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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Following two big Gulf South Conference wins over the weekend, the University of West Florida women's soccer team will host strong competition over the next week at the UWF Soccer Complex. The first game of the week will be on Wednesday, September 28, against No. 13 Columbus State from the Peach Belt Conference, and GSC foe North Alabama will make the trip on Sunday afternoon.
 
Wednesday's game will begin at 4 p.m., and the game on Sunday is scheduled for a 12:30 p.m. start. Both games will feature live stats and a live video broadcast, and the links for those can be found at GoArgos.com.
 
Weekly Awards Sweep

• UWF made program history and added to conference history on Tuesday with the announcement of the Gulf South Conference Players of the Week for September 27. For the first time, UWF student-athletes were named the GSC women's soccer player, defender and freshman of the week. It is just the second time in league history that one team has achieved the feat.
• Senior midfielder Sara Helgadottir was named the GSC Player of the Week after recording five assists and adding a goal. She dished out two helpers versus West Georgia and, against Valdosta State, had three assists and a goal. The match against VSU marked the sixth time in her career that she has had at least one goal and one assist in a match.
• The conference deffender of the week was junior goalkeeper Katelyn Burkhart, who recorded two clean sheets last week as West Florida topped both Valdosta State, 5-0, and West Georgia, 3-0. She has now allowed just one goal on the season so far at 5-0 with nine saves.
• Freshman forward Marjorie Boilesen earned GSC Freshman of the Week honors and had her first-career hat trick against West Georgia and assisted on another score for the week versus Valdosta State. The striker has now scored six goals on the season to go along with six assists and a league-best 18 points. The honor marks the third time this season that Boilesen has earned a freshman of the week nod, having previously done it on September 6 and September 20.

 
Scouting Columbus State

• As reigining national runners-up, No. 13 Columbus State returns several star players from the 2015 campaign. The headliner is 2015 NSCAA All-American Nicole Corcione, who has scored two goals and added two assists. Other standouts include 2015 Peach Belt Conference Freshman of the Year Olivia Jarrell and three-year starter in goal Maylyn Parsons.
• Freshman midfielder Flo Spano has been the top point-scorer in the conference leader with 12 points and leads CSU with four goals and four assists.
• CSU has the second-best scoring offense in the PBC, and their 3.0 goals per game rank 13th in DII.
• West Florida is a perfect 4-0 against the Cougars in the all-time series and has outscored CSU 13-2. The last matchup was a cancellation in 2014, and the last game played between the teams was a 3-2 overtime victory for UWF to start the 2013 season.

 
Scouting North Alabama

• The Lions return 2015 GSC Freshman of the Year Kylie Huey, and all-conference players Susan Lang, Margarida Sousa and Beatriz Fernandes. Sousa leads the team with two goals and five points through the first eight games.
• North Alabama has had a bit of an up-and-down season thus far, with wins against Nova Southeastern, UAH and Shorter, and losses against Tampa, Columbus State and Lee.
• UWF and North Alabama met in the GSC Championship match in 2009, 2010 and 2012, with UWF taking the victory all three times and outscoring the Lions 10-3.
• West Florida is 17-2-1 all-time against UNA, taking a 3-2 win over the Lions in Pensacola last year.

 
Freshman Phenom

• Freshman Marjorie Boilesen leads the Gulf South Conference with 18 points through UWF's first eight games.
• Boilesen ranks third in DII in assists per game (0.75) and is tied for third in the nation with Sara Helgadottir in total assists (6).
• The Brazilian has scored at least one point in every game of her college career and added an assist in five consecutive games, from September 4 through September 23.
• The last UWF player to have an assist in five consecutive games or score a point in six games in a row was 2012 NSCAA National Player of the Year Chelsea Palmer, who accomplished both feats in 2013.
• Boilesen posted her second multi-goal game of the year with a hat trick against West Georgia on Sunday and has maintained the point-scoring streak to start her season.
• Her hat trick was the first for a UWF freshman since Sara Helgadottir found the net three times in a game in the 2013 season, and Boilesen's six goals give her the most for a UWF freshman since Monica Malavassi matched that total in 2009. The UWF freshman record for goals scored in a single season belongs to Brianna Oeser, who scored 12 in 2001.

 
Helgadottir's Helpers

• Senior midfielder Sara Helgadottir was a major offensive threat against Valdosta State and West Georgia over the weekend. The native of Grindavik, Iceland, tallied five assists over the two games, with three coming against VSU and the other two in the game against UWG.
• She now ranks 10th all-time in the UWF record books with 24 career assists.
• Helgadottir ranks seventh in DII in assists per game (0.75) and third in total assists (6).
• Her efforts against Valdosta State on Friday marked the sixth game in the senior's career with at least one goal and one assist.
• The VSU contest was also the first game of her career with multiple assists, and her five total points in the game were the second-highest mark of her career, following a six-point hat trick in her 2013 freshman season.

 
Ward on a Roll

• Senior forward Kaley Ward has been a major offensive catalyst for UWF in the last three weeks, during which West Florida is 5-1.
• Ward found the goal in five consecutive games and has now scored a point in six in a row, with an assist on Sunday. She accomplished a similar feat as a junior in 2015, with six goals across four games against Lynn, No. 1 Rollins, Tampa and Spring Hill, and followed that stretch with an assist against Montevallo. The Saint Cloud, Florida, native now has 14 goals and 7 assists in her career at UWF.
• She ranks fourth in the GSC in goals (5), eighth in total points (11) and 10th in points per game (1.38).