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Thursday, November 9, 2006

Six Elizabethtown College Women’s Soccer Players Named to All-Commonwealth Conference Teams; Etown Coach Barry Dohner Named Coach of the Year

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- Six Elizabethtown College students have been named to the All-Commonwealth Conference teams in women’s soccer for 2006. Sophomore forwards Brooke Dotterer (Spring City, PA/Owen J. Roberts) and Jenna Russo (Florham Park, NJ/Hanover Park), junior midfielder Jenny Fromuth (Wyomissing, PA/Wyomissing), junior defender Emily Gunter (Hockessin, DE/A.I. DuPont) and senior defender Dana Moyer (Harleysville, PA/North Penn) all earned spots on the All-Commonwealth Conference First Team. Junior defender Jamie Alvanitakis (Landenberg, PA/Avon Grove) was named to the All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team. Also, Elizabethtown head coach Barry Dohner has been named the Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year.

This is Dotterer’s second year in a row on the All-Commonwealth Conference First Team. She was also the conference’s Rookie of the Year and a Second Team All-Mid-Atlantic Region honoree last year. This year, she leads Elizabethtown in goals with 14, assists with seven, and points with 35. She was the Commonwealth Conference Player of the Week one time in mid-October. In her two-year career with the Blue Jays, she has 22 goals, 13 assists and 57 points.

This is Russo’s second consecutive year on the All-Commonwealth Conference teams, and it is her first year on the first team, as she was a second team all-conference honoree as a first-year student in 2005. She was also the 2006 Most Valuable Player of the Commonwealth Conference playoff tournament after scoring twice in Etown’s 2-0 semifinal win over Widener and assisting the lone goal in the Blue Jays’ 1-0 championship win over Messiah. So far this year, she has seven goals and four assists for 18 points, ranking second on the team in all three categories despite missing a pair of games. In her two-year career with Elizabethtown, she has totaled 16 goals, eight assists and 40 points.

Fromuth has earned a spot on the all-conference teams this year for the first time in her two-year career with the Blue Jays. She is currently third on the team in goals with six and in points with 14, and she has two assists. She was named the Commonwealth Conference’s Player of the Week one time in the middle of the 2006 season. In two seasons with Elizabethtown, she has totaled eight goals, seven assists and 23 points.

Gunter is also on the All-Commonwealth Conference teams for the first time in her career this season. Thus far in 2006, she has started all 19 of Elizabethtown’s games in the backfield, and she has tallied one goal and one assist for three points. In three seasons as a defender at Elizabethtown, she has two career goals and one assist for five points.

Moyer has now earned a place on the All-Commonwealth Conference teams for all four years of her collegiate career, as well as spot on the first team for each of the last three years. Over the course of her career, she has also earned spots on the All-Mid-Atlantic Region teams twice, including the first team in 2005 and the second team in 2004. So far this year, she has tallied one assist and one point in 17 games in the backfield. Over the course of her career, she has totaled six goals, six assists and 18 points from the backfield.

Alvanitakis was named to the All-Commonwealth Conference Second Team for the first time in her career this year. A defender, she has totaled two assists and two points in 2006. In her career, she has three goals and three assists in 57 games over three years.

Dohner has earned the Commonwealth Conference’s Coach of the Year award for the second year in a row and the sixth time overall in 2006. He has also twice been named the National Soccer Coaches’ Association of America (NSCAA) Coach of the Year for the Mid-Atlantic Region, and he was the NSCAA’s national Coach of the Year for NCAA Division III in 1997.

The Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team is currently 12-4-3 overall. The Blue Jays won the Commonwealth Conference title this year to clinch an automatic berth in the NCAA Division III tournament, the team’s first trip to the NCAA tournament since 2001. The Blue Jays will return to action as the hosts of a pair of first-round NCAA tournament games Saturday, November 11 and a second round game Sunday, November 12. At 1:00 p.m. Saturday, Montclair State University will face Nazareth College in the first round at Elizabethtown’s Ira R. Herr Field. At 4:00 p.m. Saturday, Elizabethtown will host Richard Stockton College in another first round NCAA tournament game. The winners of each of Saturday’s games will face one another Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at Ira R. Herr Field.