Six Fighting Scots on CSC Academic All-District® Team

CSC Academic All-District® Release

College of Wooster women's soccer Fighting Scots Bella Crompton, Bailey Farrell, Lily Glaza, Alyssa Lubba, Kelsey Maley, and Julia Struck were tabbed Academic All-District® by College Sports Communicators on Tuesday.

Crompton, a sophomore midfielder, played in 18 games this fall, 14 of which were starts. Crompton scored three goals and passed out an assist. The sophomore's first score of the year was the lone goal in a 1-0 win over Baldwin Wallace University in late September. That kickstarted a three-match run of points, as Crompton passed out an assist against John Carroll University and scored in Wooster's 5-0 rout of Muskingum University. Her final goal of the year came at Wittenberg University. The psychology major has played in 35 career games and has four goals.

Farrell, a second-team All-North Coast Athletic Conference defender, is on the Academic All-District® team for the third time. The two-year starter appeared in 16 contests this fall and was a key defender for a program that allowed under a goal per contest. Farrell helped Wooster finish the year with nine clean sheets and she scored in the season-opening 2-0 win at Earlham College.

The biochemistry and molecular biology major is investigating variants of SjAK to elucidate key residues involved in extreme negative cooperativity for the Independent Study project. Farrell's summer research internship at Ohio State University's Department of Pathology focused on cancer research. Farrell examined digital pathology, helped with whole-slide imaging, and researched the implications of artificial intelligence in pathology and healthcare.

Elsewhere, Farrell is a health coach through the College's partnership with the Wooster Community Hospital Community Care Network. Though the health coach program, Farrell visits community patients and works with them to develop strategies to maintain healthy lifestyles. She charts and evaluates patients to maintain up-to-date status of overall health. Farrell started as a laboratory teaching assistant on campus this semester. Farrell is a tour guide for admissions, is an EMT for Lifecare Hospice, and is a residential assistant on campus. She is also a member of the South Asian Committee and the Fiber Arts Club on campus.

Glaza, a three-time Academic All-District® and two-time All-NCAC performer, capped her career as a four-year starting defender. The senior started all 18 games this fall, and ended her career with 72 games played and 65 starts. She passed out the assist in Wooster's 1-0 win over DePauw University on the last day of the regular season, which helped clinch the program's spot in the four-team NCAC Tournament. Glaza scored a goal in Wooster's 3-2 win at Marietta College. She logged six assists and four goals over her career.

The mathematics major is modeling the spread of malaria in India through the SIR SI Model for the Independent Study project. She spent this summer as a business analyst intern at M3D in Michigan. There, Glaza drove key initiatives for a medical device startup by performing data cleaning, merging, and filtering on datasets related to over 5,000 hospitals. She extracted key insights to inform business strategies and worked directly with the chief executive officer. Glaza works for athletic communication as a basketball and lacrosse statistics spotter and is a member of the Phi Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society at the College.

Lubba started all 18 contests and ranked third on the team with four goals and nine points this fall. The senior scored in Wooster's 3-2 win over Marietta and added goal two of the year in a 3-2 win over John Carroll. Lubba delivered the decisive goal in Wooster's NCAC-opening 1-0 win over Kenyon College and rounded out the year's scoring with a goal in a 2-0 decision over Hiram College.

Lubba is analyzing the bluefin tuna industry and the impact of modern fishing practices on the conservation of the species for her Independent Study project. The environmental studies major is a sustainable agriculture teaching assistant and was previously a teaching assistant for the farm to table course. Lubba's summer internships include working as a whale identification intern at Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California. There, she maintained detailed data logs of cetacean sightings and photographed the sightings. Lubba then geotagged images and exported GPS data. On campus Lubba has worked as a garden assistant and cared for campus fruit, native flower, and vegetable gardens. She spent a year working as a student assistant for the Environmental Studies department.

Maley played in all 18 games and made 16 starts this fall. The junior defender now has 50 career appearances, 46 of which are starts. She was part of nine clean sheets this fall.

The psychology and studio art major interned at Jefferson Outpatient Center in 2022, working with an art therapist to help patients with their physical and occupational therapy through different forms of art. She learned and cared for people with brain and spinal injuries and gained field experience alongside music, speech, physical, and occupational therapists. More recently, Maley worked as a nanny and at Sand Jamm. At Wooster, Maley is a volunteer for Goodwill Industries.

Struck played in 15 games with 12 starts this fall. The junior now has 38 career games played and 25 starts. Struck passed out two assists in Wooster's 2-0 win over Hiram in late October. That brought the forward's career total to four.

CSC members may nominate up to six soccer student-athletes for Academic All-District® honors. Nominees must be at least a sophomore in academic standing with a minimum 3.5 cumulative GPA. Nominees must be a starter or significant reserve and play in at least 90 percent of contests or start at least 66 percent of them.