BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – The Carleton women's soccer team's exceptional 2022 season was well represented as the MIAC coaches handed out their end of season honors. The Knights took home all four headline awards and had five individuals earn all-conference status. Junior forward Casey MacVeagh (Thetford, Vt./Thetford Academy) was named the MIAC Offensive Player of the Year, while sophomore center back Piper Dean (Arlington, Va./Yorktown) was selected as the MIAC Defensive Player of the Year. Midfielder Ashlyn Haigh (Fy./Kalamazoo, Mich./Portage Central) was recognized as MIAC co-Rookie of the Year.
 
This is the first time that a MIAC squad has captured all four major awards in the same year.
 
Joining that trio on the All-MIAC squad was senior midfielder Cate Patterson (Racine, Wis./Prairie School) while senior Rainey Tilley (South Pasadena, Calif.) received All-MIAC Honorable Mention after splitting time at defender and midfielder. This marks the first time since 2014 that Carleton had five players represented in the postseason conference awards.
 
To top it all off, coach Jessica Mueller was named the MIAC Coach of the Year in just her second season at the helm of the program. She guided the Knights to a 13-2-3 record that included the MIAC regular season title and equaled the program's most wins since 2010. She joins Keren Gudeman (2006 and 2010) as the only Carleton Women's Soccer coaches to receive this honor.
 
MacVeagh is the first Carleton player to receive the Offensive Player of the Year Award. She led the Knights' attack this season, registering career highs of 10 goals and seven assists. Her goal total was third among MIAC players and tied for fifth in program annals. Of her 10 goals, seven of them either tied the game or gave Carleton the lead, including four game-winning scores. Each of MacVeagh's seven assists came during MIAC contests. Her 27 points (two for a goal, one for an assist) represent the highest total by a conference player during the 2022 regular season and the fourth-highest single season total in team history.
 
She notched five games this season in which she factored in at least two goals, with Carleton going 4-0-1 in those contests. The last of those was the regular-season finale against Saint Benedict, when she scored the game-tying goal on a 20-yard volley with 0:08 left to secure the Knights' first MIAC regular season crown since 2011.
 
Dean is the first Carleton player to take home MIAC Defensive Player of the Year distinction. She played exclusively in the midfield as a rookie in 2021 but transitioned to the Knights' back line this fall and was a defensive rock for a squad that surrendered only 16 goals and 69 shots on target over 18 games. Carleton notched seven shutouts on the season and a goals against average of 0.89 overall and only 0.64 during league action. The Knights' defense permitted only 3.83 shots on goal per contest.
 
Dean also contributed on the offensive end, finishing fifth on the team in points with three goals and an assist. Two of her goals gave Carleton the lead, including the game-winning score at Concordia-Moorhead. She finished second on the team with 1,616 minutes played as she spent only 24 minutes on the sidelines all season.
 
Haigh jumped into lineup for the Knights' midfield from the get-go, appearing in all 18 games, including 17 starts. She logged the third-most minutes on the roster (1,408) and played as the defensive midfielder for a Carleton unit that regularly suffocated its opponents attacks and yieldi a goal or less in 14 of 18 contests. Haigh did all of her scoring on the season against MIAC opponents, notching goals in back-to-back victories over Augsburg and St. Olaf and collecting assists against St. Scholastica and in the MIAC-clinching tie with Saint Benedict. She shared the inaugural MIAC Rookie of the Year Award with St. Olaf midfielder Cat Duffy-Shaw, and they were the only first-years on the All-MIAC team.
 
Patterson was named to the All-MIAC team for the second straight season and becomes the sixth player in program history to receive postseason MIAC recognition on three separate occasions (see list below). She had seven assists this fall, tied with MacVeagh for tops on the team and second among MIAC players. Five of those assists came during MIAC play to rank Patterson second in the conference behind her teammate. She assisted on four game-winning goals and added five goals of her own, all of which came in Carleton victories. In fact, the Knights went 8-0-1 during games in which Patterson contributed either a goal or an assist and were only 5-2-2 when she did not. Patterson started all 18 games for the Knights, playing the fourth-most minutes of anyone on the roster.
 
Patterson is tied for eighth in program history with 18 career goals and is second with 15 assists. Her 51 points ranks sixth in team annals. She tallied at least 15 points in each of her three seasons.
 
Tilley become the 38th player in Carleton women's soccer history to be named to receive some level of all-conference recognition multiple times. She started all 18 games for the Knights, playing at both winger and outside back. Tilley scored twice on the season, finding the back of the net in back-to-back games with the go-ahead goal at Cornell and game-tying goal at Concordia-Moorhead.
 
Tilley was another key cog in the defensive effort for Carleton, logging the fifth-most minutes of any player and helping to keep the ball away from the Knights' area. She helped Carleton put together a 14-match unbeaten streak (13-0-1) that tied the school record.
 
Players to receive all-conference recognition multiple times
Jennie Rehm (1983, 1984, & 1985)
Carrie Wren (1984 & 1985)
Jean Outterson (1984, 1985, & 1986)
Becky Fielder (1986, 1987^ & 1988)
Sarah Bing (1987 & 1988)
Beverly Boxill (1988 & 1990)
Alyssa Reichauer (1988^ & 1990)
Catie Stillman (1991, 1992, & 1993)
Deidre Kerr (1994 & 1995)
Alicia Fischer (1995^ & 1997)
Abigail Forster (1996 & 1998)
Rose Koch (1997 & 1999)
Birungi Mutebi (1998 & 2001)
Margie Sollinger (1999^ & 2001)
Morgan Russell-Dempsey (2000^ & 2001^)
Cara Jones (2000^ & 2001^)
Stella Schulte (2002 & 2003)
Becca Dole (2003^ & 2004^)
Clare O'Connor (2004, 2005^ & 2006
Megan Molteni (2005*, 2006^ & 2007)
Nicky Bloom (2005^, 2006^ & 2008^)
Dylan Welch (2006 & 2007)
Sophie Wood (2005^, 2006, 2007^ & 2008)
Mia Zutz (2007 & 2008)
Leigh-Anne Borkowski (2007^ & 2010)
Niki Tomita (2008^, 2009, 2010, & 2011)
Abby Wills (2008, 2009^, 2010, & 2011)
Lily VanderStaay (2010^ & 2011)
Marlena Hartman-Filson (2010 & 2012^)
Layne Teska (2011^, 2012 & 2013)
Mikayla Coulombe (2012^, 2013^ & 2014)
Bailey Ulbricht (2013 & 2014^)
Ava Lewis (2014 & 2015)
Annika Martensson (2015^, 2017 & 2018)
Madeline Topf (2016^ & 2017^)
Kaela Mali (2018 & 2019)
Cate Patterson (2019^, 2021 & 2022)
Rainey Tilley (2019 & 2022^)
 
^all-conference honorable mention