Honors Keep Rolling In For Akron's Shultz
Courtesy of Akron Sports information
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – University of Akron men's soccer senior Nate Shultz (Mayfield, Ohio) capped his award-winning week with his selection on Tuesday, Oct. 3, as the United Soccer Coaches Division I National Player of the Week.
On Monday, Oct. 2, College Soccer News and TopDrawerSoccer.com named Shultz to their National Teams of the Week. Additionally, Akron Athletics honored him as the Summa Health Student-Athlete of the Week.
He was also recognized as the Mid-American Conference Men's Soccer Player of the Week, the league announced on Tuesday, Oct. 3.
Shultz helped Akron extend its unbeaten streak to six on the strength of registering a pair of goals to lead the Zips to victories over Michigan State and Saint Mary's.
In the Zips' 4-1 victory over No. 1 Michigan State on Wednesday, Sept. 27, Shultz recorded the first multi-goal effort of his career with two goals on his only shots of the game to spark Akron to the win.
The Spartans came into their showdown with the Zips having surrendered only one goal on the campaign and it was Shultz' first tally of the season, a game-winner, in the 16th minute (15:55) that ended Michigan State's run of three consecutive shutouts.
Shultz earned his second tally of the evening in the 45th minute (44:28) off a pair of key inside-out passes for assists from redshirt sophomore Skye Harter (Copley, Ohio) and senior Stuart Holthusen (Auckland, New Zealand) to push Akron's lead at halftime to 2-0.
Defensively, he helped limit Michigan State and Saint Mary's to a combined six shots on goal.
On the season, Shultz owns a pair of goals on three shots and has helped lead Akron defensively to three shutouts.
The eighth-rated Zips (5-2-1) return to action battling Syracuse on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Match time is set for 7 p.m.
