Carolina Men's Soccer Announces 2009 Award Winners
April 22, 2010 | Men's Soccer
April 22, 2010
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The North Carolina men's soccer program at the University of North Carolina honored its 2009 College Cup team last Friday at its annual awards banquet with senior defenseman Zach Loyd being honored as the team's most valuable player for the '09 campaign. The MVP award is named in honor of UNC alumnus Mike Thompson.
Loyd was a consensus first-team All-America as a senior for coach Elmar Bolowich's team which finished with a 16-2-4 overall mark and a 5-2-1 league ledger, tying for the ACC's regular-season crown. Loyd started 17 games for the Tar Heels, leading a defense which permitted a scant 0.55 goals per game. Loyd is a native of Verdigris, Okla.
Other award winners included:
UNC formally recognized its 2009 All-America award winners at the banquet. Carolina has three players tapped in '09. This group included Loyd as well as sophomore forward Billy Shuler of Allentown, N.J. (9 goals and 5 assists in '09) and junior midfielder Michael Farfan of Wildomar, Calif. (5 goals and 4 assists in '09).
Senior Bill Dworsky of Huntsville, Ala. was recognized with the Mercer Reynolds Tar Heel Award for service to the program and the community. He was also recently recognized as one of three Tar Heel student-athletes to win a Weaver-James-Corrigan postgraduate Scholarship from the ACC. This past Monday, he won UNC's ACC Senior Scholarship Award as Carolina's top male student-athlete in the senior class.
Sophomore midfielder Kirk Urso of Lombard, Ill. was honored with the Nicholas Douglass Potter Coaches Award. Urso started all 22 games for the Tar Heels and tied for third on the team in total points with 14 on four goals and six assists.
Redshirt sophomore defenseman Drew McKinney won the Tom Evins Most Improved Player award. McKinney started all 22 games in UNC's vaunted defensive unit in 2009.
Finally the award for the Most Competitive Practice Player was earned by freshman forward Enzo Martinez. He played in all 22 games for UNC, finishing the year with three goals and four assists.
