PRINCETON, N.J. – Brown junior Star White and Harvard freshman Gabby DelPico netted gamewinning goals and the Ivy League women’s soccer weekly awards after the opening weekend of Ivy-vs.-Ivy play.
 
If the first four League games are any indication, the race to the championship will be incredibly exciting, as three of the four contests over the weekend were decided by one goal. Harvard and Yale handed 1-0 defeats to the defending champions, Penn and Princeton, respectively. Brown upended Dartmouth, 2-1, while Columbia won the battle of New York with a 2-0 win over Cornell. The League features six teams ranked in the top-100 of the latest RPI, highlighted by Brown at No. 25. Dartmouth (43), Yale (75), Princeton (86), Harvard (99) and Columbia (100) are also among the top-100, with Penn (108) just outside.
 
PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Star White, Brown (Jr., F – Norfolk, Va.)

• White netted the gamewinning goal in the Bears’ 2-1 win over Dartmouth in the Ivy opener for both teams
• She broke the 1-1 tie in the 56^th minute as Brown became the first team this season to score twice against the Big Green, ending Dartmouth’s five-game shutout streak
• The goal for white was her third of the season, 13^th of her career and fifth career gamewinner
• She takes home her second career Ivy League weekly award and first Player of the Week honor
• White is a violinist who played in her high school’s Chamber Orchestra. Her younger brother Key is a freshman on North Carolina’s men’s soccer team

 
ROOKIE OF THE WEEK
Gabby DelPico, Harvard (Fr., F – Brockton, Mass.)

• DelPico scored the game’s lone goal in the Crimson’s 1-0 win over defending champion Penn
• She found the back of the net in the 72^nd minute off assists from Lauren Raimondo and fellow two-time Rookie of the Week Angela Caloia
• Thanks to her score, Harvard improved to 7-2 and won its League opener for the first time since 2016
• DelPico receives her second Rookie of the Week award to give Harvard four-straight such honors
• DelPico was a member of the National Honor Society and Foreign Language Honor Society in high school, while reaching the final four with the Boston Breakers in the US Soccer Development Academy

 
HONOR ROLL
Aerial Chavarin, Yale (Sr., F – Oakland, Calif.)
Emily Clorite, Yale (Fr., D – Madison, Conn.)
Mia Grillo, Yale (Jr., F – Orinda, Calif.)
Kat Hess, Harvard (Sr., GK – Newport Beach, Calif.)
Erin Kawakami, Dartmouth (Jr., M – Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.)
Liz Matei, Columbia (Fr., GK – Davie, Fla.)
Ava Seelenfreund, Brown (Fr., F – Truckee, Calif.)
Mallaika Tomar, Columbia (So., F – Sammamish, Wash.)
 
 
2019 WOMEN’S SOCCER WEEKLY AWARDS
Player of the Week
Sept. 2 – Tracey Mills, Dartmouth (So., M – Vienna, Va.)
Sept. 9 – Kayla Thompson, Brown (Jr., GK – Austin, Texas)
            Natalie Grossi, Princeton (Sr., GK – Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada)
Sept. 16 – Kayla Thompson, Brown (Jr., GK – Austin, Texas)
Sept. 23 – Izzy Glennon, Dartmouth (So., F – Sea Cliff, N.Y.)/
Angela Caloia, Harvard (Fr., F – Washington)
Sept. 30 – Star White, Brown (Jr., F – Norfolk, Va.)
 
Rookie of the Week
Sept. 2 – Ellery Winkler, Yale (Fr., F – Concord, Mass.)
Sept. 9 – Angela Caloia, Harvard (Fr., F – Washington)
Sept. 16 – Gabby DelPico, Harvard (Fr., M – Brockton, Mass.)
Sept. 23 – Angela Caloia, Harvard (Fr., F – Washington)
Sept. 30 – Gabby DelPico, Harvard (Fr., M – Brockton, Mass.)