Alli Davis Named MW Defensive Player of the Week

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— New Mexico redshirt sophomore Alli Davis earned the first Mountain West Defensive Player of the Week on Monday.

The announcement marks the second defensive conference award in Davis’ career and the third overall conference honor for the goalkeeper.

The Bend, Oregon native opened the season with 12 saves on the week, including tying a career high with eight saves against Texas Tech. During the season opener, Davis held off the Texas Tech attack that included consecutive saves on consecutive point-blank shots in the 21st minute and another shot and save a minute later to keep the match scoreless. In between the shots and saves, Davis also forced a shot to go high over the crossbar. Davis helped keep the Lobos in the match against TTU as the Red Raiders had a 15-3 advantage in shots and a 9-1 advantage in shots on goal and made four saves in each half of Thursday’s season opener.

Davis also had a hand in UNM’s goal against Texas Tech, putting the ball back in play, kicking it the length of the field towards Paige Satterlee, who tracked it down in the right corner outside of the 18-yard box. Satterlee crossed it into the box with Paris Dalton getting her head on it to deflect it to Ellie Robinson, who promptly buried it into the back of the net.

On Sunday, Davis recorded a clean sheet against Northern Arizona with four more saves (two in each half) for her first clean sheet of the season and the eighth of her career.