Five members of the Tennessee-Martin soccer team were named to the 2002 All-Ohio Valley Conference teams. Tennessee-Martin head coach Nathan Pifer was named the league’s Coach of the Year.

The all-conference teams were announced Thursday night at Southeast Missouri State University where the OVC soccer tournament gets under way this afternoon.

Senior goal keeper Caryn Scheufler, from Carrolton, Ga., and freshman forward Dani Myrick, from Oklahoma City, Okla., were named to the first team.

Scheufler has started 17 games and made 104 saves. Her goals allowed average is 1.45. Myrick has 39 points on the year and she’s netted 16 goals and seven assists. She’s scored three game winning goals and leads the OVC in most offensive categories.

Sophomore defender Meg Jordan, from Hendersonville, Tenn., was named to the All OVC’s second team. Jordan has an assist and two shots on goal to her credit.

Seniors Tavi Renier and Sherrie Weeks were named to the league’s third team. Renier, a midfielder from Tucson, Ariz., has five assists this season.

She also had five shots in the Skyhawks’ match against Jackson State earlier this season. Weeks, a midfielder from Vernon, British Columbia, has 12 points on the season.

She’s scored four goals and has four assists. She’s scored two goals in a match on two occasions this season.

Pifer, in his third season at the helm, has guided the Skyhawks to a 9-6-3 worksheet this season. He was 0-18 in his first year and last season he was 4-14 overall and 1-4 in the OVC. Pifer came to UT Martin from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, where he served as soccer coach from 1990-99.

He led the Midwestern State men’s soccer team to an average of 17 wins per season during a 10-year span. Pifer also coached the women’s team at Midwestern State, turning the losing program into a team that won the Lone Star Conference title two straight years.

This was the fifth season of women’s soccer as a championship sport in the OVC. The fourth OVC Tournament began Friday with No. 3

Tennessee-Martin facing No. 2 Eastern Illinois and top-seeded Southeast Missouri playing No. 4 Tennessee Tech. The championship game, between the winners of those matches, is set for Sun., Nov.10 at 2 p.m. CT.