University of Delaware Athletics
Delgado Earns Second CAA Player of the Year Award; Eight Total Blue Hens Honored by CAA
11/10/2016 6:00:00 PM | Men's Soccer
CAA Awards Show
RICHMOND, Va. – For the second time in his illustrious career for the Blue Hens, senior Guillermo Delgado (Tres Cantos, Spain/Jose Luis Sampedro) garnered CAA Men's Soccer Player of the Year accolades Thursday.
In total, eight Blue Hens were honored as All-CAA selections as Delgado was joined on the All-CAA First Team by classmate Thomas de Villardi (Vincennes, France/Lycee Notre-dame Guingamp), graduate student Ben Sampson (Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury) and redshirt sophomore Todd Morton (West Chester, Pa./Henderson).
Second Team honors went to junior Thibault Philippe (Saint Brieuc, France/Lycee Notre-dame Guingamp), sophomore John Schroeder (Houston, Texas/YSC Academy/Philadelphia Union Academy) and freshman Fede Prieto (Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain/IES Carmen Conde). Sophomore Robert Gillin (Marlton, N.J./Cherokee) was picked for the Third Team while Prieto was also a member of the All-Rookie Team and Sampson joined the All-Academic Team.
Ian HennessyDelgado, who has secured five Delaware career records with 114 points, 48 goals, 19 assists, 277 shots and 17 game-winning goals, is currently ranked fourth nationally with 1.88 points per game and ninth with 30 points and 11 goals. One of the Delaware's tri-captains, he is also the nation's active career leader in points and saves.
“Guillermo has done what is consistently the hardest thing to do in soccer and that's to score goals,” Hennessy commented. “Given that he is a probable four-time All-American and all of the awards that he has accumulated, it is rare that we will see the likes of him again at the University of Delaware; maybe in any sport, but most certainly in soccer. We are thankful for what he and his teammates have given to this program.”
De Villardi wraps his career in a Blue Hens uniform as a two-time All-CAA First Team honoree after transferring to the University of Delaware following his sophomore campaign. The midfielder/defender has registered seven points on two goals and three assists for the Hens.
Sampson, a two-time team captain, has remained a mainstay on the pitch for the Blue Hens and to date has started 80 of 81 games played for UD while rarely seeing less than 90 minutes played in a contest. A Senior CLASS Award candidate and CoSIDA Academic All-Distric honoree, the defender has garnered 10 goals and four assists for 24 points during his career.
In just his second season in goal, Morton is atop the Delaware career leaderboard with a 1.02 Goals Against Average, fifth with 11 shutouts and eight with 2914 minutes played. He has started all 18 games for the Hens this season while logging 63 saves at a clip of .759 and allowing 1.10 goals per game.
Delaware will make its fourth straight, and sixth in the past seven years, CAA Tournament appearance this coming weekend. The second-seeded Blue Hens face the College of Charleston in the CAA semifinals at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Hofstra University. The winner will advance to Sunday's championship final, slated for 2:30 p.m.
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