Three Ferris State Soccer Standouts Earn 2016 All-GLIAC Recognition

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Big Rapids, Mich. - Three members of the Ferris State University womem's soccer team have earned All-Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) honors for the 2016 season as the league unveiled the selections on Thursday in voting conducted by head coaches.

Junior midfielder Rachel Fouts (Richland/Gull Lake) and freshman goalkeeper Grace Kraft (Williamston) both earned All-GLIAC Second Team accolades with sophomore Carley Dubbert (St. Joseph/Stevensville Lakeshore) picking up GLIAC Honorable Mention honors.

Fouts paced the Bulldogs this fall with a team-best 10 points on four goals and two assists in 18 contests. She tallied 28 shots on goal on the year, which also led the squad, and had three game-winning goals for the Bulldogs. Overall, Fouts recorded 65 total shots while starting all 18 contests.

Meanwhile, Kraft had an impressive rookie campaign as she recorded a 6-4-4 overall mark in goal and tallied a school single-season record nine shutouts for FSU. She made 13 starts and played 1,270 total minutes while allowing only 11 goals in 13 starts. She finished with a 0.78 goals against average and a .890 save percentage.

Finally, Dubbert played in 16 matches and finished with four points on a pair of goals from the back end. She had eight shots overall and put four on goal for the Bulldogs.

Ferris State had its 2016 campaign come to an end on Tuesday (Nov. 1) as the Bulldogs suffered a hard-fought 2-1 setback to the Michigan Tech Huskies in the GLIAC Tournament Quarterfinals at MTU's Sherman Field in Houghton.

The Bulldogs concluded the 2016 campaign with a 6-8-4 overall record and went 4-3-4 in conference regular-season action to finish tied for fifth in the league. In FSU's last 12 outings this year, the Bulldogs gave up only a single goal or less nine times and 10 of the decisions in that stretch either resulted in a victory or were determined by only one goal.

Ferris State was making its seventh consecutive GLIAC Tournament appearance and ninth overall in program history. 

The Bulldogs had only a pair of seniors this fall in four-year letterwinners Meredith Smith and Kate Kelly, who concluded their collegiate careers in the league quarterfinal match.