Mace, Fleming Earn First-Team All-America Honors
November 30, 2017 | Women's Soccer
Forward Hailie Mace and midfielder Jessie Fleming have been selected by the United Soccer Coaches as first-team All-Americans.
Mace, a junior from Ventura, Calif., has had a career year in her first year as a forward. The former defender entered the season with zero career goals and has scored a team-leading 15 this year to rank ninth in the nation in goals. Mace is also a semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy and a first-team All-Pac-12 and All-Region honoree. She ranked No. 8 in the Top Drawer Soccer midseason Top 100 and won the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week award a league-best three times this season. This is the first All-America honor of her career.
Fleming, a sophomore from London, Ontario, Canada, earns her second All-America honor after receiving third-team acclaim a year ago as a freshman. A semifinalist for the MAC Hermann Trophy, Fleming has recorded five goals, including three game-winners, and a career-high eight assists for 18 points this season. She was ranked as the No. 1 player in Top Drawer Soccer's midseason Top 100 and is a first-team All-Pac-12 and All-West Region honoree.
Mace and Fleming are UCLA's first pair of first-team honorees in the same year since Abby Dahlkemper and Sam Mewis in 2014. This is only the fifth time ever that UCLA has had two first-team selections in a single year. The other four times were in 2014 (Dahlkemper and Mewis), 2006 and 2008 (Lauren Cheney and Christina DiMartino), and 2003 (Nandi Pryce and Iris Mora). This year's NCAA Division I All-Americans, along with their families and coaches, will be formally acknowledged for their accomplishments at the United Soccer Coaches All-America Luncheon on January 20, 2018 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.
