TURLOCK, Calif. - Cassie Callahan led a group of five UC San Diego honorees as the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) women’s soccer award-winners were announced during a banquet Thursday night on the Cal State Stanislaus campus ahead of Friday’s semifinal round of the 2014 CCAA Championships.

Callahan, a fourth-year senior and two-time captain out of nearby Coronado and Coronado High School, earned All-CCAA First Team selection for the third straight season as one of four midfielders on the 11-member squad. The 2011 CCAA Freshman of the Year garnered All-CCAA honorable mention as a rookie.

Kelcie Brodsky, Jordyn McNutt, Izzy Pozurama and Michelle Yasutake were all voted by league head coaches to the 11-player All-CCAA Second Team.

Callahan started all 11 CCAA games for UCSD in central midfield and finished with two goals and three assists for seven total points. Both goals were game-winners, in the 80th minute of a 1-0 home win over then-eighth-ranked Cal State San Bernardino on Oct. 3, and an 84th-minute penalty kick in another 1-0 triumph at Cal State Monterey Bay on Oct. 17.

Brodsky is a second-team all-conference pick for the second time in her three-year college career. The goalkeeper out of Agoura Hills (Agoura HS) made the second team as a freshman in 2012 prior to earning All-CCAA honorable mention in 2013. She started all 11 league contests, compiling a 0.71 goals-against average, 46 saves, an .852 save percentage and five individual clean sheets.

Pozurama (Lake Forest/El Toro HS) is also a second-time All-CCAA second-teamer, after her sophomore campaign in 2012. The fifth-year senior led UCSD with five goals and four game-winners this season. Three of those strikes, all winners in October decisions, came over 11 CCAA starts, alongside one assist for seven points. The two-time Triton captain scored lone goals in back-to-back 1-0 road victories at then-15th-ranked Sonoma State on Oct. 24 and Humboldt State on Oct. 26.

McNutt, a freshman winger and San Diego native out of University City High School, and Yasutake (Pleasant Hill/College Park HS), UCSD’s redshirt junior starter at center back, are first-time all-conference players. McNutt produced two goals and three assists for seven points over 10 league appearances, with nine starts.

Yasutake played the most minutes in CCAA action of any Triton, including Brodsky in goal, anchoring the defense to six shutouts over 11 starts.

UCSD went 9-6-3 overall and 6-3-2 in conference play. Following a 1-3-1 start to the 11-game league slate, longtime head coach Brian McManus directed his Tritons to an undefeated 5-0-1 record over their last six conference tilts with just one goal conceded, to secure a return trip to the CCAA Championship following a one-year absence. Sixth-seeded UCSD dropped a 2-0 decision at third-seeded Cal Poly Pomona last Sunday, Nov. 2, however, to see an end to its campaign.

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