Junior Lindsey Beam Ozimek earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors for the second straight season. |
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Five 49ers Off A-10 Championship Team Earn All-Atlantic 10 Honors
Nov. 1, 2006
Charlotte, NC - Five Charlotte 49ers women's soccer players earned All-Atlantic 10 honors. Junior midfielder Lindsey Beam Ozimek (Charlotte, NC/Riverside) earned first-team All-Atlantic 10 honors for the second straight season. Junior forward Nikki Labuda (Climax, NY/Greenville) and senior defender Kelsie Ormsby (Raleigh, NC/Garner) earned second-team All-Atlantic 10 honors. Freshman goalkeeper Lauren Brown (Frenchtown, NJ/Delaware Valley Regional) was named to the A-10 All-Rookie team. While, sophomore defender Julie Muckle, Labuda, Ormsby and Ozimek were named to the A-10 Academic All-Conference team.
"I always tell my team that soccer is the ultimate team sport," Charlotte coach Jon Lipsitz said. "I am very proud of those four players but I am also proud of the rest of our players who have worked so hard this season to win the Atlantic 10 title. While individual awards are nice this proves once again that soccer is a team sport and that is the way it will always be at Charlotte."
Ozimek, who has earned all-conference honors in each of the past three seasons, joins former 49ers Mikel Casey (2001-02), Jill Currie (1999-00), Christina Papp (1996-98) and Blair Angell (1995-96) who have earned multiple first-team all-conference selections in school history. This season, she scored three goals and tallied six assists for 12 points. Her six assists this season have given her 30 for her career which moves her into a tie for first place for the most career assists in the program's history. She now has 56 career points which is the seventh most in school history.
Ozimek, a third-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-American selection last season, has now earned A-10 academic all-conference team honors for the second straight season. She has a 4.00 GPA in Special Education.
Labuda, who earned honorable mention All-Atlantic 10 honors last season, leads the team and ranks among the league leaders with nine goals this season. She has now scored nine goals in each of the last two seasons giving her 18 career goals which is tied for the seventh highest total in school history. This season, she has also tallied a career-high five assists giving her a career-high 23 points.
Labuda, a first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III selection last season, has now earned A-10 academic all-conference team honors for the second straight season. She has a 4.00 GPA in Mathematics and Economics.
Ormsby earned second-team All-Atlantic 10 honors for the second straight season. She becomes the first 49ers defender since Kim Moore (2001-03) to earn multiple all-conference honors. She is tied for second on the team with a career-high six goals. The senior captain has also anchored a 49ers defense which has recorded five shutouts and limited ten foes to a goal or less.
Ormsby, who earned second-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District III honors last season, has now also earned A-10 academic all-conference honors for the second straight season. She has a 3.92 GPA in biology.
Brown became the 16th different 49er to earn all-freshman team honors in the program's 13-year history. However, she is only the second goalkeeper in school history to earn all-freshman team honors. Brown finished the regular season with a unblemished 6-0-0 record with 33 saves and a 1.46 GAA. She recorded her first career shutout in the 49ers 3-0 win at St. Bonaventure, October 22.
Muckle is one of the leaders of a 49ers defense that has posted five shutouts and limited ten foes to a goal or less. She also recorded her first career-goal at La Salle, October 6.
Muckle has a 4.00 GPA in nursing.
Brown, Labuda, Muckle, Ormsby and Ozimek and the rest of the 49ers women's soccer team will begin play in the Atlantic 10 Tournament in the semifinals, Friday, November 3 at 6 pm.
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