GLIAC -- The Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) has announced its weekly awards following Week 7 of the 2024 men's soccer season. Northern Michigan junior forward Tommaso Lami received GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week honors and Parkside redshirt junior goalkeeper Daniyal Rana earned GLIAC Defensive Player of the Week recognition.
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Tommaso Lami, Northern Michigan
In his last regular-season home game of his collegiate career, graduating student-athlete and team captain Tommaso Lami scored a brace to lift the Wildcats to a triumphant 2-0 win on Sunday in front of friends, families, and local youth soccer players. This marks Lami’s first multi-goal game of the season and the third of his career. Between the two games played this weekend, Lami recorded two goals, a game-winning goal, five shots on target from six shot attempts (.833 SOG%), and 168 minutes played.
DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Daniyal Rana, Parkside
After collecting two clean sheets along with two crucial GLIAC victories Daniyal Rana has been voted the GLIAC Defensive Player of the Week. En route to the honor Rana posted seven saves while facing a total of 31 shots on the week. His play aided Parkside to climb the table, now just one point behind first place in the GLIAC standings. The Waukesha, Wis. native has had a solid year between the posts for the Rangers this season having collected a total of 43 saves and posting a .808 save percentage.
HONORABLE MENTION
Offense: Valerii Burlacenco (Davenport), Jayden Cameron (Saginaw Valley State), Jules Peycelon (Parkside)
Defense: Anthonius Berkeley (Saginaw Valley State), George Deveau (Davenport), Nils Cedergren (Northern Michigan)
