June 13, 2012
The women's soccer team said goodbye to a great senior class that helped lead the Huskies to the Elite 8 in 2010. Faustine Dufka graduated but will return for another year on the field thanks to a redshirt season. Kate Deines, Sarah Martinez, Alex Webber, Kelli Stewart and Jorde LaFontaine-Kussmann ended their careers this season on the field and were honored at the graduation banquet.
Dufka won the Academic Excellence Award for the highest cum GPA of all female graduating seniors.
Martinez earned the Gertrude Peoples Postgraduate Scholarship (selected by SAAS staff), the Scott Greenwood Postgraduate Scholarship (interview process) and the Pac-12 Postgraduate Scholarship (selected by ICA senior executive team).
Deines was named the Female Top Dawg which goes to the outstanding graduating student-athlete who has demonstrated the highest caliber of athleticism, academic achievement, service, leadership, and moral character and led their team to regional and national recognition.
At the second annual WESPY Awards Martinez was named the Most Inspirational Female and Morgan Swanson, who won't return because of a career-ending injury, was named Most Spirited.
Stewart got a degree in architecture and has a job with a firm. LaFontaine-Kussmann is applying to nursing school. Martinez is enrolling in the UW IAL master's program. Webber is applying to veterinary school. Deines is taking the LSAT, working at a law firm and playing for the Seattle Sounders Women. Dufka's degree was in medical anthropology and global health.
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