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East Stroudsburg's Brittany Staub and Slippery Rock's Megan McGrath have been selected by the league's coaches as the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Athletes of the Year in their respective Divisions.  Staub represents the Eastern Division and McGrath the Western Division.

Also earning honors were West Chester's Sarah Oswald and IUP's Lauren Mizik, who were named the Eastern and Western Division Rookie of the Year, respectively. 

Rob Berkowitz, in his first year at East Stroudsburg, earned Eastern Division Coach of the Year honors while Edinboro's Gary Kagiavas took home the honor in the West.

Staub, a senior back from Levittown (Neshaminy HS), earns E. Stroudsburg's first Athlete of the Year honors since Justina Woolf in 2001.  She started all 20 games for the Warriors and headed up a defense that allowed just 24 goals and posted seven shutouts. 

A senior from Vernon, N.J., McGrath owns the league's third-best point total (35, 1.39 per game).  Her 10 goals rank 10th in the PSAC while her five assists are good for seventh.  In addition, McGrath owns five game winning goals in divisional play, a figure that is tops among the league.  She will lead her squad into NCAA postseason play on Friday, November 9 against Adelphi as The Rock competes in the tournament for the second straight season.

Oswald,  a forward from Macungie (Emmaus HS), will lead the Golden Rams into the NCAA postseason as the Northeast Region's No. 2 seed.  West Chester will play the winner of the Slippery Rock/ Adelphi contest on Sunday at Noon.  The rookie ranks second in the league in points (36, 1.89 per game) and goals (17), with her 17 tallies nearly double the amount of her nearest teammate.  She was also a first-team Eastern Division selection.

Mizik, a midfielder from Irwin (Hempfield HS), is the second straight IUP player to be named Western Division Rookie of the Year.  She started 18 of 20 games for the Crimson Hawks and helped guide an IUP offense that finished with league bests in points (179) and goals (67).

In his first year as head coach of the Warriors, Berkowitz led ESU to the PSAC semifinals for the first time in nine years and posted an overall record of 12-7-1, 8-3-1 in the league, after being picked by the coaches to finish fifth in the preseason poll.  Last year, ESU posted a 7-11-2 overall record, 3-9-0 in the PSAC East. 

Kagiavas earns his third Coach of the Year honors after leading Edinboro to a 13-5-3 overall record, 6-2-2 in the PSAC West, and set a new school record for wins in a season.  This year's edition finished as the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and hosted its first-ever PSAC playoff game.  The 2007 Fighting Scots advanced to the semifinals, marking the best finish for an Edinboro squad to date.  Kagiavas has been the Fighting Scots head coach since 1996, compiling a 103-100-18 record, and recording five seasons with 10 or more wins.