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JENNIFER ALBUJA SELECTED AS ECAC METRO CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 (Women�s Soccer)
JENNIFER ALBUJA SELECTED AS ECAC METRO CO-OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
CENTERVILLE, MA� New Jersey City University sophomore striker JENNIFER ALBUJA (Union City, NJ/Hoboken) has picked up her second award in as many days after posting astronomical numbers in a 3-0 week for the undefeated Gothic Knight women�s soccer team. Albuja has been selected as the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Metro co-Offensive Player of the Week. It is the first week of ECAC awards for the 2008 season.
On Monday, Albuja also was named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week after she scored nine goals with three assists for 21 points as NJCU opened a women�s soccer season with a 3-0 record for the first time in its history. She has 33 goals in only 21 games in her brief career.
Albuja is only the second NJCU women�s soccer player to ever receive the accolade from the ECAC. Current assistant coach KATIE FEEHAN scored the award on October 25, 2005.
In 270 minutes, Albuja uncorked 33 shots�including 17 on goal�and chalked up two game-winning goals. She also assisted on the game-winner in a third game. Albuja was named to the All-Tournament Team at the Scarlet Raider�s Women�s Soccer Classic with six goals and three assists in a pair of contests.
With 33 career goals, she equaled Feehan�s career program goal record, and tied her record of six game-winners. She registered her fourth and fifth career hat tricks and ninth and 10th multiple-goal games. She also moved into second place in school history with 72 career points.
In NJCU�s 4-3 season-opening road win at Lancaster Bible on September 2, Albuja opened the 2008 season the way she performed as a freshman�as an unstoppable goal scorer. Albuja notched her fifth career game-winner, scoring the first, third, and fourth goals. She scored the eventual wining goal with six minutes remaining.
In a 1-0 win over College of Staten Island on September 5 in the Scarlet Raider�s Women�s Soccer Classic, NJCU scored the only goal of the game at 87:12. Albuja lofted a perfectly-placed corner kick from the left endline, over both the opposing keeper and defenders, onto the right side of the box where it was knocked in.
In NJCU�s 10-1 win over Medgar Evers College on day two of the tournament on September 6, Albuja tied the single-game school record with six goals, collected 14 points�one shy of the single-game mark of 15�and in the process equaled the program�s career mark of 33 goals.
The six goals in one game ties for sixth most in a game in NCAA Division III history while the 14 points ties for eighth on the NCAA single-game charts. Her six goals were also a Raiders� Classic record. She uncorked 15 of NJCU�s 39 shots and was one shy of her own single-game record of 16 shots set last year.
Albuja currently leads the NJAC in nearly every major offensive category�shots (33), shots per game (11.00), points (21), points per game (7.00), goals (9), goals per game (3.00), game-winning goals (2) and game-winners per game (0.67). She is also tied for second in assists (3) and tied for third in assists per game (1.00). Notably, the next closest player in the league is at 6.20 shots per game and 4.00 points per game.
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Submitted 2008-09-09 18:21:14 by New Jersey City University Sports Information Department
