Scheffer Earns NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship
3/9/2010 12:46:52 PM
ITHACA, N.Y. –Senior Amy Scheffer (Schalmont/Schenectady) of the Ithaca College women’s soccer team has been awarded a Postgraduate Scholarship by the NCAA. Scheffer was one of just 29 winners selected from nominations --encompassing NCAA Division I, II and III -- that included all women’s fall sports.
A two-time all-American midfielder for the Bombers, Scheffer also earned first-team academic all-America honors this year. Scheffer was named Empire 8 Offensive Player of the Year for the second season in a row and was a first-team all-conference selection for the third consecutive year. She earned first-team Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Upstate NY and NSCAA all-region recognition and was the ECAC Upstate NY Offensive Player of the Year. A third-team all-American in 2008 and a second-team pick this fall, she scored a team-best 35 points on 16 goals and three assists. Her point total was the program’s fifth-highest single-season performance and her 16 goals (Ithaca’s fourth-highest single-season total) included a school-record eight game winners. Scheffer was a first-team all-region pick as a sophomore, junior and senior. Her 96 points and 38 goals both rank second on Ithaca’s career lists and she scored a school-record 19 game-winning goals. Scheffer started all 68 matches over the past three seasons and earned first-team academic all-America honors this fall. She’s a four-time Empire 8 Player of the Week in her career, including twice this year. She was named MVP of last year’s Empire 8 Championship Tournament and shared that award with freshman teammate Rachael Palladino this fall.
Ithaca finished 16-5-2 and reached the quarterfinal round of the NCAA playoffs for the third year in a row. The Bombers won the Empire 8 regular-season and postseason tournament titles and made the program’s 20th trip to the NCAA playoffs (no school has made more).
Scheffer is the ninth Ithaca athlete to earn an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship and the first since field hockey player Brooke Aldrich in 2005.