2019 Season in Review
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2014 & 2018 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS • 10 COLLEGE CUPS (2003, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘11, ‘12, ‘13, 14, ‘15, ‘18) 2019 SEASON IN REVIEW HONORS & AWARDS MAC Hermann Trophy Malia Berkely ...........................................Semifinalist Deyna Castellanos .................................. Watch List Jaelin Howell .............................................. Watch List Yujie Zhao .................................................... Watch List All-Americans Deyna Castellanos ....United Soccer Coaches 2nd Team Malia Berkely .......United Soccer Coaches 1st Team United Soccer Coaches Atlantic All-Region Honors Deyna Castellanos ...................................First Team Malia Berkely ..............................................First Team Jaelin Howell .........................................Second Team 2019 SEMINOLE SOCCER TEAM Yujie Zhao ....................................................Third Team SEMINOLE QUICK HITS TopDrawerSoccer Best XI * Florida State earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament as a No. 1 national seed. Deyna Castellanos ...................................First Team It marked the 20th consecutive appearance in the NCAA postseason for Malia Berkely .............................................Third Team the Seminoles and their 15th straight time as a national seed in the NCAA Tournament. FSU is one of eight schools all-time at the Division I level to post a TopDrawerSoccer Freshmen Best XI streak of 20 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Six of those schools Jenna Nighswonger ...........................Second Team are on active streaks, including three from the ACC, led by North Carolina’s 38 straight from 1982-2019. All-ACC Accolades Deyna Castellanos ...................................First Team * Florida State is 55-16-11 in its last 72 games against teams in the ACC, Malia Berkely ..............................................First Team including ACC Tournament and NCAA Tournament matches. The Seminoles have Yujie Zhao .....................................................First Team an impressive 12-2-3 record in their last 15 ACC Tournament matches, earning Jaelin Howell ...............................................First Team titles in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2018. Jenna Nighswonger ...............All-Freshman Team Heather Payne .........................All-Freshman Team * The 2019 Seminoles finished with 142 points on 49 goals and 44 assists. Defensively, FSU allowed a 1.09 goals-against average and 27 total goals. Florida ACC All-Tournament Team State tallied 10 shutouts in its 24 matches, and the Noles have had at least Deyna Castellanos eight shutouts each year under head coach Mark Krikorian. All-ACC Academic Team Kristina Lynch * Florida State finished second in the regular season ACC Standings with an 8-2 Gabby Carle record, with losses against No. 1 Virginia and No. 3 North Carolina. The Noles Malia Berkely were led offensively by senior Deyna Castellanos, who had a career high 11 Jenna Nighswonger assists to go with her 12 goals. Kristen McFarland placed second on the team Heather Payne with nine goals of her own. Newcomers Jenna Nighswonger and Abbey Newton had an impact on the offensive side of the ball as well with five goals and United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-East five assists for Nighswonger and three goals and five assists for Newton.and Region Team defending National Champions Stanford and finished it off with a 1-0 win over Gabby Carle ................................................Third Team No. 3 North Carolina. CoSIDA Academic All-District Team * Deyna Castellanos earned ACC Midfielder and Offensive Player of the Year, Gabby Carle while Malia Berkely took home ACC Defender of the Year. Florida State also Kristina Lynch earned two United Soccer Coaches All-Americans - Malia Berkey (First Team) and Deyna Castellanos (second team) and placed four on the All-ACC First Team CoSIDA Academic All-American (Berkely, Castellanos, Jaelin Howell and Yujie Zhao.) Gabby Carle .................................................First Team * Florida State placed five on the All-ACC Academic Team Kristina Lynch, Gabby Carle, Malia Berkely, Heather Payne and Jenna Nighswonger PAGE 41 | 2019 SOCCER 2011, ‘13, ‘14, ‘15, ‘16, ‘18 ACC CHAMPIONS • 2009, ‘12, ‘14 ACC REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONS 2019 SEASON IN REVIEW ALL-ACC HONORS * Florida State placed six 2019 NCAA STAT LEADERS student-athletes on the All- Individual Rankings ACC team. Deyna Castallanos, Game-winning Goals Malia Berkely, Yujie Zhao and Deyna Castellanos ............................. 28th(5) Goalkeeper Minutes Jaelin Howell earned first Brooke Bollinger ..................34th (1842:23) team honors while Jenna Points Per Game Deyna Castellanos .......................37th (1.52) Nighswonger and Heather Shots Per Game Payne were named to the All- Deyna Castellanos ...................... 26th (4.13) Shots On Goal Per Game ACC Freshman Team. Deyna Castellanos ......................28th (1.96) Shutouts Caroline Jeffers .................................. 60th (7) DEYNA CASTELLANOS: A Total Assists LEGACY TO REMEMBER Deyna Castellanos ............................17th (11) Total Goals * In her four years in Deyna Castellanos .......................... 43rd (12) Tallahassee, Deyna Total Points Castellanos set the college Deyna Castellanos ..........................24th (35) soccer scene on fire. She Team Rankings finished with 48 career Assists Per Game Florida State ..................................34th (1.83) goals and 22 career assist Goals Against Average in 82 games played. She Florida State ................................. 119th (1.15) Points Per Game finished her career ranked Florida State ..................................37th (5.92) second in Florida State Scoring Offense Florida State ..................................44th (2.04) history in goals and shots Total Assists on goal and points, while Florida State ......................................23rd (44) Total Goals capping off her career as Florida State ......................................16th (49) the Seminoles’ all-time DEYNA CASTELLANOS Total Points leader in shots and game winning goals. Florida State ....................................15th (142) * Castellanos finished her last three season with double digit numbers in 2019 ACC STAT LEADERS goals, including a 19 goal performance in her sophomore season (2017). Individual Rankings Those 19 goals are the second most goals in a season for any Seminole Shots Per Game Deyna Castellanos ..........................1st (4.13) since the program began in 1995. In her senior season she brought Points Per Game something new to the table as she saw the entire field and recorded Deyna Castellanos .........................8th (1.52) Goals Per Game a career high 11 assists to go with her 12 goals. She recorded three Deyna Castellanos ......................6th (0.552) of those 11 assists to ties a FSU record in Florida State’s 5-4 win over Game-winning Goals Deyna Castellanos ...............................4th (5) Boston College. Shutouts Caroline Jeffers ........................................... 4th (7) * Castellanos’ lists of accolades in her four years in the Garnet and Gold are endless as well. As a freshman she was named to the Team Rankings Shots TopDrawerSoccer Freshman Best XI First Team, the All-ACC Second Team Florida State .....................................3rd (390) and the NSCAA All-Southeast Region First Team. The following season, Points Castellanos was selected as a top 3 finalist for the FIFA Puskas Award Florida State ...................................... 3rd (142) Goals and Best Female Player of the Year. She was also selected to the All- Florida State ........................................ 3rd (49) ACC First Team and the TopDrawerSoccer Best XI First team to go along Assists Florida State ........................................ 3rd (44) with being selected a Second Team All-American. She was once against Goals Allowed elected to All-ACC first team and as a second team All-American the next Florida State .........................................9th (27) Save Percentage year as she helped lead the Seminoles to their second National Title in Florida State ..................................12th (.658) five years. Castellanos capped off her career with her third All-ACC first Corners team honor and third second team All-American honor. She was also Florida State ......................................3rd (128) named the ACC’s Midfielder and Offensive Player of the Year. 2019 SOCCER | PAGE 42 2014 & 2018 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS • 10 COLLEGE CUPS (2003, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘11, ‘12, ‘13, 14, ‘15, ‘18) 2019 SEASON IN REVIEW 2019 FINAL UNITED SOCCER COACHES RANKINGS Rank Team Last Week 1 Stanford .....................................................1 2 North Carolina ........................................2 3 UCLA ............................................................ 7 4 Washington State ............................. RV 5 BYU ..............................................................4 6 South Carolina .......................................5 7 Florida State ........................................6 8 USC ..............................................................9 9 Virginia .......................................................3 10 Wisconsin ...............................................10 11 Kansas ..................................................... 11 12 Arkansas ...................................................8 13 Penn State .............................................18 14 Santa Clara ...........................................20