FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
S-44-04-05
Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Six Elizabethtown Men's Soccer Players Named to All-Conference Teams; Skip Roderick Named Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Six members of the Elizabethtown College men's soccer team – junior forward Brian Healy (Newark, DE/A.I. DuPont), junior midfielder Andrew Kummerer (Glenmoore, PA/Coatesville), senior goalkeeper Edwin Tichenor (Mechanicsburg, PA/Cumberland Valley), sophomore midfielder Owen Friedrich (Westmont, NJ/Haddon Twp.), senior defender John Aronowicz (Exton, PA/Downingtown), and junior defender Daniel Gring (Sinking Spring, PA/Wilson) – have been named to the All-Commonwealth Conference teams. Healy, Kummerer and Tichenor have been named to the All-Commonwealth Conference First Team, and Friedrich, Aronowicz and Gring have been named to the All-Commonwealth Second Team. Also, Etown head coach Skip Roderick has been named the Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year.

Healy, who was also named to the All-Commonwealth First Team in 2003, currently leads the Blue Jays in goals with nine, in assists with 11, and in points with 29. He was named the conference Player of the Week one time this season, and he has played in all 18 of the Blue Jays' games and tallied a pair of game-winning goals. Over the course of his career, he has totaled 19 goals, 22 assists and 60 points in three seasons.

Kummerer, who was also named to the All-Commonwealth First Team in both 2003 and 2002, is second on the Blue Jays in goals scored with seven, second in assists with five, and second in points with 19. He has also totaled a pair of game-winning goals this season and has started all 18 of Etown's games. In his three-year career, he has tallied 14 goals, 16 assists and 44 points. He was also named the Commonwealth Conference Rookie of the Year in 2002.

Tichenor has made the All-Commonwealth Conference squads for the first time in his career this season after taking over as the Blue Jays' full-time starting goaltender in 2004. He has played all but 67 minutes of all of Elizabethtown's games in the net this year, and he has allowed just 14 goals for a 0.76 goals against average. He has made 61 saves this season for a .813 save percentage as well, and he has eight complete game shutouts. He has been named the Commonwealth Conference Defender/Goaltender of the Week twice this season.

Friedrich marks his first appearance on the All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team in 2004 after tallying three goals, two assists, eight points, and one game-winning goal in 15 games played this season after working his way into Etown's starting lineup. As a first-year in 2003, he tallied one assist in ten games played.

Aronowicz, who was also the 2001 Commonwealth Conference Rookie of the Year, makes his first appearance on the All-Commonwealth Conference second team in 2004 after serving as one of the principal anchors of the Elizabethtown defense. He has played in 17 of Etown's games this year as the Blue Jays have allowed just over nine shots and only 3.2 shots on goal per game. In his career, he has scored two goals and assisted four more for eight points from the backfield.

Gring played his first season for Elizabethtown in 2004 and made an immediate impact on the Blue Jay backfield, playing in all 18 games and scoring one goal and assisting four more goals for six points. It is the first time he has been named to the All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team.

Roderick, who is in his 22nd season as Elizabethtown's head coach, took a largely unproven squad consisting mainly of of young players and veterans who had spent a large amount of time in previous years struggling through injuries and transformed it into a team that has gone 12-3-3 overall and has broken into the NCAA Division III national top 25 rankings thus far this season. As a result, a team that had lost 14 letterwinners from its 2003 squad is now the second seed in the Commonwealth Conference playoffs that recorded the program's 700th all-time victory last week. Thus far in his collegiate coaching career, Roderick has compiled a 373-82-36 overall record, ranking him in the top ten among NCAA Division III men's soccer coaches in victories.

Elizabethtown, the second seed in the Commonwealth Conference playoffs, will host third-seeded Lebanon Valley College tonight at 7:00 p.m. in the conference semifinals.