Herbers, Pitter, and Sparrow Highlight All-BIG EAST Honors

NEW YORK -- For the second-consecutive season, Creighton Men's Soccer's Fabian Herbers and Timo Pitter were named BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year and Midfielder of the Year, respectively. Joining Herbers and Pitter with all-conference honors were seniors Connor Sparrow and Vincent Keller, and freshman Joel Rydstrand.

Sparrow became the third keeper in program history to be named league Goalkeeper of the Year, joining Kevin Doyle (1992) and Brian Holt (2011).

After helping anchor the Bluejays' defense, Keller and Rydstrand earned All-BIG EAST First Team and All-Freshman Team honors, respectively. Rydstrand was a unanimous selection to the All-Freshman Team.

Herbers, who leads the BIG EAST in goals (14) and assists (12), is the first Creighton player to have exceeded the 40-point plateau in a single season since Mike Tranchilla in 2001. He has recorded a point in 17 of the Bluejays' 18 matches, and his 40 points lead all players in NCAA Division I. Herbers was unanimously selected as both Offensive Player of the Year and an All-First Team honoree.

Pitter, the Bluejays' second leading scorer, has tallied seven goals and three assists. Four of his seven goals were game-winners. With his game-winning goal at Butler on Oct. 14, Pitter moved into seventh-place on Creighton's all-time list for career goals (30) and ninth-place for career points (80), moving past former All-American and current Creighton women's soccer head coach, Ross Paule, on both lists.

This season marks the second-consecutive year Herbers and Pitter earned All-BIG EAST First Team honors.

Sparrow, Creighton's all-time leader for goals against average (0.55) and win percentage (.800), earned eight clean sheets this season en route to helping the Bluejays to a second-place finish in the BIG EAST. Creighton began the season with 15 consecutive wins, the program's best start in more than two decades.

Keller has assisted four of the Bluejays' BIG EAST-leading 41 goals. Creighton's leader for minutes played over the past four season (6,566), Keller was named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week three times this season.

Rydstrand has recorded two goals and two assists this season, including the game-winning goal at Marquette on Oct. 17. Subsequently, he was named BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week, and the following week earned BIG EAST Freshman of the Week honors.

The complete list of All-BIG EAST honorees is as follows:

2015 Men's Soccer All-BIG EAST Team and Major Awards
BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year
Fabian Herbers, Creighton, Jr., M/F *

BIG EAST Midfielder of the Year
Timo Pitter, Creighton, Sr., F/M

BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year
Joshua Yaro, Georgetown, Jr., D*

BIG EAST Co-Goalkeepers of the Year
Dallas Jaye, Xavier, R-Sr.
Connor Sparrow, Creighton, Sr.

BIG EAST Freshman of the Year
JT Marcinkowski, Georgetown, Fr., GK

BIG EAST Coaching Staff of the Year
Georgetown

All-BIG EAST First Team^
Dallas Jaye, Xavier, R-Sr., GK
JT Marcinkowski, Georgetown, Fr., GK
Fabian Herbers, Creighton, Jr., F*
Brandon Allen, Georgetown, Sr., F*
Mac Steeves, Providnece, Jr., F*
Vincent Mitchell, Butler, Sr., M
Timo Pitter, Creighton, Sr., M
Sean Sheridan, Villanova, Sr., M
Arun Basuljevic, Georgetown, So., M
Joshua Yaro, Georgetown, Jr., D*
Cory Brown, Xavier, So., D
Vincent Keller, Creighton, Sr., D

All-BIG EAST Second Team
Connor Sparrow, Creighton, Sr., GK
Alex Muyl, Georgetown, Jr., F
David Goldsmith, Butler, Jr., F
Simon Megally, DePaul, Jr., F
Luis Bennett II, Marquette, Jr., M
Julian Gressel, Providence, Jr., M
Caleb Postelwait, Butler, Sr., M
Joshua Turnley, Georgetown, Sr., M/D
Keegan Rosenberry, Georgetown, Sr., M/D
Cole Seiler, Georgetown, Sr., D

All-Freshman Team^^
(listed alphabetically)
Marco Charalambous, Butler, RS-Fr., M *
Brendan Constantine, Providence, Fr., M
JT Marcinkowski, Georgetown, Fr., GK *
Tiago Mendonca, Providence, Fr., M
Alex Pozeski, Seton Hall, Fr., M *
Mike Prosuk, St. John's, Fr., F *
Joel Rydstrand, Creighton, Fr., M *
Ruben Sanchez, Marquette, Fr., D
Jake Scheper, DePaul, Fr., M
Klisman Sousa, Providence, RS-Fr., M
Jared Timmer, Butler, Fr., M
Zach Zandi, Villanova, Fr., M

*-denotes a unanimous selection
^-due to a tie in voting there is a 12-member All-BIG EAST First Team
^^-due to a tie in voting there is a 12-member All-BIG EAST Freshman Team

Herbers, Pitter, and Sparrow Highlight All-BIG EAST Honors

Players Mentioned

Fabian Herbers

Vincent Keller

Timo Pitter

Joel Rydstrand

Connor Sparrow

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