Virginia Ladies’s Soccer | Trio Of Hoos Named To Hermann Trophy Midseason Watch List

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Three members of the top-ranked Virginia girls’s soccer crew have been named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Midseason Watch List it was introduced by the United Soccer Coaches on Tuesday (Oct. 7) with the discharge of the checklist that options 35 gamers.

Midfielder Lia Godfrey, defender Laney Rouse and goalkeeper Victoria Safradin are the three Cavaliers on the checklist on the midseason level from the Virginia program. The trio have the Cavaliers ranked No. 1 nationally and sitting at 10-0-1 on the yr and 4-0-0 in ACC play.

The Hermann Trophy is introduced yearly by the Missouri Athletic Club and is the nation’s highest particular person honor recognizing the National Player of the Year as decided by voting of Division I head coaches who’re members of United Soccer Coaches. It is called in honor of the late Robert Hermann, the legendary St. Louis, Mo., businessman and soccer government who based the National Professional Soccer League, the primary professional soccer league within the United States which turned the North American Soccer League. He was inducted within the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame in 2012.

Godfrey at the moment leads the crew with seven objectives this season, together with 4 game-winning objectives, and has three assists with two of these approaching game-winning objectives. She leads the crew in each objectives scored and game-winning objectives and is the ACC chief in game-winning objectives as she has hit three-straight recreation winners for the Hoos in convention play.

Rouse has helped the Cavaliers publish eight shutouts by 11 video games performed this season and has logged 918 minutes on the again line as the appropriate again for the Hoos. Rouse has a objective and help this season, aiding on the game-winning objective towards then No. 2 Duke earlier than hitting a objective of her personal towards the Blue Devils.

Safradin holds a 9-0-1 report at this level of the season with seven shutouts and solely three objectives surrendered. The keeper is second nationally in objectives towards common (.300) and save share (.919) this season.

The 2025 midseason watch checklist was compiled by members of the Hermann Trophy Midseason Watch List Committee from a listing of returning 2024 All-Americans and First Team All-Region gamers. A complete of 15 gamers might be named 2025 Hermann Trophy semifinalists on December 2 on the conclusion of NCAA Division I All-American voting. From that checklist, head coaches will solid votes, and three gamers might be named finalists. The 2025 recipient might be introduced January 9, 2026, in a ceremony on the historic Missouri Athletic Club in downtown St. Louis, Mo.