King Named to NSCAA All-America Team

The NSCAA Division III Women's Soccer All-America Team

December 17, 2007 - MIAC Player of the Year Grace King (Jr., Northampton, Mass.) has been named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) / adidas All-America team. She receives third-team Division III honors after scoring 11 goals and assisting on nine others for the 10-6-1 Scots. King has been selected to the All-America third team and is the only MIAC player to receive All-America recognition.

This is the 16th straight year Macalester has landed a player of the NSCAA / adidas All-America team and over the past 22 years the Scots have had at least one selection 21 times.

King became Macalester's seventh conference Player of the Year when she led the Scots to a 7-3-1 league record and finished second in the MIAC in goals, assists and points. She either scored or assisted on 20 of her team's 32 goals. King was one of just three MIAC players to received CoSida / ESPN The Magazine Academic all-district honors.

King will enter her senior year ranked seventh on the school's all-time list goal-scoring list with 30 and ninth in career assists with 19.

Action photo by Christopher Mitchell / Sport Shot Photo

Player of the Year  - Grace King, Macalester (Jr., F, Northampton , Mass. )

Grace King Selected MIAC Player of the Year; Hormann Also Named to All-Conference Squad

The 2007 MIAC Women's Soccer Awards

November 9, 2007 – Macalester forward Grace King (Jr., Northampton, Mass.) has been named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Player of the Year and is joined on the All-MIAC squad by defender Liz Hormann (Jr., Salem, Ore. / South Salem).

King enjoyed another outstanding season and led the way for the Scots by scoring 11 goals and assisting on nine others, leading Macalester to a 10-6-1 overall record and third-place 7-3-1 conference mark. She had a hand in 20 of the team's 32 goals and in conference play ranked second in the MIAC in goals, assists and points. Just last week she was one of three MIAC players to receive CoSida / ESPN The Magazine Adademic All-District Five honors. She started off by scoring at least one goal in the season's first six games.

King will enter her senior year ranked seventh on the school's all-time list goal-scoring list with 30 and ninth in career assists with 19. She is the seventh player in the history of the program to be named MIAC Player of the Year, joining Jen Scanlon (1992 and 1994), Jennie Haire (1995), Brook Epperson (1997), Tawni Epperson (1998), Kate Ryan Reiling (1999) and Annie Borton (2005).

While King was taking care of things up front, Hormann led the charge in the back as Macalester's top defender. Hormann helped lead the Scots to three shutouts and a team goals against average of 1.00.

Macalester Soccer Players Carson Gorecki & Grace King Named to Academic All-District Five Team

November 1, 2007 - Macalester College soccer standouts Carson Gorecki (Jr., Mahtomedi, Minn.) from the men's team and Grace King (Jr., Northampton, Mass.) from the women's squad have been selected to the CoSida / ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Five team. Both are second team selections.

Gorecki is one of just eight MIAC players to receive men's all-district honors and King is one of just three MIAC picks on the women's side. This is the fourth straight year the Mac women's soccer team has had an academic all-district player. King's former teammates Katie Pastorius (2004 and 2005) and Annie Borton (2006) also received this honor. Both Macalester players are all-conference and all-region players and both are among the school's all-time scoring leaders.

The award is sponsored and voted on by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSida). To be eligible for academic all-district honors, a candidate must achieve the highest levels of success both in the classroom and on the field.  Competition is stiff because candidates are nominated from all Division II and III schools (as well as NAIA) from the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. There were well over 100 nominees on both the men's and women's ballots.

Gorecki, a Geography major with a 3.50 cumulative grade point average at Macalester, scored nine of his team's 20 goals, including the game-winner in overtime in the season-finale, and also had three assists. He led the Scots to an 8-6-4 overall record and fifth-place 5-4-1 mark. Gorecki will enter his senior season ranked ninth on Mac's all-time scoring list with 20 goals.

King, who has a double major in Hispanic Studies and American Studies, has compiled a 3.61 cumulative grade point average at Macalester. King scored 11 goals and assisted on nine others. She has been first or second in the MIAC in goals scored in each of her three years at Mac and this season led the Scots to a 10-6-1 overall record and third-place 7-3-1 MIAC mark. King will enter her senior year ranked seventh on the school's all-time career goal-scoring list with 30 and ninth on the assist list with 19.

Macalester's Grace King named to D3Kicks.com Team of the Week

Andy Johnson, Macalester Sports Information
9/26/2007

After helping the Scots defeat St. Scholastica, St. Olaf and Luther and extending the team's winning streak to six games, Macalester forward Grace King (Jr., Northampton, Mass.) has been named to the D3Kicks.com women's soccer Team of the Week.

King has also been selected MIAC Player of the Week. An all-conference selection last year, King has nine goals on the season and is now ninth on the school's all-time goal scoring list with 28. She is the second Macalester Scot to be named as an MIAC athlete of the week this fall season, joining Karla Leon from the women's golf team.

With just :32 seconds left in the second and final overtime period, King netted the game's only goal as Mac escaped with a 1-0 win over St. Scholastica on Tuesday (Sept. 18). King extended her goal-scoring streak to six games by scoring twice and assisting on another goal in a 3-1 Macalester MIAC victory Friday (Sept. 21) over St. Olaf. King also had two assists in Mac's 5-2 triumph over Luther on Sunday (Sept. 23). Though the season's first seven games she has nine goals and five assists.

This is the second time King has been presented with team of the week honors. Last year in mid-September, after scoring a hat trick against St. Thomas and scoring another goal against St. Catherine, King was named to the team of the week. It is the third time Macalester has had a selection. In addition to twice for King, former Mac standout and All-American Annie Borton was named to the D3Kicks.com team of the week early last year.

Grace King named Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the week 9-15-06

Grace King had a goal and assist to help Macalester beat St. Catherine 5-0 (Sept. 12). King then recorded her first collegiate three-goal hat trick to lead Macalester past St. Thomas 5-1 (Sept. 15). She also had an assist against the Tommies.

Grace King Earns NSCAA All-Central Region Honors

December 4, 2006 - St. Paul, Minn. -- Six Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) women's soccer student-athletes have been named to 2006 NSCAA/adidas® NCAA Division III All-Central Region Team. The NSCAA (The National Soccer Coaches Association of America) selects All-Region Teams for seven different regions nationwide with a first, second, and third team chosen for each region.

Grace King Scores Three; Scots Topple Tommies 5-1

September 15, 2006 - Grace King (So., Northampton, Mass.) netted three goals and Macalester received one goal apiece from Maggie Yates (Fy., Spokane, Wash. / Lewis & Clark) and Jennifer Vail (So., Cleveland Heights, Ohio) to beat St. Thomas 5-1 in front of a big Friday night crowd at Macalester Stadium. Annie Borton (Sr., Berkeley, Calif.) picked up three assists on the night, while King and Rose Betzler (Fy., Northfield, Minn.) had one each.

This was King's first college hat trick and fourth MIAC multi-goal game in two years. She scored twice against St. Thomas in last season's match. Macalester improves to 5-0-1 on the season and 2-0 in the MIAC. The Tommies fall to 0-3-1 overall, 0-2 in league play.

The Scots keep several impressive unbeaten streaks going, including a national-best 33-game unbeaten streak (29-0-4). The Scots are 22-0-1 at home for a 23-game Macalester Stadium unbeaten streak since a September '04 overtime defeat to the University of Chicago . Macalester is also unbeaten over the last 27 regular-season MIAC matches (25-0-2). Including playoff games, the Scots have gone unbeaten against conference rivals over their past 32 games (28-0-3).

Since 1993, Mac is 64-0-7 at home against MIAC opponents for a remarkable 71-game unbeaten streak.

St. Thomas enjoyed the upper hand for much of the game's first 30 minutes but the only score of the first half game at 41:45 when Betzler set up King. Just 2:42 into the second half, the Tommies netted the equalizer on a Jade Crepps marker. King responded just 28 seconds after the UST goal at 48:10 and at the 56:13 mark Yates tallied her second goal of the season to put Mac up 3-1. King and Vail put the finishing touches on.

This is the third time this season a Scot has registered a hat trick – Borton did it twice earlier. Macalester out-shot St. Thomas 25-7. Mac plays a non-conference match Sunday (Sept. 17) at Luther ( Ia. ) and then returns to MIAC competition next Saturday (Sept. 23) at St. Mary's.