Bowling Green State University Athletics
BGSU's Kristy Coppes Named MAC Player Of The Week
October 06, 2003 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 6, 2003
CLEVELAND, Ohio (BGSUFalcons.com) - Bowling Green State University junior Kristy Coppes has been named the Mid-American Conference Women's Soccer Player of the Week, the league office announced Monday afternoon (Oct. 6). Coppes earns the honor for the first time this season and the second time in her Falcon career.
Coppes is only the second Falcon women's soccer player to earn league P-O-W honors twice. Jill Conover also earned the award on two occasions, once in 1999 and again the following year.
Coppes, a native of Findlay, Ohio, had three goals as the Falcons posted a pair of key Mid-American Conference road wins over the weekend. The wins came over last year's MAC regular-season champions and runners-up.
Coppes had the winning goal in a 2-0 victory at Ball State Friday (Oct. 3). Then, she scored the Falcons' first two goals as BGSU rallied from a 2-0 deficit for a 3-2 win at Miami two days later. Miami won the MAC's regular-season and tournament titles in 2002, while BSU, last year's regular-season second-place finisher, was the choice to win the 2003 MAC Tournament in the preseason coaches poll.
Her two goals at Miami came just 4:39 apart. The first goal came just 1:32 after the RedHawks had taken a two-goal lead. The Falcons scored all three goals in the last 23:23 of the second half.
 Coppes scored the match winner at Ball State, then had two goals in a come-from-behind win at Miami  |
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Coppes, who had 12 goals in each of her first two seasons as a Falcon, has seven goals and 15 points this fall, leading the team in both categories.
The Falcons' Friday win was the team's first-ever victory in Muncie. Then, Sunday's match marked the first-ever victory over Miami in series history.
BGSU, now 5-6-1 overall and 3-2-1 in MAC play, continues a season-long, five-match road swing with a pair of matches this weekend. The Falcons of head coach Andy Richards will head to Kalamazoo, Mich., to take on Western Michigan Friday (Oct. 10), before continuing on to DeKalb, Ill., for Sunday's (Oct. 12) contest vs. Northern Illinois. BGSU's next home contest is Friday, Oct. 17, vs. Buffalo.
