September 4, 2012
Katie Vanden Avond - Forward - St. Norbert College
Sophomore - De Pere, Wis.
Vanden Avond picked up right where she left off last season with a 16-point weekend, scoring seven goals and two assists. Vanden Avond, who led Division III with 28 goals last year, scored four goals and two assists in a 10-point game in a 10-2 win over Lakeland Saturday. In a 5-4 win over Edgewood on Sunday, Vanden Avond posted a hat trick including the game-winning goal with 4:30 left in regulation time. 

September 10, 2012
Sarah Skaggs - Midfield - Illinois College
Sophomore - St. Charles, Mo.
Skaggs scored a goal and dished out two assists in Illinois College’s 4-0 win over visiting Blackburn College on Saturday. Skaggs’ two assists gave her seven for the season, which ties the Illinois College record for assists in a season, just five matches into the 2012 campaign.

September 17, 2012
Keli Muchowski - Forward - Lawrence University
Sophomore - Neenah, Wis.
Muchowski scored three goals and picked up an assist as Lawrence posted a 2-0 record on the week. In a 3-0 victory over Illinois College, Muchowski scored a pair of goals. She scored in the 15th minute to give Lawrence a 2-0 lead and sealed the victory with a goal in the 75th minute. In a 4-1 victory over Knox, Muchowski scored in the 19th minute to put the Vikings up 1-0 and then assisted on Anne Leung’s goal in the 55th minute. On the season, Muchowski has four goals and one assist.

September 24, 2012
Michelle Greeneway - Forward - Lake Forest College
Freshman - Sheboygan, Wis.
Greeneway recorded her fist career hat trick and added an assist in Lake Forest’s 5-1 victory at Lawrence University on Saturday. She contributed to the Foresters’ fast start to the game by scoring at 2:36 and 14:49 and assisting on a goal at 18:37. She completed the hat trick 50 seconds into the second half and now leads the Foresters with 17 points on six goals and five assists this season.

October 1, 2012
Lauren Kellen - Forward - Monmouth College
Sophomore - Mendota, Ill.
Sophomore Lauren Kellen had one of the best offensive games in the history of Fighting Scots women’s soccer, netting four goals as Monmouth defeated Cornell 6-1 for its first MWC win of the season. Kellen got behind the defense on a pair of breakaways to finish off a through ball and netting a header to improve her season total to nine goals. The only other Monmouth player to net four goals in a game was Amy Horneck who scored five in 2002 and four in 2005.

October 8, 2012
Brandi Peltier - Forward - Ripon College
Sophomore - Neosha, Wis.
Peltier had a record-breaking week last week, scoring seven goals in Ripon’s two games. That included a six-goal performance in a 10-0 win over Finlandia, which broke the school record for most goals in a single game. She added one goal in Ripon’s 3-2 loss at Illinois College, giving her 15 goals on the season, which ranks second in the MWC.

October 15, 2012
Sarah Tennant - Midfielder - Carroll University
Junior - Geneva, Ill.
Tennant scored three goals last week to lead the Carroll University women’s soccer team to victories over Beloit College and St. Norbert College. The junior from Geneva, Ill. scored 2 goals in CU’s 6-0 win over the Buccaneers then netted the game winner in a 1-0 victory over the Green Knights.

October 22, 2012
Katie Vanden Avond - Forward - St. Norbert College
Sophomore - De Pere, Wis.
Vanden Avond scored six goals during St. Norbert’s 2-0 week in a 3-1 win over Cornell and in a key 4-3 win over Grinnell. Vanden Avond, who had the game-winning penalty kick against Grinnell, scored a hat trick in each game to give her six this season. Vanden Avond has 24 goals on the season, along with seven game-winning goals.

October 29, 2012
Ashley Reynoso - Forward - Monmouth College
Senior - Burbank, Ill.
Reynoso delivered the two biggest goals of her career on Saturday as Monmouth defeated Grinnell 2-1 to clinch a berth in the Midwest Conference playoffs. Reynoso’s goal in the 57th minute put the Fighting Scots ahead 1-0 in the must-win game, and she then delivered the game-winner 27 seconds after the Pioneers had tied the score with 11:35 to play. On Wednesday, Reynoso added an assist on Monmouth’s first goal in a 3-1 win at Beloit. Reynoso’s performance has helped the Scots to a school-record six game win streak and their second appearance in the MWC Tournament in three years.