Meadows Named PSAC Rookie of the Year, 2nd Team All-PSAC; Fox 1st Team All-PSAC

2015 Nov 4

The fabulous freshman duo of Delaney Meadows and Rachel Fox racked up the postseason awards today with Meadows being named PSAC Rookie of the Year and 2nd Team All-PSAC and Fox earning 1st Team All-PSAC honors.

It marks the first time in program history that a Mansfield student-athlete has been named to Rookie of the Year honors. Mansfield is the only school to earn a major postseason award other than No. 5 Gannon who took home Athlete, Defensive Athlete and Coach of the Year accolades.

Fox's 1st Team selection is the first for a Mountaineer since Natalie Adams in 2008. She is the first freshman in program history to ever earn a 1st Team accolade. It's also the first time since 2009 that Mansfield has put two athletes on the All-PSAC list.

The selection is made even more impressive by the fact that since the PSAC moved to a single division format in 2010, only 33 players are selected between first, second and third teams from a total of 17 programs.

Meadows earned Rookie of the Year and Second Team All-PSAC at forward after scoring a Mansfield single-season record 12 goals in 17 games. Meadows scored a goal in her first collegiate game against California before recording back-to-back hat tricks against IUP and Daemen. She was just the fourth player in program history to net a hat trick and the first to ever record two hat tricks in a career. Meadows went on to add five more goals throughout the season including the game-winner in the final 30 seconds against Millersville.

Meadows also added two assists to total another Mansfield single-season record with 26 points. She tied for second in the PSAC in goals (12) and goals per game (.706), ranked third for points per game (1.53), sixth in shots per game (3.12) and fifth in game-winning goals (3).

Fox took home 1st Team All-PSAC goalkeeper honors after making 133 saves, which ranks third on the Mansfield single-season list. Fox had a stellar rookie year between the sticks, helping the Mountaineers to four wins and a tie including clean sheets against Pitt-Johnstown and Clarion. She totaled four games of 10 or more saves including an incredible 17-save effort to help Mansfield to a 3-2 win over Millersville. Her 17 saves is the fourth most in a game for a Mansfield keeper.

Fox ranked third in the conference in saves per game at 7.82. She started all 17 games this season, totaling 1,488 minutes in goal.