2024 CCAC Women's Soccer Postseason Awards

2024 CCAC Women's Soccer Postseason Release

Kaitlyn Brunson and Jon Mannall earned CCAC postseason awards after an outstanding season for St. Ambrose. Taylor DeSplinter, Abigail Goff, and Kendall Wendt were also selected for All-Conference honors, the league officials announced today.

Brunson almost swept the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference awards this season as she has currently leads the CCAC in almost all offensive categories, goals (15) and points (37). She is one assist shy of being tied with the leader in the assist category as she currently sits with seven on the season. With these dominant numbers, Brunson earned herself CCAC Player of the Year, CCAC Offensive Player of the Year, and CCAC First-Team All-Conference honors as the conference announced its postseason awards today. The senior collected Player of the Year awards in back-to-back seasons (2023 and 2024) for SAU. This season, Brunson was named CCAC Offensive Player of the Week on three occasions (Oct. 14, Oct. 21, and Nov. 4). 

Brunson is only one of the four Bees to tab all-conference honors. She was joined on the First-Team All-CCAC by teammates DeSplinter and Goff. Wendt was selected as a Second-Team All-CCAC pick after her performances this season. All three played an inaugural component in the team's success so far this season. 

DeSplinter is a senior midfielder from Geneseo, Ill. and was named to the CCAC First-Team. Earlier this season she was side lined with an injury, but came out and made her strong presence known to the conference. She started 15 of the 16 matches she appeared in this season while collecting six goals and five assists. Those totals were good for 17 points, third on the team. 

Senior defender, Goff, earned CCAC First-Team honors. Goff was a member of the defense who earned 11 shutouts this season. The Dixon, Ill. native also tabbed a goal and five assists for St. Amrbose, tied for second on the team. Of the Bees 21 matches, Goff started 20 of those and led a strong St. Ambrose defense.

Wendt, the senior from Moline, Ill. currently sits fifth in goals for the conference in 21 matches. Those numbers earned her selection of the CCAC Second-Team All-Conference. Wendt started the season red hot as she scored three of the teams first four goals across two matches. Since then, she has came up big when SAU needed her. In St. Ambrose's 2-1 Conference Tournament win over Olivet Nazarene, Wendt backed both goals for SAU. Currently, Wendt has scored 11 goals and registered one assist for a total of 23 season points.

As SAU continues to smash records, Head Coach, Jon Mannall, led his team to a 14-5-2 season record and are looking ahead to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics women's soccer National Tournament. Under the direction of Mannall, the Bees have won 11 games straight. In those 11 matches, SAU only conceded three goals while scoring 41 themselves. In this time, St. Ambrose was crowned as both CCAC regular-season champions and CCAC Tournament champions. With this impressive stint, Mannall was named the CCAC Coach of the Year by league officials. This selection is the seventh time Mannall was selected as a conference Coach of the Year, two times prior in the CCAC (2015 and 2023) and four times prior in the Midwest Collegiate Conference (2007, 2008, 2009, 2013).