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Brown Named to Pac-10 First Team, Three Earn Second Team Honors

California sophomore Kim Brown (Berkeley) was named to the 1997 Pac-10 All-Conference women's soccer first team, Conference Commissioner Tom Hansen announced Monday. Brown, who earned second team All-Pac-10 honors last year as a freshman, appeared in 18 of Cal's 19 matches this season and finished the year fourth on the team in scoring with eight points on three goals and two assists. Selected as one of the Bears co-captains for 1997, she helped lead Cal to a fourth place Pac-10 finish as the Bears reeled of victories in their final six straight matches to end the year with an 11-7-1 overall record.

Three other Golden Bears also received conference honors Monday as senior Courtney Carroll (Fremont), junior Ryan McManus (Escondido) and freshman Maite Zabala (Boise, ID) were all selected to the All-Pac-10 second team.

Carroll started all 19 games for the Bears in 1997 was Cal's leading scorer with 18 points (six goals, six assists), a figure that also placed her 14th among the Pac-10's scoring leaders. McManus, a 17-game starter as a defender and Zabala, a goalkeeper, together helped the Bears field one of the Pac-10 stingiest defenses. In Zabala's eight starts, she posted a 1.00 goals against average, which included a 1-0 lost to defending national champion North Carolina combined. For the season, Cal finished second in the conference allowing only 19 goals in 19 games for a 1.00 gaa. Only conference champion UCLA, which yielded an average of 0.71 per contest, was better than Cal.