Bowling Green State University Athletics
Flanders Named MAC Scholar-Athlete Of Week
October 22, 2002 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 22, 2002
CLEVELAND, Ohio - Bowling Green State University senior Erika Flanders (Mason, Ohio/Mason) has been named the Mid-American Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Week, the conference office has announced. Flanders, a goalkeeper on the Falcon women's soccer team, earns the honor for the second time in her BGSU career. She also earned the honor once during her sophomore season (Sept. 26, 2000).
Flanders allowed just one goal as the Falcons won a pair of matches last weekend. She made five saves in a 3-0 win over Valparaiso Friday (Oct. 18), and had four stops in a 2-1 overtime win at Buffalo two days later (Oct. 20). The Valpo match marked her sixth shutout of the season and the 16th of her career, both school records.
In fact, Flanders holds every goalkeeping record -- single-match, single-season and career -- in BGSU history. She now has 103 saves this year and 439 in her career. Flanders has more career saves than all of the other goalies in school history combined (280).
This season, Flanders has played every minute of every match, and she is on pace to break her own record for single-season goals-against average.
The win over Buffalo clinched a MAC Tournament berth for the Falcons, now 9-6-2 overall and 6-3-1 in the league. BGSU, picked to finish ninth in the MAC in the preseason coaches poll, currently sits in fourth place. BG has set school records for MAC wins and points (19) in a season.
Flanders, BGSU's 2002 team captain, maintains a 3.27 cumulative grade point average as an art education major.
The MAC Scholar-Athlete of the Week award is presented to one male and one female each week. The honorees must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better and have performed well during the past week's competition. The winners are selected by one of the conference's faculty athletic representatives.
The Falcons will look to secure a top-four seed and home-field advantage for the MAC Tournament's quarterfinal round, closing the conference portion of the schedule with a pair of home matches this weekend. BGSU will face Western Michigan in Friday (Oct. 25) action, before taking on Northern Illinois Sunday afternoon (Oct. 27).
