SOCCER:ECAC Tabs Attanasio Player of the Week

Gettysburg College freshman Casey Attanasio (pictured right), a Council Rock North alum from Newtown, picked up her second collegiate honor in as many days as she was selected Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III South Region Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Attanasio was named Centennial Conference Player of the Week on Monday.
Attanasio made the most of her first collegiate start at Bryn Mawr College on Sept. 20, posting a pair of goals in a lop-sided 7-0 conference victory. She posted the match’s first goal and her first as a collegian at 7:14 and turned in a second tally just past the 10-minute mark. Her multi-goal scoring output was the first by a Bullet since Katie Myers ’07 scored twice against Franklin & Marshall College on Oct. 17, 2006.
Attanasio is the first offensive player to pick up weekly laurels from the ECAC since Erin Miller ’09 earned the award in October 2008. Former Bullets goalkeeper and current assistant coach Danielle St. Pierre ’09 was named Defensive Player of the Week last October.
Gettysburg (4-1-0, 1-0-0 CC) is riding a four-match winning streak, but the Bullets embark on their toughest challenge to date in their next affair at top-ranked Messiah College (6-0-1) at 7 p.m. tonight (Sept. 23).