Laura Childerson	Kaitlin Sanders
Meggan Gobin	Angie Pisut

By Gary Petit

ADA — Four Ohio Northern women’s soccer players earned Academic All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors in voting conducted by the ten OAC faculty athletic representatives.

Senior Laura Childerson (Alliance) and sophomore Kaitlin Sanders (Kendallville, Ind./East Nobel) were all First Team Academic All-OAC selections. Sanders was also named Third Team Academic All-District as voted upon by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America.

Senior Meggan Gobin (Mainville/Little Miami) and sophomore Angie Pisut (Huber Heights/Carroll) were Honorable Mention Academic All-OAC honorees.

Sanders, a pharmacy major, earned her first Academic All-District and All-OAC awards this season. She missed nearly three weeks of the season, but still earned First Team All-OAC for the second straight season.

Sanders ended the season with a team-high eight assists and also scored her fifth career goal.

Childerson, a mechanical engineering major, earned Academic All-OAC honors for the second straight year, as she was Honorable Mention Academic All-OAC in 2006.

She scored two goals and had two assists this season and ended her career with 14 goals and four assists.

Pisut earned Academic All-OAC honors for the first time. She was named the OAC Forward of the Year as well as garnering First Team All-OAC honors this seaosn.

The pharmacy major, led the OAC in points (29) as well as goals (13) and was second with five game-winning goals. Pisut was named OAC Player of the Week on Sept. 10, after recording a hat trick against NCAC-foe Ohio Wesleyan.

She scored a goal in 10 of 19 games and ONU was a solid 8-2 when she scored.

Gobin, also earned Academic All-OAC honors for the first time this season. She is an early childhood education major and started all 19 games in the defensive backfield for the Polar Bears.

She scored her third career goal in a 3-2 win at Otterbein on Oct. 9 and ws key to a Northern defense that recorded eight shutouts this season.

ONU had a 12-5-2 overall record under fourth-year head coach Mark Batman, and won its first OAC regular season title since 1998. The Polar Bears finished the OAC regular season at 8-0-1, the first undefeated conference season in school history.