Bowling Green State University Athletics
Kristy Coppes Named to Soccer America National Team of the Week
October 08, 2003 | Women's Soccer
Oct. 8, 2003
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Bowling Green State University junior Kristy Coppes, honored on Monday as the Mid-American Conference Women's Soccer Player of the Week, received a national honor on Wednesday (Oct. 8). The Falcon forward was named to the Soccer America National Team of the Week, the publication announced.
(Click here to read the Soccer America site's story.)
Coppes becomes only the second player in the seven-year history of the BGSU women's soccer program to earn national team-of-the-week honors. Erika Flanders was named to a pair of national teams of the week (Soccer America and Soccer Buzz) in the opening week of the 2001 season.
The Soccer America National Team of the Week is comprised of 11 players from around the country, chosen on the basis of their play the previous week.
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.
With her final goal of the weekend, Coppes became the BGSU all-time scoring leader with 67 career points, passing Conover (65 points from 1999-2002) on that list. Coppes now has 31 career goals, extending her own BGSU record in that category. Friday's goal at Ball State also made her the school-record holder in match-winning goals, as she now has eight in her career. Coppes also passed Conover to move into first place on that list.
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.
Coppes is joined on the Soccer America team by forwards Kristen Graczyk (Connecticut), Brenna Mullen (San Diego), Lindsay Tarpley (North Carolina) and Annie Zwahlen (BYU), midfielders Carmen Bognanno (Duke) and Amber Collins-Cephars (Georgia State), defenders Micaela Esquivel (Santa Clara), Edda Gardarsdottir (Richmond) and Melissa Tancredi (Notre Dame) and goalkeeper Kathrin Lehmann (Oklahoma State).
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.
