Troy University Athletics
Pinder Named SBC Player of the Week
9/16/2008 5:00:00 AM | Soccer
NEW ORLEANS -Troy's Jill Pinder was named the Sun Belt Conference's Player of the Week on Tuesday, as announced by the league office.
Pinder is the first Troy soccer player to be named as Player of the Week since the Trojans' move to the Sun Belt Conference in 2005.
In a week that saw Troy go 3-0-0, Pinder tallied three-straight hat tricks for a total of nine goals. For the season Pinder has scored a NCAA-high 13 times, already establishing a new Troy record for goals in a season. She also became the first player in Troy Soccer history to record back-to-back hat tricks and back-to-back-to-back hat tricks. For the week she tallied 21 shots with 19 shots on goal. Additionally, down 2-0, Jill found the back of the net three times to propel Troy to its first win over in-state rival JacksonvilleState.
In addition to leading the nation in goals, Pinder leads all of Division I in Goals Per Game (1.857) and is tied for the lead in points per game with Georgia State's Kay Harbrueger at 3.71.
Western Kentucky sits atop the Sun Belt standings with a record of 5-0-1. Troy is a close second, holding a 5-0-2 mark, with North Texas, Denver and ULM rounding out the top five.
Pinder and the rest of the Trojans will be back in action on Friday when they host Day One of the Troy Trojans Soccer Classic. The Trojans will face North Florida at 3 pm, before that Alabama A&M faces Louisiana Tech at 12 noon. Admission to all home soccer is free.
