Five Polar Bears named to All-Ohio Athletic Conference teams
Head Coach Mark Batman named OAC Coach of the Year
Katie Schaadt
Angie Pisut
Nov. 13, 2007

By Gary Petit

ADA — Five Ohio Northern women’s soccer players earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors and head coach Mark Batman was named the OAC Coach of the Year in voting conducted by the ten conference head coaches.

Junior Kate Schaadt (Westerville/St. Francis de Sales) and sophomores Angie Pisut (Huber Heights/Carroll) and Kaitlin Sanders (Kendallville, Ind./East Nobel) were all First Team selections.

Junior Erin Stapp (Willoughby/South) and sophomore Stacey Barnhart (Tipp City/Tippecanoe) earned Second Team All-OAC honors.

The Polar Bears also took home three of the four individual awards. Schaadt was named the Co-Defender of the Year, Pisut was the Forward of the Year and Sanders took home Midfielder of the Year honors.

Schaadt played in all 19 games and was the key part of a defense that recorded eight shutouts. Schaadt also recorded her fourth career assist this season.

This is the second time Schaadt has earned First Team honors, as she was a First Team selection a year ago.

Pisut earned All-OAC honors for the first time in her career. She 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 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.

Kaitlin Sanders
Erin Stapp
Sanders, despite missing nearly three weeks with an injury, was dominating in the midfield this season. She ended the season with a team-high eight assists and also scored her fifth career goal.

Sanders was also a First-Team All-OAC selection last season.

Stapp, finished the season second on the team with nine goals and also recoreded four assists. She played and started 16 games and scored in eight of those games.

Stapp was named OAC Player of the Week on Oct. 8 after scoring three goals in two wins over Heidelberg and Marietta.

Stacey Barnhart
Barnhart was one of the toughest midfielders in the OAC this past fall. She recorded four assists and her play in the middle third was key to ONU leading the OAC in points (127), goals (43) and assists (41).

Batman received OAC Coach of the Year honors for the first time in his four years at the helm. He guided the Polar Bears to a 12-5-2 record this season to their first OAC regular season title since 1998.

ONU was undefeated in the OAC at 8-0-1 for the first time in school history.

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