BOCA RATON, Fla. – Hagay Jalon of the Florida Atlantic University men’s soccer team has been named Conference USA Defensive Player of the Week, the league office announced on Monday.
Jalon and the Owls started out the 2019 season on a strong note with a 1-0 shutout of No. 17 James Madison on Friday. Jalon wasn’t untested in the match, making five saves for the clean sheet. It was the redshirt senior’s third shutout of his career and his first against a ranked opponent.
His blanking of the Dukes offense helped the Owls start the season 1-0 for the first time since 2011 and it was the first shutout to start the season since 2002.
Hagay’s Player of the Week nod is the first weekly award for FAU men’s soccer since the 2013 season, the first season for the Owls in C-USA.
FAU men’s soccer will face another strong test this week when No. 14 Louisville comes to town. The Owls and the Cards will face off on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the FAU Soccer Stadium following the women’s match against Dartmouth. Admission for both matches is free.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 CheriBundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
