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April 22, 2010

Vodicka Adds Fellabom to 2010 Signing Class

AIKEN, S.C. – USC Aiken women’s soccer head coach Sue Vodicka announced the signing of Madeline Fellabom to a National Letter of Intent on Thursday, April 22.
 
A 5-foot-9 midfielder, Fellabom joins the USC Aiken women’s soccer program out of Wando High School in Mount Pleasant, S.C. She plays her club soccer for the Mount Pleasant Soccer Club.
 
Fellabom is the seventh player in the 2010 USC Aiken women’s soccer signing class, joining Melissa Westphal (Springfield, Va./Paul VI Catholic), Katie Bevacqua (Mount Pleasant, S.C./Stratford), Alex Cohen (Evans, Ga./Greenbrier), Aubrey Danielson (Dorman), Kyle Maguire (Irmo, S.C./Dutch Fork) and Brittany Moores (Blythewood, S.C./Blythewood).
 
Fellabom joins the USC Aiken women’s soccer program with an impressive resume that includes being a three-year member of the South Carolina Olympic Development Program. Vodicka was Fellabom’s ODP coach.
 
Fellabom is a four-year starter at Wando High School where she has been a member of two state championship squads. Last year as a junior, Fellabom was a co-captain of Wando’s state runner-up team. She was chosen to the All-Region and All-Lowcountry Soccer Team as well as the All-State team. 
 
In her senior campaign presently, Fellabom is once again a team co-captain. She was recently dubbed the MVP of the prestigious Taco Bell Viking Cup.
 
“I had the privilege of coaching Madeline in ODP,” said Vodicka. “I am very excited to have a player of her caliber joining our program. She is a proven leader, captaining one of the top high school programs in the state. She just quietly does whatever it takes for her team to win. She is an All-State player, who was chosen as the MVP of the prestigious Taco Bell Viking Cup, and was in the regional pool at ODP.  We look forward to welcoming her and the rest of this outstanding recruiting class this fall. I think Pacer soccer fans are going to enjoy watching Madeline play.”
 
Fellabom and the rest of the new Pacers will join a USC Aiken women's soccer program that is on the upswing. In fact, the USC Aiken women's soccer team was honored as one of the top 20 most improved NCAA Division II women's soccer teams on Wednesday, Jan. 27 by Somis Sports.
The rankings, which are available on the Somis Sports website at www.somissports.com, are done by calculating a team's improvement by comparing its final 2009 rating to an adjusted 2008 rating. A team's rating roughly equates to net goals (goals scored minus goals against).
The criteria allowed the Pacers to obtain a 1.34 rating to leave them with the 15th-best improvement in all of Division II women's soccer. USC Aiken improved its win total by three games in 2009.
The 2009 USC Aiken women's soccer campaign ended with the Pacers owning a 6-11 record overall. USC Aiken finished the season winning four of its final five games. The Pacers concluded the 2009 Peach Belt Conference season with a 2-8 record.
In a season full of close contests for the Pacer women, USC Aiken ended its 2009 Peach Belt Conference slate having been on the losing side of three overtime games in PBC action. In total, USC Aiken finished its 2009 season with nine one-goal losses. The Pacers lost six of their eight games in PBC play by just one goal.
USC Aiken's defensive unit had a tremendous season-ending stretch of not allowing a goal. The Pacer defense had not given up a goal in just over 501 minutes before surrendering the first goal of the match to GCSU in their season finale. The Pacers had played the entire 90 minutes of the previous four matches without surrendering a goal.