PENSACOLA, Fla. — Mississippi State soccer capped its best-ever regular season with an unprecedented haul of Southeastern Conference individual awards, including the coach, defender and midfielder of the year.
Head coach James Armstrong was given the Coach of the Year award, his first since joining the Bulldogs six years ago.
Armstrong’s team had nine players taking home awards or All-Conference recognition. Goalkeeper of the Year went to Maddy Anderson, Defender of the Year to Rylie Combs and Midfielder of the Year to Macey Hodge.
The three recipients joined Ally Perry on the All-SEC First Team while Zoe Main, Ilana Izquierdo and Alexis Gutierrez made the Second Team, Aitana Martinez-Montoya the Third Team and Kennedy Husbands the All-Freshman Team.
The Bulldogs are 16-1, 10-0 in the SEC, and enter the SEC tournament as the No. 1 seed. The Bulldogs have hopes of doing the same in the NCAA tournament later this month, but first up is a date with No. 9 seed Tennessee in the quarter finals.
The Bulldogs and Volunteers face off on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. The match will air on SEC Network.
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