Eclipse Select Alumni: Jovanovic earns weekly award from UAA

University of Chicago's Natalia Jovanovic

CHICAGO (Oct. 30, 2013) -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club alumna and University of Chicago senior forward Natalia Jovanovic (Gurnee, Ill.) earned University Athletic Association Athlete of the Week honors. Jovanovic scored both goals, including an overtime game-winner, in last Wednesday’s 2-1 victory against the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. For the season, Jovanovic has five goals and eight assists.

In other alumni news, Michelle Prokof (Gurnee, Ill.) scored her eighth goal of the season to lead TCU to a 1-0 win against Iowa State last Friday in Big 12 play. ... Goalkeeper Aryn Newsom (Manteno, Ill.) made five saves in a 3-0 win against Drake as Illinois State clinched the outright regular-season title in the Missouri Valley Conference on Sunday. ... Former Florida State defender Casey Short (Naperville, Ill.) is joining the National Women's Soccer League's Chicago Red Stars for 2014.

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Eclipse Select Alumni: TCU's Prokof of Gurnee earns Big 12 honors

TCU freshman Michelle Prokof /
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CHICAGO (Sept. 26, 2013) -- Former Eclipse Select Soccer Club forward and Texas Christian University freshman standout Michelle Prokof (Gurnee, Ill.) was honored for her goal scoring frenzy last weekend for the Horned Frogs.

Prokof scored all four team goals during a two-game stretch and was named the Big 12 Conference Offensive and Newcomer Player of the Week. They marked the first weekly honors of her young career, and she is the sixth player in Big 12 history to earn both accolades for the same week.

In other Eclipse Select alumni news, Notre Dame junior defender Sammy Scofield (Geneva, Ill.) scored a game-winning goal with only three seconds remaining in regulation to lift the Irish to a 1-0 victory against Syracuse last Thursday in ACC action. Scofield's header was the latest winner in regulation in the program's history.

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