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Nov. 8, 2005

The West Texas A&M University Lady Buff soccer team had seven players receive All-Lone Star Conference honors, led by all three seniors being named to the first-team, while two WTAMU players received second-team recognition and two more were on the honorable mention list, announced by the conference office.

The senior trio of forward Katie Henley, midfielder Roxy Sides and defender Misti Northcutt were named to the first-team All-LSC list, while freshman defenders Jessica Hartley and Ashley Long were tabbed second-team selections. Another pair of freshman, forward Danae Fontana and midfielder Elisabeth Markussen were honorable mention honorees.

The three seniors led the Lady Buffs to one co-regular season LSC Championship and one LSC Tournament Championship in their tenure at WTAMU, and they were also a part of the 2002 squad that received the NSCAA Team Academic Award.

Senior forward Katie Henley was one of seven WTAMU players to earn All-LSC honors, including all three Lady Buff seniors on the first-team list.

Henley, an Azle, Texas, native scored five goals this season for a total of 10 points and has a total of 29 career goals and 14 assists for 72 career points. She is now a two-time first-team All-LSC selection, earning the honor last season and this year. Henley was also named to the LSC All-Academic Team last season, in addition to being a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection after being named to the first-team list last year and the second-team list this season.

Sides, a native of DeSoto, Texas, has scored two goals and dished out four assists this season for eight points. She finished her career tallying a total of five goals and 12 assists for a total of 22 points. Sides is a two-time first-team All-LSC selection, earning recognition the last two seasons.

Northcutt, a Pampa, Texas, native, scored two goals and had two assists this season, finishing her career with five goals and 10 assists for a total of 18 points. This season, she anchored a Lady Buff defense that had a 1.10 goals against average.

Senior midfielder Roxy Sides earned first-team All-LSC honors, one of seven Lady Buffs to earn All-LSC accolades, including all three WTAMU seniors.

Hartley, an Amarillo, Texas native, and Long, a native of Lubbock, Texas, joined Northcutt in anchoring the WTAMU defense, as well as getting involved in the offense, as both tallied one assist on the season.

Fontana, a native of Camarillo, Calif., netted three goals and three assists on the season for nine points, while Markussen, a Borkup, Denmark, native, tallied four goals and two assists for 10 points for the year.

WTAMU ended its season with a 10-6-1 mark. For the first time in five years WTAMU did not play in the LSC Tournament Championship game, as the second-seeded Lady Buffs were knocked off by third-seeded Midwestern State University, 1-0, in overtime Friday afternoon at Edmond, Okla. hosted by the University of Central Oklahoma.

The Lady Buffs also had their string of consecutive appearances in the NCAA-II Tournament snapped at four years in a row, as they advanced to the Regional semifinals in 2003 for the first time in school history.

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