By TODD MOORE
Barton Sports Info
Four members of the Barton Community College women's soccer team earned All-KJCCC/Region 6 post-season recognition following the conclusion of the 2024 campaign.
All four of Barton's selections landed on the second team, led by returning award recipients Fiona Jolly and Mio Tanaka in being joined by fellow sophomores Leticia Quadros and Beatriz Baldi.
The selections helped Barton to an overall 9-6-4 record under first year Head Coach Rafael Simmons, placing fifth in the KJCCC at 7-5-4.
Complete list of All-KJCCC/Region 6 selections
Fiona Jolly – 2nd Team
An honorable mention selection last year, the returning sophomore from Trecon, Marne, France, led the Cougars in multiple facets as a team captain, an offensive threat, and was a hybrid type of player helping the defensive effort as well.
Offensively, Jolly finished one goal shy of tying for the team lead, finishing with a third best 8 goals and 20 total points in the nineteen game slate including a hat-trick in the Cougars' second game of the year and producing her third career multi-goal performance in late September versus Dodge City.
Mio Tanaka – 2nd Team
Joining Jolly last year as an honorable mention selection, Tanaka moved up to the 2nd Team goalkeeper anchoring an inexperience collegiate defensive line.
The sophomore from Himeji-Shi, Japan, logged the most minutes across her nineteen games in the starting lineup helping the squad to four shutouts while only allowing more than two goals just twice, both coming on the road at nationally ranked teams.
Earning the Week 7 KJCCC Goalkeeper of the Week award, Tanaka posted a career-high 13 saves keeping Barton in the match of the eventual 2-1 loss to sixth-ranked Butler. Tanaka followed three days later with another pair of saves in a 2-0 shutout at Coffeyville.
Leticia Quadros – 2nd Team
Listed as a defender, Quadros was another hybrid type of player for the Cougars in spending most of the time on the defensive end but added value on the offensive end as an integral part of Barton's set pieces.
In addition to aiding Tanaka to orchestrate the defensive line, the sophomore out of Brasilia, Brazil, ranked fourth in team scoring with 15 points on 5 goals and distributing a second best 5 assists. A bulk of the points came during the 25th game of Quadros' career producing a memorable September day, scoring not only her first collegiate goal, the game winning goal, but finishing with a seven-point afternoon with a hat trick of net rattlers plus an assist.
Beatriz Baldi – 2nd Team
Baldi was part of two-headed attack from its main scoring position, sharing team high honors of 9 goals and 19 points with freshman Katie Potter. The sophomore from Blumenau, SC, Brazil, made a scoring impact in seven of the contests including a five-point effort of two goals and an assist in an early season win over Highland before scoring both in the Cougars' 2-0 late season victory at Coffeyville.