WACO, Texas – The Louisiana Christian University women's soccer team saw four of its members honored as All-Conference players in the Red River Athletic Conference's end-of-season awards, it was announced on Wednesday.
 
Katalina Medina and Isabella Urbaneto were both named to the All-Conference Second Team while Giselle Laing and Kamsi Nwosu-Damian were both named Honorable Mentions.
 
In her first season at Louisiana Christian, Medina, a sophomore forward from Bogotá, Colombia, scored 10 goals and assisted on six others, amassing a total of 26 points throughout the season. She tallied three braces throughout the season with one of her goals being a game-winner.
 
Urbaneto, a senior midfielder from São Paulo, Brazil, was the driving force behind the Wildcat offense throughout the season, amassing 12 assists to go with four goals on the year, totaling 20 points. She collected six of her assists and one of her goals against Texas College, just two days after getting two goals and an assist against Southwest. In her second season at LCU, this is Urbaneto's first career postseason award.
 
Laing, a senior forward from Freeport, Bahamas, was the team's top offensive threat during the season, scoring a team-high 12 goals while getting an assist as well for a team-high 25 points. She tallied two hat tricks, one against Bethel and the other against Texas College, while adding a brace against Southwest. She scored at least one goal in three-straight matches twice during the year, and three of her goals were the game-winner for LCU. The fourth-year Wildcat makes it two-straight seasons being named a RRAC All-Conference Honorable Mention.
 
Nwosu-Damian, a senior defender from London, England, made her name as a physical defender along the LCU back-line, making life difficult for opposing attackers. Her lone goal of the season opened the scoring in Louisiana Christian's 11-0 win over Texas College, thus making it the game-winning goal as well. With Nwosu-Damian leading the way, the LCU defense held seven opponents to one goal or less with three clean sheets. This is the first All-Conference award for the second-year Wildcat.
 
The conference also honored Marta Papandrea as LCU's representative on the RRAC's Champions of Character team for the second season in a row as the best representative of the NAIA's Champions of Character five core principles of integrity, respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, and servant leadership.