[Photos courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- First-team selection Khloe Schuckman was one of six Washburn women's soccer players to be named to the 2022 All-MIAA teams that were released by the conference office on Wednesday.
Schuckman, a sophomore forward, earned All-MIAA honors for a second consecutive season after starting all 18 games and logging 1,346 minutes. She led the Ichabods with eight regular-season goals and added three assists.
A third-team selection as a freshman, Schuckman recorded a hat trick against Missouri Southern on Oct. 7, the first for Washburn since 2009. Schuckman finished fourth in the MIAA in shots per game, second in shots on goal per game and tied for fifth in goals and seventh in points.
Senior defender Emily Michaelis earned All-MIAA second-team honors for the second straight season.
Michaelis led all non-goalkeepers with 1,566 played this season. Michaelis led a defense that recorded seven shutouts on the season and did so while only committing seven fouls all season. Michaelis finishes her senior season by earning all-conference honors every year of her playing career as an Ichabod.
Former Washburn Rural star Belle Kennedy was awarded third-team honors as a midfielder following her freshman season as an Ichabod.
Kennedy was second on the team with six goals on the season. She has played 16 games this season, starting all 16 for a total of 1,014 minutes.
Kennedy has scored multiple goals in three games this season and was the first Washburn player to do so since Jessica Mainz in 2007. Among the MIAA she ranked ninth in goals per game over the regular sseason and was tied for fifth with three game-winning goals.
Washburn junior goalie Raegan Wells received honorable mention. Wells has played and started all 18 games and did not sit out one second of the entire regular season, accumulating 1,620 minutes.
Wells allowed just 17 goals all season, good for an average of .94 per game and made 58 total saves. Wells recorded seven solo shutouts, the most for an Ichabod since 2017. Wells has earned all-conference honors each of her three seasons played.
Carleee Thompson was named an All-MIAA honorable mention at defender. Thompson has played 1,451 minutes across 17 games with 17 starts on the season. She picked up her first career assist against Newman on Oct. 16 and helped anchor a defense that had seven shutouts with her in the lineup.
Viviana Soto-Herrera, a sophomore, received honorable mention as a midfielder. Soto-Herrera played and started all 18 games, logging 1,242 minutes. She opened the season with her first career goal on a penalty kick against Oklahoma Baptist University. Soto-Herrera finished the season with two goals and two assists as she earned all-conference recognition for the first time in her career.
Washburn opens the MIAA Tournament as the sixth seed and will travel to face the third seed Northwest Missouri State on Sunday, Oct. 30 beginning at 1 p.m.
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