Kristina Larsen (UCLA/Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Michael Holody (Michigan/Clarkston, Mich.) have earned NSCAA National Player of the Week honors for Oct. 29.

Larsen earns her second honor of the season after leading the Bruins to a 2-1 win over No. 10 USC. She was the NSCAA National Player of the Week on Oct. 15. Holody helped the Michigan defense shut down Akron’s top scorer and sparked an upset of No. 2 Northwestern.

Each week, a male and female player will be selected by a committee from a nomination pool comprised of players of the week from each NCAA Division I soccer conference. The players will be announced each Wednesday afternoon from now until Nov. 10 through NSCAA.com, the official website of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

They also will be recognized at halftime of the NSCAA College Game of the Week on Fox Soccer Channel, a schedule of 20 men’s and women’s intercollegiate matches. This week the women’s broadcast on Oct. 30 finds No. 7 Florida on the road to face South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.. The Oct. 31 men’s game is a Big East match-up with Cincinnati visiting No. 4 St. John’s, also at 8 p.m. ET.

Kristina Larsen
F, Jr., UCLA, Mission Viejo, Calif.
Larsen came off the bench to lead UCLA to a 2-1 victory over No. 10 USC in front of a record-setting crowd of 7,804 fans at the L.A. Coliseum.  Larsen accounted for all of the Bruins' scoring in the game, recording the first goal of the game in the 27th minute and the game-winning goal at the 60:30 mark to finally put away the Women of Troy.  Larsen’s game-winning goal is her fourth on the season. With her two goals in the game, Larson’s season total increases to nine, which ties the team lead for most goals with fellow junior forward Lauren Cheney. The fourth-ranked Bruins remain unbeaten on the season and have recorded 13 shutouts on the season.

Michael Holody
D, Sr., Michigan, Clarkston, Mich.
Holody and the Michigan back line played stingy defense this past week in contests against No. 5 Akron and No. 2 Northwestern.  Versus the Zips, the Wolverines kept the nation’s leading point-getter off the board in a slim 1-0 loss.  Against Northwestern, Holody and company held the Wildcats to a mere two shots on goal, allowing just one score in a 3-1 Big Ten win, giving Northwestern its first loss of the season.

This Year’s Recipients
Sept. 3: Women – Jenae Gibbens, Cal State Fullerton; Men – Baggio Husidic, UIC.
Sept. 10: Women – Lindsay Taylor, Stanford; Men – Sam Petrone, Seton Hall.
Sept. 17: Women – Briana Silvestri, Arizona State; Men – Paul King, Fairleigh Dickinson.
Sept. 24: Women – Kathleen Caggiano, Robert Morris; Men – Alejandro Bedoya, Boston College
Oct. 1: Women – Kelly Dyer, Texas A&M; Men – Austin Berry, Louisville
Oct. 8: Women – Casey Nogueira, North Carolina; Men – Jake Stacy, Michigan
Oct. 15: Women – Kristina Larsen, UCLA; Men – Steffen Vroom, DePaul
Oct. 22: Women – Sanna Talonen, Florida State; Men – Avery Steinlage, Michigan State

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