NICOLE VLAHOVIC NAMED CO-PSAC PLAYER OF THE WEEK

EDINBORO, PA - Edinboro University junior forward Nicole Vlahovic (Oakville, ONT/Queen Elizabeth Park) has been named this week's Co-PSAC Women's Soccer Player of the Week Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. The junior forward receives the honor with East Stroudsburg's Justina Woolf.

Vlahovic scored two goals against 12th-ranked Slippery Rock in Edinboro's 3-0 win last Thursday, ensuring the Fighting Scots of a first-ever PSAC Playoff berth.

Vlahovic put Edinboro on the board early when she scored her 11th goal of the season just 5 minutes and 40 seconds into the match. She than added an insurance goal and her 12th this season at the 70:00 mark, tying the school record for goals in a season.

The junior forward is the team leader with a school-record 31 points, contributing 12 goals and 7 assists. Vlahovic and Jamie Tekotte (Erie, PA/McDowell) are currently tied for the goals in a season record with 12, set by Hazen in 1999. Vlahovic is also the career points leader with 80.

The Fighting Scots travel to Bloomsburg for the first round of the PSAC Playoffs on Wednesday, October 31, beginning at 1 p.m.

~ Fighting Scots ~

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Created on ... October 31, 2001