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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Kristy Coppes Earns All-Region Honors
January 10, 2005 | Women's Soccer
Jan. 10, 2005
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - Bowling Green State University women's soccer senior Kristy Coppes has been named to the Soccer Buzz All-Great Lakes Region Team, the online magazine has announced. Coppes, one of just four Mid-American Conference standouts named to the team, earned third-team honors.
Coppes becomes the second player in the eight-year history of the BGSU women's soccer program, and the second in as many years, to earn all-region honors by Soccer Buzz. Samantha Meister earned second-team honors last season.
Coppes continued her career-long assault on the BGSU record books in 2004, finishing the season with 18 goals and 38 points. She led the MAC in both categories. Coppes' total of 18 goals shattered the old school single-season record by six, and her point total was nine better than the previous mark.
The 2004 performance boosted her career totals to a whopping 52 goals and 111 points. She finished third in MAC history in goals scored and fifth in total points. Coppes' career numbers place her 32 goals and 46 points more than any other player in BGSU annals.
Coppes became the first-ever BGSU player, and just the third in MAC history, to reach double digits in goals scored in each of her four seasons. Only four times in BGSU history has a player scored 12 or more goals in a season, and Coppes has been that player on three of the four occasions. She had 12 goals in both her freshman and sophomore seasons before scoring 10 as a junior.
This season, Coppes opened with a bang, shattering BGSU and MAC records with six goals in the first match of the year, a 7-3 win over Duquesne. Her goal total fell just one shy of the NCAA record.
Coppes also had a hat trick in the MAC Tournament, scoring the Falcons' first three goals in a semifinal-round win over Western Michigan. The only player in school history with more than one goal in the league tournament, Coppes finishes with six goals and 13 points in the MAC Tourney. She had a school-record six match-winning goals this season, and set another BG mark with 14 MWGs in her career (double the total of the next person on that list).
Three other MAC players -- Kent State's Kimberly Dimitroff, Miami's Ashley Swinehart and Ohio's Michelle Meglaughlin -- joined Coppes on the Soccer Buzz regional squad, with all three earning third-team honors.
BGSU finished the season with an overall record of 10-12-2, including a 5-5-2 mark in MAC play. The Falcons of fifth-year head coach Andy Richards, seeded eighth for the league tournament, won the title and advanced to the NCAA Championships for the first time in school history.
