New England Small College Athletic Conference

Men's Soccer All-Conference Selections Announced

11/12/2015 12:00:00 AM

Bowdoin's Odulate Receives Player of the Year Honor

HADLEY, Mass. – Bowdoin senior defender Nabil Odulate (Ellicott City, Md.) has been selected as the 2015 NESCAC Player of the Year as voted on by the league’s coaches. Odulate was also named to the All-NESCAC First Team after anchoring a defense that surrendered only seven goals in 17 games to help the Polar Bears win their second consecutive conference title as the No. 6 seed following a 1-0 overtime win against eighth-seeded Wesleyan. He also scored three goals, two of which were game-winners, including the lone goal in Bowdoin’s 1-0 NESCAC Quarterfinal win over Tufts. Odulate is the second player in program history to receive Player of the Year recognition, joining Nick Figueiredo (2007). 

• Nabil Odulate was named to the All-NESCAC First Team for the first time in his career after being selected to the Second Team last season. He is also the third defender in conference history to be named Player of the Year along with Williams’ Conor Smith (2009) and Middlebury’s Harrison Watkins (2010).
• Nine of the 11 All-NESCAC First Team honorees are repeat all-conference selections. Six members of the Second Team are receiving all-conference recognition for the first time.
• Each of the last three NESCAC Rookies of the Year were named to the all-conference squads.
• Middlebury led all teams with five all-conference picks followed by Tufts with four and Amherst and Wesleyan with three.
• Middlebury juniors Greg Conrad and Adam Glaser garnered first-team plaudits in back-to-back seasons. Glaser had a record-breaking season for the Panthers, as he set the single-season program mark with 14 assists to lead all conference players. The 2013 NESCAC Rookie of the Year also paces the league with 32 points and is tied for second with nine goals. Conrad, last year’s NESCAC Player of the Year, matched Glaser’s nine goals and dished out four assists for 22 points, which ranks third in the conference. 
• Junior Nathan Majumder of Tufts received all-conference recognition for the first time in his collegiate career. The forward has posted nine goals to rank second among all NESCAC players, and accounts for nearly half of the Jumbos’ goals this season heading into the NCAA Tournament. Five of his nine goals were game-winners.
• Amherst senior Nico Pascual-Leone was named to the First Team for the second consecutive season. Pascual-Leone leads the conference with 11 goals to go along with four assists for 26 points, which ranks second in the league. The forward has also contributed four game-winning goals for the NCAA Tournament-bound Jeffs.
• Junior midfielder Pat Devlin anchored a Connecticut College squad that earned its first-ever home game in the NESCAC Championship as the No. 4 seed. The two-time first-team selection tallied two goals and an assist for five points, while also contributing the clinching penalty kick in the NESCAC Quarterfinal shootout versus Williams.
• Trinity junior Tobias Gimand recorded 14 points on five goals and four assists for the Bantams to garner all-conference recognition for the first time in his career.
• Jason Kayne of Tufts was elevated to the First Team after landing on the Second Team last season. The senior midfielder has registered a goal and two assists for four points.
• Wesleyan defender Charlie Gruner was named to the First Team for the third time. The junior was part of a defense that posted seven shutouts, and added a goal and an assist at the offensive end of the field. 
• Senior Deklan Robinson was a stalwart on the Middlebury back line, as he solidified a defense that allowed only eight goals and recorded ten shutouts in 17 games. The 2014 All-NESCAC First Team pick also contributed eight points on three goals and two assists.   
• Amherst’s Thomas Bull was selected as the league’s top goalkeeper for the second time in his career. The senior, who was a first-team pick in 2013 and a second-team pick in 2014, leads the conference in several statistical categories, including save percentage (.932) and goals against average (0.24) and shutouts (12). He is 14-1-1 heading into the NCAA Tournament.
• Connecticut College’s Mark Leon was named the NESCAC Rookie of the Year. The first-year forward paced the Camels with 14 points and six goals, including three game-winning goals, to help Connecticut College earn the No. 4 seed, the highest ever in program history, in the NESCAC Championship. Leon is the first Camel men’s soccer player to receive the award.
• Bowdoin’s Scott Wiercinski and Middlebury’s David Saward were selected as NESCAC Co-Coaches of the Year by their peers. Wiercinski earned the award for the first time in his three-year tenure at Bowdoin. He guided the team to its second consecutive league title as the No. 6 seed following a 1-0 overtime win over eighth-seeded Wesleyan. The Polar Bears enter the NCAA Tournament riding an eight-game unbeaten streak and have posted a 10-3-4 overall mark. Saward received the honor for the second time in his career at Middlebury, having also earned the award in 2008. The 31-year veteran led the Panthers to the No. 2 seed in the NESCAC Championship with a record of 7-2-1 before ending the season at 13-2-2 overall. Wiercinski played for Saward at Middlebury in the late 1990s.

Men's Soccer All-Conference Teams

First Team All-NESCAC Position Name Institution Class Hometown F Greg Conrad Middlebury Jr. Peabody, Mass. F Adam Glaser Middlebury Jr. Washington, D.C. F Nathan Majumder Tufts Jr. Williamstown, Mass. F Nico Pascual-Leone Amherst Sr. Wayland, Mass. M Pat Devlin Conn. College Jr. Washington Crossing, Pa. M Tobias Gimand Trinity Jr. Fairfield, Conn. M Jason Kayne Tufts Sr. Deerfield, Ill. D Charlie Gruner Wesleyan Jr. Stevenson, Md. D Nabil Odulate Bowdoin Sr. Ellicott City, Md. D Deklan Robinson Middlebury Sr. Gloucester, Mass. GK Thomas Bull Amherst Sr. Montgomery, N.J.           Second Team All-NESCAC Position Name Institution Class Hometown F Adam Cowie-Haskell Wesleyan So. Marshfield, Mass. F Mohammed Rashid Williams Sr. Accra, Ghana F Cody Savonen Trinity Jr. Orleans, Mass. M Daniel O'Grady Middlebury Fy. New York, N.Y. M Rui Pinheiro Tufts Sr. Princeton, N.J. M Brandon Sousa Wesleyan Sr. Waterbury, Conn. D Justin Aoyama Amherst Jr. Narbeth, Pa. D Geoff Danilack Williams Sr. Bethesda, Md. D Monil Patel Tufts Sr. Niskayuna, N.Y. GK Greg Sydor Middlebury Jr. Madison, Conn. GK Stevie Van Siclen Bowdoin So. Carlisle, Mass.

Player of the Year Nabil Odulate, Bowdoin Rookie of the Year Mark Leon, Connecticut College Co-Coach of the Year Scott Wiercinski, Bowdoin Co-Coach of the Year David Saward, Middlebury