Major achievements for some players are starting to become second nature for Trinity International University's Rebekah Niedermayer (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Judson University's Christina Thornton (Algonquin, Ill.). Niedermayer extended her scoreless streak in goal to 540-plus minutes in earning Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Defensive Player of the Week honors, while Thornton registered her second hat trick of the season in gaining Offensive Player of the Week recognition for the seven-day period ending Oct. 19.

Niedermayer, a sophomore, produced her seventh and eighth shutouts of the season last week to keep her team in contention for the conference title. On Oct. 14, she stopped four shots on goal in a 3-0 victory over Illinois Institute of Technology and then turned right back around four days later (Oct. 18) in authoring eight saves in a 1-0 blanking of Saint Xavier University.

The shutouts were Niedermayer's fifth and sixth in a row as she has now gone nearly a complete month without allowing a goal. Her last goal allowed came in a 2-1 win over Olivet Nazarene University on Sept. 24.

The two wins pushed the No. 25-ranked Trojans to 11-3 overall and 6-1 in league play, one game behind frontrunner Trinity Christian College.

Thornton had just as busy a week scoring four goals and collecting one assist in Judson's 2-1 week.

A junior forward, Thornton recorded the 16^th multiple-goal game of her career to start off the week with her three goals and one assist in a 6-0 victory over Calumet College St. Joseph on Oct. 14. Two days later, she just beat the second-overtime buzzer to score the only goal in a 1-0 victory over NCAA I Houston Baptist University.

Judson (6-9-1, 3-4) then went overtime again on Oct. 16 before falling by the same 1-0 count to Illinois Tech.

Thornton's four goals for the week give her 17 for the season and 57 for her career.