ORLANDO - Embry-Riddle Athletics saw two of its Eagles pick up weekly hardware on Monday as junior Lauryn Mateo (Women's Soccer) was named Offensive Player of the Week and Ashlyn Koerner (volleyball) was tabbed Setter of the Week by the Sunshine State Conference on Monday.

Mateo and Koerner are the third and fourth members of the Blue and Gold to win an SSC weekly award this fall.

Embry-Riddle is currently 3-0-4 with a season opening week of Sept. 5-7 with a 2-1 win over No. 2 Columbus State and a 2-2 tie with No. 7 West Florida.
Against Columbus State, Embry-Riddle found the back of the net just 94 seconds into their season through Ida Zetterberg. After intercepting a back pass, Zetterberg rounded the CSU goalkeeper and tapped into an empty net.

Soon after, the Eagles found the back of the net again. Lauryn Mateo headed in a cross from Olivia Gallo off a freekick, taking a two-goal lead within the first five minutes.

Seven of Lauryn Mateo's 15 career goals have now been game-winning goals.
Against West Florida, Mateo hit an assist for the Eagles second goal of the game.
Mateo continued her hot start to the season by recording two goals and an assist in the first week of conference play.

She scored or assisted on every ERAU goal this week during their 2-0 win at Tampa and 1-1 draw versus Florida Tech. The junior scored the opening goal against the Spartans, and put the Eagles in front against the Panthers on Saturday evening.

The Orange Park native tallied five points from two goals and one assist, while adding six shots, four shots on goal and a game-winning goal throughout this past week. Embry-Riddle is currently tied for first place in the SSC with Mateo also leading the team in goals (3), assists (2), shots (13), shots on goal (7) and game-winners (2) for the season.

Mateo and Embry-Riddle were at Flagler College on Wednesday, Oct. 8 for a 7 p.m. game. It was the second weekly award of Koerner's career (Oct. 28, 2024), and she's just the fourth Eagle in program history to win Setter of the Week on multiple occasions.

SJCDS Stratton at Georgia Southern XC

In cross country at Georgia Southern University, another St. Johns Country Day School graduate, Rebecca Stratton, a freshman, finished 24th at the HOKA Nights of Thunder Cross Country Fest held Sept. 12 at the Apalachee Regional cross country park in Tallahassee. Apalachee is the home of the Florida state cross country championship meet.

Stratton, who ran four state meets for the Spartans at Apalachee, finished in 20:10.11 with Georgia Southern finishing second to Florida Southern in team points.

Stratton had a high school best of 19:43 for the 5K cross country distance.
On Sept. 26, at the Georgia College and State University Bobcat Invite in Milledgeville, Georgia Southern again finished as second team with Augusta taking the team title.

Stratton finished in 21:29.45 for 36th place.
Georgia Southern has two more meets before the Sun Belt Conference championships on Oct. 31 at Graham Creek Nature Preserve in Foley, Alabama.

SJCDS Pickett nets soccer game-winner

Also in soccer, the Orlando Pride womens professional team won a 2-1 match on Sept. 26 over the San Diego Wave with former St. Johns Country Day School soccer player of year Carson Pickett netting the game-winner in the second half. It was Pickett's second goal of the season putting the Pride at 9-8-5.

On Sept. 30, Orlando fell 2-0 in Mexico City to Club America Femenil at the Estadio Ciudad de los Deportes in Cocacaf W Champions Cup play.
Orlando will host C.F. Pachuca Femenil on Wednesday, Oct. 15 with a semifinal berth in the Champions Cup to the winner.

Orlando next traveled to Texas in the NWSL play to play Friday, Oct. 3 against the Houston Dash.