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women’s soccer, thune, tarr highlight fall sports seasons The Bruins Women’s Soccer team claimed the program’s first-ever share of the Atlantic Sun regular season title this year, finishing the 2009 campaign with a 10-6-4 record. For the sixth time in program history, the program also earned the NSCAA/adidas College Women’s Team Academic Award. Cross country senior Brittany Thune won her second-straight individual conference title at the Atlantic Sun Championships with a 5K personalrecord of 17:17. With the win Thune was also recognized as the 2009 Atlantic Sun Women’s Cross Country Runner of the Year for the second year in a row. The Sioux Falls, S.D., native caps off a highly-successful career at the A-Sun Champions including two individual titles, three team titles, two Runner of the Year honors, and a Freshman of the Year honor in 2006. Finally, men’s soccer freshman Brandon Tarr (Knoxville, Tenn.) was named the 2009 Atlantic Sun’s Freshman of the Year. Tarr is the first Bruin to have been awarded Freshman of the Year. His goals per game and points per game were tops in the A-Sun while his 1.38 points per game ranks 28th nationally in that category. n
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