November 14, 2009 ASC PLAYER OF THE YEAR Adelphi freshman Tall is honored
Adelphi freshman Issa Tall was named the Atlantic Soccer Conference player of the year. Photo by Brian Ballweg
Adelphi University freshman Issa Tall has been named the Atlantic Soccer Conference player of the year after a vote by the league's head coaches.
Howard University freshman Phillip Borde was named rookie of the year and Adelphi's Carlo Acquista earned coach of the year honors for the second year in a row.
Adelphi placed six players on the two All-Conference teams, including four first-team honors. The New Jersey Institute of Technology had five members on the two teams, followed by Houston Baptist University and Longwood University with four players each and Howard with three members. Howard placed a league-high four members on the ASC All-Academic Team.
Tall, a freshman from Mulhouse, France, was a unanimous selection for player of the year honors. He led the league with 14 goals in 16 games and ranks second nationally with 0.88 goals per game. Tall was named the ASC player of the week four times and was the Bigapplesoccer.com player of the week twice. He also earned a spot on the collegesoccernews.com national team of the week. Tall ranks seventh nationally with 1.81 points per game.
Borde, a freshman midfielder from Ocoee, Fla., was a unanimous selection for rookie of the year, earning four points as coaches could not vote for their own players. Borde scored three goals with four assists for 10 points in 17 games. He led the team in goals, assists, game-winning goals, shots, shots on goal and points. He earned ASC rookie of the week honors once during the season.
Acquista earned coach of the year honors after leading Adelphi to a 11-2-4 record, including a 2-1-1 mark in the conference play. Another unanimous selection, he has guided the Panthers to a .765 winning percentage, which ranks 13th nationally.
First team
Harvey Headley, Longwood
Rahim Stennett, NJIT
Issa Tall, Adelphi
Phillip Borde, Howard
Brian Germain, Longwood
Alex Kouznetsov, Adelphi
Duke Ogega, Houston Baptist
Joelle Daniel, Houston Baptist
Dan Larenius, Adelphi
Matthew Marshall, Howard
Thorne Holder, Adelphi
Second team
Francisco Diaz, Houston Baptist
Chico Lugo, NJIT
Pete Walker, NJIT
Michael Aquino, Adelphi
Dan Dwyer, Houston Baptist
Jack McVey, NJIT
Gustav Warfving, NJIT
Kevin Gluchowski, Adelphi
Patrick McDaniel, Longwood
Martin Vickerton, Longwood
Victor Thomas, Howard
All-Academic
Michael Aquino, Adelphi
Alex Brito, NJIT
Lorne Cameron, Houston Baptist
Jamil Devers, Howard
Kevin Gluchowski, Adelphi
Rotimi Iziduh, Howard
Shane Johnson, Longwood
Dan Larenius, Adelphi
Harvey Livingston, Howard
Zack Mahon, Longwood
Matthew Marshall, Howard
