Four Women's Soccer Players Earn All-Conference Selection

Four Women's Soccer Players Earn All-Conference Selection

Four Suffolk University Women's Soccer Players earned All-Conference selections by the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) for the 2011 season.

Senior Leslie Hayden (Ross, Calif.) earned first team All-Conference honors and was also named the GNAC's Offensive Player of the Year. Hayden had a career year as she led the conference in goals with 22, while tallying a league best 51 points. Hayden recorded six game-winning goals during the season, two of which came during the GNAC Tournament as she helped lead the Rams to the conference finals. she also registered three hat tricks on the season. Hayden's surge through the GNAC landing her among the top scorers among all NCAA Division-III Women's Soccer players. As of November 6 she ranks ninth with a 1.22 goals per game average, while she ranks tenth in both total goals (22) and points per game (2.78). Her six game-winners also ranked tenth in the nation. She also became the GNAC's All-Time Leading scorer on October 29, as her lone goal of the day moved her on top of the scoring list with 175 career points.

Sophomores Garbielle Balestrier (Mohnton, Pa.) and Monica Wolf (Ballston Lake, N.Y.) earned second team All-Conference selections.

Balestrier finished the season with five goals and six assists for a total of 16 points. After nagging injuries slowed her down to start the season she turned it on late scoring all of her points over the course of the Rams last five GNAC contests to help push them into the playoffs. She ranked ninth among all league scorers for points within conference games. Her best game came on October 22 as she registered a pair of goals in a five-point night during a 4-2 Suffolk victory over Emerson College. Balestrier was named GNAC Player of the Week on October 24.

Wolf earned selection as a midfielder. She tallied 18 points on six goals and six assists. She recorded 76 shots on the season which was fourth most in the GNAC and tops on the team. She recorded her lone game-winning goal of the season in the Rams' 1-0 victory over Albertus Magnus College on October 5th as she scored with five minutes remaining in the contest. Wolf was also named to the GNAC All-Tournament team as she scored Suffolk's lone goal in their finals loss to Lasell College, 2-1.



Sophomore Meghan McHale (Halifax, Mass.) was a third team All-Conference selection as a midfielder. She scored six goals on the season and added four assists for a total of 16 points.



Suffolk finished the regular season with an 11-8-1 overall record. The reached the GNAC Conference finals for their first time in program history before falling to the Lasers on November 5, 2-1.