DURHAM – The Duke men’s soccer program earned four of the six individual ACC awards and had a total of nine players named to either an All-ACC or All-Freshman team, the league announced on Wednesday.
Graduate Eliot Hamill was named the ACC Goalkeeper of the Year, sophomore Shakur Mohammed earned ACC Offensive Player of the Year recognition, junior Peter Stroud is ACC Midfielder of the Year for the second season in a row and Kamran Acito was recognized as the ACC Freshman of the Year.
Hamill, Mohammed and Stroud were named to the All-ACC First Team, Nick Pariano and Amir Daley took home All-ACC Second Team honors and Antino Lopez earned All-ACC Third Team recognition.
The Blue Devils had three newcomers named to the All-Freshman Team, with Acito joined by Axel Gudbjornsson and Kenan Hot.
Duke led the ACC with three players on both the All-ACC First Team and All-Freshman Team, and tied for the most individuals on the All-ACC Second Team.
Hamill was named the ACC Goalkeeper of the Year following a historic season between the posts for the Blue Devils in 2022. His 11 clean sheets are tied for the second-most in program history for shutouts in a regular season and is fourth-best in program history overall. The Scarsdale, N.Y., native led the country during the regular season in total shutouts (11), save percentage (.900) and goals against average (.333). Hamill elected to return to the team as a graduate student after earning three ACC Defensive Player of the Week honors in 2021 and ended the regular season with six consecutive shutouts en route to helping Duke to its first top overall seed in the ACC Tournament since 2006.
Mohammed is the fifth Blue Devil in program history to be named ACC Offensive Player of the Year, and is the second in as many years, after Thorleifur Ulfarsson earned the recognition last season. Mohammed, a native of Kumasi, Ghana, helped lead the Blue Devils to an undefeated regular season with nine goals and a total of 20 points. His five game-winning goals is best in the ACC and is currently tied for third in the country. The sophomore moved from 60th in TopDrawerSoccer’s preseason Top 100 to 11th in the midseason iteration, was named the ACC Offensive Player of the Week twice this season and earned multiple National Team of the Week selections. Mohammed had three multiple-goal games in 2022,…
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