Dec. 7, 2001
Two Bulldogs Earn All-America Honors
The Truman women's soccer program tripled the number of all-America performers the program has produced. Senior goalkeeper Emily Huyck (Omaha, Neb./Westside) and junior defender Jennifer Buscher (Oakville, Mo./Notre Dame) became the second and third Bulldogs to earn all-America status.
Huyck was named to the second-team, while Buscher was placed on the third-team.
Huyck finished the year with a 0.40 goals against average and 14 shutouts.
She broke the school record for career shutouts when she recorded her 41st vs. Southwest Baptist on Oct. 26 and finished her career with 43 shutouts. Huyck again set a new MIAA standard for single season minutes this year at 1878:32, breaking her old mark of 1752:48 set in 1999. She also holds the conference record for career minutes (5,869:12).
Huyck is now fourth in saves (3000) and second in games played (69) among school career leaders.
Heading into her senior campaign, Huyck had already put her name in the NCAA record book. She shares the NCAA record for single season solo shutout percentage of 0.74 after holding 14 of 19 teams scoreless during the 1999 season. Huyck's 14 shutouts that year is the third-best single season total in Division II. Among DII single-season leaders, Huyck also posted the 10th-best goals-against average, allowing just seven tallies in '99 for a goals against average of 0.36.
In 2000, Huyck charted 13 shutouts in 19 contests which was good for the eighth-best shutout percentage (.068) and the 10th-most total shutouts in a season for DII.
From Sept. 17 to Oct. 29, 2000, she played 955:21 scoreless minutes, the third longest time in NCAA Division II by a netminder without allowing a goal. Huyck also went 871:33 minutes from Oct. 9, 1999, to Sept. 2, 2000, without allowing a goal, the fifth-longest streak in DII.
Buscher was instrumental in the Bulldog defense that allowed just eight goals all year and posted a total of 15 shutouts. She was a first-team all-MIAA and all-region pick this year en route to her first all-America honors.
In 1997, forward Jocelyn Parisi became the first Bulldog to earn all-America status when she was placed on the second-team by the soccer coaches after Truman made its first NCAA postseason appearance.
The Truman women's soccer team finished the 2001 season with an 18-3 record and hosted the second-round and quarterfinal games of the NCAA Division II women's soccer tournament. The Bulldogs also claimed their third-straight Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association title.