Nine AU Soccer Players Honored On 2025 OCSA All-Ohio, Academic All-Ohio Rolls

As announced by the Ohio Collegiate Soccer Association (OCSA), nine Ashland University women's and men's soccer players have garnered 2025 All-Ohio and Academic All-Ohio recognition.
 
On the 2025 OCSA women's NCAA Division I and II All-Ohio teams were senior forward Dani Hicks (first team) and senior midfielder Emily Pate and freshman forward Tessa Blain (second team):

• The 2025 season saw Hicks collect 15 goals and nine assists for 39 points over 21 games (all starts). She ranked 11^th in the nation in goals, tied for 18^th in assists and tied for fifth in points.
• Pate recorded six goals and four assists for 16 points this last fall, starting all 22 games.
• Blain's rookie season finished with seven goals and four assists for 18 points, as she also started all 22 contests.

Both freshman forward Tom Woodward (first team) and senior forward Rodri Jimenez (second team) are on the 2025 OCSA men's NCAA Division I and II All-Ohio teams:

• Woodward paced Ashland in 2025 with eight goals, five assists and 21 points, as he played in all 17 games and started 16.
• Jimenez started at 17 games in the fall, and picked up three goals and three assists for nine points.

Four Eagle women – fifth-year goalkeeper Jaya Daniel (3.93 GPA in the MBA program through the fall 2025 semester), Hicks (3.95 GPA in Exercise Science), Pate (3.98 GPA in Accounting) and junior defender Adi Turnbaugh (3.45 GPA in Exercise Science) – earned spots on the 2025 OCSA women's NCAA Division II and NAIA Academic All-Ohio team.
 
And a pair of AU men's seniors – midfielder Riki Soto (3.65 GPA in International Political Studies) and defender Flynn Toon (3.41 GPA in Criminal Justice) landed on the 2025 OCSA men's NCAA Division II Academic All-Ohio list.
 
Eagle women's soccer was 14-3-5 overall and 10-0-4 in the Great Midwest Athletic Conference in 2025, winning both the conference's regular-season and tournament titles, and was victorious in the first round of the NCAA postseason.
 
Ashland men's soccer ended the 2025 season at 4-9-4 overall and 3-8-3 in the Great Midwest.