TOPDRAWERSOCCER.COM BEST XI TEAMS
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The honors continued to roll in for the Texas A&M Soccer squad as four Aggies were honored by TopDrawerSoccer.com on Tuesday.
Shea Groom was named to the TopDrawerSoccer.com Best XI First Team while Kelley Monogue and Meghan Streight earned spots on the Best XI Third Team. McKayla Paulson was tabbed to the TopDrawerSoccer.com Freshman Best XI Second Team.
Groom, an NSCAA All-America First Team, the SEC Offensive Player of the Year and a Capital One Academic All-America First Team student-athlete, finished the season with 39 points on 16 goals and seven assists.
For her career, Groom appeared in 85 matches, including 80 starts. Her 41 goals and 107 points both rank sixth on Texas A&M's career charts.
Monogue led the SEC with 46 points this season and ranked second in goals (18) and third in assists (10). She became the first Aggie to earn College Cup All-Tournament honors and lead all players in goals during NCAA Championship play with seven goals, including two-goal efforts against Houston Baptist, Arizona and Notre Dame.
The McKinney, Texas native appeared in 100 games for the Aggies and finished her career ranked fifth on A&M's all-time lists for goals (53) and points (130).
Streight started all 101 matches during her career, including 27 on the backline this season. This year, she led a defense that posted a 0.89 goals-against average and nine shutouts.
Streight earned all-conference recognition all four years, including All-SEC First Team status each of the last three years. This year, she garnered NSCAA All-America recognition for the second time, named to the second team after earning third-team status in 2012.
Paulson started 20 matches on the Aggies' backline, contributing one assist. Paulson started each of A&M's first 14 matches before suffering an ankle injury after getting taken out with a vicious tackle against Vanderbilt. After missing seven matches, she returned to help the Aggies win the SEC Tournament title and advance to the College Cup. Paulson was honored with SEC All-Freshman status.
Texas A&M was one of four schools to have three or more players named to one of the three Best XI teams, joined by UCLA (4), Virginia (4) and Florida State (3).