{"id":896909,"date":"2026-09-15T17:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896909\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:54:11","slug":"phillips-named-top-drawer-soccer-team-of-the-week-honorable-mention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896909\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips named Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week Honorable Mention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">MURFREESBORO, Tenn. \u2013 Junior midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/hailey-phillips\/14782\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14782\" target=\"_blank\">Hailey Phillips<\/a> has been named as an honorable mention to the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Week for Sept. 15, the organization announced Tuesday.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhillips recorded the first brace of her collegiate career when she scored her second and third goals of the 2026 campaign against Evansville on Sept. 10. The Sammamish, Wash., native also recorded career highs in shots (4) and shots on goal (3), a tally she then replicated against on Sept. 13 at Tennessee Tech.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe midfielder, who transferred from Troy, is having her best collegiate season to date, with three goals and one assist for seven points. Her first goal for the Blue and White came\u00a0against Southern Indiana on Aug. 16, marking the second game winner of her career after she clinched the match for Troy against Lipscomb on Sept. 1, 2024.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Middle Tennessee No. 5 is one of six Blue Raiders to start all 10 games of the season so far (<a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/hannah-murphy\/14054\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14054\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Murphy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/megan-carroll\/14047\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14047\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Carroll<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/mya-stenehjem\/14063\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14063\" target=\"_blank\">Mya Stenehjem<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/jess-gray\/14050\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14050\" target=\"_blank\">Jess Gray<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/saachi-bureau\/15395\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15395\" target=\"_blank\">Saachi Bureau<\/a>) and is currently tied for second on the team for goals and points\u00a0and tied for third on the team for assists.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMTSU has\u00a0posted its best record in non-conference play in program history so far, currently at 7-1-2 through 10 games.\u00a0They also are on a three-game winning streak, which is their first of 2026 and first since Nov. 2, 2025, when they defeated FIU (1-0) after taking down UTEP (Oct. 16, 4-0) and Kennesaw St. (Oct. 19, 1-0) consecutively.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPhillips&#8217; recognition is the first in her career.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe full team of the week is listed below:<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGK Sarah McFarland, Bucknell<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nD Izzi Stratton, North Carolina<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nD Summer Sofonia<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nD Maylen Montoya<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nM Chloe Brecht<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nM Kayla Briggs<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nM Lucie Platt, Stephen F. Austin<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nM Kennedy Ball, Arkansas (w)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nF Katie Shea Collins, Duke<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nF Addyson Earl, Quinnipiac<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nF Sophie Reale, Boston College<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHonorable Mention: GK Addison Israel (Merrimack), D Madeline Oliver (Florida International), D Kylie Bahr (Texas Tech), D Nette-Nina Hiltunen (Ohio State), M Hattie Yugovich (Akron), M <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/hailey-phillips\/14782\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14782\" target=\"_blank\">Hailey Phillips<\/a> (Middle Tennessee), M Lia Peterson (CSUN), M Mia Katchouni (Marist), F Skylar Miller (Houston), F Hope Leyba (Colorado), F Caroline Dickson (Massachusetts)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hailey Phillips Top Drawer Team of the Week Sept. 15\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TDS_POTW_TOTW.png\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"1080\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUp Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMiddle Tennessee continues its three-match road trip on Sunday, Sept. 20 against Jackson State at 12 p.m. MTSU will then begin Conference USA play at Jax State on Sept. 27 at 1 p.m.\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow the Blue Raiders<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nStay up to date with Middle Tennessee Soccer on Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mt_wsoccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@mt_wsoccer<\/a>), X (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MT_Soccer\" rel=\"nofollow\">@MT_Soccer<\/a>), and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MTSoccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Middle Tennessee Soccer<\/a>).\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MURFREESBORO, Tenn. \u2013 Junior midfielder Hailey Phillips has been named as an honorable mention to the Top Drawer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-896909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896909","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=896909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}