Women's Soccer

Sender Earns Program's First NSCAA All-America Nod

Dec. 2, 2016
LAS VEGAS (UNLVRebels.com) - UNLV Women's Soccer's record-setting season continues to be rewarded as senior Lily Sender was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team, announced by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) on Friday.

Sender's selection is the first-ever in the history of the program, while she is the first Mountain West player to be named an All-American since San Diego State's Megan Jurado was a second team selection in 2012. Overall, it's the 15th time the league has placed a player on NSCAA's All-America teams, but Sender is just the second player from a current Mountain West team to earn the honor in the league's history.

The All-America award is the latest addition to the senior's accolades after her stellar final season with the Rebels. After leading the team and the conference with 15 goals and 38 points, Sender garnered the program's third Mountain West Offensive Player of the Year award to go along with an All-Conference First Team selection -- one of a record nine Rebels to earn all league honors. She was also named to CoSIDA's Academic All-District team and became just the second player in program history to earn a spot on the organization's Academic All-America team after her successes on the field and in the classroom. After recording the program's fifth hat trick and first since 2010 in the regular season finale win over Nevada, Reno, Sender was named the league's Offensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career and was a Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week selection.

The forward from Honolulu, Hawaii, was instrumental in leading the team to its first NCAA tournament appearance since 2006 as UNLV won the Mountain West regular season and conference tournament titles in the same season for the first time in school history. Her goals and points totals also ranked top-20 in the nation in 2016, helping the Rebels set new school records for most win (16), goals (51) and assists (50) in a single season.

The full NSCAA All-America teams can be found here.

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Players Mentioned

Lily Sender

#29 Lily Sender

Forward
5' 9"
Freshman

Players Mentioned

Lily Sender

#29 Lily Sender

5' 9"
Freshman
Forward