Every Monday during the season, one NESCAC Player of the Week will be selected based on information submitted by the athletic communications offices at member institutions.
NESCAC Women's Soccer Player of the Week
Kayley Huleatt – Bowdoin – So. – Midfield – Rifton, N.Y.
Huleatt powered the Polar Bears to a 2-0-0 week with clutch goals in a pair of one-goal victories. Against Middlebury on Saturday, Huleatt opened the scoring with a free-kick strike that put Bowdoin ahead 1-0 in an eventual 2-1 win. Earlier in the week at Emerson, she netted the equalizer just before halftime to spark another 2-1 victory. Huleatt leads the Polar Bears with seven goals and three assists this season.
NESCAC Weekly Honor Roll
Bates - Making her first two collegiate starts,
Zoe Mittelsteadt (Wayland, Mass.) helped Bates battle nationally ranked Williams to a 0-0 draw on Saturday. The rookie followed that up with her first collegiate goal on Sunday against Hamilton.
Colby – Junior
Avery Barton (Bradford, Vt.) scored her first goal of the season on Saturday to lift Colby past Hamilton. The eventual game-winning strike came 21 minutes into play when Barton played a rebound off a corner at the top of the goalie box, threading a shot between the Continental defense and into the right side of the net.
Conn. College - Senior defender
Alexa Weiner (Fairfield, Conn.) led Conn. College in its only game of the week. With the game all square with 10 minutes remaining, Weiner notched her first career goal, potting a free kick from the edge of the box to give the Camels a 2-1 win over John & Wales on Wednesday.
Hamilton –
Lila Sullivan (Charlestown, Mass.) scored the go-ahead goal in the 63rd minute and added an assist on the first goal in the Continentals' 3-2 win at Bates. The goal was Sullivan's first at Hamilton and it was the first-year's first multi-point match.
Middlebury – Senior
Roshann Purcell (Seattle, Wash.) scored her first goal of the year and recorded 87 minutes against Bowdoin.
Tufts – Sophomore
Maren Jones (Tiburon, Calif.) scored the only goal against No. 12-ranked MIT on Wednesday, helping the Jumbos defeat the Engineers, 1-0. Collecting a through ball in stride, Jones delivered a powerful strike across the face of goal to score in the 70th minute. The Jumbos would hang on despite a late push from the Engineers.
Wesleyan -
Maria Utz (Atlanta, Ga.) continues to produce in a breakout junior year, as the forward scored the game-winning goal and assisted on another in a dominating 3-0 home win over Little Three rival Amherst on Saturday. Utz scored her seventh goal of the year in the 28th minute and later assisted on a Meredith Feiner goal in the 61st minute that pushed the Cardinals’ lead to 3-0. That win over Amherst signaled just the second time Wesleyan has beaten the Mammoths since 1994.
Williams – Rookie
Lucy Carrel (Bellevue, Wash.) netted a hat trick in Sunday's 4-1 win over the Univ. of Southern Maine and contributed valuable two-way play in Saturday's 0-0 draw at Bates.