Sooners’ Cuellar and Huskies’ Sackeyfio take Disney Soccer/NSCAA Player of the Week award
Posted by NSCAA on Oct 17, 2012 in Awards 0 Comments
Two seniors led their respective teams to earn the NSCAA’s weekly college honors, as Oklahoma forward Renae Cuellar and Washington forward Nate Sackeyfio were each named Disney Soccer/NSCAA Player of the Week.
Cuellar, who will be playing in this week’s NSCAA College Game of the Week (Thursday at 7 p.m. on FOX Soccer), posted two game-winning goals to lead the Sooners.
The La Puente, Calif., native started the week scoring the lone goal in Oklahoma’s win over conference foe Kansas last Friday. She then followed up on Sunday with a goal in the team’s 3-1 win against TCU.
Cuellar leads the Sooner squad with 19 points on a team-best nine goals and an assist.
Sackeyfio is in his first season as a Husky, as he transferred from Denver for his senior season. Last week, the Seattle, Wash., native scored his first two goals of the season in the team’s wins over then fifth-ranked UCLA and Stanford.
Against the Bruins, he scored the first goal of the contest on a flip throw from fellow Husky Michael Harris in the 13th minute. Washington would go on to the 2-1 win, which was the team’s first road victory of the season and snapped UCLA’s 16-game in-conference winning streak.
In the game against the Cardinal, Sackeyfio scored in exciting fashion when he headed the ball into the right corner of the net off a free kick from senior Ben Fisk to lead the team to a 2-0 victory.
The Huskies are 9-3-2 overall and unbeaten in the Pac-12 at 4-0-1.
The Disney Soccer/NSCAA National Player of the Week is announced every Wednesday. One male and one female player is selected by a committee from nominations submitted by NCAA Division I conferences.
Winners will also be recognized each week during NSCAA College Game of the Week broadcasts on FOX Soccer.
Other women’s finalists this week included junior goalkeeper Christiane Cordero (East Carolina), junior midfielder Eileen Maes (Long Beach State) and sophomore forward Taylor Uhl (Minnesota).
This week’s other men’s finalists included junior midfielder/defender Alex Henry (UC Davis), junior forward Steve Neumann (Georgetown), sophomore forward Carlos Dominguez Gonzalez (Wofford) and sophomore forward Robbie Kristo (Saint Louis).
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BY Carlos Medina on Aug 28, 7:58PM
Me parecio muy interesante el articulo y lamento no haber podido participar de la conferencia ya que los temas fueron muy interesantes. Existe algun video de esta conferencia para poder ver? Gracias y saludos!
BY Raymond Ford on Aug 9, 3:56PM
Hi Eric, email me rayford1973@hotmail.com as I am now in Louisiana not Curry college Mass. popping over to twin cities this month. FORDY
BY Peter Wiggins on Aug 7, 7:15PM
I wish someone uploaded a legible copy of the Bob Gansler & Tony DiCiccio presentations at The Orlando event. I was there, it was awesome, and now I can't read my diagram/notes as to how the ball/players move!