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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 12, 2007

2007 All-ACC Men’s Soccer Teams Announced

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Wake Forest led all schools with five honorees on this year’s All-Conference teams as announced Monday. The No. 1 ranked Demon Deacons, which have topped the Soccer America Top 25 poll eight of the 11 weeks this season, picked up four first-team ACC selections.

All ACC men’s soccer programs were represented on this year’s All-ACC first-, second- and All-Freshman teams. In addition to Wake Forest placing multiple student-athletes to the all-league teams, Boston College, which captured the ACC regular season title and earned the top seed at the upcoming ACC Men’s Soccer Tournament, had four first- and second-team picks.

Boston College, which earned two individual titles, and Duke earned two first-team selections apiece. Head coach Ed Kelly, who led the Eagles to a 7-1-0 ACC mark en route to collecting the league’s regular season crown, was named the 2007 ACC Coach of the Year. In addition, Eagles’ midfielder was tabbed the Offensive Player of the Year. The junior posted 74 shots, seven goals, including four game- winners for the Eagles, in 17 games on the 2007 season.

Maryland defender was named the 2007 ACC Defensive Player of the Year as the sophomore from Dallas, Texas, has led the Terrapins to a 10-match unbeaten streak to conclude the regular season. The Terps are 7-0-3 during that stretch with four straight wins, three of them in ACC action.

Rookie midfielder captured Freshman of the Year honors for the Demon Deacons. Bone ranks fourth in the ACC in assists per game (0.50).

Duke leads all ACC schools in all-time All-Freshman honors as the Blue Devils have recorded ten All-Freshman selections. Duke, in addition to Boston College and Wake Forest, added two rookies to this year’s list.

For complete coverage of the 2007 ACC Men’s Soccer Championship, please visit TheACC.com and make sure to check out the 2007 ACC Men’s Soccer Championship page. All games throughout the tournament are available online through ACCSelect.com, while the championship game will be nationally-televised on Fox Sports Net. The ACC men’s soccer awards ceremony will be immediately following the title game.

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2007 All-ACC First Team

Cody Arnoux ...... Forward ...... Wake Forest Reuben Ayarna ...... Midfielder ...... Boston College Alejandro Bedoya ...... Midfielder ...... Boston College Sam Cronin ...... Midfielder ...... Wake Forest Brian Edwards ...... Goalkeeper ...... Wake Forest ...... Forward ...... Duke Stephen King ...... Midfielder ...... Maryland ...... Forward ...... Virginia Tech Pat Phelan ...... Defender ...... Wake Forest Yannick Reyering ...... Forward ...... Virginia Michael Videira ...... Midfielder ...... Duke

2007 All-ACC Second Team

Jeremy Barlow ...... Midfielder ...... Virginia Chris Brown ...... Goalkeeper ...... Boston College El Hadj Cisse ...... Forward ...... NC State Robert Edmans ...... Forward ...... Virginia Tech Omar Gonzalez ...... Defender ...... Maryland Jeremy Hall ...... Midfielder ...... Maryland Tim Jepson ...... Defender ...... Duke Sherron Manswell ...... Forward ...... Boston College Ben Nason ...... Midfielder ...... Virginia Tech Andre Sherard ...... Defender ...... North Carolina Marcus Tracy ...... Forward ...... Wake Forest

2007 All-ACC Freshmen Team

Corben Bone ...... Midfielder ...... Wake Forest Shawn Chin ...... Forward ...... Boston College Tyler Deric ...... Goalkeeper ...... North Carolina Tommy Drake ...... Midfielder ...... Clemson Cole Grossman ...... Midfielder ...... Duke Christian Ibeagha ...... Defender ...... Duke Tyler Lassiter ...... Defender ...... NC State ...... Defender ...... Wake Forest Karl Reddick ...... Midfielder ...... Boston College James Shupp ...... Defender ...... Virginia Tech Rodney Wallace ...... Defender ...... Maryland

2007 Offensive Player of the Year Alejandro Bedoya ...... Midfielder ...... Boston College

2007 Defensive Player of the Year Omar Gonzalez ...... Defender ...... Maryland

2007 Freshman of the Year Corben Bone ...... Midfielder ...... Wake Forest

2007 Coach of the Year Ed Kelly ...... Boston College