The Missouri Valley College women’s soccer team was recognized with three selections to the 2025 NAIA Women’s Soccer All-America Team.
Leading the selections are a pair of student-athletes named first team All-Americans. Defender Marta Carrasco Mesa and Midfielder Judit Ferre were both first team honorees. Both become the program’s first selection to the first team since Kelly Cline in 1992.
Carrasco Mesa becomes a two-time All-American, including a second team selection last season, and finished the season with five goals, six assists and 16 points playing from the defender position. Carrasco Mesa also led a defense that allowed a .078 goals against average on the season, and posted nine shutouts. In addition to the All-American honors, Carrasco Mesa finishes her career as a two-time winner of the Heart Player of the Year and Heart Defender of the Year awards, and a three-time Heart All-Conference selection.
Ferre becomes an All-American for the first time, and earned the first team selection after leading the team with 33 points and seven assists on the season, to go with 13 goals, setting career-high totals in goals and points. Ferre added 50 shots and 30 shots on goal during the season, and scored four game-winning goals. In addition to the All-American honor, Ferre finishes her career as a three-time Heart All-Conference Selection.
Also earning All-American honors is Forward Ashley Arribas named to the third team. Arribas becomes a two-time All-American, including a third team selection in 2023, and finished the season with a team-high 14 goals, 32 points and five game-winning goals, to go with four assists. In addition to the All-American honors, Arribas finishes her career as a four-time selection to the Heart All-Conference first team, a two-time Heart Offensive Player of the Year award winner, and is the program’s all-time goals and points leader with 59 goals and 133 points.
The three All-American selections is the most in a single-season for the program since four honorees from the 1991 season (first team selections Lisa Stockert and Anita Most, second team selection Tina Duenow and third team selection Cindy Bowman). Hawkins has now produced 16 NAIA All-American selections in his career.
The women’s soccer team finished with an overall record of 18-1-4, including a second-straight undefeated record in Heart play, at 11-0-2. The Vikings won the Heart Postseason Championship and advanced to the quarterfinal round of the 2025 NAIA Women’s Soccer National Championship, the deepest run for the program since 1991.