In a year in which the Butler soccer team won a share of the Jayhawk Conference championship, won the NJCAA District B championship and finished fifth at the nation tournament, they were rewarded with eight players being named All-Jayhawk Conference.

Carla Daniels, a freshman from Jamaica, was a first team All-Jayhawk selection after leading the Grizzlies with 17 goals and seven assists.

Sophomore Perla Hernandez, a midfielder from Great Bend, Kan., was a second team midfielder. She had 11 goals and 11 assists.

Two freshman midfielders - Megan Snyder from Overland Park, Kan., and Mari Ruvalcaba from Garden City, Kan. - there both named second-team all-conference midfielders. Snyder scored seven goals with five assists, while Ruvalcaba had two goals and four assists.

Defensively, two of Butler's standouts were named second-team all-conference defenders. They were sophomores Kelsey Garrison (one assist) from Derby, Kan. and Mandi Roan (two goals and three assists) from Dallas, Texas.

Butler's sophomore goalkeeper, Melanie Nuessen from Emporia, Kan., was a second-team selection. She played 1,443 minutes and allowed just six goals, a goal-against-average of .33. Nuessen also scored a goal.

Butler had one player named honorable mention in freshman midfielder Stephanie Bonilla. She had three goals and a team-high 14 assists on the season.