TicketsCINCINNATI -- Kylie Nause and Dani Mlkvy earned First-Team All-AAC honors, while Ava Goeller landed on the second team to highlight Cincinnati's postseason lacrosse accomplishments.
Nause and Mlkvy were also on the league's preseason team in February. UC previously had four AAC honorees in 2021 and seven in 2019 (there was no 2020 team). The trio make for 19 All-Conference members in head coach Gina Thomas' tenure. Nause, the AAC's Freshman of the Year in 2019, joins Monica Borzillo and Sam Mlkvy (both 2019 and 2021) as the only ones in school history with multiple First-Team nods.
Nause broke school records for single-season goals (63) and hat tricks (15), finishing third (142) and second (30) in each for the career books. The Phoenix, Md., product finished eighth nationally in goals, as well as leading the league, and was a two-time AAC Attacker of the Week. She had a pair of six-goal games (Central Michigan, Butler) as well as three more with five (Kent State, Akron, Temple). Nause, who claimed the goals record in her final collegiate game, had the team's highest shot percentage (.533) since 2014) and will attend grad school at the University of Maryland for speech language pathology in the fall.
Mlkvy's 81 draw controls were third in school history, trailing only her sister, Sam, for the higher two spots. The junior out of Berlin, N.J., was third in the league for that and ground balls as well and eighth with 1.29 caused-turnovers per game. Mlkvy was a team captain and the anchor of the defense, asked to play multiple zone positions to guard the opposition's top threat. Cincinnati finished as the league leader in draw controls (15.53), two off the 2019 team's school record of 266.
Goeller was the team's biggest offseason addition following her Big South Freshman of the Year campaign in 2021 at Radford. The Bel Air, Md., native was second on the team in goals (44), assists (15) and draw controls (44). Her nine hat tricks, kicked off by a career-high five goals in her debut at Marquette, rank fifth at UC for a season, while her 7.82 shots per game ranked 11th nationally. Goeller was given captain duties as a newcomer and was the league's Midfielder of the Week on March 28.
Nause and Mlkvy were also on the league's preseason team in February. UC previously had four AAC honorees in 2021 and seven in 2019 (there was no 2020 team). The trio make for 19 All-Conference members in head coach Gina Thomas' tenure. Nause, the AAC's Freshman of the Year in 2019, joins Monica Borzillo and Sam Mlkvy (both 2019 and 2021) as the only ones in school history with multiple First-Team nods.
Nause broke school records for single-season goals (63) and hat tricks (15), finishing third (142) and second (30) in each for the career books. The Phoenix, Md., product finished eighth nationally in goals, as well as leading the league, and was a two-time AAC Attacker of the Week. She had a pair of six-goal games (Central Michigan, Butler) as well as three more with five (Kent State, Akron, Temple). Nause, who claimed the goals record in her final collegiate game, had the team's highest shot percentage (.533) since 2014) and will attend grad school at the University of Maryland for speech language pathology in the fall.
Mlkvy's 81 draw controls were third in school history, trailing only her sister, Sam, for the higher two spots. The junior out of Berlin, N.J., was third in the league for that and ground balls as well and eighth with 1.29 caused-turnovers per game. Mlkvy was a team captain and the anchor of the defense, asked to play multiple zone positions to guard the opposition's top threat. Cincinnati finished as the league leader in draw controls (15.53), two off the 2019 team's school record of 266.
Goeller was the team's biggest offseason addition following her Big South Freshman of the Year campaign in 2021 at Radford. The Bel Air, Md., native was second on the team in goals (44), assists (15) and draw controls (44). Her nine hat tricks, kicked off by a career-high five goals in her debut at Marquette, rank fifth at UC for a season, while her 7.82 shots per game ranked 11th nationally. Goeller was given captain duties as a newcomer and was the league's Midfielder of the Week on March 28.