DES MOINES, IOWA - Drake
senior Garrett Webb (Prairie
Village, Kan./Shawnee Mission East) joined some exclusive company this season
becoming only the second Bulldog men's soccer player to earn All-America status
with his selection to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America
(NSCAA) and College Soccer News
second and third team All-America squads, respectively.
Webb joins former Drake and Major League Soccer standout Ezra
Hendrickson, who collected third team accolades in 1993, as the only Bulldogs
to garner All-America playing honors in program history and represented the
lone selection for the Missouri Valley Conference this season.
Starting all 24 games in which he appeared, Webb, the 2009 MVC Player of
the Year, paced the Bulldogs in goals (13), points (31), shots on goal (26) and
game-winners (3), while ranking second in shots (50) and fourth in assists
(5). His 13 goals tied a single-season school mark for goals, while he
also rated second in single-season points with 31. He ranked fourth in
game-winning goals (1) and seventh in total goals (2) in the NCAA Tournament
this season.
"Garrett earning second team All-America honors is well deserved," Drake
head coach Sean Holmes commented. "It's representative of what he did
this year but also over his four-year career. I think it is both an individual
and a collective honor for the team in that we don't win without Garrett and he
doesn't win the award without the supporting cast that surrounded him and played
collectively so well."