Males’s Soccer Sees 4 Represented in Publish-Season All-Sun Belt Honors – UCF Athletics

ORLANDO – As introduced by the league workplace Friday afternoon, the UCF males’s soccer group noticed 4 members acknowledged within the Sun Belt Conference’s 2025 post-season all-conference honors.

Leading the cost is junior ahead Lilian Ricol, who garnered Sun Belt Conference Newcomer of the Year recognition along with touchdown on the All-Sun Belt First Team. He is joined on the All-Sun Belt First Team by senior midfielder Clarence Awoudor, whereas freshmen Jem Hewlett (defender) and Seiryu Ono (ahead) each earned spots on the All-Sun Belt Freshman Team.

Ricol’s choice because the league’s newcomer of the 12 months, in the meantime, represents the second time in UCF’s first three seasons within the Sun Belt that this system has produced the convention newcomer of the 12 months, after Awoudor earned the honors following his first season donning the Black and Gold in 2023.

Ricol additionally brings residence the Knights’ fourth general main award because the program joined the Sun Belt in 2023, becoming a member of Awoudor (2023 Newcomer of the Year), head coach Scott Calabrese (2023 Coach of the Year), and then-freshman Saku Heiskanen (2023 Freshman of the Year).

With every of Ricol, Awoudor, Hewlett and Ono incomes postseason recognition, UCF has now seen 12 members of this system acknowledged within the league’s postseason all-conference voting during the last three seasons as effectively.

LILIAN RICOL – NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR, ALL-SUN BELT FIRST TEAM

Ricol in his first season in Orlando gave the Knights’ offensive efforts a direct jolt, main the group in targets scored (9) and producing 20 factors, second on the squad solely to nationwide help chief Clarence Awoudor.

Ricol totaled 40 shot makes an attempt all through the season, together with 24 on course, and added his first two profession game-winning targets as effectively. He recorded his first profession objective in opposition to the North Carolina Tar Heels on the highway within the groups’ Aug. 21 season-opener, and assisted UCF’s lone objective in its 1-1 draw with then-No. 22 South Florida on the highway Sept. 4.

Six of his 9 targets this season got here in convention play, highlighted by his first profession hat trick in opposition to James Madison Oct. 22. He additionally netted the game-winner in UCF’s 3-0 shutout win over then-No. 11 Georgia Southern Oct. 10 and scored one of many Knights’ two tallies in opposition to 2025 Sun Belt regular-season champion Kentucky on the highway Sept. 19.

He completed the season rating amongst Sun Belt Conference leaders in targets per sport (0.60, 2nd), shot accuracy (.622, 2nd), photographs on objective per sport (1.53, T-2nd), whole targets (9, T-2nd), factors per sport (1.33, third), whole factors (20, 4th), and shot makes an attempt per sport (2.47, fifth).