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Katy Frierson Season 2011

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Katy Frierson Season 2011

PositionMIDFIELDER
Height5-5
ClassSenior
HometownHomewood, AL

2010: Hermann Trophy semi-finalist ... NSCAA All-America ... NSCAA All-South Region First Team ... TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Season ... First Team All-SEC for the third straight season ... Is the third Auburn player to be named First Team three times in a career but the first to be named it in her first three seasons ... NSCAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year ... First Team ESPN Academic All-District ... Played in and started all 21 matches ... Led the team and is was fourth in the SEC with 28 points (8 goals, 12 assists) ... 12 assists tied for third all-time at Auburn for a single season, one off the school record ... Recoreded at least one point in all 11 wins ... 63 of her 73 career points have come in Auburn wins ... Finished second in the the SEC with 12 assists ... 0.57 assists per game led the conference ... Her first three goals of the season were game winners and she finished the year with four, tying her with Sarah Steinmann for the school record with 11 for her career ... 73 career points is fifth at Auburn and she was only the 10th player in school history to crack the 50 point barrier ... 22 career goals is in a four-way tie for fifth all-time at Auburn ... 29 career assists is third all-time at Auburn ... Scored the game-winner in the 75th minute of a 2-1 win over UW-Milwaukee, beating a pair of defenders and chipping a shot over the keeper ... Named to the MKE Cup All-Tournament Team ... Scored the first goal and had two assists in the 4-0 win over Tennessee Tech to openthe season ... Scored the game-winner in the 108th minute of the 3-2, double-overtime upset of No. 5 Florida State ... It was her third goal and game-winning goal of the season ... Also had the assist on Lydia Townsend[apos]s game-tying goal in the 74th minute that made it 1-1 ... Scored in the 21st minute of the 3-0 win over Western Carolina ... Named the NSCAA National Player of the Week, the SEC Offensive Player of the Week and a CollegeSoccer360.com Primetime Performer (Sept. 6) for her efforts against No.5 Florida State and Western Carolina ... Had the second assist on Julie King[apos]s game-winning goal against Cal State Fullerton, taking the free kick that started the scoring play ... Named to the Trojan Invitational All-Tournament Team for her play against Southern Cal and Cal State Fullerton ... Had a two-point night in the 2-0 win over Samford, getting the first assist on Gabi Rivera[apos]s game-winner in the 85th minute and the second assist on Mary Coffed[apos]s goal two minutes later ... Had a three-point match against Mississippi State, netting the game-winner by sidestepping a defender at the top of the 18 in the 23rd minute and then crossing a ball into Gabi Rivera in the 79th minute that she scored on ... Scored the goal that tied the game at 1-1 in the 3-2 win at Arkansas ... Also served ina free kick that resulted in Jessica Rightmer[apos]s game-winner but did not record an assist ... Scored on a PK in the 2-1 loss at LSU ... It was the first PK she had taken at Auburn ... Had two points during the South Carolina-Florida weekend, picking up a second assist against No. 14 South Carolina and a first assist against No. 6 Florida ... Served in the corner that Jordan Miller headed in for the only goal in the 1-0 upset of the Gators ... Was held without a point in three consecutive matches (at Vanderbilt, at Kentucky, vs. Tennessee) for the first time this season ... Served in the corner that Maddie Barnes[apos] finished off in the seventh minute of Auburn[apos]s 2-1 upset win at No. 20 Georgia that vaulted Auburn to first in the SEC West ... Had the only assist on both of Auburn[apos]s goals in the 2-1, SEC West-clinching overtime win over Alabama ... Served in a free kick that Julie King headed in with 17 seconds left to send the game to overtime and then played in Ana Cate at the top of the 18 for the game winner just 3:47 into the first OT ... Named the SEC Offensive Player of the Week following the match ... Scored Auburn[apos]s lone goal in the 2-1, double-overtime loss to Georgia in the SEC Tournament ... Ranked the top player in the initial TopDrawerSoccer.com National 100 and tops in the Conference Top 20 for the SEC West (9/1) ... Soccer America Preseason All-American, Auburn[apos]s first ... Placed on the Hermann Trophy Watch List, the first for Auburn ... Preseason All-SEC midfielder ... Team captain along with Sammy Towne ... SEC Academic Honor Roll.

2009: - First Team All-SEC selection for the second straight year ... Led Auburn and was ninth in the SEC with 20 points ... Led the team in assists (10), which was third in the SEC ... Tied with Caitlin King for second on the team with five goals ... The team went 5-0-0 in games in which she has scored and 5-1-1 in matches in which she had an assist ... Three game-winners on the year ... Has collected 45 career points in 43 career matches ... ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 4 First Team ... Team Offensive MVP for the second straight season ... NSCAA All-South Region First Team ... Led the midfielders and was second on the team with 1910 minutes played ... Named to the SEC All-Tournament team after picking up a pair of assists in Auburn[apos]s 2-1, opening-round win over Ole Miss ... Had the first goal in Auburn[apos]s 3-2 win over Texas Tech ... Scored the game-winner in the 5-1 win at Mississippi State ... Served in a corner that Rebecca Howell finished off for a goal at Ole Miss ... Had her third game-winner of the year in a 2-1, come-from-behind win over Arkansas ... Had the first three-assist game of her career in a 3-0 win over Vanderbilt, collecting a first assist and a pair of second assists ... Auburn Top Tiger ... SEC Academic Honor Roll.

Spring 2008: - Invited to the US Soccer U-23 National Team training camp ... Included in the the U-20 National Team Pool ... Helped lead BUSA to a regional championship and a third-place finish at nationals.

2008: - SEC Freshman of the Year ... First Team All-SEC ... SEC All-Freshman Team ... Team Offensive MVP, Rookie of the Year and Coaches Award winner ... Soccer America All-Freshman Team ... SoccerBuzz Freshman All-American and All-Region team ... TopDrawerSoccer.com All-Rookie Second Team ... Led Auburn in goals (9) and points (25) and was third in assists (7) ... Scored four game-winning goals ... Recorded a point in five out of seven SEC wins ... All but two of her 25 points came in league play ... Starting midfielder in 19 games but has also moved up to play a forward during the run of play ... Recorded at least one point in eight out of 11 league games ... First career goal came in the 2nd minute at Vanderbilt off of a free kick ... Had two-goal games against Mississippi State, Arkansas and South Carolina ... Had six points in win over Mississippi State (2 G, 2 A) ... Two-time SEC Freshman of the Week ... Soccer America, Soccer Buzz and TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Week choice on Oct. 27 after scoring the game-winner at Georgia in the 14th minute of a 1-0 contest and then collecting the first assist on both of Auburn[apos]s goals in a 2-1 win over Tennessee ... SEC Freshman Honor Roll.

High School: - Graduated from Homewood High School ... Member of the U-23 National Team that won the 2008 Nordic Cup in Falun, Sweden ... Was the youngest player on the U-23 roster and the only one that plays for a SEC team ... Played in three of the four matches in Sweden as the US Team did not surrender a goal in four matches ... No. 7-ranked recruit in the nation by SoccerBuzz, the highest-rated recruit to sign to play at Auburn ... Played for Birmingham United 90 coached by Eric Dade ... Participated in the 2008 U20 National Team Camp, one of only a handful of 1990 birth-year players to do so ... Played extensively for the U16 and U17 National Teams, which included a trip to Argentina in 2007, starting as the center-mid in two victories over the host country ... Helped BUSA to nine state championships, two regional quarterfinal appearances and two Region 3 League Championships, captaining the team since 2004 ... Two-time NSCAA All-American ... Also played on the Alabama ODP Team from 2001-07, making the Dana Cup trip to Holland in 2007 ... Also played basketball and ran cross country at Homewood ... Member of the National Honor Society, the Beta Club, Mu Alpha Theta and the Spanish Club.

Personal: - Mary Kathryn Frierson ... Daughter of Chamele Frierson Walker and Herb Frierson ... Has a younger sister, Anna (12).

OFFENSEGPGSGAPtsShotsShot%SOGSOG%GWPK-Att
20082219972536.25022.61140-0
200922225102055.09125.45530-0
201021218122865.12329.44641-1
TOTAL6562222973156.14176.487111-1
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