BLOOMINGTON, Minn. – Senior goalkeeper Grace Sprangers of the St. Olaf College women's soccer team was selected as the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week for the first time on Monday afternoon.

Sprangers went 1-0-1 with a 0.50 goals-against average and a .857 save percentage in two starts for St. Olaf, allowing just one goal over the two games to help St. Olaf pick up four points to begin conference play. The senior is St. Olaf's first MIAC Women's Soccer Athlete of the Week under the new Offensive/Defensive Player of the Week format and the first Ole to be recognized with a weekly award from the conference since Brynne Davis '21 on Oct. 14, 2019.

In St. Olaf's first game of the week, Sprangers helped the Oles to a 2-1 victory over Bethel on Wednesday with a three-save performance to earn the win. She followed that up with a three-save shutout in St. Olaf's scoreless tie at Hamline on Saturday for her second shutout in four starts this season.

The Oles host Coe College in a non-conference contest on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 4 p.m. at Rolf Mellby Field.