PENSACOLA, Fla. — Auburn soccer senior Anna Haddock highlights the Tigers’ yearly conference award-winners as the 2024 SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year and a member of the All-SEC First Team, the league office announced Sunday. Defender LJ Knox and forward Olivia Woodson were also recognized as second team members.
It is the first time since 2021 that three Auburn players were recognized at once.
Haddock earns Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the second season in a row, marking the fifth time an Auburn player has won the award. She joins Casie Ramsier as the only Auburn woman to win it multiple times (2015, 16).
The Bowling Green, Kentucky native earned her undergraduate degree in business management in three years, graduating in the spring of 2023 with a 3.97 cumulative grade point average. She received a minor in human resource management. Haddock is working toward her Master of Business Administration in the Harbert College of Business. Her graduate GPA is 3.77.
It is Haddock’s fourth time being named to an All-SEC team, and her second time on the first team (2021). On the field, she’s tallied five goals, including four game-winners, and a whopping 11 assists. One more assist will set a new Auburn career record as the 43rd of her career.
In her second season as a starting center back, Knox makes her first appearance as an All-SEC player. As a leader of the back line, Knox has stymied the opposing attack from August to November. She limited opponents to two shots on goal or less in six of the Tigers’ 10 conference matches during the regular season, including shutouts against Florida, Ole Miss, LSU and Kentucky. One more shutout would see the Tigers set a new single-season program record with their 13th of the year.
Knox leads the Auburn field players with nearly 1,600 minutes of playing time in 2024. She has played the full 90 minutes in 14 of 18 matches this season.
One of the most dangerous attacking threats in the league, Woodson, also earned her way to all-conference for the first time in her young career. With 10 goals and three assists, she has tallied a team-leading 23 points in just her second year on The Plains. This season, Woodson has banked two game-winners against No. 17 Ohio State and at LSU while also recording three braces.
Woodson is the first Auburn player with a 10-goal season since Kristen Dodson in 2016.
Auburn opens the 2024 SEC Soccer Tournament on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 2 p.m. CT against LSU.