GREENSBORO, N.C. – Announced today by the Atlantic Coast Conference and voted on by the league's 14 coaches, the 2018 Women's Soccer ACC All-Conference teams feature 40 of the conference student-athletes and includes three Virginia Tech Hokies – Mandy McGlynn, a First Team selection, Kelsey Irwin, a Third Team choice, and Emily Gray, who made the All-Freshman Team.
McGlynn, Tech's goalkeeper who was named to the 2018 preseason All-ACC team, turned in her best single season while playing for the Hokies in her career. She started all 19 matches, played every single minute (1,770) and stopped 76 shots for a 79.2 save percentage, which is the ninth-best for a single season at the school.
The junior from Jacksonville, Florida, posted a 1.017 goals allowed average (sixth best), recorded eight shutouts (second most) and won nine matches (tied for the eight most). Her career numbers are all in the top six for a career goalkeeper at the school and include 20 shutouts (tied for second), 27 wins and 4,976 minutes played (third), 1.067 GAA (fourth), 206 saves (fifth) and a 77.7 save percentage (sixth).
McGlynn is just the fourth Tech player to ever be named All-ACC First Team, joining Jazmine Reeves (2013), Ashley Meier (2015) and Murielle Tiernan, who was a three-time honoree from 2014-16 and she's the first goalkeeper so honored. With three total selections, it marks just the fifth time since Tech has joined the ACC that the program had at least a trio of Hokies named to the postseason team. To see the full 2018 All-ACC teams and release, CLICK HERE.
Irwin is tabbed a Third Team defender by the league and earns her first ever postseason accolade and becomes just the second defender for the Hokies to make an All-ACC team. Jordan Coburn was a three-time All-ACC Third Team defender as well (2013-15). The redshirt-junior from San Diego, California led the defense in front of McGlynn and limited opponents to 190 shots on the year, while also playing all 1,770 minutes of action this season – Tech's only field player to log every minute of the year.
She also added points on the offensive end, scoring three times and adding an assist for a total of seven points, fourth-most on the team. At Villanova (Sept. 7), she notched her first career multi-goal game, and the first game winner of her collegiate career, with a pair of goals. Irwin became the first Hokie with a multi-goal contest since Oct. 9, 2016 when Tiernan scored twice at Boston College.
Gray becomes the 13th Hokie to be named to the ACC All-Freshman Team, but the first since 2014 (Madi Conyers). The list also includes Tiernan (2013), Meier (2012), Dayle Colpitts and Reeves (2010), Kelly Conheeney (2009), Marika Gray and Kelly Lynch (2007), Julian Johnson (2005), Laurie Beth Puglisi (2005) and Heather Hallberg and Ashley Stinson (2004).
The Sewell, New Jersey product led the Hokies with five assists during the 2018 season and also added a pair of goals for nine points, second most on the team to classmate Karlie Johnson's 12. The midfielder was dangerous on free kicks and took the majority of Tech's corners this season (37), resulted in several goals – most notably in the Hokies' 1-0 wins over No. 6 Virginia and at Louisville.
Tech was the eighth seed in the ACC Championship tournament, but was eliminated last Sunday by the No. 3 North Carolina Tar Heels. The Hokies will await their NCAA postseason fate, which they'll find out during the NCAA selection show held on Monday, Nov. 5.