EAST STROUDSBURG – Junior forward Lindsay Foder and freshman back Carly Collins were named to the first team to lead five East Stroudsburg University players on the All-PSAC East Women's Soccer team, the conference office announced Thursday.

Junior forward Kailyn Buckley, sophomore midfielder Devon Miniscalco and freshman midfielder Crystal Zerbe were mentioned on the second team to help ESU finish second behind PSAC champion West Chester in the number of all-conference selections in the Eastern division.

Foder (Saylorsburg/Pleasant Valley) and Buckley (Wilmington, Del./Brandywine) are both making their second appearance on the All-PSAC East team and were two of just five returning starters entering the 2009 season. The Warriors went 11-7-2 and made the PSAC tournament for the third straight year while improving to 35-20-7 (.604) under head coach Rob Berkowitz.

Miniscalco (Churchville/Council Rock South), Buckley and Foder were the top three scorers on an ESU offense that led the PSAC with 2.65 goals per game, while Collins (Monroe, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) and Zerbe (Myerstown/Tulpehocken), a defensive-minded midfielder, were both named to the all-conference team as freshmen.

Foder had seven goals and six assists this season and has 18 goals and 15 assists in her career while emerging as one of the most dangerous players in the PSAC over the last two seasons. She was second team All-PSAC East in the midfield last year and moved to forward during the second half of the season, and has produced 16 goals in 33 games since then. Foder is a first team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District selection and has a perfect 4.0 grade-point average in Speech Pathology.

Collins started 19 games at center back as a freshman for the Warriors and was one of five freshmen starters. ESU posted a 1.13 goals against average in the regular season, fifth in the 15-team PSAC, while breaking in two freshmen backs and a new goalkeeper from its 2008 NCAA second round team. She also scored two goals on corner kicks, including the game-winner in a 3-1 victory at Mansfield, and took ESU's goal kicks and free kicks in the defensive half of the field.

Buckley was a second team All-PSAC East midfielder as a freshman and returns to the all-conference team at forward this season. She was second on the team with eight goals and tied with Foder for the team lead with six assists. A skilled left-sided player, Buckley had six goals and four assists in a five-game stretch from Sept. 26 through Oct. 10, coinciding with a season-best five-game winning streak. She has started all 61 games of her career at ESU and is also a two-time Academic All-District selection.

Miniscalco led the Warriors with 12 goals and had three assists after moving to the midfield from back, where she started all 22 games a year ago. She scored her first career goal in the season opener and took off from there, finding the net in 10 of ESU's 20 games. Miniscalco had a pair of two-goal games and scored four goals in the final six games of the season, including the game-winner 1:00 into overtime to send ESU into the PSAC playoffs with a 2-1 win at Bloomsburg and the Warriors' only goal in a 4-1 loss to Kutztown in the conference quarterfinals.

Zerbe was immediately inserted into the starting lineup during her freshman year. She played primarily a defensive midfield position and occasionally moved to back, but still had four goals and four assists. She scored a pair of goals in the final five minutes of games late in the season, finding the game-tying goal with five seconds left in an important 1-1 tie vs. Shippensburg and leveling the score at 1-1 with 3:56 left in regulation at Bloomsburg before Miniscalco scored the game-winner.

The Warriors return 10 starters for the 2010 season, with their five All-PSAC East selections along with freshman Marissa Spitler in the midfield, freshman Bridget Connell at forward, sophomore Linda Martine and Breanne Ingargiola at back and sophomore Melissa Myers in goal.

Jessica Oliva, a three-year starter at back, and Michelle Ginn, who started seven games and had a 5-3-1 record in goal, were the only two seniors on the 2009 squad.