UMBC

Jessica Young was an Academic All-District first team selection.

Mary Hearin was an Academic All-District second team selection.

Baltimore, Md.-Two UMBC women’s soccer players earned ESPN the Magazine 2005 Academic All-District II honors, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced recently. Sophomore forward Jessica Young (Waldorf, Md./Thomas Stone) was named to the first team, while junior back Mary Hearin (North Potomac, Md./Watkins Mill) was selected to the second team.

Young and Hearin are the first women’s soccer players in UMBC history to earn CoSIDA Academic All-District honors.

As an All-America East first team member, Young led the Retrievers with 12 goals and 25 points – both career highs – and added six game-winners in 2005. She was also the conference’s leading scorer with 0.63 goals per game and third in the league with 1.32 points per game. As a freshman in 2004, Young led the team with six goals and 16 points and was named to the America East All-Rookie Team.

Young excels in the classroom, as well, maintaining a 3.90 grade-point average, including a 4.0 last spring, and she was selected to America East’s inaugural All-Academic women’s soccer team in 2005. A political science major, she has received Dean’s List and semester honors for each of her first two semesters at UMBC, and she was a member of the America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll as a freshman. Last year, Young volunteered at YUBI Head Start in Baltimore, and she plans on returning in the spring. She was also selected to UMBC’s Leadershape conference for 2006.

Hearin scored one goal and added two assists for four points in 2005. Her lone goal came in the first round of the America East Championships, as she gave the Retrievers an early 1-0 lead over Binghamton, and she was named to the conference All-Tournament Team. She has totaled two goals, four assists and eight points in three seasons as the anchor on the backline, starting all but one game in her career. As a freshman, Hearin was both an all-conference second team and all-rookie team selection.

Off the field, Hearin has enjoyed academic success, maintaining a 3.83 GPA as a history major, and she expects to graduate in May before attending graduate school at UMBC in the fall. She is a member of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and the Golden Key International Honor Society, as well as Chi Sigma Alpha, the National College Athlete Honor Society, and her name will be published in the National Dean’s List for 2005-06. Hearin has earned academic honors for six semesters and has been on the Dean’s List four times. The president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council (SAAC), Hearin attended UMBC’s Leadershape conference in January 2004 and the NCAA Leadership Conference in May 2005. She also has mentored at Catonsville Middle School and has participated in the CHOICE program at UMBC.

The Retrievers finished the season 9-9-1 overall, including 3-4-1 in America East play and were the No. 6 seed in the conference tournament, where they fell in overtime to Binghamton, 2-1, in the first round.

2005 Academic All-District II University Division Women’s Soccer Team

First Team
GK      Erin McLeod            Penn State
M         Angela Story            Robert Morris
M         Shannon Curd          Bucknell
M         Kerry Fits-Patrick    Bucknell
D         Jennifer Krepps         Delaware
D         Jen Michewicz           Seton Hall
D         Lindsay Bach             Penn State
D         Kelly Carlsen             St. Francis (Pa.)
D         Elizabeth Bok             Duquesne
F          Jessica Young          UMBC
F          Mary Ronau               Seton Hall
F          Stephanie Vietry         Temple

Second Team
GK      Jessica Keeley            Penn
M         Maija Garnaas           Princeton
M         Megan Fenton           Seton Hall
M         Zoe Avner                 Rutgers
D         Karrie Hutchins          West Virginia
D         Kristin McHugh          Towson
D         Romy Trigg-Smith       Princeton
D         Mary Hearin            UMBC
F          Ali Andrzejewski        Loyola
F          Carolyn Cross            Penn
F          Alisha Paine               St. Joseph’s