CHICAGO – College of Chicago males’s soccer gamers Richard Gillespie, Griffin Wada and Naz Kabbani have been acknowledged by D3soccer.com as All-Individuals following their excellent 2022 marketing campaign, which culminated in successful the 2022 Division III Nationwide Championship. Head Coach Julianne Sitch has additionally been acknowledged as Males’s Coach of the 12 months.
Gillespie and Wada have been named Co-Defenders of the 12 months by D3soccer.com together with receiving First Staff All-America accolades. Kabbani, a local of Manchester, England, was named to the Third Staff as a midfielder. Sitch added to her in depth record of honors with Coach of the 12 months, of which her and her workers have been beforehand acknowledged as Workers of the 12 months by the United Soccer Coaches.
Gillespie provides one other First Staff All-American honor after being named First Staff All-America and First All-Area by the United Soccer Coaches. The senior middle again began all 23 video games, posting two targets and three assists on the yr. He was additionally a First Staff All-College Athletic Affiliation decide and an NCAA All-Event Staff choice.
Wada, additionally a First Staff All-Area honoree, acquired deserved All-America standing as he and Gillespie anchored the UChicago protection, which surrendered simply 0.47 targets per sport. Wada began 22 video games at middle again and contributed two assists offensively. The senior’s awards haul this season contains First Staff All-UAA, NCAA All-Event Staff and NCAA Defensive Most Excellent Participant of the match.
Kabbani, an honorable point out All-UAA and NCAA All-Event Staff choice, earned All-America standing to place a bow on an excellent profession as a Maroon. He totaled six targets and 5 assists whereas beginning in all 23 matches. Most notably, he assisted the game-winning targets towards each Stevens and Williams within the Nationwide Semifinals and Nationwide Remaining, respectively.
Sitch, in her first season with the boys’s program, led UChicago to an undefeated 22-0-1 report and the primary Nationwide Championship in program historical past. The Maroon protection recorded 13 shutouts whereas permitting 11 targets over the course of 23 video games. UChicago trailed for under 64 minutes all season out of two,090 minutes performed. The crew’s 0.474 targets towards common ranked No. 7 within the nation. The offense scored 51 targets (2.22 per sport) as 9 completely different gamers tallied a number of targets on the yr. Together with successful Workers of the 12 months from the USC, Sitch and her assistants have been additionally named UAA Teaching Workers of the 12 months in mid-November and USC Area VIII Teaching Workers of the 12 months in early December.
