2024 All-OAC Women's Soccer PDF
WESTERVILLE – Seven Otterbein women's soccer student-athletes earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference recognition for the 2024 season, as selected by the league's coaches.
Senior midfielder
Lauren Alley, senior defender
Aubrey Zanella and junior forward
Cami McCulty were named to the All-OAC Second Team.
Senior midfielder
Bailey Zanella, junior midfielder
Rae Ehrbar, junior goalkeeper
Ella Schwertfager and freshman defender
Keaton Aspacher earned Third Team honors.
Aubrey Zanella is now a three-time All-OAC selection after earning Second Team honors in 2021 and 2022. She started all 20 games this season and led an Otterbein defense that ranked second in the conference in both fewest goals allowed (18) and GAA (0.90).
In 75 career games, including 73 starts, she has six points on two goals and two assists to her credit.
McCulty and Alley are both first-time All-OAC honorees.
McCulty started all 20 games in 2024, finishing the season with a team-best 10 points and tying for the team lead in goals with four while adding two assists. She scored a goal in both of the Cardinals' OAC Tournament games, a 3-2 win over Heidelberg and a 2-1 loss at Ohio Northern, and was subsequently named to the All-Tournament Team.
In 47 career games, including 20 starts, McCulty has 14 points on six goals and two assists.
Alley played in all 20 games, making 19 starts, in 2024. She closed the year with seven points on two goals and a team-leading three assists.
She has played in 66 career games, making 53 starts, and has 32 points on 10 goals and 12 assists.
Bailey Zanella is now a four-time All-OAC selection in adding to her list of impressive accolades. The 2021 OAC Freshman of the Year and Midfielder of the Year earned First Team All-OAC recognition in 2021, 2022 and 2023. She is also a three-time All-Ohio and two-time College Sports Communicators Academic All-District honoree.
She started all 20 games this season and tallied four points on a pair of goals. In four seasons at Otterbein, she has started all 75 of the games in which she has played, totaling 31 points on 13 goals and five assists.
Schwertfager earned her second All-OAC accolade, joining her Second Team recognition from a year ago when she was also named All-Ohio. A two-time OAC Defensive Player of the Week honoree this season, she started 18 games and tallied over 1,586 minutes in goal. She closed the season with an 8-4-6 record, 62 saves, .785 save percentage, 0.96 GAA and six shutouts. She ranked third in the OAC in goalie minutes, wins and shutouts and was fourth in GAA.
Schwertfager has played in 52 career games and boasts a 28-12-11 record with 171 saves, 15 shutouts, a 0.89 GAA and .803 save percentage.
Ehrbar and Aspacher joined McCulty and Alley as first-time All-OAC selections.
Ehrbar started all 20 games this season and tied for the team lead in goals (4) and tied for second on the team in points (8). A season highlight was her two-goal game in the Cardinals' 3-0 win at Oberlin on Sept. 18.
In 43 career games, including 31 starts, Ehrbar has 18 points on seven goals and four assists.
Aspacher started all 19 games she played in during the season and joined
Aubrey Zanella as a significant presence on the Otterbein defense. The freshman also contributed offensively with three goals.
Under 26th-year head coach
Brandon Koons, the Cardinals closed the 2024 season with an overall record of 9-5-6 and finished fourth in the OAC with a 3-2-4 mark in league play. The Cardinals earned a spot in the OAC Tournament for the 24th time in program history, ultimately advancing to the semifinals.
