelli (Whitesboro, N.Y.) who was named the conference's defensive player of the year and a First Team All-CCC selection, freshman midfielder Madyson Reno (Simi Valley, Calif.), who was named the league's rookie of the year and a first team all-league selection, and head coach Bobby Desilets, who earned CCC Coach of the Year honors.
Student-athletes from nine of the 10 member institutions were honored and voting was conducted among the CCC men's soccer coaches.
In addition to Pastorelli, Reno, and Desilets, the league honored Roger Williams senior Mariah Kaiser as the CCC Offensive Player of the Year, Salve Regina freshman Abby McMackin and Roger Williams sophomore Samantha Woznicki joined Reno as rookies of the year, Roger Williams senior Haley Carignan was selected as CCC Senior Scholar-Athlete of the Year and Gordon was the recipient of the Team Sportsmanship Award.
Joining Pastorelli and Reno on the first team is junior midfielder Morgan Miller (Schenectady, N.Y.), while a trio of Leopards – sophomore forward Ali Leach (Stowe, Vt.), sophomore midfielder Emily Richard (Fremont, N.H.), and junior defender Mary Annon (Concord, N.H.) – were named Second Team All-CCC. Freshman goalkeeper Micaela Robinson (Goshen, N.Y.) rounded out Wentworth's all-conference honorees with a selection to the third team.
A Second Team All-CCC selection as a sophomore Pastorelli, Wentworth's first CCC Defensive Player of the Year honoree, has been a solid defender throughout her career and has helped the Black & Gold post a team goals against average of 0.49, which includes a program record-tying 10 shutouts. Wentworth has allowed just nine goals in 18 contests. Pastorelli is charged with taking the bulk of the team's free kicks and has twice scored goals off of them this season, while she added an assist when a teammate scored off one of her corner kicks. She was named the CCC Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 5. In 55 career games (47 starts) she has been a team leader on defense and has eight career points coming on three goals and two assists.
Reno, who was named CCC Rookie of the Week on three occasions this season (Sept. 28, Oct. 12, Oct. 26), has had an impressive rookie campaign, scoring seven goals and assisting on one other for 15 points in 18 games (16 starts). Reno's seven goals tie her for the team lead while her 15 points rank her third among her teammates. In two games this season she recorded a pair of goals – a 3-0 win over Gordon on Sept. 26 and a 5-0 win over Nichols on Oct. 10. She is the second Leopard player to earn conference rookie of the year honors in the last three seasons.
For the third straight season Miller earns a spot on the All-CCC team. As a freshman she was an honorable mention selection and was a second team honoree a season ago. This season she has continued her role as a workhorse at midfield who has often controlled possession for the Leopards. Her versatility has led to numerous offensive chances for Wentworth, and, offensively, she has two goals and three assists for a career-best seven points. She was named both the CCC and ECAC Defensive Player of the Week on September 8. In 60 career games (58 starts) she has three goals and four assists for 10 points.
After recording one assist during her rookie campaign, Leach has had a breakout sophomore season, scoring seven goals and assisting on two others for 16 points. Her seven goals tie her for the team lead while she is second on the team with 16 points. Five of her seven goals have been game-winning tallies, including three straight in wins over Gordon, Western Connecticut, and Salve Regina. Leach has started 19 of the 38 games in which she has played over her two seasons and has seven goals and three assists for 17 points.
Richard has been a mainstay during her two seasons as a Leopard and has proven to be both a solid defender and an offensive leader. In 16 games (15 starts) she has recorded four goals and assisted on two others for 10 points, which is fifth on the team. Two of her four goals came in a 4-1 win over the University of New England on Oct. 17 and she earned CCC Offensive Player of the Week honors on Oct. 19. In 38 career games (35 starts), Richard has scored six goals and assisted on seven others for 19 points.
A defender for most of her career, Annon also saw time on the offensive end of the field this season and led the Leopards in scoring with seven goals and seven assists for 21 points. A two-time CCC Player of the Week honoree (Sept. 8, Sept. 21), Annon has three multiple-point games and three of her goals were game-winning markers. Entrusted with taking the majority of the team's corner kicks, she has created numerous scoring chances for the Leopards throughout this season and during her career. In 55 career contests (54 starts), she has 11 goals and 12 assists for 34 points.
Robinson has had a solid rookie campaign for the Black & Gold as she has started 17 of the team's 18 games and has allowed just seven goals in 1250:33 of work for a program-record 0.50 goals against average. Robinson is 13-2-1 with four solo shutouts, however has been a part of all 10 of the team's shutouts. The 10 team shutouts ties a program record set in 2004. Twice (Oct. 5, Oct. 19) she was named the CCC Rookie of the Week and was also named the ECAC Defensive Player of the Week on Oct. 6.
Now in his fourth season as the Leopards' head coach, Desilets has guided the Black & Gold to their best season to date with a 15-2-1 record and a second place (8-1) record in CCC games. The 15 victories ties the program record set in 2002 and when the Leopards host Curry in a CCC Quarterfinal on Saturday it will mark the first time since the 2005 season that Wentworth has hosted a home playoff game. In four seasons he has a 37-31-11 (.538) record, which includes four straight trips to the CCC Tournament, and an appearance in both the CCC title game and the ECAC Tournament a season ago. Prior to joining the Leopard staff he spent three seasons as the Head Women's Soccer Coach at Newbury College and he has made a post-season appearance in each of his seven seasons as a head coach.