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Brandon Morales hugs Emeka Eneli after a Cornell goal against Dartmouth on Oct. 29, 2022
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Eight Men’s Soccer Players Earn All-Ivy Honors

11/16/2022 12:00:00 PM

ITHACA, N.Y. – Eight members of the Cornell men's soccer team received All-Ivy honors on Wednesday afternoon, the Ivy League announced.

Fifth-year forward Emeka Eneli was one of three unanimous First Team All-Ivy selections, joined by Penn's Stas Korzeniowski and Harvard's Willem Ebbinge. It marked Eneli's second consecutive year being a First Team All-Ivy selection.

Joining Eneli on the First Team All-Ivy list was senior defender Connor Drought and senior forward Brandon Morales.

This marks the second consecutive season that Cornell has had at least three First Team All-Ivy honorees. Last year, Eneli, Wilson Eisner and Tyler Bagley were the recipients.

Freshman goalkeeper Ryan Friedberg was named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year, after posting a 13-3-1 record with a 1.01 goals-against average and a .685 save percentage. Friedberg's 13 wins are the most by a freshman on record in Cornell program history and his win total is the third-most by a Big Red goalkeeper.

Friedberg became the fourth goalkeeper in Ivy League history, since the first time the award was handed out in 1980, to earn Rookie of the Year. The others were Penn's Michael O'Connor (1996), Dartmouth's Doug Carr (2002), and Brown's Paul Grandstrand (2007).

It also marks just the third time a Cornell player has been named the Ivy League's Rookie of the Year, joining Richard Stimpson (1997) and Eneli (2018).

Junior midfielder Lalo Serrano was the lone Big Red player named Second Team All-Ivy, while Friedberg, freshman defender Andrew Johnson, and senior defender Cam Maquat were All-Ivy Honorable Mentions.

Senior midfielder Noel Ortega was Cornell's recipient of the Academic All-Ivy award.

Cornell, who is the No. 14 seed in this year's 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, will play the winner of Thursday's first-round match between Fairleigh Dickinson and Maryland at Berman Field on Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets for the match can be purchased on bigredtix.com. Game action will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
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