Posted on Sep 20, 2000

Senior forward Missy
Matusewicz (Florence, MA/Northampton) facilitated the Dutchwomen in their 5-0 victory over Skidmore last Wednesday. Matusewicz scored two goals in a two minute span in the first half of the game and scored her third with just 10 minutes remaining in the second half, tallying a hat trick and giving Union another win in their 5-0-0 season.

Matusewicz's hard work this season has earned
her the Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association's “Player of the Week” for women's soccer. Matusewicz has opened the 2000 season with eight goals and two assists for 18 points, and is averaging 3.60 points per game.

The 1999 Dutchwomen won Union's first-ever New York State
Women's Collegiate Athletic Association postseason championship and
finished 16-3-1, allowing them compete in their first-ever NCAA Division
III postseason tournament. Matusewicz,
who was named to the Northeast All-American First Team following the 1999
season, helped the Dutchwomen set Union records for goals scored (74) and
shutouts in a season (9). She tied an NCAA Division III record by
scoring three goals and an assist in Union's 4-3 triple overtime victory
over Ithaca in the opening round.

Individually, Matusewicz also had a record-breaking season in 1999. After scoring 25 goals and five assists for a total of 55
points last season, Matusewicz, then only a junior, captured Union's
records for both goals and points in a season and for goals and points in
a career.

Matusewicz, who now has 57 goals and 20 assists for 134 points while appearing as a starter in all 58 games of her
collegiate career, has 11 multiple goal games, including five career hat
tricks.

The women's soccer team was ranked 20^th in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America preseason poll. In the 2000 season to date, Union's record in the UCAA is 3-0-0 and holds promise for another winning season.

An Anthropology and
Psychology double-major, Missy is the daughter of Mary Matusewicz of
Florence, Massachusetts.