NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK RYAN COVEY

I have found the following additional stories regarding Sterling forward Ryan Covey being named NAIA National Offensive Soccer Player of the Week on October 14th.


This article is from the "Victory Sports Network"
(http://soccer.victorysportsnetwork.com/article.php?articleID=7942):

THIS WEEK IN NAIA SOCCER BY JASON DANNELLY

The NAIA Men's Soccer national weekly honors were announced Tuesday and Ross Gordon of King (Tenn.) was announced as National Defensive Player of the Week while Ryan Covey of Sterling (Kan.) was named National Offensive Player of the Week.

Gordon, a 5-9 senior defender from Newcastle, England, led the team defensively in two wins against nationally ranked opponents last week. He helped the Tornado post a 2-1 win over No. 17 Lincoln Memorial (NCAA DII) at home and then knock off No. 14 Montreat (N.C.) 4-2 on the road.

Covey, a 6-2 forward from Edmond, Okla., scored six goals in two wins last week. In a home win against Southwestern (Kan.), the senior scored three goals and assisted on two more for eight points. He recorded his second hat trick on the week with three more goals in a road win against Bethel (Kan.). On the season Covey leads the team in goals and is tied for first in assists.

I found this on "Sunflower Slate-Sports at Kansas' Small Colleges"
(http://blogs.kansas.com/statecolleges/2008/10/15/braden-dragomir-and-ryan-covey/):

BRADEN DRAGOMIR AND RYAN COVEY

Big props to Bethel football player Braden Dragomir and Sterling soccer player Ryan Covey for their national awards this week — Dragomir was named the NAIA special teams player of the week and Covey was the NAIA men’s soccer player of the week. Not bad work, fellas.

Dragomir made one field-goal attempt (52 yards), made 5 of 5 PAT attempts, and had 6 kickoffs for 310 yards (long 70 yards). The 52-yard field goal set a new school record for the longest field goal made, breaking a nine-year-old record set back in 1999.

Covey recorded a hat trick and two assists in Sterling’s 6-2 victory over Southwestern on Tuesday. Covey then again scored three goals in their 4-0 shutout over Bethel on Saturday. He now has scored thirteen goals and has five assists so far this season.

I got an e-mail about Dragomir earlier this week and let me say this . . . dude is a mini-media mogul in the making. He interns at KWCH for their morning newscast and is the sports editor for the campus newspaper. Good stuff. I suppose we’ll have to flip it on him and have him on here to do a Q&A.

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