TAMPA, Fla. (September 16, 2024) – The American Athletic Conference announced its weekly accolades on Monday. The University of South Florida was represented by three student-athletes.
Georgia Brown was named the AAC Defensive Player of the Week, while
Leire Herraez Gallach and
Anna Sutter earned spots on the AAC Honor Roll.
Brown scored the match-winning goal against Stetson. She played a key role in back-to-back shutouts for the Bulls. She played all 180 minutes on the backline of the South Florida defense. She produced two shots on goal for the week with a .667 shots-on-goal percentage.
Sutter recorded one of the two USF goals for the week. She posted four shots on goal and notched a shots-on-goal percentage of .571. She played 101 minutes on the week, 64 in a draw at Charlotte and 37 in the win over Stetson.
Leire Herraez Gallach posted a 1-0-1 record for the week. She recorded two clean sheets on the week. She made three saves on the road at Charlotte and added two saves in the victory against Stetson.
Next Up
South Florida returns to the pitch on Thursday, September 19, as Rice makes the trip to Tampa. The match is slated for a 7 p.m. first touch.
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The 2024 season will be the first with Chris Brown at the helm. He spent the last 17 seasons as the associate head coach. Brown helped lead the Bulls to three AAC regular season titles, three AAC Tournament titles, and eight NCAA Tournament appearances – winning a conference title every year from 2017-21 while making five straight NCAA appearances during that period. Brown helped lead the Bulls to their first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 2010, a program-record 16 wins and program-best NCAA Tournament third-round appearance in 2019, both conference regular season and tournament titles in 2020, and a string of 10 straight seasons with 10 or more wins (2012-21). Brown has helped lead the Bulls to every NCAA appearance in program history, including two appearances in the second round, and three AAC Championship Game appearances.
As associate head coach, he mentored the program's first All-American and recent USF Athletic Hall of Fame inductee Evelyne Viens, who went on to earn three total All-America honors and an Olympic gold medal with the Canadian National Team at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo. Goalie Sydney Martinez (2020) and forward Sydny Nasello (2020 and 2021) also earned All-America honors and were among the Bulls that have earned a total of eight AAC Offensive Player of the Year, AAC Midfielder of the Year, AAC Defensive Player of the Year or AAC Goalkeeper of the Year honors. Players he has coached hold every program's individual record and most, if not all, of the top 10 marks in every category.
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