LANCASTER, Pa. - The Atlantic East Conference announced the Women's Soccer Players of the Week on Monday for the week ending on October 15^th. Player of the Week honors go to Marywood’s Riley Mulherin, while teammate Mila Elash was named Defensive Player of the Week.

Player of the Week:
Name: Riley Mulherin
School: Marywood
Class: Junior
Position: Forward
Hometown: Clarks Summit, Pa.
High School:  Abington Heights
Brief Outlook of Week: Mulherin scored four goals in the Pacers' two Atlantic East victories this week. She scored the lone goal versus Cabrini off of a Julia Rodriguez delivery in the 47th minute. Mulherin produced her second hat trick of the season with three second-half goals in a 7-0 win over Centenary.

Defensive Player of the Week:
Name: Mila Elash
School: Marywood
Class: Sophomore
Position: Goalkeeper
Hometown: Carlisle, .Pa.
High School: Boiling Spring
Brief Outlook of Week: Elash had six saves in back-to-back clean sheets in a pair of wins over Atlantic East foes. She made a save against Centenary, rushing the top of the key to preserve the shutout. Elash made five stops in a 1-0 victory over Cabrini, including saves in the 79th and 88th minutes. The Carlisle, Pa. native has a scoreless run of 136 minutes, 41 seconds.

Weekly Honor Roll:
Bethany Beinlich (So., Forward, Gwynedd Mercy): The Griffin captain scored the lone goal of the Red and Gold's 1-0 AEC win over Immaculata University. She finished the week with four shots, splitting them between league games at Marymount University (T, 1-1) and versus the Mighty Macs (W, 1-0).

Breanna Harkins (Jr., Forward, Marymount): Harkins scored her second goal of the season to help Marymount pick up its second conference win of the season on Saturday against Centenary. The Saints currently sit in a tie for 3rd place in the conference standings.

Hannah Mockenhaupt (Jr., Goalkeeper, Marymount): Mockenhaupt surrendered just one goal across two conference matches last week while nabbing 10 total saves. In a road shutout at Centenary on Saturday, Mockenhaupt recorded an impressive eight saves to pick up her third shutout of the season.

Madisson Ronn (So., Goalkeeper, Gwynedd Mercy): Ronn made 13 saves in a 1-1 tie versus Marymount and three saves in the first half of a 1-0 win over Immaculata.

Previous Weekly Award Winners:
Sept 5, 2023 – Ksenia Semenovykh, Gwynedd Mercy & Emma Ferfecki, Centenary
Sept 11, 2023 – Josephine Sorce, Marywood & Victoria Talarico, Marywood
Sept 18 2023 – Rachel McNamee, Immaculata & Natalie Gablein, Gwynedd Mercy
Sept 25, 2023 – Kelsey Caldarelli, Immaculata & Alexis Navarro, Neumann
Oct. 2, 2023 - Ksenia Semenovykh, Gwynedd Mercy & Madisson, Ronn, Gwynedd Mercy
Oct. 9, 2023 – Riley Mulherin, Marywood & Caroline Hassall, Cabrini