MSU’s Cahill, Stockton’s Brady, NJCU’s Digristina Earn First NJAC Women’s Soccer Weekly Honors of 2022
MSU’s Cahill, Stockton’s Brady, NJCU’s Digristina Earn First NJAC Women’s Soccer Weekly Honors of 2022
Women’s Soccer
/ 9/6/2022 5:30:00 PM
PITMAN, NJ — The New Jersey Athletic Conference has announced its first women’s soccer weekly honors of the 2022 season, with the honors covering performances for the week ending Sept. 5.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
AILEEN CAHILL • Montclair State University
Junior • Midfield • Little Egg Harbor, NJ/Pinelands Regional
Cahill, the reigning NJAC Offensive Player of the Year, earns the first Offensive Player of the Week honor after getting Montclair State off to a 3-0 start to 2022. She registered two goals and an assist and had at least one point in each of the three games. In the season-opening victory against Alvernia, the junior scored the lone goal of the match as she converted a penalty kick in the 73rd minute. Against Gordon, she once again scored via a penalty kick, this time in the ninth minute, to give MSU a 1-0 lead. Cahill capped off the week by collecting an assist on Kylie Prendergast’s game-winning marker in the 79th minute against Endicott.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
MEGAN BRADY • Stockton University
Sophomore • Goalkeeper • Rockaway, NJ/Morris Knolls
Brady collects the first NJAC Defensive Player of the Week honor after leading Stockton to a 2-1 start. Brady, in her first season as the starting goalie, posted her first career shutout last Thursday in a 1-0 victory against St. Joseph’s-Long Island. Two days later, she made one save in earning her second consecutive whitewash in a 2-0 triumph over Albright. Against No 10 Scranton on Sunday, Brady saw her 245-minute scoreless streak come to an end in a 1-0 loss to the nationally-ranked Royals. Brady kicked out four shots and kept Stockton in the contest with her play. In 270 minutes thus far, Brady has a sterling 0.33 goals against average and a .833 save percentage. She has stopped five of the six shots on goal that she has faced overall.
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
JESSICA DIGRISTINA • New Jersey City University
Freshman • Forward • Marlton, NJ/Cherokee
Digristina earns the first NJAC Rookie of the Week honor of the 2022 season after a terrific collegiate debut for the Gothic Knights. She tallied a game-high-tying five points over just 44 minutes in the squad’s 10-0 win over Yeshiva on Friday, scoring the first two goals of her career on six on-target attempts, as well as her first-ever college assist . She then played 69 minutes and took one shot in the tough 2-0 loss to CMSV on Saturday.