North Vancouver’s Emma Pringle was named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Freshman of the Year after putting together a superb rookie season with the Simon Fraser University women’s soccer team.
Pringle was also named a GNAC first-team all-star for her work with the Clan. The Windsor secondary grad scored nine goals in 16 conference games, placing her second in the conference and giving her more than twice as many goals as the next highest scorer on her team.
Pringle scored the team’s first four goals of the season and kept rolling throughout the campaign, notching game-winning goals in consecutive matches in the second-to-last week of the season to help SFU clinch a berth in the GNAC championship tournament for the first time in team history.
The Clan will face GNAC regular season champions Western Washington in semifinal action Thursday at 7 p.m. at SFU’s Terry Fox Field. The Vikings wrapped up the regular season schedule with an unbeaten record of 17-0-1, finishing with a 17-match winning streak. They defeated the Clan 1-0 in the only meeting between the two teams.
The championship final is set for Nov. 5 at 1 p.m. at Terry Fox Field where the winner will earn an automatic berth into the NCAA West Region post-season tournament.
