HAVERFORD, Pa. - Two Haverford College Men's Soccer players were named to the 2023 PhillySIDA Academic All-Area team, the Philadelphia Sports Information Directors Association (Philly-SIDA) announced in a release Tuesday morning. Senior goalkeeper Dylan Ioffreda and senior defender Max Mouer earned the accolade for the first time in their careers.
In order to be nominated, student-athletes need to have at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA and have completed at least one full year of classes at their current institution. The Philly-SIDA Academic All-Area team represents that sport's top student-athletes as selected by the sports information directors of those schools. Both academic and athletic success is taken into consideration in the voting.
Ioffreda, who garnered second-team All-Centennial Conference honors in 2023 and donned the captain's armband, started in all 17 games in 2023 between the posts, posting a 1.12 GAA in 1530:00 of action. He finished second in the Centennial Conference with 63 saves and third in the Centennial Conference with a .768 save percentage.
The goalkeeper also placed third in the Centennial Conference with five shutouts. Defending the net, the Hershey, Pa. local recorded five or more saves in eight different games in 2023. Ioffreda collected his first clean sheet of the season against Dickinson on September 30, and recorded four more including back-to-back clean sheets against McDaniel on October 14 and Ursinus on October 18. The senior totaled a 5-4-8 record for the Fords in 2023.
Prior to being named to the Philly-SIDA Academica All-Area team, Ioffreda was named to the Centennial Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll three times in his career, as well as being a two-time CSC Academic All-District Team member.
Earning Honorable Mention All-Centennial Conference this past season, Mouer started and anchored the backline in all 17 games in his senior season. A team captain, the senior led the defense in all five clean sheets, including four shutout victories. The Houston, Texas product finished his senior season with seven shots and one shot on goal.
A three-time Centennial Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll, the senior defender also earned CSC Academic All-District Team disctintions in two consecutive seasons, before being named to the Philly-SIDA Academica All-Area team.