PRINCETON, N.J. – Following an outstanding 2019 Ivy League men’s soccer season, the Ivy League announced the major award winners and All-Ivy recipients on Wednesday afternoon.
2019 Ivy League Champion No. 25 Yale collected two major awards including the Offensive Player of the Year to junior midfielder
Mark Winhoffer while head coach
Kylie Stannard was unanimously named Coach of the Year. Penn junior defender
Alex Touche was named Defensive Player of the Year while Columbia freshman midfielder
Uri Zeitz grabbed Rookie of the Year honors.
Winhoffer played in all 17 games for the Ivy League champions, tallying a league-leading 23 points on six goals and 11 assists throughout the 2019 campaign. He contributed points in 11 of the Bulldogs’ 17 games, including three game-winning goals. The South Elgin, Illinois native ranks seventh in the country with 0.59 assists per game, dishing out a season-high three helpers in a 4-0 win against Central Connecticut State. Winhoffer guided Yale to its best season in recent history, clinching its first League title since 2005, matching the program mark for overall victories and best record in league play.
Stannard earns Coach of the Year honors for the first time in his fourth years at Yale. Stannard led the Bulldogs to its first Ivy League title since 2005. Yale posted a 13-2-2 overall mark and a 6-1 record in League play, matching the program mark for overall victories and its best record in League action since 1989. The Bulldogs enter postseason play ranked No. 25 in the latest United Soccer Coaches’ Association poll and will look for its first win since 1999 when Yale travels to Boston College for a Thursday night tilt.
Touche led a Quaker defense that was outstanding throughout the 2019 campaign. The junior defender started all 17 games, limiting opponents to a league-best 0.81 goals-against average. Penn totaled six shutouts, including a double-overtime victory versus then-No. 24 Yale. Touche contributed two goals from the backfield to help Penn to a second-place finish in the League ledger, its best finish since 2013.
Zeitz totaled 14 points (5 goals and 4 assists) in his 17 games played for the Lions. The freshman midfielder registered the game-winning goal in a 2-0 win over Monmouth and contributed a season-best four-point performance against Harvard to earn Rookie of the Week honors.
The All-Ivy First Team saw a heavy dose of upperclassmen add to their achievements. Nine juniors and seniors earned the honor balanced by three underclassmen. The Ivy league champion Bulldogs paced the league with four First-Team recipients (
Miguel Yuste, Enzo Okpoye, Elian Haddock and Winhoffer) while Princeton’s
Walker Gillespie was the lone freshman to make his way into First-Team laurels, joining teammates
Jacob Schachner and
Kevin O’Toole. Penn (
Joey Bhangdia and Touche), Cornell (
John Scearce and
Ryan Bayne) Columbia (
John Denis) closed out the First-Team recognition.
Four student-athletes from Dartmouth (
Braden Salvati,
Dawson McCartney,
Alex Budnik and
Henry Baldwin) paced the Second-Team honorees. Brown (
Danny Schiller and
Matt Chow) and Yale (
Justin Lobe and
Ryan Matteo) each added two to the squad, while Cornell (
Connor Drought), Columbia (
Zeitz), Penn (
Kai Lammers) and Princeton (
Cole Morokhovich) each placed one student-athlete into the honorees. Harvard was represented by senior midfielder
Matthew Glass, who earned All-Ivy Honorable Mention.
Ivy League champion No. 25 Yale is set to make its seventh NCAA Tournament appearance when the Bulldogs make the short trip north to take on Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts on Thursday at 7 p.m.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Mark Winhoffer, Yale (Jr., M – South Elgin, Ill.)
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Alex Touche, Penn (Jr., D – Albuquerque, N.M.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Uri Zeitz, Columbia (Fr., M – Bethesda, Md.)
COACH OF THE YEAR
*Kylie Stannard, Yale
^FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY
Alex Touche, Penn (Jr., D – Albuquerque, N.M.)
Enzo Okpoye, Yale (So., M – Asaba, Nigeria)
Ryan Bayne, Cornell (Sr., D – Horseheads, N.Y.)
Jacob Schachner, Princeton (Sr., GK – Waxhaw, N.C.)
Elian Haddock, Yale (So., GK – Whitefish Bay, Wisc.)
Mark Winhoffer, Yale (Jr., M – South Elgin, Ill.)
Joey Bhangdia, Penn (Jr., M – Lewisburg, Pa.)
John Scearce, Cornell (Sr., M – Nogales, Arizona)
Miguel Yuste, Yale (Sr., M – Valladolid, Spain)
Walker Gillespie, Princeton (Fr., F – Rifton, N.Y.)
John Denis, Columbia (Sr., M/F – Yorktown Heights, N.Y.)
Kevin O’Toole, Princeton (Jr., M – Montclair, N.J.)
^SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY
Henry Baldwin, Dartmouth (Sr., D – Poulsbo, Wash.)
Justin Lobe, Yale (Sr., D – Takoma Park, Md.)
Connor Drought, Cornell (Fr., D – Mukilteo, Washington)
Kai Lammers, Penn (Fr., D – Greenwich, Conn.)
Cole Morokhovich, Princeton (Sr., D – Coquitlam, B.C.)
Alex Budnik, Dartmouth (So., GK – Arlington Heights, Ill.)
Uri Zeitz, Columbia (Fr., M – Bethesda, Md.)
Danny Schiller, Brown (Sr., M – Glenview, Ill.)
Braden Salvati, Dartmouth (Sr., M/D – Del Mar, Calif.)
Ryan Matteo, Yale (Sr., M – Chesterfield, Mo.)
Dawson McCartney, Dartmouth (Jr., M – Voorhees, N.J.)
Matt Chow, Brown (Sr., F – Vancouver, British Columbia)
HONOR MENTION ALL-IVY
Owen Schwartz, Brown (Fr., D – Mill Valley, Calif.)
Matthew Swain, Columbia (Sr., M/F – New York, N.Y.)
Matthew Glass, Harvard (Sr., M – Sacramento, Calif.)
Alex Charles, Princeton (So., D -Durham, N.C.)
Jeremy Haddock, Yale (So., D – Whitefish Bay, Wisc.)
Derek Waleffe, Brown (So., M – Madison, Wisc.)
Brandon Bartel, Penn (Sr., M – Fleming Island, Fla.)
Andrew Stevens, Columbia (So., M – Marshfield, Mass.)
Emeka Eneli, Cornell (So., F – Dublin, Ohio)
Danny Laranetto, Columbia (Sr., M – Washington, Conn.)
Harry Fuller, Cornell (Jr., M – London, England)
Ohad Yahalom, Dartmouth (So., M – Brookline, Mass.)
Moulay Hamza Kanzi Belghiti, Princeton (So., M – Montreal, Que.)
Zach Kalk, Dartmouth (Sr., M – North York, Ontario)
Paolo Carroll, Yale (So., F – Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Jake Kohlbrenner, Penn (Jr., F – East Syracuse, N.Y.)
^teams explanded due to ties in voting