Sophie Reiser Named Lowe's Women's Soccer Senior CLASS Award Candidate
8/26/2009 2:45:00 PM | Women's Soccer
NEW YORK -- Columbia University women's soccer senior Sophie Reiser was named one of 30 candidates for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence - classroom, character, community and competition.
The reigning Ivy League Player of the Year and fourth team All-American, Reiser notched career highs with 12 goals and 11 assists in 2008, and helped the Lions to an 11-4-2 overall record. For her career, the Seattle, Wash., native has registered 24 assists, two shy of the all-time program record.
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in SchoolTM, the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
The 2009 candidate class of 60 (men and women's) includes 10 student-athletes who were named Scholar All-Americans by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in 2008. Four of the 60 have maintained a cumulative grade point average of 4.00. Twenty-one candidates represent teams ranked in the preseason top 25 men's and women's polls. And 13 of the 60 candidates are on the preseason watch list for the Hermann Trophy, awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club to the top male and female Division I soccer players in the country at the end of the season. Lowe's, an official Corporate Partner of the NCAA, will announce the Senior CLASS Award winners during the 2009 NCAA Men's and Women's College Cup championships in early December.
Each of the 30 candidate classes will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official final ballot.
