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2013 Women's Soccer

21 Sam Cristoforo

21 Sam Cristoforo

  • Height:
    5-6
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Highschool:
    Rockland
  • Hometown:
    Rockland, Mass.

Summary

Biography

2013 Finished off her career as the mostdominant central midfielder in program history with another strongseason … Served as a co-captain … Named to the ECACNew England First Team All Region Team for the first time …Recognized by the National Soccer Coaches of America Association(NSCAA) as a Fourth Team All Region selection … Earned aspot in the New England Women’s Intercollegiate SoccerAssociation (NEWISA) Senior Bowl … Earned a spot on theLittle East Conference All- Conference First Team for the secondconsecutive season …  Wrapped up her career tied forfirst in program-history with her 88 career games played …Set a new UMass Boston program-record with her 30 career assists… Finished her career fifth in points (60), goals (15) andgame-winning goals (7) … Played and started in all 20contests … Paced the Beacons and finished second in theLittle East Conference with her nine assists … Ended theyear third on the Beacons with her 11 total points (one goal, nineassists) … Recorded a pair of assists October 16 in a 5-1victory over Western New England … Factored into both goalswith a goal and an assist in the Beacons’ 2-1 double-overtimevictory over regionally-ranked Brandeis University on October 24… Tallied an assist on senior day to set the UMass Bostonprogram-record with her 30th career assist to break atie with classmate Tayla Andrews.

2012 Enjoyed the greatest offensive season ofher three-year career as she helped the Beacons earn their firstever Little East Conference Championship by dominating the midfield… Recognized as a New England Women's Intercollegiate SoccerAssociation (NEWISA) First Team All-Region player ... Named aNational Soccer Coaches of American Association (NSCAA) Second TeamAll-Region selection … Honored as a Little East ConferenceFirst Team honoree … Recognized as the Little EastConference Tournament Most Outstanding Player in the 2012 LECTournament … Selected as the Little East ConferenceOffensive Player of the Week for the first time in her career onSeptember 17 ... Finished the season third on the Beacons and fifthin the Little East Conference with 26 points … Ended theyear amongst the top 10 in the LEC with career-highs in goals (8)and assists (10) … Totaled five game-winning goals, thefifth highest total in program history …  Attempted 48shots with 32 shots on goal … Scored a goal in four straightgames from September 11 to September 18 … Registered twoassists in a 6-2 win over Eastern Nazarene September 5 ... Postedthe game-winning goal September 13 in the Beacons comeback 3-2 winover Bridgewater State … Pushed the Beacons to their firstever win over Keene State with the game-winning goal September 15… Recorded the game-winning goal and one assist for aseason-high three points against September 29 against SouthernMaine … Downed rival UMass Dartmouth 2-1 with a game-winninggoal October 6 … Helped the Beacons advance to their secondLEC Championship Game in program history with the game-winning goaland an assist November 3 against Keene State. 

2011 One of just five players to start and playin all 23 contests, Cristoforo has made an appearance in every gamesince she’s been on campus … Increased her offensiveoutput from her freshman season, tallying three goals, six assistsand 12 points … Finished tied for second on the Beacons andtied for fifth in the Little East Conference with six assists… Finished fourth on the team in points with a career-high12 points … Registered at least one shot in 19 of 23contests and finished with 36 shots for the year … Scoredthe game-winning goal in extra-time on October 3 at Wentworth togive the Beacons a 2-1 victory … Recorded a career-highthree points in UMass Boston’s 8-0 victory over theMassachusetts Maritime Academy on October 18 … Tallied acareer-high two assists September 24 against Rhode IslandCollege.

2010 One of only two freshman to play in all 24matches, starting 22 contests in the Beacons midfield unit ...Enjoyed a very productive rookie season and was recognized by theLittle East Conference as a Second Team All-Conference selection... Capped rookie year with 11 points to rank fifth on the squadwith three goals and five assists ... Named the LEC Rookie of theWeek for her play during the week of October 17-23 ... Notchedfirst collegiate point with an assist in her UMass Boston debut, a3-2 victory over Western New England College on September 1 ...Scored first collegiate goal in just her second career match, a 3-2win over Eastern Nazarene on September 7 ... Scored in the Beacons11-0 victory over Wheelock College on October 7 ... Tallied thelone goal in UMass Boston's 1-0 triumph over Plymouth State onOctober 23 for her first career game-winning goal ... The Beaconscombined to go 7-0-1 in games in which the freshman recorded atleast one point in.

PERSONAL/HIGH SCHOOL Earned four varsityletters playing soccer at Rockland High School where she playedwith current teammate Julie Nutting ... Helped lead Bulldogs tovictory in the 2009 Fisher Division championship ... Named aPatriot League All-Star as a freshman, sophomore, junior and senior... Selected a team captain during junior and season seasons ...Played Club soccer with South Shore Select, leading the squad tothree consecutive trips to the State Finals, which included twoMassachusetts State Championships in 2007 and 2009 ... Was an honorroll student at RHS ... Daughter of Paul andKaren Cristoforo ... Majoring in environmental healthscience/nursing ... Enjoys playingsoccer. 

Career Stats

Season GP Goals Assists Points Shots Shot% SOG SOG% GW PK-Att
2010 24 3 5 11 38 .079 19 .500 1 0-0
2011 23 3 6 12 36 .083 22 .611 1 0-0
2012 21 8 10 26 48 .167 32 .667 5 1-2
TOTAL 68 14 21 49 122 .115 73 .598 7 1-2

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Historical Player Information

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    2010Freshman

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    2011Sophomore

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    2012Junior

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    2013Senior

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