FARMVILLE, Va. – Another year, another top-three Big South finish, and another crop of newly minted all-conference Lancers.
On the heels of a six-game Big South win streak, the program's fifth No. 3 finish in the regular season, and a bid to host the quarterfinals of the upcoming Big South Championship, Longwood women's soccer placed senior defender
Kylie Cahill and rgaduate student midfielder
Madison Lockamy on the All-Big South first team and senior forward
Danielle Toone on the second team in the league's postseason awards announcement released Thursday.
Also joining Cahill, Lockamy and Toone on the conference awards list were starting freshman defender
Brooke Bonner, who earned a spot on the Big South All-Freshman Team, and graduate student midfielder
Madison Hommey, who was named to the Big South All-Academic Team.
Cahill, Lockamy and Toone gave Longwood at least three players on the All-Big South first and second teams for the seventh time in 10 years as members the conference and brought Longwood's total all-conference awards to 42 during that span. Only Radford, with 47 selections, and High Point, with 44, have amassed more all-conference awards than Longwood since the program's inaugural Big South season in 2012.
Additionally, Cahill's first-team recognition gave the Lancers an All-Big South first-team defender for the seventh consecutive year, while the defender-midfielder-forward trio of Cahill, Lockamy and Toone gave Longwood an all-conference pick at all three levels of the field for the first time since the program's Big South runner-up season in 2017. Longwood's awards haul also included honors for all three team captains in Cahill, Hommey and Lockamy.
Those Lancers have helped lead Longwood to a 7-7-4 overall record and a 6-2-2 mark in Big South play in 2021, highlighted by an eight-game unbeaten streak and a six-game winning streak in conference play. The Lancers rank among the Big South's top four in both goals per game (1.80) and goals against average (1.15) in conference play heading into the postseason, as well as second with five Big South shutouts.
Cahill's first-team recognition puts her on a pedestal of elite Longwood defenders alongside former Lancer first-team backfield standouts Taylor Alvey (2019), Natalie Massey (2012),
Carrie Reaver (2020), and Sydney Wallace (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019). As the latest in that line, Cahill has been the fulcrum of Longwood's defense at center back this season, starting 14 games and helping Longwood post five shutouts in Big South play. The All-Big South honor is her second, following the honorable mention recognition she received as a junior in 2020.
Lockamy's first-team award punctuates a standout five-year career in Farmville in which she has played in more than 80 games, made 48 starts and spent more than 4,000 minutes on the pitch. This year she has scored four goals and dished one assist, bringing her career totals to 14 goals, four assists and 32 points. Five of her goals have been game-winners, including the go-ahead strike in a 1-0 Big South win against Charleston Southern this season. The All-Big South award is the second of her career following her second-team honor as a junior in 2019.
Toone is in the midst of the best season of her collegiate career with career highs of five goals, four assists and 14 points. Each of those totals exceeds her previous three years at Longwood combined and places her among the Big South's top 10 in each category in conference play. Two of those goals were game-winners in back-to-back one-goal victories against Gardner-Webb and Campbell. The All-Big South award is the first of Toone's career and bookends a Lancer career that began with Big South All-Freshman Team honors in 2018.
Embarking on her own standout career behind Toone is Bonner, who was among the top freshmen in the Big South and top defenders overall in her debut collegiate season. A native of Lakewood, Colo., she has started 15 consecutive games entering the Big South Championship and has played every minute of all but one of those. Her contributions in the backfield have helped Longwood produce seven shutouts on the season and compile a 1.15 goals against average in Big South play.
Meanwhile, Hommey is Longwood's latest representative on the Big South All-Academic Team, earning that spot with a decorated academic and athletic resume that spans five years at Longwood. A President's List honoree as an undergraduate studying education, she graduated this past May and returned to Longwood to pursue her master's in healthy and physical education this year. The winner of the Big South's prestigious Bob McCloskey Insurance Big South Conference Graduate Fellowship, Longwood's Dan Daniel Senior Award for Scholarship and Citizenship, and a two-year team captain, she has also served multiple years as President of the Longwood Student Athlete Advisory Committee. She has also excelled on the pitch as a four-year starter who has started every game this season and 63 in her career as a center holding midfielder.
All five of those Lancers will receive their awards before this Saturday's 6 p.m. Big South Championship quarterfinal matchup against No. 6 seed Gardner-Webb at the Longwood Athletics Complex. A win over the Runnin' Bulldogs would propel the No. 3 seed Lancers to the semifinals where they would face No. 2 seed High Point in High Point, N.C.
2021 Big South Conference Women's Soccer Award Winners
First-Team All-Conference
F: Maddie Turlington, Sr., Gardner-Webb
F: Skyler Prillaman, R-Jr., High Point
F: Jessica Donald, Jr., Campbell
F: Kat Parris, Fr., Radford
MF: Emma Bushee, Sr., Campbell
MF: Brianna Oliver, Sr., Radford
•MF: Madison Lockamy, Gr., Longwood
MF: Juliette Vidal, Sr., High Point
D: Kayla Thomas, Sr., Radford
D: Alex Deperno, Soph., High Point
•D: Kylie Cahill, Sr., Longwood
D: Cazzi Norgren, Soph., Campbell
GK: Jenna Moran, Jr., Charleston Southern
Second-Team All-Conference
F: Jackie Richards, Jr., Campbell
F: Magdalena Schwarz, Jr., High Point
•F: Danielle Toone, Sr., Longwood
F: Emily Mashinski, Fr., High Point
MF: Chloe Le Franc, Sr., High Point
MF: Lily McLane, Sr., Radford
MF: Kaleigh Backlund, Fr., Campbell
MF: Gillian Oyos, Sr., UNC Asheville
D: Laney Peabody, Jr., Campbell
D: Erin Rush, Sr., Charleston Southern
D: Mary Tierney, Jr., Campbell
D: Marina Bradic, Sr., Gardner-Webb
GK: Lauren Seedlock, Sr., Radford
Honorable Mention All-Conference
Kaiya Boyd, F, Soph., UNC Asheville
Kennedy Dunnings, D, Jr., Radford
Anna Kate Highsmith, F, Fr., Winthrop
Ashley Finn, F, Soph., USC Upstate
Jenea Knight, F, Fr., Charleston Southern
All-Freshman Team
Kat Parris, F, Fr., Radford
Emily Mashinski, F, Fr., High Point
Kaleigh Backlund, MF, Fr., Campbell
Jenea Knight, F, Fr., Charleston Southern
Anna Kate Highsmith, F, Fr., Winthrop
Taylor Gardner, F, Fr., UNC Asheville
•Brooke Bonner, D, Fr., Longwood
All-Academic Team
Jessica Donald, Sr., Campbell
Lauren McDonald, Jr., Charleston Southern
Michaela Stone, Sr., Gardner-Webb
Camille Pereira, Sr., Hampton
Skyler Prillaman, R-Jr., High Point
•Madison Hommey, Gr., Longwood
Caroline Dipzinski, Sr., Presbyterian College
Brianna Oliver, Gr., Radford
Courtney O'Malley, Sr., UNC Asheville
Raegan Meyer, Soph., USC Upstate
Haley Hocking, R-Jr., Winthrop
Offensive Player of the Year
Maddie Turlington, F, Sr., Gardner-Webb
Goalkeeper of the Year
Jenna Moran, Jr., Charleston Southern
Defensive Player of the Year
Kayla Thomas, D, Sr., Radford
Freshman of the Year
Kat Parris, F, Fr., Radford
Coach of the Year
Samar Azem, Campbell
Scholar-Athlete of the Year
Jessica Donald, F, Sr., Campbell
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