{"id":134225,"date":"2025-09-10T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134225\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T17:14:13","slug":"ingleton-named-big-12-defensive-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/134225\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingleton Named Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (Sept. 10, 2025) \u2013 After helping the Mountaineers earn a shutout last week, junior defender <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/nyema-ingleton\/19011\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19011\" target=\"_blank\">Nyema Ingleton<\/a> has been named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week, as announced by the league on Wednesday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe accolade marks the first Big 12 weekly honor of Ingleton&#8217;s career, while she is the first Mountaineer to be tabbed the defensive player of the week since <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/annika-leslie\/17972\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"17972\" target=\"_blank\">Annika Leslie<\/a> on Oct. 9, 2024. The weekly award also marks the second for WVU this season, after redshirt junior goalkeeper <a href=\"https:\/\/wvusports.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/bailey-herfurth\/19010\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"19010\" target=\"_blank\">Bailey Herfurth<\/a> earned West Virginia&#8217;s first honor on Sept. 3 as the goalkeeper of the week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nA native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Ingleton helped the Mountaineer defense tally its fourth shutout of the season in a 3-0 win over Army on Sept. 6. She played all 90 minutes in the match, marking her second straight game playing the full 90 minutes. Ingleton and the WVU defense held the Black Knights to just three shots and zero shots on goal, marking the second time this season that West Virginia has denied a team a shot on frame in a match.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWith four games this season playing 80 or more minutes, Ingleton leads the team with 500 minutes played so far this year.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopwvu.com\/x-5314_s=bm-wvu_nil_players_shop&amp;utm_source=wvu&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_term=wvu_nil_players_shop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WSOC25 Gear Banner 1920x300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1920_x_300-wsoc_gear.png\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"1920\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUp next, West Virginia begins a four-game road swing with its nonconference finale at Marshall on Thursday, Sept. 11. Kickoff at Hoops Family Field in Huntington, W.Va., is tabbed for 7 p.m. ET and will be broadcast on ESPN+.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFor more information on the Mountaineers, follow @WVUWomensSoccer on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wvuwomenssoccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WVUWomensSoccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wvuwomenssoccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; MORGANTOWN, W.Va. 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