Maloney Tabbed Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week
10/7/2002 12:00:00 AM | Field Hockey
PARK RIDGE, Ill. -- Sophomore goalkeeper Molly Maloney (Lake Bluff, Ill./Lake Forest HS) of the University of Michigan field hockey team has been named the Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Week, it was announced today (Monday, Oct. 7).
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With Maloney's honor, four Michigan players have earned Big Ten Player of the Week awards in 2002. Junior forward April Fronzoni (Larksville, Pa./Wyoming Valley West HS) and junior defender Stephanie Johnson (Houston, Texas/The Kinkaid School) received the league's offensive and defensive awards, respectively, on Sept. 9, while senior forward Molly Powers (Oak Park, Ill./Oak Park-River Forest HS) earned the offensive award on Sept. 16 and Sept. 30.
No. 2 Michigan (10-1, 2-0 Big Ten), currently on a nine-game winning streak, will travel to Iowa City, Iowa, this weekend for a pair of matches. The Wolverines open the weekend at 3 p.m. CDT on Friday (Oct. 11) against the No. 11 Iowa Hawkeyes in a Big Ten affair before taking on Southwest Missouri State in a non-conference game at noon CDT on Saturday (Oct. 12). Both contests will be staged at Grant Field on the campus of the University of Iowa.
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