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Top SAIT striker Emily Fedoriak was named to a collegiate all-conference team.

The 24-year-old Whitehorse soccer player, who attends SAIT in Calgary, was named to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) South Division All-Conference team last night.

鈥淚t鈥檚 such a huge honour to make the South Division All-Conference (team),鈥� Fedoriak said in a message to the Star.

She is joined on the 11-person team by two SAIT teammates, Mataya Blakney and Deanna Kuan.

鈥淚t was a great feeling standing on the stage with my other two teammates who also made it,鈥� said Fedoriak. 鈥淒efinitely an awesome way to validate all our hard work.鈥�

The women鈥檚 soccer South Division of the ACAC is made up of six schools: Medicine Hat College, Olds College, Red Deer College, Lethbridge College, Lakeland College and SAIT.

The team was named at an awards banquet in Edmonton ahead of the ACAC Championships this weekend.

After a disappointing 2015/16 season, where the SAIT lady Trojans went 0-7-3, the team worked hard to get refocused coming into the current season.

They didn鈥檛 wait long to get a win on the board, taking their first game against Lethbridge 4-2.

This went on to a three-game winning streak as they took their next two games 2-0, 3-0.

Then the Trojans were dealt their first lost of the season, a shutout against Red Deer College.

Last weekend, the Trojans split their final stand on the road, getting a victory over Red Deer College on Saturday, but losing to Lakeland College on Sunday.

With their victory over Red Deer, the team became the winniest lady Trojans soccer team with seven wins.

The previous record of six was set in 2002 and that team went on to win the ACAC championships and a bronze medal at the nationals.

In their 2-1 loss to Lakeland, Fedoriak scored the Trojans鈥� only goal, which made her their top scorer for the season with nine goals. Blakney is number two, with eight.

鈥淚t鈥檚 a huge privilege,鈥� said Fedoriak of being her team鈥檚 top scorer. 鈥淚 can鈥檛 do it alone. The plays coming from my teammates make it easy to score.鈥�

The naming of three forwards to the South Division All-Conference team marks a decided shift from last season, when the offensive unit was only able to score three goals in 10 regular season games.

The Trojans finished the season second in the South Division, behind Medicine Hat College.

They earned the second berth for the South Division at provincials.

Fedoriak and the Trojans will have to dispatch Concordia University of Edmonton this afternoon in a quarter-final before they would meet reigning provincial champions, NAIT, in a semifinal.

The north and south divisions don鈥檛 play regular season games against each other, so the match-ups this weekend will prove to be new.

SAIT plays host Concordia this afternoon, in the late quarter-final at 2 p.m. MST.

鈥淲e鈥檙e feeling pretty confident,鈥� Fedoriak said earlier this week. 鈥淲e know what we鈥檙e capable of doing.鈥�