YSUsports.com - Penguins Soccer Team Signs Three Student-Athletes

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Feb. 22, 2002
Penguins Soccer Team Signs Three Student-Athletes
     Youngstown -- Youngstown State Head Soccer Coach Liz Bartley announced on Friday afternoon that three-student athletes have signed a National Letter of Intent to play soccer for the Penguins.
     Signing with Youngstown are goalkeeper Jennifer Jennings (Warren, Ohio/Warren Harding H.S.), defender/forward Maura Patton (Medina, Ohio/Medina H.S.), and midfielder Jessica Yarter (Wellsburg, W.Va./Brooke H.S.), Bartley said.
     Jennings finished her senior season at Harding with an 88 percent save percentage and three shutouts. She will be counted on to join Mia Railing at goalkeeper next season.
     Patton scored 11 goals and had three assists her senior season. She was named to the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Medina Gazette Honorable Mention teams, as well as second-team All-Pioneer Conference and Pioneer Conference All-Academic team. She received Most Improved Player for the 2001 season. Patton will see most action at defense or forward and will add depth to the Penguins defense, according to Bartley. "Maura will add needed depth to our defense," Bartley said. "We will be able to add her into our offense as well. She is a very versatile player."
     Yarter holds the single-season scoring record for Brooke with 41 goals. She was voted team co-captain and MVP her senior year. For the 2001 season, she was named OVAC Player of the Year, first-team All-Valley, second-team all state, and All-Region I Squad. She was named her team’s Most Valuable Offensive Player for the 1999, 2000, and 2001 seasons. In her four-year varsity career at Brooke she scored 103 goals. Yarter also joins former "Soccer Vision Academy" teammates Mia Railing, Hannah Lawther, and Casey Dick.