FOREST, Va. – Ady Franken (Peoria, Ill.) was named a First Team All-ODAC honoree in net for the Guilford College women's soccer team, with Kylee Berry (Kernersville, N.C.) making the Second Team, and Naomi Anderson (Youngsville, N.C.) and Mya Rivera (Parrish, Fla.) getting Third Team recognition as all-conference selections by the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) as announced by the conference offices on Wednesday afternoon.

The Quakers were one-of-three teams with four honorees this year, tied for the fourth-most of any ODAC squad. Washington & Lee University and the University of Lynchburg had seven selections apiece followed by Virginia Wesleyan University with six. The four selections for Guilford matches their 2023 total, although these are the first two seasons in which they have had multiple players recognized since 2012.

Franken enjoyed an absolutely brilliant season to cap off a simply superb five years in the cardinal and grey. Staking her claim to a bevvy of single-season and career program records, she capped off her tenure with two of the best seasons in Guilford women's soccer history. To this point this fall, the graduate student ranks second in the ODAC in goals against average, at 0.764, and third in save rate, at .859, with those marks also ranking 69^th and 43^rd nationally respectively. She went 10-5-2 on the season and completed nine clean sheets, the most in the ODAC at the conclusion of the regular season and currently ranking second in the league and 23^rd in Division-III women's soccer. In conference contests, she still yielded less than a goal per game and stopped shots at an .857 rate. Of the seven ODAC matches in which Franken went wire-to-wire in net for GC, she held the opposition scoreless five times. She was also a three-time ODAC Defensive Player of the Week. Having also been recognized by the league last season, Franken is the sole GC GK to be named All-ODAC since 2000 and is the first Quaker keeper to be a multi-time honoree since Jenny Akman '01. She is the first women's soccer player to be named the First Team All-ODAC goalkeeper in program history.

A key component of Franken's success in net was the outstanding defense in front of her and Berry was the anchor of Quakers' backline all season. Invaluable for her contributions both offensively and defensively, Berry completed the regular season as GC's leader among field players in minutes played with 1506 having started in 18 of their 19 matches this fall. Defensively, she was the center back for a Quaker defense that conceded a meager 0.789 goals per game on the season, ranking second in the ODAC and 65^th in the nation leading to a .632 shutout percentage that currently stands 32^nd nationally, and second in the conference. Thanks in large part to her efforts, GC's defense allowed just 196 shots on the season, or 10.4 per game, but just 5.4 shots on frame per contest with opponents shooting just .076 on the year, an indication of a lot of weak, contested looks. Offensively, she initiated several set pieces throughout the fall for the Quakers, resulting in two goals and two assists with all of her offensive production coming in league play. Berry is Guilford's first All-ODAC Second Team selection since Madison Green '23 in 2022, but the first Quaker defender to be selected to the All-ODAC Second Team or higher since Caroline Hemeter '07 back in 2006.  

Utilizing her final year of collegiate eligibility, Anderson made the most of her time in Greensboro serving as the top offensive threat for the cardinal and grey this fall. Her nine goals rank eighth in the ODAC while adding four helpers. Anderson finished with 22 points, averaging 1.29 per game to rank fifth in the conference. Anderson was not just a tremendous goal-scorer, but she made her scores count with five of her nine winding up standing as game-winners, a total that ranks second in the ODAC and 20^th nationally. In league action, she remained within the top-20 in goals, assists, points, and points per game. She also netted three game-winners in league play, tied for third-most in the ODAC.

Roaming the pitch as an offensive-minded midfielder, Rivera rode a strong conclusion to the season to her first All-ODAC selection in soccer, pairing it with her ODAC Champion title in javelin last spring. She finished tied for second on the Quakers with 15 points on the season, equally distributing her production between goals and assists with five apiece, reaching those numbers in 16 matches. She paced Guilford with her assists total that ranks tied for 14^th in the conference. She scored one game-winner on the season, but anecdotally, Rivera was just always around the ball, making an impact on the play. Paired with Berry, the Quaker sophomores represent the first instance of multiple underclassmen receiving All-ODAC recognition since Caroline Hemeter '10 and Jada Daniel '10 all the way back in 2006.

As a team, Guilford women's soccer finished the fall 12-5-2, 6-3-1 in ODAC play finishing as the conference's fifth seed.

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