PRINCETON, N.J. – Following a campaign that saw Penn capture the outright Ivy League title for the first time since 2013, the Ivy League announced the All-Ivy teams and major award winners on Wednesday.
- The outright champions received three major awards as Stas Korzeniowski was named the Offensive Player of the Year, Leo Burney was voted Defensive Player of the Year and Brian Gill was unanimously voted the Coach of the Year.
- Cornell goalkeeper Ryan Friedberg claimed Rookie of the Year honors
- There were three unanimous All-Ivy first team picks
Penn’s sophomore forward
Stas Korzeniowski earns Offensive Player of the Year and unanimous first team All-Ivy honors after leading a high-octane Penn offense that concluded the regular season ranked eighth in the nation in scoring offense (2.50 goals/game).
Korzeniowski paced the Ivy League in both points (26) and goals (10), while adding three game-winning tallies. Nationally,
Korzeniowski is 18th in in points per game and 19th in goals per game.
Penn sophomore
Leo Burney captured Defensive Player of the Year honors for the first time and was named to the All-Ivy First Team for the second-consecutive season.
Burney led a Quaker backline that surrendered just six goals in Ivy play to go along with three clean sheets against conference opponents. Within League action, Penn compiled a conference-best 0.86 goals against average while the Quakers’ overall goals against mark of 0.75 ranks 13th among all Division I programs.
Burney also had a hand on seven Penn goals this season as he tallied five goals and two assists for 12 total points including two game-winning goals in Ivy play.
Freshman goalkeeper
Ryan Friedberg of Cornell was voted the Rookie of the Year after starting all 17 games in between the iron for the Big Red. Friedberg played every minute in goal during Ivy play, compiling a 1.43 goals against average with 16 saves during the seven conference games. On the season,
Friedberg tallied a 1.01 goals against average, 37 saves, and three clean sheets.
Friedberg’s top performance of the season came against No. 7 Syracuse as he made a season-high five saves to give Cornell the top-10 victory.
Brian Gill was unanimously voted the Ivy League Coach of the Year after leading Penn to its first outright conference title since 2013. The Quakers finished the regular season with a 12-2-2 overall mark (6-1 Ivy), giving the Quakers their sixth 12-win season in program history. Penn spent the final four weeks of the season in the United Soccer Coaches Top-15 poll, including a ranking as high as No. 15, and concluded the regular season 13th in RPI. The Quakers were also among the nation’s leaders in several statistical categories including eighth in scoring offense (2.50 goals/game), 13th in goals against average (0.750), 16th in points per game (7.00) and seventh in won-lost-tied percentage (0.812). This coming weekend, the Quakers will be making their first NCAA appearance under
Gill.
Penn, Harvard, and Cornell led the way with three first-team honorees, including the three unanimous picks – Penn forward
Korzeniowski, Harvard midfielder
Willem Ebbinge and Cornell forward,
Emeka Eneli. The first team saw seven repeat honorees including Harvard’s
Ebbinge, Cornell’s
Eneli, Yale’s
Elian Haddock, Princeton’s
Lucas Gen, Harvard’s
Alessandro Arlotti, Penn’s
Burney, and Yale’s
Paolo Carroll. In all, 15 student-athletes were named to an All-Ivy team for the second-straight season.
Additionally, one Ivy League men’s soccer student-athlete from each institution was recognized for their commitment on and off the field as members of the 2022 Ivy League men’s soccer Academic All-Ivy team. Brown’s
Owen Schwartz, Columbia’s
Ryan Wallace, Cornell’s
Noel Ortega, Dartmouth’s
Garrett Scott, Harvard’s
Oskar Nilsson, Penn’s
Jack Rosener, Princeton’s
Ben Bograd, and Yale’s
Jules Oberg.
In this past Monday’s NCAA selection show, Cornell earned the No. 14 seed and a first-round bye and will face the winner of Fairleigh Dickinson and Maryland on Sunday, November 20 at 2 p.m. Penn also earned a home match and will host Rutgers on Thursday, November 17 at 7 p.m.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Stas Korzeniowski, Penn (So., F – Skillman, N.J.)
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Leo Burney, Penn (So., D – Seattle, Wash.)
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Ryan Friedberg, Cornell (Fr., GK – Westfield, N.J.)
COACH OF THE YEAR
*Brian Gill, Penn
FIRST TEAM ALL-IVY^
*Stas Korzeniowski, Penn (So., F – Skillman, N.J.)
*Willem Ebbinge, Harvard (Jr., M – Queenstown, New Zealand)
*Emeka Eneli, Cornell (5th, F – Dublin, Ohio)
Elian Haddock, Yale (Sr., GK – Whitefish Bay, Wisc.)
Connor Drought, Cornell (Sr., D – Mukilteo, Wash.)
Lucas Gen, Princeton (Sr., D – Sacramento, Calif.)
Jan Riecke, Harvard (So., D – Berlin, Germany)
Alessandro Arlotti, Harvard (So., M – Monaco)
Leo Burney, Penn (So., D – Seattle, Wash.)
Ryan Clare, Princeton (Sr., M – Wellesley, Mass.)
Isaac McGinnis, Penn (Sr., M – Brighton, N.Y.)
Paolo Carroll, Yale (Sr., F – Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Brandon Morales, Cornell (Sr., F – Pharr, Texas)
SECOND TEAM ALL-IVY^
Nick Christoffersen, Penn (Sr., GK – Toronto, Ontario)
Jeremy Haddock, Yale (Sr., D – Whitefish Bay, Wisc.)
Matt Leong, Columbia (Jr., D – Hoboken, N.J.)
TJ Presthus, Yale (So., D – New Albany, Ohio)
Jack Rosener, Penn (Sr., D – McLean, Va.)
Mateo Godoy, Princeton (Sr., M – Los Angeles, Calif.)
Jules Oberg, Yale (Sr., M – Stockholm, Sweden)
Lalo Serrano, Cornell (Jr., - M – Glendale, Ariz.)
Jamin Gogo Peters, Brown (Fr., F – Forest Grove, Ore.)
Ben Stitz, Penn (Sr., F – Baltimore, Md.)
Martin Vician, Harvard (Sr., F – Bratislava, Slovakia)
HONORABLE MENTION
Michael Collodi, Columbia (Sr., GK – Frisco, Texas)
Ryan Friedberg, Cornell (Fr., GK – Westfield, N.J.)
Ben Do, Penn (So., D – Seaside, Calif.)
Andrew Johnson, Cornell (Fr., D – Philadelphia, Pa.)
Sam Fenton, Dartmouth (Fr., D – Mount Laurel, N.J.)
Cam Maquat, Cornell (Sr., D – Easton, Conn.)
Louis Weisdorf, Dartmouth (So., D – Copenhagen, Denmark)
Oskar Magnusson, Dartmouth (Fr., M – Reykjavik, Iceland)
Malik Pinto, Princeton (Jr., M – Durham, N.C.)
Max Rogers, Yale (So., M – Sydney, Australia)
Eric Sachleben, Dartmouth (Sr., M – San Francisco, Calif.)
Daniel Diaz-Bonilla, Princeton (Sr., F – Vienna, Va.)