Four Soccer Players Earn Ivy Honors

Despite a disappointing 2010 season, some members of the Harvard men’s soccer team do have something to be proud of this year.

Sophomore midfielder Scott Prozeller, sophomore forward Brian Rogers, and senior co-captain Robert Millock were named to the All-Ivy League Second Team yesterday, while junior goalie Austin Harms garnered an All-Ivy honorable mention.

“I was certainly excited,” Prozeller said. “I try to become the best player I can so it’s always great to be recognized for your performance. But this season I think I take it more with a grain of salt because we had such high expectations...The team not doing so well kind of diminishes the glory of any individual recognition.”

Prozeller ranked second on the squad with three goals and seven points. He scored the game-winning goal against Yale on Oct. 3rd.

After winning Ivy League Rookie of the Year last season, Rogers made the All-Ivy Second Team for a second consecutive time, despite missing two games due to injury. The forward emerged as Harvard’s leading scorer with five goals (fifth in the Ancient Eight) and 11 points this season. In the process, Rogers often had a flair for the dramatic, scoring the game-winning goal in the 80th minute of the season opener against Stanford while netting a game-tying score in the 90th minute against Stony Brook. He was also tabbed to ESPN The Magazine’s All-District Second Team.

Millock was a leader of a Crimson defense that allowed 1.09 goals per game, good for fifth in the Ancient Eight. He started all 17 games for Harvard in his final season.

Harms made 13 starts in goal for the Crimson, posting a 3-6-4 record. He finished fourth in the Ivy in saves per game (3.62) and fifth in save percentage (.746) while earning three shutouts.

“The individual honors are only made possible by the rest of the team,” Prozeller said. “I think when we were successful, it wasn’t about individual players but a team effort.”

Harvard finished the season 5-7-5 and 2-3-2 in the conference. Junior forward Antoine Hoppenot of league-champion Princeton took home Ivy Player of the Year hardware (won last year by Andre Akpan ’10). Columbia midfielder Henning Sauerbier succeeded Rogers as the Ivy Rookie of the Year.