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Honors
Dykstra and Gill are Soccer Players-of-the-Week
(Week of October 15 - October 21, 2000)
Liz Dykstra of Dordt and Hastings’ Denise Gill have
been named the Great Plains Athletic Conference
(GPAC) Players-of-the-Week in women’s soccer for games played October
15-21.
Dykstra, a junior forward from Grandville, Michigan,
is the GPAC Offensive Player-of-the-Week. She scored
the lone, game-winning goal in the Defenders’ 1-0 victory over National
American SD. Dordt also rolled
to victories over Sioux Falls (7-1) and Bellevue (6-0) and Dykstra
totaled three goals and two assists for
eight points in the three wins.
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Gaskill Named NAIA National Player-of-the-Week
(Week of October 8 - October 14, 2000)
Kalie Gaskill of Dordt College (Iowa) has been named
the NAIA Women’s Soccer National Player of the Week for the week ending
October 14, 2000.
Gaskill, a senior forward from Sioux City, Iowa,
scored a point in all three matches last week as Dordt improved to 9-5
on the year. After beginning the week with a goal in a 3-2 overtime loss
to the University of South Dakota, Gaskill was involved in seven of the
14 goals that were scored over the next two games. In an 8-0 victory over
Midland Lutheran College (Neb.), Gaskill recorded four assists. She followed
that with a two-goal, one-assist performance in Dordt’s 6-1 triumph over
Concordia University (Nebraska).
Gaskill is a 1997 graduate of Sioux City North High
School. This is the second time in Kalie’s outstanding collegiate
career that she has been named NAIA National Player of the Week.
She also garnered NAIA National honors as a freshman in 1997. Kalie
is Dordt’s career goal leader with 61 and counting.
Kalie is the daughter of James and Candy Gaskill
of Sioux City, Iowa.
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Gaskill and Zommermaand are Soccer Players-of-the-Week
(Week of October 8 - October 14, 2000)
Kalie Gaskill and Kristin Zommermaand, both of Dordt,
have been named the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Players-of-the-Week
in women’s soccer for games played October 8-14.
Gaskill, a senior forward from Sioux City, Iowa
(North High School), is the GPAC Offensive Player-of-the-Week. She had
three goals and four
assists for Dordt in a 2-1 week. Gaskill dished out four assists in
an 8-0 GPAC win over Midland Lutheran and scored two goals in a 6-1 conference
triumph over
Concordia. She also had a goal as the Defenders lost to NCAA Division
II South Dakota, 3-2, in overtime. Zommermaand, a senior goalkeeper from
Maurice,
Iowa (Unity Christian High School), is the GPAC Defensive Player-of-the-Week.
She posted her fourth shutout of the season against Midland. Zommermaand
allowed three goals and recorded 12 saves in 270 minutes in goal on
the week.
Gaskill was also named NAIA Region IV Offensive
Player-of-the-Week for her efforts.
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Van Der Kooi and Miller are Soccer Players-of-the-Week
(Week of September 18 -September 23, 2000)
Jessica Miller of Nebraska Wesleyan and Dordt’s Julie
Van Der Kooi have been named the Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC)
Players-of-the-Week in women’s soccer for games played September 10-16.
Van Der Kooi is the GPAC offensive player-of-the-week
in women’s soccer. The sophomore forward from Chino, California (Ontario
Christian), had one goal and one assist as the Defenders handed Dana its
first loss of the season on the Vikings’ home field, 4-2.
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