EAST STROUDSBURG - Senior back Brittany Staub was named the PSAC East Women's Soccer Athlete of the Year, and first-year head coach Rob Berkowitz earned Coach of the Year honors to lead a strong showing by East Stroudsburg University on the All-PSAC team released Wednesday.

Berkowitz led the Warriors to a 12-7-1 record and earned a spot in the PSAC semifinals for the first time in nine years with a 1-0 win over Bloomsburg in the quarterfinals. ESU started the season 2-3 before running off a 9-1-1 record in the next 11 games, and finished with an 8-3-1 mark and the No. 2 seed in the PSAC East. The Warriors' season ended with a 3-0 loss at West Chester, the eventual PSAC champion.

Staub (Levittown/Neshaminy) is the third ESU women's soccer player to garner Athlete of the Year recognition, following forward Justina Woolf (2001) and forward Terri Meierhofer (1997). She also joins Woolf and Meierhofer as the only players in school history to be named first team All-PSAC East in four straight seasons.

Staub led a defense that allowed just 24 goals in 20 games (10 goals less than 2006) and recorded seven shutouts. She has also been a three-time all-region selection and was a recipient of ESU's outstanding player award as a freshman and a junior.

ESU and West Chester both placed four players on the first team. Junior midfielder Janel Cleffi (Succasunna, N.J./Roxbury), junior forward Lynda Hicks (Saylorsburg/Pleasant Valley) and junior goalkeeper Janine Turcio (LaGrangeville, N.Y./Arlington) were also first team selections for the Warriors, and freshman midfielder Kailyn Buckley (Wilmington, Del./Brandywine) is a member of the second team.

Hicks led ESU with 11 goals as a super sub, entering all 20 games off the bench. She scored a goal in nine different games, including two game-winning goals, and had her first career hat trick at Mansfield. Hicks was the Warriors' leading scorer with six goals as a freshman in 2003 and scored three goals in 2004 before missing most of the last two seasons due to injury.

Cleffi was a second team selection last season and had seven goals and three assists as the Warriors' center midfielder this year. She scored ESU's first goal and assisted on the second in a 2-0 win at California on Oct. 6 to spark a six-game winning streak that sent the Warriors into the PSAC Tournament.

Turcio led PSAC East goalkeepers with an .838 save percentage and posted a 0.97 goals against average in her first year at ESU. She finished the season with an 11-4-1 record after establishing herself as the Warriors' starting keeper in the fourth game of the season, and had four shutouts and two combined shutouts.

Buckley scored three goals and had a team-high five assists as a freshman for ESU. She contributed to an attack that led the PSAC East with 2.1 goals per game (42 goals), which included five games with four or more goals.