Chattanooga puts two on Southern Conference postseason teams

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s soccer student-athletes Hollie Massey and Mackenzie Smith earned Southern Conference honors.

Massey, the Mocs’ center midfielder, was selected to the All-Conference Second Team. She led UTC in scoring this season with 11 points. She, along with senior Bailey Gale, had a team-best five assists and ranked seventh in the Southern Conference in that category. Massey was one of seven Chattanooga players to score three goals.

Smith had four points for the Mocs this season with the game-winning goal against The Citadel and assists on game-winners against Lipscomb and Wofford.

Massey is the Mocs’ 20th all-conference selection and 12th on second team while Smith is Chattanooga’s ninth player to be named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team.

Chattanooga had a schoolrecord nine shutouts this season and allowed the fewest goals in school history. The Mocs’ goals-against average of 0.75 was the lowest on record for UTC.

Mercer’s Nicole Icen was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year and her head coach Tony Economopoulis was selected league Coach of the Year. Samford’s Taylore Miller was named the Defensive Player of the Year by the SoCon coaches and Furman’s Jasmine Greene earned Freshman of the Year.

Samford had six players named to the All-Conference teams with five on First Team. Furman and Mercer had five each named to both teams. UNC Greensboro had three selections and The Citadel, ETSU and Western Carolina matched UTC with one each.