SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Once again, Santa Clara women's soccer cleaned up on the postseason All-West Coast Conference teams.

Izzy D'Aquila won Offensive Player of the Year, Annie Karich was the Freshman of the Year, and Jerry Smith was named Coach of the Year. On the first team, the Broncos had D'Aquila, Karich, and Marisa Bubnis. Colby Barnett and Marlee Nicolos were named to the second team with Karich and Farrah Walters being named all-freshman.

D'Aquila was one of the most dominant offensive players in the country this season. She is currently tied for second the country with 18 goals and tied for third with 41 points. She is just one goal away from becoming the seventh Bronco with 50 or more career goals. She is seventh all-time with 49 goals and ninth with 114 points.

Earlier this season, D'Aquila won WCC Offensive Player of the Week three times in a row and scored in six matches in a row to start conference play, including a four-goal game against San Francisco and a hat trick against Pacific. It was just the third time in Santa Clara history a player has scored in at least six consecutive matches. She is tied with Sofia Huerta (6, 2013) and trails only Mandy Clemens (9, 1999), and Brandi Chastain (15, 1990).

D'Aquila, the 2019 Freshman of the Year, has now been named to the first team three years in a row after being named second team as a freshman.

Karich has been a rock in the midfield this season for Santa Clara and is second on the team with seven assists. After missing the first game of the year while with the U20 US National Team, Karich has appeared in each game and started the last 17.

Karich is the Broncos' fifth Freshman of the Year in the last seven seasons, joining teammates Sally Menti and Izzy D'Aquila.

Bubnis has helped lead a defense allowed multiple goals in just three matches and more than two just once. During conference play, the defense surrendered just four goals. Bubnis made her presence felt on the offensive end as well, contributing three assists.

Bubnis was on the 2020 All-Freshman team.

Barnett leads Santa Clara with eight assists this season while also adding two goals, including one of the prettiest scores of the year to start a comeback victory against Saint Mary's. She has wreaked havoc on the wings, getting past defenders and sending the ball into the box to set up dangerous scoring chances.

She was named All-Freshman last season.

Nicolos missed the first four games of the year while recovering from last year's ACL injury but has started each of the last 15 matches. She has made 35 saves and posted six clean sheets with a .72 GAA and a .778 save percentage.

Nicolos was named the WCC Defensive Player of the Week on October 31. She doubled her career-high with 12 saves at No. 13 BYU to complete the shutout. It was the first time BYU had been shutout in Provo since then-No. 1 Stanford on August 30, 2018, a span of 40 matches.

Walters broke out on September 8 at Oregon when she recorded a hat trick for her first collegiate goals. It was the 29th hat trick in program history and the first since October 20, 2017 when Kelsey Turnbow, also a freshman at the time, accomplished the feat. She was the 18th Bronco with at least three goals in a match.

This is Smith's ninth WCC Coach of the Year honor.

Walters finished the regular season with five goals, second on the team, and four assists, third on the team, for 14 points, also second on the team.

The Broncos finished the season with their third consecutive WCC title and will host Cal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday at 1 p.m.

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