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Punyed, who graduated from Coral Park Senior High School in 2008, completed his collegiate career at St. John’s University in fine form earning All-Big East First Team honors in addition to the Midfielder of the Year recognition. He is the fourth St. John’s player to earn Midfielder of the Year accolades since 2000 when the award was first presented in the conference. He tallied four goals in the regular season, including two game-winners, and a career-high three assists. Pablo’s brother, Renato, plays for Kendall SC’s U16 US Soccer Development Academy team.
Quintana, who graduated from Florida Chrisitan School in 2009, anchored UCF’s backline and started all 17 regular season contests. He was second on the team in minutes with 1,551. The defender helped UCF limit opponents to only 1.00 goals allowed per game, which ranked first in C-USA. The Knights posted five shutouts during the regular season. The all-league honor is the first for Quintana.
Faria, a Gulliver Prep 2009 graduate who transferred to Rollins College after spending his freshman and sophomore years at Penn State University, had a breakout season for the Tars to earn Division II All-South Region First Team honors. He provided a strong offensive spurt, scoring 7 goals and notching 9 assists to combine for 23 points, the highest on the team.
Gil, who joined Lewis University’s Division II team after earning his Associate degree from Garden City Community College, was named to the All-Great Lakes Valley Conference Third Team. He started all of the team’s 18 regular season matches.
Figueroa, a 2010 graduate of Killian Senior High School is completing his second year at Lincoln College and earned All-Midwest Athletic Conference Second Team honors. Raucci, a 2010 graduate of John A. Ferguson Senior High School, received an All-Region 10 Honorable Mention playing for Cape Fear College.
The 22 players that qualified for the NCAA championship tournaments include five members of the Atlantic-Sun Conference Champions Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (Kevin Ante, Jose Diaz de Villegas, Jake Moffett, Andres Navas, and Christian Velez) four members of the University of Central Florida Knights (Sebastian Evers, Eduardo “Waldy” Jimenez, Andrew Quintana, and Luiz Yamashita), two members of the Sun Belt Conference Women’s Champions Florida International University Panthers (Scarlet Montoya and Nicole Rios), two members of the Conference Carolinas Champions Coker Cobras (Anthony Amaya and Tony Quiroz), two members of the Barry University Buccaneers (Rodrigo Mancenido and Mark Rafols), two members of the Rollins College Tars (Laura Piedrahita and Mary Spring), plus members of the South Florida Bulls (Ryan Parrado), the St. John’s University Red Storm (Pablo Punyed), the Sunshine State Conference Champions Rollins College Tars (Rafa Faria), the Lees-McRae University Bobcats (Luis Rendon), and the Wheaton College Lyons (Gabriela Verde).
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