Powers, Lazenby Earn Weekly Soccer Awards

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Jessica Powers (Nebraska-Omaha) and Kira Lazenby (Northwest Missouri) have been named MIAA Soccer Student-Athletes of the Week for the week of Oct. 8-11 as selected by a conference SID panel. Powers has now won two MIAA weekly honors this season, in consecutive weeks, and Lazenby is also a second-time honoree in 2009.
 
MIAA SOCCER OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Jessica Powers, F, Nebraska-Omaha
Powers compiled six points in two games for Nebraska-Omaha in wins over Emporia State and Washburn. On Oct. 8 in UNO's 5-0 win over ESU, the senior from Bellevue, Neb., netted a goal and added three assists in the game including a helper on the game-winning goal by Jerica Kuncl in the 18th minute. With her three assists, Powers becomes the 11th Maverick in school history to reach the mark in a single game. She put Omaha up 4-0 with her seventh goal of the year in the 68th minute against the Hornets. On Oct. 11, Powers assisted on another game winning goal by Kuncl in UNO's 1-0 win over the Lady Blues.
 
MIAA SOCCER DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Kira Lazenby, GK, Northwest Missouri
Lazenby added two shutouts to her Northwest Missouri program record, which is now 15 career shutouts (32 career games). The senior from Payson, Utah, earned her first assist as a Bearcat in the win against Washburn.