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PITMAN NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | After stopping an incredible 21 shots to keep
New Jersey City University alive in a New Jersey Athletic Conference game on September 21, NJCU junior goalkeeper
Brittany Hoffman (McMurray, PA/Peters Township) was named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career on September 23.
Hoffman, a two-time All-NJAC selection in net and a 2013 First-Team Academic All-NJAC standout with a 3.83 grade point average, earned the honor for week four of the 2013 season after she reached double figures in saves for the 14
th time in her career and accomplished the feat in the first half alone when she made 14 stops.
Many of her saves were of the highlight reel variety—and she broke up a number of other chances by William Paterson University with an aggressive effort in net, in a game in which the Pioneers outshot NJCU, 40-0. Her play in goal prevented the game from getting too far out of reach with WPU ultimately settling for a 3-0 win over the Gothic Knights.
Hoffman, a Fire Science major who attends the University on an academic scholarship, made three more saves than her previous career high of 18 in a 2-2 (2 OT) tie against #22 SUNY Cortland on August 31, 2012.
Her 21 saves were the most by an NJAC goalie since former Gothic Knight
Kelly Reilly also stopped 21 shots in a loss at Kean University on September 26, 2007. They also marked the fifth time in the last 11 seasons than an NJAC goalkeeper has registered 20 or more saves in a game and the third time by an NJCU keeper.
Through September 25,
Hoffman leads the NJAC in saves (58) and saves per game (9.67) and is seventh in save percentage (.829).
Hoffman, herself a one-time NJAC Rookie of the Week in 2011, is the first Gothic Knight named NJAC Defensive Player of the Week since
Nicole Sarica in week two of the 2011 season and the first goalie to reap the accolade since
Laura Robinson in week nine of the 2010 campaign.
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