After a record setting performance on Sunday the honors continue to roll in for Fairfield University women’s soccer player Nicole Cavallaro (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)  The rookie was named to the SoccerBuzz Elite Team of the Week, announced Tuesday afternoon.

The SoccerBuzz Elite Team of the Week honors the players that have the best week nationwide.  Cavallaro is one of 18 players honored this week, including players from Notre Dame, UCLA, Boston College, and North Carolina, among others.  She is the first player in the program’s history to be selected to the Elite Team of the Week.

Cavallaro, who was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) offensive player of the week on Monday, tallied nine points over the course of two MAAC games during the weekend.  On Friday, in a 2-1 win over Canisius, the forward tallied the first goal of the game, breaking up a 0-0 tie in the 52nd minute.  She than fed Casey Frobey in the 67th minute for the Stags game-winning goal.
 
The New Hyde Park Memorial graduate was even more impressive in the Stags win over Niagara on Sunday.  She received a yellow card in the fourth minute and than went to work.  She tallied what would turn out to be the game-winning goal in the 13th minute, dribbling around a defender and scoring unassisted.  She than went to work on aiding her teammates and in the process snapping a school record.

Cavallaro's first assist came at 16:05 as she sent a corner kick into the box that Chrissie Sidie headed down for a 2-0 Fairfield advantage.  Than 10:55 later, Cavallaro sent a through ball to Casey Frobey, for a 3-0 lead.  The fourth goal, and Cavallaro's third assist, came at 32:05, again off of a corner kick.  Ahna Johnson corralled the ball in the box and knocked it home.  Cavallaro finished off her record-breaking day at 57:41 sending a corner kick to the head of Johnson, for the final goal of the day.

Cavallaro four assists broke the single-game assist record of Kelli Hurley and Maureen Miller.  Hurley recorded three assists in an Oct. 22, 1996 win over Manhattan, while Miller accomplished the feat in a home win over Iona, Oct. 3, 2001.

The Stags are 6-5-1 on the year and 2-0-0 in MAAC play, and begin a three-game homestand this Friday, at 7 p.m., when they host Siena.  Fairfield will also host MAAC rival Marist on Sunday, again at 7 p.m. and also on Lessing Field.