Kim Olson Named MWC Women's Soccer Player of the Week

Release Date: September 12, 2000

Kim Olson, a freshman forward from Finlayson, Minn., who attended West Chicago High School, was named this season’s first Midwest Conference Offensive Player of the Week after her spectacular collegiate debut.

All Olson did in her first three matches was tally three goals in each contest, giving her a hat trick of hat tricks and leading Monmouth to its first-ever 3-0 start. The Fighting Scots have scored 18 goals in their three victories to fall just one goal shy of their total output of 19 in 16 matches last season. They’ve already equaled last year’s victory total, and Olson needs just three goals to tie the single-season record of 12 set by Tisha Kimoto in 1998.

Olson not only scores often, she scores efficiently and sometimes even spectacularly as well. The strong and speedy striker has recorded her nine goals while playing just more than half of each game, and among the goals on her resume are a header off a corner kick and a 27-yard blast over a surprised goalkeeper.

The Fighting Scots are in action today at Aurora University and will return home this weekend for MWC matches Saturday and Sunday at Peacock Memorial Athletic Park.