HAVERFORD, Pa. – Haverford College women's soccer players Celia Page and Saede Eifrig have been selected to the 2020-21 Academic All-District® Women's Soccer Team. Selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), this award recognizes the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances on the field and in the classroom. With no competitive seasons for the fall sports this academic year, honorees were selected based off of their career accomplishments.
The CoSIDA Academic All-America® program separately recognizes soccer honorees in four divisions — NCAA Division I, NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III and NAIA. First-team Academic All-District® honorees advance to the CoSIDA Academic All-America® ballot. First-, second- and third-team Academic All-America® honorees will be announced in early July.
Celia Page, who is majoring in economics with a minor in health studies, certainly made the most of her 2019 rookie season with the Fords by earning honorable mention All-Centennial Conference honors. Helping the team advance to the NCAA Tournament, Page ranked second on the Fords in goals (10), points (24), shots (46), and shots on goal (28) while finishing third on the team with four assists. She became the first Haverford first-year since 2005 to finish with 10 or more goals during their rookie campaign. Her scoring was highlighted by a season-high two goals and two assists against Immaculata before another multi-goal game against Bryn Mawr. She was also named to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll in her first season eligible for this award during the 2020 fall semester.
Saede Eifrig recently graduated from Haverford College with a degree in anthropology and a minor in Arabic while maintaining a concentration in Middle East and Islamic Studies. A team captain, she was recently honored as an Ambler Scholar-Athlete as having one of the highest cumulative GPAs among the senior student-athletes, along with her three selections to the Centennial Conference Academic Honor Roll. She finishes her career with nine goals and 11 assists (29 career points) over 46 career games played. Eifrig tied for the team lead with eight assists during Haverford's run to the NCAA Tournament. Eifrig finished that season with 16 offensive points. Her eight helpers were tied for the fourth-highest single-season total in program history. Eifrig graduates from Haverford with the seventh-best assist per game total, while also ranking among the top 20 players in total points.
The women's soccer team has now made the Centennial Conference Tournament during each of its last four competitive seasons, including 2019's trip to the NCAA Tournament. Haverford's success has certainly not been limited to the field as the Fords have earned the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award every year and had the highest cumulative GPA among teams that advanced to the NCAA Tournament during the 2019-20 academic year.