With the women\u2019s college soccer season kicking off later this week, here is a look at the numerical trends behind the players who have won the TDS Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n
More: TDS Women\u2019s Player of the Year History<\/a><\/p>\n 0 – No freshman has ever won the award.<\/p>\n 0 – No goalkeeper has ever won the award.<\/p>\n 1 – One winner has gone on to win a World Cup Medal. Morgan Brian won the World Cup with the USWNT in 2015 & 2019.<\/p>\n 1 – One winner has gone on to win an Olympic Gold Medal. Korbin Albert won the Olympic Gold with the USWNT in 2024.<\/p>\n 1 – Only one defender has ever won the award. That was Kadeisha Buchanan in 2016 after her impressive center back play led West Virginia to a fairy tale College Cup final.<\/p>\n 2 – Two sophomores have won the award. Korbin Albert of Notre Dame<\/a> in 2022 and Catarina Macario of Stanford<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n 2 – Two players have won the award twice. Morgan Brian (Virginia<\/a> 2013 & 2014) and Catarina Macario (Stanford<\/a> 2018 & 2019).<\/p>\n 2 – Two winners went on to be No. 1 NWSL draft picks. Morgan Brian was selected by the Houston Dash in 2015 and Andi Sullivan by the Washington Spirit in 2018.<\/p>\n 3 – A Stanford<\/a> Cardinal won the award three years in a row starting with Andi Sullivan in 2017 and Cataria Macario in 2018 & 2019.<\/p>\n 3 – Three POTY winners have gone on to become senior internationals for other countries. Teresa Noyola (Stanford<\/a>\u00a02011) went on to make 40 appearances for Mexico. Kadeisha Buchanan (West Virginia<\/a> 2016) has played 154 matches for Canada. Rocky Rodriguez (Penn State<\/a> 2015) has earned 107 caps for Costa Rica.<\/p>\n 3 – Three recipients have also won the TDS Freshman of the Year award. Morgan Brian won the rookie award in 2011, Andi Sullivan in 2014, and Catarina Macario in 2017.<\/p>\n 4 – Four juniors have won the award. Kate Faasse<\/a> of North Carolina<\/a> in 2024, Lexi Missimo of Texas<\/a> in 2023, Catarina Macario of Stanford<\/a> in 2019, and Morgan Brian of Virginia<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n 4 – Stanford<\/a> leads the way with four trophies spread between Catarina Macario winning twice, preceded by Andi Sullivan and Teresa Noyola. Virginia<\/a> and Penn State<\/a> are tied for second with two each.<\/p>\n 4 – There have been four winners born outside of the United States. Teresa Noyola (Mexico), Rocky Rodriguez (Costa Rica), Kadeisha Buchanan (Canada), Catarina Macario (Brazil).<\/p>\n 6 – Number of players who won the award and national championship in the same season. Teresa Noyola (Stanford<\/a> 2011), Raquel Rodriguez (Penn State<\/a> 2015), Andi Sullivan (Stanford<\/a> 2017), Catarina Macario (Stanford<\/a> 2019), Kelsey Turnbow (Santa Clara<\/a> 2020), Kate Faasse<\/a> (North Carolina<\/a> 2024).<\/p>\n 7 – The domestic winners were born in seven different states. Arizona is the only one represented twice (Kelsey Turnbow & Kate Faasse<\/a>). The others are Hawaii (Andi Sullivan), Utah (Mikayla Colohan), Illinois (Korbin Albert), Texas (Lexie Missimo), Georgia (Morgan Brian), Maryland (Christine Nairn).<\/p>\n 8 – Eight seniors have won the award, the most of any class. Teresa Noyola (Stanford<\/a> 2011), Christine Nairn (Penn State<\/a> 2012), Morgan Brian (Virginia<\/a> 2014), Raquel Rodriguez (Penn State<\/a> 2015), Kadeisha Buchanan (West Virginia<\/a> 2016), Andi Sullivan (Stanford<\/a> 2017), Kelsey Turnbow (Santa Clara<\/a> 2020) and Mikayla Colohan (BYU<\/a> 2021).<\/p>\n 9 – Eight schools have had a player win the award. Stanford<\/a> (4), Virginia<\/a> (2), Penn State<\/a> (2), Notre Dame<\/a> (1), BYU<\/a> (1), Santa Clara<\/a> (1), Texas<\/a> (1), West Virginia<\/a> (1), North Carolina<\/a> (1).<\/p>\n 14 – There have been 14 recipients of the award, starting with Teresa Noyola in 2011.<\/p>\n 32 – The 32 goals Catarina Macario scored in 2019 are the most by a winner in a single season. Her 23 assists from the same year also set the record as did the 87 points garnered.<\/p>\n 193 – Number of appearances the winners have made for the U.S. Women\u2019s National Team. Christine Nairn (Penn State<\/a> 2012) – 2, Catarina Macario (Stanford<\/a> 2018 & 2019) – 25, Korbin Albert (Notre Dame<\/a> 2022) – 26, Andi Sullivan (Stanford<\/a> 2017) – 52, Morgan Brian (Virginia<\/a> 2013 & 2014) – 88.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the women\u2019s college soccer season kicking off later this week, here is a look at the numerical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-61754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}