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January 11, 2010
WOMEN’S COLLEGE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
O’Hara honored by Soccer News Net
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Stanford’s Kelley O’Hara is the 2009 Soccer News Net Women’s College Player of the Year.
Photo courtesy of Stanford Sports Information |
Stanford forward Kelley O’Hara has been named the Soccer News Net Women’s College Player of the Year. The award is given based on fan balloting which concluded on December 19 and on voting by the staff of the six Soccer News Net sites.
O’Hara, who led Stanford to an undefeated regular season before falling in the college cup to eventual champion North Carolina, was on Friday named the winner of the MAC Hermann Trophy. This is the first time in the three years Soccer News Net has been naming a player of the year that one of the winners also won the Hermann Trophy.
O'Hara, a native of Fayetteville, Ga., led Stanford (25-1) to its best record and to its first NCAA championship final, shattering school scoring records along the way and leading the nation in goals and points by scoring 26 goals, 13 assists, 65 points.
A 2009 NSCAA first-team All-America, O'Hara is the Pacific-10 Conference's Player of the Year and an ESPN The Magazine first team Academic All-American.
As a junior in 2008, she was a second-team NSCAA All-American and first team All-West Region choice after finishing the season with 13 goals and 12 assists for 38 points. The Cardinal’s only regular season loss came in a game she missed because of a concussion.
In her sophomore year, she was a second-team NSCAA All-American and first-team All-Pac-10 while being named a Hermann Trophy semi-finalist. O’Hara was the team's leader in goals (9), points (23), game-winning goals (4).
O’Hara started her career at Stanford off with an All-Pac-10 first-team selection as she led the team in points (20) and goals (9).
A member of the U.S. U-23 national team pool she played for the team on a May, 2009, tour of Northern Ireland and Ireland, then earned first call-up to the senior U.S. national team in March 2007, and attended training camp in April. She was called into the upcoming national team camp at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. from Jan. 17 through Feb. 4.
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