Four named All-Ohio; Four named Academic All-Ohio in Women's Soccer
By: Andrew Korba
ADA--Four Ohio Northern women's soccer players were named All-Ohio and four were named Academic All-Ohio in voting conducted by the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association.
Senior Tara Tokar and sophomore Kristina Klusek were named First Team All-Ohio.
Senior defender Paige Garber and junior Abby Vargo were both named Second Team All-Ohio.
Head coach Mark Batman was also named Coach of the Year.
Garber and Tokar were named First Team Academic All-Ohio, while junior Abbie Schauble was named Second Team Academic All-Ohio and junior Lauren Brown was named Third Team Academic All-Ohio.
Tokar, a pharmacy major, was named to the NSCAA Scholar All-Region team.
She started in 22 games this season and posted two goals and three assists on the season.
Klusek earns her first All-Ohio selection.
The nursing major started all 23 games for the Polar Bears this season.
She led the team in goals, assists and points with 14, eight and 36 respectively.
Garber is majoring in pharmacy and recorded two assists on the season.
She was the anchor of a defense that gave up just 16 goals all season.
Vargo earns her First All-Ohio selection.
She is majoring in education.
Vargo was a key contributer on the ONU defense and started in all 23 games.
Schauble, a pharmacy major, earns her second consecutive Academic All-Ohio selection.
This season, she scored two goals and had five assists.
Brown was named Academic All-Ohio for the first time.
The business management major was named to the CoSIDA Academic All District team.
She scored one goal and was second on the team this season with seven assists.
Batman was also named OAC Coach of the Year.
He is in his ninth season as head coach and has a career record of 118-47-28 (68.4 percent).
The Polar Bears finished the season with a 13-5-5 record and won the first OAC Tournament Championship in program history.
Northern also advanced to the Second Round of the NCAA III Tournament for the second consecutive season.