University of Richmond Athletics
Honors Abound for Richmond Women's Soccer Player Jaclyn Raveia
12/28/2000 | Women's Soccer
RICHMOND, Va. - University of Richmond senior back Jaclyn Raveia (Fairfax, Va./W.T. Woodson) has been named to the Soccer Buzz online magazine third-team All America team. In addition, Raveia was named first-team All Mid-Atlantic region along with senior forward Brooke Sands (Dallas, Texas/Dallas Episcopal). Freshman back Edda Gardarsdottir (Reykjavik, Iceland/Briedholti) was tabbed second-team Freshman All America as well as All-Freshman Mid-Atlantic Region. Spider goalkeeper Kristen Samuhel (Chapel Hill, N.C./Chapel Hill) was named third-team All Mid-Atlantic Region.
The honors keep coming in for Raveia, who became the first Spider women's soccer player to ever garner National Soccer Coaches Association of America first-team All America accolades earlier this year. Raveia, the 1999 and 2000 CAA Defender of the Year, became just the fifth player in conference women's soccer history to garner first-team all-conference honors for four consecutive years. Raveia was also a four-time first-team Mid-Atlantic Region All-American and was tabbed first-team All-State by the Virginia Sports Information Directors all four seasons as well. In addition to assuming playmaking duties during her senior season, she marshaled a Richmond defense that posted five shutout wins and outscored opponents 36-9 in its 13 victories on the campaign. She started all 83 matches of her Richmond career and contributed four goals, ten assists and 18 points.
Sands completed her Richmond career as the program's all-time leader in career matches played (84), shots (341), goals (51) points (124) and game-winning goals (14) while ranking second among the team's career assists (22) leaders. A first-team All-CAA selection, Sands delivered a team-leading 23 points on eight goals and seven assists on the campaign. She struck for three game-winning goals and registered two multi-goal matches on the season.
Gardarsdottir made an immediate impact in her initial season, delivering nine points on two goals and five assists. Six of her nine points were scored against conference opponents. A stabilizing force at both midfield and back, she was one of three Richmond players to be named first-team All-CAA.
Samuhel recorded a 0.97 goals against average as well as a league-best .842 save percentage. A 2000 second-team All-CAA selection, Samuhel notched a 13-7-0 record between the pipes, registered five shutouts and recorded a season-high 12 saves against James Madison as well as totaling ten saves versus then-No. 22 Duke. After she turned away nine shots versus then-No. 2 Clemson, Samuhel was tabbed the conference's Player of the Week on October 2.
The 2000 campaign capped the Spiders most successful in the program's five-year history of women's soccer. Richmond posted a team-best 13-7-0 overall record, a 6-2-0 league mark and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time. In opening round action, the Spiders posted a season-high five goals in a 5-1 romp over West Virginia at UR Soccer Complex.
