August 2, 2001

First set of 2001 W-2 Season awards announced

Point Scoring Champion

Missy Gregg

Memphis Mercury

49 points

Goal Scoring Champion:

Missy Gregg

Memphis Mercury

22 goals

Missy Gregg of the Memphis Mercury built such a large lead in the race for the scoring title that a strong run from second-place Tina Murphy, Charlotte Lady Eagles, late in the season still came up eight points (four goals) short.

Gregg started off a bit slow, failing to score in her first outing, a 2-1 loss to Kansas City. She went on to score 11 in the next three games. In all, she recorded five three-goal games with her best night coming against the Mystics in the return bout. Gregg made Kansas City pay dearly for their previous victory, scoring five times in the 10-2 rout. Gregg tallied more points and goals in 12 games this season than any player in the 20-game Premier Development League. Her five assists were also good for fifth in W-2 on the season. The 22 goals and five assists account for half of the team's 54 goals this season.

Assist Leader

Margaret Saurin

Memphis Mercury

10 assists

After winning the W-2 Championship with the Springfield Sirens last year, Margaret Saurin crossed the Atlantic to continue her lengthy career in Europe with a stint with Fortuna Hjorring in Denmark before returning to USL. The Irish international, who was second on the Sirens in points and goals last year, tallied 10 assists this season, edging teammate Dawn Crow by one.

GAA Champion

Stephanie Weisenfeld

Chicago Cobras

0.54 GAA

Chicago Cobras goalkeeper Stephanie Weisenfeld prevented a clean sweep of the statistical awards by Memphis, edging second-place Meghan Burke of the Mercury for the Goals-Against Average Championship. Weisenfeld played every minute of Chicago's 11 games this season, making her the only W-2 goalkeeper to do so. She gave up just six goals in 998 minutes for a goals-against average of 0.54.

Burke finished second at 0.75 with seven goals allowed in 842 minutes this season.

W-2 All-League Team

Goalkeeper

Riki-Ann Serrins, Virginia Majestics

Defender

Diana Russell, Oklahoma Outrage

Jen Davin, Cincinnati Ladyhawks

Dawn Crow, Memphis Mercury

Midfielder

Adrienne Duganzic, South Jersey Banshees

Nkiru Okosieme,Charlotte Lady Eagles

Allison Wagner, Memphis Mercury

Christy Timbers,Charlotte Lady Eagles

Forward

Patrice Feulner, Chicago Cobras

Missy Gregg,Memphis Mercury

Tina Murphy,Charlotte Lady Eagles

Rookie of the Year,Defender of the Year,Goalkeeper of the Year, Coach of the Year,