{"id":28232,"date":"2026-11-05T16:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/asun-announces-2026-mens-soccer-postseason-awards-atlantic-sun-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:46:10","slug":"asun-announces-2026-mens-soccer-postseason-awards-atlantic-sun-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/asun-announces-2026-mens-soccer-postseason-awards-atlantic-sun-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"ASUN Announces 2026 Men's Soccer Postseason Awards – Atlantic Sun Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

General<\/span>

Central Arkansas’ Vaclav Kozeny earned this season’s Player of the Year honor. Kozeny led the Bears this season with six goals and four assists, tallying 16 points on the year. His six goals were good for fourth in the ASUN, and his four assists ranked fifth. In ASUN matches, he tallied three goals which ranked seventh in the conference,\u00a0and four assists, good for\u00a0second in the league. Fellow bear, Merrick Cook was named Goalkeeper of the Year. Cook\u00a0finished the regular season with a 1.29 goals against average, and held a 1.00 GAA in ASUN games, the third-best in the conference. He was first in the ASUN in total saves this year (69) and save percentage (.793), and recorded three shutouts, one of four keepers to log three clean sheets.<\/p>\n

North Florida’s Rafa Rios inked the Defensive Player of the Year honor. Rios\u00a0appeared in 17 matches with 16 starts and has posted two goals and one assist for five points, and anchored the backline in 1,487 minutes played. The junior\u00a0helped North Florida only allow four goals in eight ASUN Conference matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Junior Essengue, a Stetson defender, was named Freshman of the Year. Essengue\u00a0appeared in all 17 matches for Stetson during the 2026 season, making 15 starts and totaling 1,238 minutes along the back line. Offensively, he contributed\u00a0one goal and two assists for four points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In his first Division l season, Bill Elliott led the West Florida Argonauts to a 5-3 record to be named Coach of the Year. Elliott’s team ended the regular season on a four-game winning streak after defeating Lipscomb, Jacksonville, and Stetson before closing out the season with a 5-0 shutout against Spring Hill. The Argo’s recorded 20 goals, 20 assists and 66 saves this season.\u00a0
Player of the Year:<\/strong>\u00a0Vaclav Kozeny, Central Arkansas
Defensive Player of the Year:<\/strong>\u00a0Rafa Rios, North Florida
Goalkeeper of the Year:<\/strong>\u00a0Merrick Cook, Central Arkansas
Freshman of the Year: <\/strong>Junior Essengue, Stetson
Coach of the Year:<\/strong>\u00a0Bill Elliott, West Florida<\/p>\n

First Team All-ASUN\u00a0<\/strong><\/u>
F – Aron Martinez, FGCU\u00a0
F – Mark Romano, North Florida
F – Afonso Conde, Stetson
MF – Anton Khelil, North Florida
MF – Vaclacv Kozeny, Central Arkansas
MF – Luis Vera Mayorca, Queens\u00a0
MF – Rico Duggan, Central Arkansas
D – Rafa Rios, North Florida\u00a0
D – Kaisei Matsudo, Central Arkansas\u00a0
D – Otto Gustafsson, Queens\u00a0
D – Joseph Mwamba, Central Arkansas
D – Mikhail Keise, North Florida\u00a0
GK – Merrick Cook, Central Arkansas\u00a0
*a tie in voting resulted in a 13-person First Team<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Second Team All-ASUN\u00a0<\/strong><\/u>
F – Iker Carew, Queens
F – Maxim Sheenkov, Central Arkansas
F – Johan Nissen-Lie, Bellarmine\u00a0
F – Kaiss Mansouri, North Florida\u00a0
F – Matias Tobon, Jacksonville
MF – Tyler Prebenda, North Florida
MF – Valentin Fontaine, Stetson
MF – Rafael Esteves Machado, West Florida\u00a0
D – Joao Ribero, West Florida\u00a0
D – Gavin Crowe, Bellarmine\u00a0
D – Yonid Kireh, Lipscomb
GK – Luciano Natoli, North Florida
*a tie in voting resulted in a 12-person Second Team<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

All-Freshman Team\u00a0<\/strong><\/u>
Junior Essengue, Stetson\u00a0
Emir Trto, North Florida\u00a0
Danny Nava, Central Arkansas\u00a0
Falvio D’Angelo, FGCU\u00a0
Matthew Perez, Stetson\u00a0
Murillo Mello, Stetson
Enzo Resende, Queens\u00a0
Tobias Sosa, Lipscomb\u00a0
Emerson LaOrden, FGCU\u00a0
Enzo Evangelista, Lipscomb

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General 11\/5\/2026 11:30:00 AM JACKSONVILLE, Fla.\u00a0–\u00a0Central Arkansas,\u00a0North Florida, Stetson and West Florida highlight the 2026\u00a0Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) Men’s Soccer postseason honors, announced Thursday by the league office. Central Arkansas’ Vaclav Kozeny earned this season’s Player of the Year honor. Kozeny led the Bears this season with six goals and four assists, tallying 16 points […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}