Ange Bradley Voted as the BIG EAST Conference Coach of the Year

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - First-year Syracuse field hockey coach Ange Bradley was voted as the BIG EAST Conference Coach of the Year, the league announced at its annual field hockey awards banquet Friday night. Back Leigh Fawcett was selected to the conference’s first-team and senior forward Gloria Nantulya was named to the second-team.

This is Bradley’s third coach of the year award in the past seven years. She earned Atlantic-10 Coach of the Years honors twice while at Richmond in 2001 and 2004. Bradley garnered BIG EAST Accolades after guiding Syracuse to a 12-6 overall record during the regular season. Under Bradley’s tutelage, the Orange also went 3-3 in BIG EAST play. SU’s 12 overall wins and three league victories are the most by a Syracuse team since it won 16 games overall including five conference contests in 2001.

Bradley’s first season with the Orange has been one for the record books. Syracuse won its season opener for the first time since 2002 and was 2-0 for the first time since 2001. SU’s success continued as the Orange went 5-0 for the first time since 1997 and the 7-1 mark was the best since 1990. Syracuse is in the BIG EAST Championship for the first time since 2005 and the Orange’s No. 18 national ranking on October 9 and 16 was its highest since October 12, 2004.

Fawcett has been a center figure to Syracuse’s success this season. The graduate student’s 15 assists are second all-time on SU’s single-season chart, only one behind Maggie Fitzpatrick (1988). Fawcett was named to the BIG EAST Honor Roll twice this season.

Fawcett (15) and freshman midfielder Maggie Befort (11) are also only the second pair of SU players to record 11 or more assists in the same season. Fitzpatrick tallied a school record 16 assists and Sherri Magsam had 14 assists in 1988.

She began the season by scoring two goals in the 4-3 come-from-behind overtime win against Maine and also notched two assists in a 4-3 victory versus Central Michigan. Fawcett tallied a school record-tying three assists in SU’s 5-0 win against St. Louis and registered one goal and two assists in Syracuse’s 8-1 victory against Georgetown. Most recently she tallied two assists in wins against Villanova and Yale.

Nantulya‘s move to the offensive end of the field has helped the Orange offense explode. Her 30 points on 11 goals and eight assists rank eighth all-time on SU’s single-season points list. Nantulya was named the Offensive Player of the Week once and to the BIG EAST Honor Roll twice.

Nantulya (30) and Befort (35) are only the second pair of Syracuse players to record 30 or more points in the same season. Yvonne Milionis tallied a school record 48 and Kelly Larkin registered 33 in 1990.

The senior tallied both of SU’s goals in the Orange’s 2-1 triumph of Rutgers. She notched one goal and an assist in SU’s 3-1 victory at No. 12 American. Nantulya also tied a school record with three assists to go along with one goal in the 8-1 victory against Georgetown. The senior ended the season with a three-point (1G, 1A) performance against sixth-ranked Connecticut.

The Orange hosts BIG EAST regular-season champion No. 4 Connecticut in one of the BIG EAST Semifinals on Saturday, November 3 at 1 p.m. No. 11 Louisville and No. 20 Providence compete in the other semifinal at J.S. Coyne Stadium at 11 a.m.

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Ange Bradley Voted as the BIG EAST Conference Coach of the Year

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