NAPERVILLE – Just days after winning its first College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) regular-season women’s soccer title, North Central landed a league-best eight players on the All-CCIW Team released by the conference office on Friday afternoon.
 
Eighth-year North Central head coach Andrew Gamarra was voted CCIW Coach of the Year, the first North Central coach to earn the honor in women’s soccer. He guided NCC to a perfect 8-0-0 mark, the first team to sweep through the league schedule since Wheaton in 2019. Gamarra’s guidance helped five Cardinals secure All-CCIW honors on Friday.
 
Elle Sutter, a senior from Peoria, Ill., earned the CCIW Offensive Student-Athlete of the Year award. The 5-foot-9 forward was a three-time CCIW Student-Athlete of the Week in 2023 and ran away as the league’s scoring leader with 11 goals and two assists in conference play. She helped NCC wrap up its 18-match regular season as the nation’s eighth-ranked scoring offense with 4.06 goals scored per match.
 
North Central also made waves as the only team in league history to hold CCIW opponents scoreless – thanks to the efforts of CCIW Defensive Student-Athlete of the Year Kassandra Salviola. The Naperville, Ill. native emerged as the Cardinals’ most efficient defender, starting all eight league matches and helping NCC limit opponents to less than 4.0 shot attempts per match. She added an assist in the Cardinals’ win over Millikin on Oct. 18 and was named CCIW Student-Athlete of the Week on Oct. 17.
 
The CCIW First-Year Student-Athlete of the Year was awarded to NCC freshman midfielder Jordan Lange, who tallied seven goals and five assists to trail only Sutter as the conference’s leading scorer in CCIW play. The Aurora, Ill. native was CCIW Student-Athlete of the Week twice and logged multiple points in five of the Cardinals’ eight CCIW matches, including her first career hat trick in a 6-0 win at Illinois Wesleyan on Oct. 21.
 
Augustana’s Janey Castoe was selected as the inaugural CCIW Goalkeeper of the Year. The three-year starter from La Quinta, Calif. was the only CCIW goalkeeper to rank third or better among conference players in goals-against average, saves percentage, shutouts per match and saves per match. She closed the league schedule with six shutouts and a 0.56 goals-against mark over 637 minutes of action.
 
CCIW Offensive Student-Athlete of the Year
Elle Sutter, North Central
 
CCIW Defensive Student-Athlete of the Year
Kassandra Salviola, North Central
 
CCIW Goalkeeper of the Year
Janey Castoe, Augustana
 
CCIW First-Year Student-Athlete of the Year
Jordan Lange, North Central
 
CCIW Coach of the Year
Andrew Gamarra, North Central
 
All-CCIW First Team
Janey Castoe, GK, Augustana, Sr., La Quinta, Calif., Xavier College Prep
Jess Stepien, D, Carroll, Jr., St. Charles, Ill., St. Charles
Grace Tumilty, M, Carroll, Jr., Willowbrook, Ill., Willowbrook
Bailee Blecker, F, Millikin, Sr., Loves Park, Ill., Harlem
Sarah Andrey, F, North Central, Sr., St. Charles, Ill., St. Charles North
Kaitlyn Cannon, M, North Central, Sr., Geneva, Ill., Geneva
Jordan Lange, M, North Central, Fr., Aurora, Ill., Metea Valley
Kassandra Salviola, D, North Central, So., Naperville, Ill., Neuqua Valley
Elle Sutter, F, North Central, Sr., Peoria, Ill., Dunlap
Morgan Beamer, D, Wheaton, Sr., Cranbury, N.J., Princeton
Mia Blair, M, Wheaton, Jr., Flagstaff, Ariz., Northland Preparatory Academy
Audrey Sexson, M, Wheaton, Sr., Mahtomedi, Minn., Mahtomedi
 
All-CCIW Second Team
Abby DeGustino, D, Augustana, Jr., Lake Zurich, Ill., Lake Zurich
Liesl Whitener, F, Augustana, Sr., Belleville, Ill., Althoff Catholic
Kenzie Blau, D, Carroll, Sr., Sturgeon Bay, Wis., Sturgeon Bay
Sawyer White, M, Illinois Wesleyan, So., Downers Grove, Ill., Montini Catholic
Mia Brown, M, Millikin, Fr., O’Fallon, Mo., Fort Zumwalt South
Sophie Dorgan, GK, Millikin, Sr., Bloomington, Ill., University
Elly Hermanson, D, Millikin, So., New Lenox, Ill., Lincoln Way East
Madelyn Camaioni, D, North Central, New Lenox, Ill., Lincoln Way Central 
Katie Huey, D, North Central, Sr., Urbandale, Iowa, Dowling Catholic
Yazmin Martinez, M, North Central, So., St. Charles, Ill., St. Charles East
Lina Bogg, D, North Park, Sr., Sundbyberg, Sweden, Bromma
Katherine Ashley, F, Wheaton, Jr., Matthews, N.C., Covenant Day School
 
CCIW RESPECT Award Recipients
Carson Kekelik, Augustana, Jr., Munster, Ind., Munster
Caitlin Fitzsimons, Carroll, Sr., Oak Lawn, Ill., Mother McAuley
Katie Talens, Carthage, Sr., Des Plaines, Ill., Elk Grove
Jenny Guerrero, Elmhurst, Sr., Peotone, Ill., Peotone
Madalyn Buxton, Illinois Wesleyan, Jr., Springfield, Ill., Pleasant Plains
Melis Barutcu, Millikin, So., Springfield, Ill., Rochester
Emma Goldman, North Central, Sr., Sycamore, Ill., Sycamore
Agnes Back, North Park, Sr., Bjärred, Sweden, ProCivitas Lund
Myah Schoolman, Wheaton, Long Grove, Ill., Stevenson