University of North Carolina Athletics
Four Tar Heels Earn All-ACC Honors
November 13, 2002 | Men's Soccer
Nov. 13, 2002
CARY, N.C. -- Four University of North Carolina men's soccer players were named to the 2002 All-Atlantic Coast Conference teams, the ACC announced on Wednesday evening at its annual awards banquet. Matt Crawford, Ryan Kneipper and Logan Pause were named to the first-team. David Testo was named to the second-team.
The announcement marks the first time Carolina has had three first-team honorees in the same season since 1994, when Temoc Suarez, Victor Suarez and Eddie Pope were named first-team All-ACC.
ACC regular season champion Wake Forest headed up the 2002 All-ACC team with five highlighted athletes, while Clemson, Maryland and Carolina each placed four to the team, as selected by the league's seven head coaches. Virginia and Duke rounded out the teams by adding three and two selections, respectively.
Virginia's Alecko Eskandarian was tabbed as the 2002 ACC Player of the Year, while Wake Forest's Jay Vidovich garnered ACC Coach of the Year recognition and Demon Deacon Justin Moose was selected the ACC Rookie of the Year.
elow are brief notes on UNC's four All-ACC honorees:
Matt Crawford (senior, Durham, N.C.) - Leads the ACC with a career-high 13 assists this season ... Nearing the single-season UNC assist record of 15 ... Second on the UNC team with 23 points on five goals and 13 assists ... His 32 career assists are tied for the fourth-best total in UNC history ... Academic All-District choice this fall ... Phi Beta Kappa inductee ... UNC team co-captain this season.
Ryan Kneipper (senior, Dallas, Texas) - Leads UNC with 35 points on 13 goals and 9 assists ... Two-time ACC Player-of-the-Week choice in 2002 ... Has 34 career goals, ranking fifth in school history ... Has 85 career points as a Tar Heel, seventh in school history ... Named the Offensive MVP of the 2001 NCAA College Cup after scoring the game-winner in the NCAA title game last fall ... Second-team All-ACC in 2001.
Logan Pause (junior, Hillsborough, N.C.) - A valuable offensive midfielder in his first two seasons at North Carolina, Pause moved to defense this fall and became one of the top defenders in the ACC ... Still can bring the ball forward and create offensively when needed, evidenced by his two goals and one assist this fall ... Second-team All-ACC choice in the midfield in 2001 ... UNC team co-captain this season.
David Testo (senior, Arden, N.C.) - Third on the UNC team with eight assists and tied for third with five goals this season ... Third in the ACC in assists per game and fifth in points per game this season ... Had two goals and four assists in the season's last six regular-season games ... Has scored a team-high three game-winning goals this fall.
Carolina will return to action on Thursday night against Clemson in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament. The third-seeded Tar Heels will face the sixth-seeded Tigers at 8 p.m. at the SAS Soccer Complex.
