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Byrd Named Offensive Player Of The Week
10/28/2019 1:54:00 PM | Women's Soccer
DALLAS — North Texas soccer freshman forward Allie Byrd was named the Conference USA Co-Offensive Player of the Week after she scored four goals against FIU on Sunday in the Mean Green's 7-0 win.
The honor is the Kingwood, Texas, native's first career player of the week recognition.
A 2019 Texas high school first-team all-state forward who scored 92 goals in four years at Kingwood Park High School, entered Sunday's match with two goals on the year. She had a hat trick by the 26th-minute of Sunday's match — The second-fastest hat trick in program history. Furthermore, her four-goal performance is the most goals scored by a single player in a Conference USA league match since 2014 and is tied for the second-best performance in a C-USA league game ever.
Her four goals against FIU are the most by a UNT player since Brittany Cleveland's four-goal performance against Lamar in 2007. It falls one goal shy of the program-record for most goals in a match, which 2001 graduate Christy Johnson accomplished twice her freshman season and April Bonilla did her sophomore season in 1996.
Byrd's now six goals on the year is the team's second-most behind junior Berklee Peters' 11 goals.
"It feels really good especially coming off of a hard loss to FAU," Byrd said after Sunday's match. "(Sunday) was a really good confidence boost for me and the team going into a big game against Rice next week and our conference tournament."
The honor is the Kingwood, Texas, native's first career player of the week recognition.
A 2019 Texas high school first-team all-state forward who scored 92 goals in four years at Kingwood Park High School, entered Sunday's match with two goals on the year. She had a hat trick by the 26th-minute of Sunday's match — The second-fastest hat trick in program history. Furthermore, her four-goal performance is the most goals scored by a single player in a Conference USA league match since 2014 and is tied for the second-best performance in a C-USA league game ever.
Her four goals against FIU are the most by a UNT player since Brittany Cleveland's four-goal performance against Lamar in 2007. It falls one goal shy of the program-record for most goals in a match, which 2001 graduate Christy Johnson accomplished twice her freshman season and April Bonilla did her sophomore season in 1996.
Byrd's now six goals on the year is the team's second-most behind junior Berklee Peters' 11 goals.
"It feels really good especially coming off of a hard loss to FAU," Byrd said after Sunday's match. "(Sunday) was a really good confidence boost for me and the team going into a big game against Rice next week and our conference tournament."
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