Drury University’s Jessie Sanderson (Jefferson City, Mo.) is the Great Lakes Valley Conference Women’s Soccer Player of the Week. The freshman goalkeeper posted shutouts over visiting Bellarmine and Northern Kentucky for the Panthers.
In Drury’s 1-0 win over Bellarmine on Friday, Sanderson made two saves in the 90 minutes of action.
She returned in the Panthers’ 2-0 win over Northern Kentucky to collect five saves and helped push her team into third place in the GLVC standings.
Sanderson leads the league in goals against average this season with a 0.41 average in over 1500 minutes of action. She has posted a league-best nine shutouts on the year and has posted a save-percentage of .922.
Drury (12-4-2, 8-3-2) earned the No. 3 seed for the upcoming GLVC Tournament with the victories. The Panthers will host UW-Parkside on Sunday at 1 p.m. CST.
Other top performers in the GLVC last week included: Lewis’ Megan George, Missouri-St. Louis’ Anne Nesbit, Quincy’s Toni Eye, SIU Edwardsville’s Elizabeth Valenti and UIndy’s Amanda Reese.