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UI soccer picked 7th; Small gets big honor

The Western Athletic Conference announced its preseason all-WAC selections and coaches poll for women’s soccer on Thursday and Idaho’s women were tabbed for seventh.

Idaho, which returns eight starters and 17 letterwinners from last year’s team that went 9-10 overall and posted the NCAA’s second-best win improvement, earned 28 points in the poll. Utah State was picked to win the league.

Vandals forward Chelsea Small was selected to the preseason All-WAC team. Small set an Idaho freshman record with 20 points (8 goals, 4 assists) and earned first-team all-WAC and WAC Freshman of the Year honors in 2009.