Oct. 15, 2007

UCF's Danielle dos Santos and Jennifer Manis became the fifth and sixth different Knight to receive a C-USA Women's Soccer Player of the Week honor this season. UCF is off to a 4-0 start in conference play and is yet to allow a goal by its opponents with all four being shutout victories.

OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Danielle dos Santos, UCF
Junior, F, Campinas, Brazil
Coming off the bench in both of the Knights' road matches this weekend, dos Santos picked up an assist in a 4-0 shutout of Tulsa and was involved in all five goals in a 5-0 victory at SMU. The junior transfer registered a hat trick against the conference preseason favorite Mustangs and became the 33rd player in school history to notch a hat trick. Her eight points tied for the fifth-best single-match performance in school history and ranks second in Conference USA (just one point shy of the league record).

DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Jennifer Manis, UCF
Senior, Goalkeeper, Pensacola, Fla.
For the second-straight weekend, Manis shut out both C-USA opponents, with a 4-0 blanking of Tulsa and a 5-0 triumph over SMU. Manis needed to make eight saves in the win at Tulsa, then five at SMU. In the match with the Mustangs, four of those five saves came in the pivotal first half, which allowed UCF to go into halftime with a 2-0 lead. In three years with the Knights, Manis now has 149 stops, which stand at fifth place on the career charts. Meanwhile, Manis has five shutouts in 2007 and has not allowed a goal in the last 415:20. This is her first Player of the Week honor of the season and third of her career.