KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Mio Tanaka of Keiser (Fla.) held No. 1 Cumberlands (Ky.) scoreless on the road for her fourth straight shutout this season as she picks up her first PrestoSports-NAIA Women’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week honor of the 2026 season.
Tanaka opened the week with the first of two top 10 battles. In a neutral site matchup with No. 8 Grace (Ind.), she blanked the Lancers with a pair of saves as the Seahawks put three goals away. Two days later, she ran her performance back, but this time against No. 1 Cumberlands (Ky.) on their home turf.
The senior goalkeeper from Mimeji, Japan kept her scoreless streak rolling as she collected three saves in a convincing 2-0 victory over the Patriots; pushing her scoreless streak to 392 minutes.
As Sun conference action gets underway for Tanaka and company, she sits atop the conference in goals against average with a 0.33 mark and eighth nationally among goalkeepers with three or more games in goal.
Tanaka will lead the Seahawks (5-0-1) into their final two non-conference battles this week against St. Thomas (Fla.) on Wednesday, September 16 and Southeastern (Fla.) on Saturday, September 19. Sun Conference action kicks off the following week on Saturday, September 26 when they take on the Bobcats of STU for the second time.
KASNAS CITY, Mo. – The final STADIONIC-NAIA Women’s Soccer National Selection Committee (NSC) Top 25 Poll didn’t see any change at the top with Keiser (Fla.), Grace (Ind.), and Indiana Wesleyan holding steady at No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3 as conference tournament action gets set to begin. Only two other teams held steady […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The sophomore Roadrunner Maggie Rickerd posted back-to-back clean sheets last week, which included a shutout against the second best offensive team in the country scoreless. Rickerd’s two clean sheets earned her Prestosports-NAIA Women’s Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for October 27. A native of Chattanooga, Tenn, Rickerd put on a […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Tindra Jarl of MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.) put eight goals away over two matches last week helping to lead the Pioneers to a clean sweep last week. Jarl’s big week offensviely for MNU hands her PrestoSports-NAIA Women’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for the October 27 award. The native of Gothenburg, […]
Volume II | Issue V We have our first ticket punched to the 2026 NAIA Women’s Soccer National Championship field. Last night Truett-McConnell secured some hardware after claiming the Appalachian Athletic Conference (AAC) regular season title. With more regular season titles on track to be locked up for many conferences in the final week or […]