SAN DIEGO – San Diego State women's soccer players Chloe Frisch, a senior, and junior Laura Fuentes, both midfielders, were named 2020-21 United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division I Women's All-Pacific Region performers. Frisch has been included on the first team, while Fuentes is a second-team selection.
Frisch is the program's sixth first-team all-region designee since head coach Mike Friesen took control of the team in 2007, and the first since Stacie Moran earned the honor following the 2017 season. Both she and Fuentes are included on the all-region teams for the first time in their college careers.
On the field, Frisch was a starter in all 11 of the team's contests and led the Aztecs in shots (43), shots on goal (22) and tied for the lead in goals (6). She was also second in points (13) and game winners (2). Among Mountain West performers, she was first in shots, shots on goal, third in goals and sixth in both game winners and points. In games in which she scored a point, SDSU was 5-2. Her game winners came at San Jose State (3/12) and at Boise State (4/9), and her five shots on goal at San Jose State (3/12) were a single-game career high and a season high for the side.
Frisch recently earned the league's Offensive Player of the Year award as well as her second first-team All-Mountain West honor in the last two years.
Fuentes also earned a starting nod in each of the team's 11 games, and among field players led the side with 969 minutes. She scored twice and had a career-high four assists. Three of her four assists, vs. Nevada (3/5), at San Jose State (3/12) and against San Jose State (3/28), came on game winners. In addition, she scored the game winner against Boise State (3/7). With her two assists at San Jose State (3/12), she was the only Aztec to produce a multi-assist game this year. Overall, her four assists were second on the team and she ranked third in points (8) and game winners (1). Among Mountain West performers, she tied for second in assists and was sixth in assists per game (0.36).
Fuentes joined Frisch as a first-team All-Mountain West selection this year after garnering second-team honors in each of her first two years on The Mesa.
In school history, this is the ninth time the Aztecs have had two all-region performers in the same year and the first time since Moran and Aliyah Utush were recognized as all-region honorees in 2017.
San Diego State finished the season with an 8-3-0 record and captured all or part of its seventh Mountain West regular-season championship and its sixth in the last nine years.
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