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Oct. 7, 2002

WASHINGTON - American University’s Natalie Rodovsky (Chappaqua, N.Y./Horace Greeley) earned Women’s Soccer Patriot League Rookie of the Week honors for the week of Oct. 7 after scoring her second goal of the season against Colgate. Rodovsky later assisted on the game-winner as the Eagles defeated the Raiders by a goal, 3-2.

Rodovsky, a defender for AU, tied the game at one apiece early in the first half (8:32). The game-winner for the Eagles came in the 67th minute and was scored by Anabel Jimenez (Kensington, Md./Bullis), off of the Rodovsky pass. The three points she earned gave her her first multi-point game as a collegian.
The win over Colgate snapped a three-game losing streak for the Eagles and left AU with a 4-6-1 overall record and a 1-1-0 Patriot League record.
AU travels to Lafayette Friday for a third straight Patriot League contest. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.
American University, which fields a 19-sport NCAA Division I athletics program featuring 10 women’s sports and nine for men, recently completed its inaugural year of membership in the Patriot League. The University had an extremely successful year to date on respective fields of play, capturing league championships in men’s soccer, women’s volleyball, men’s tennis and women’s tennis, and regular-season titles in men’s basketball and women’s lacrosse.

Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893, American University features students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and more than 160 nations worldwide.