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Big Ten CommunicationsPublished: 9/3/2024, Last updated: 9/3/2024
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Penn State, Indiana, Iowa Earn Women’s Soccer Weekly Awards

Nittany Lions’ MacBean, Hoosiers’ Snead and Hawkeyes’ Enneking and Parten garner weekly accolades

Offensive Player of the Week
Kaitlyn MacBean, Penn State 
RS-Sr. – F – Excelsior, Minn. - Major: Biobehavioral Health 

  • Scored all five goals for Penn State last week in a 3-1 win over West Virginia, followed by a 2-1 road win against No. 19 Saint Louis 

  • Recorded her third and fourth multi-goal matches in her career 

  • With her pair of goals at Saint Louis, MacBean took sole ownership of the No. 3 spot in the Penn State record book for consecutive matches with a goal, finding the back of the net in each of her last eight appearances, dating back to last year’s NCAA Tournament run 

  • Earns the first Offensive Player of the Week honor of her career 

  • Last Penn State Offensive Player of the Week: Penelope Hocking (Sept. 27, 2022) 

 

Defensive Player of the Week
Avery Snead, Indiana 
Gr. – D – Wrentham, Mass. – Major: Business Management 

  • Played 149 minutes with one goal, one assist, three points and 1.00 shots on goal percentage in Indiana’s 1-0-1 week 

  • Scored her second goal of the season unassisted to put the Hoosiers up 3-0 in an eventual 6-0 win over Wright State. It was Indiana’s second shutout win of the season 

  • Assisted on the equalizer in the 54th minute in a 1-1 draw at Brown  

  • Last Indiana Defensive Player of the Week: Piper Coffield (Oct. 17, 2023) 

 

Goalkeeper of the Week
Macy Enneking, Iowa  
Gr.  – GK – Hillard, Ohio – Master’s: Sport and Recreation Management 

  • Enneking earns her second-straight Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Week honor after she didn’t allow a goal against FGCU or No. 18 Wake Forest in a 2-0 week for the RV Hawkeyes  

  • Made three saves against the Demon Deacons and Iowa did not allow a shot on goal vs. FGCU  

  • Enneking has not allowed a goal in any second half this season and has shut out three straight opponents 

  • Earns her fourth career weekly honor  

  • Last Iowa Goalkeeper of the Week: Macy Enneking (Aug. 27, 2024) 

 

Freshman of the Week
Berit Parten, Iowa 
F – St. Paul, Minn. – Major: Pre-Physical Therapy 

  • Began the week with a goal against FGCU. Parten tallied five shots with two shots on goal against the Eagles  

  • Tallied two goals against No. 18 Wake Forest, the only two goals scored in the game 

  • Parten leads the Hawkeyes in points, shots, shots on goal and goals 

  • Last Iowa Freshman of the Week: Kenzie Rolling (Aug. 24, 2021) 

 

2024 Big Ten Women’s Soccer Players of the Week

Aug. 20 
O: Sarah Weber, Sr., Nebraska 
D: Justina Gaynor, Gr., Michigan State 
GK: Molly Pritchard, Jr., Ohio State  
F: Caroline Birdsell, Minnesota 
Aug. 27  
Co-O: Khyah Harper, Sr., Minnesota 
Co-O: Kailyn Dudukovich, Sr., Ohio State 
D: Lilly Reale, Sr., UCLA 
GK: Macy Enneking, Gr., Iowa 
F: Regan Moody, Illinois 
Sept. 3 
O: Kaitlyn MacBean, RS-Sr., Penn State 
D: Avery Snead, Gr., Indiana 
GK: Macy Enneking, Gr., Iowa 
F: Berit Parten, Iowa