Anghel, Pember and Quinn Honored By the WPSL
The Long Island Fury is very pleased to announce that three players from the 8-3-1 Central Division champions—defender Alyssa Pember from Northport, midfielder Lorraine Quinn from Farmingdale and goalkeeper Brittany Anghel from East Meadow--were selected by the Women’s Premier Soccer League to the All-WPSL Team.

Pember was honored as All-WPSL First Team, Quinn was selected All-WPSL Second Team and Anghel, a recent high school graduate, made All-WPSL Third Team.

Pember is an original Long Island Fury player and won the national title with the team in both 2006 and 2009. She has brought the Fury defense a level of consistency, especially since seven players graduated from college and moved on to Women’s Professional Soccer, as she will be doing in two years. Pember has been a major reason why the Fury defense has had incredible streaks of 555, 642 and 737 minutes without conceding a goal since 2006.

“Alyssa Pember is the catalyst of the Long Island Fury. She is considered the ideal player which you would start a team with and build a team around,” commented Fury head coach Michael Demakis. “Alyssa is the captain and leader of the Fury. An extremely high soccer IQ with unbelievable speed, tactical and technical ability. The cornerstone of the defense and of the Fury, Alyssa will grace us for one more year before she takes her talent and ability to WPS.”

Quinn is another original Fury player as well but she did not play in 2009 and returned to the team this year as the leading scorer from her midfield position with three goals and one assist.
 
“Lorraine Quinn is one of the most exciting, skillful and talented players I have ever had the pleasure to train and coach. When you talk about a player that has the ‘wow’ factor, then you are talking about Lorraine,” Coach Demakis stated. “Her foot skills and quickness on the ball will buckle any defender’s knees. She is considered a player who is worth the price of admission, just to watch her go to work on the field in a game. You never look away during a game when Lorraine has the ball because you are going to miss something special.”

Anghel had the unenviable task of filling the big shoes of Jillian Mastroianni in goal this year as she served as her back-up when the Fury won the national championship in 2009. She gave up goals to only two teams all season—the Lancaster Inferno and Boston Aztec—and never surrendered more than one goal in 90 minutes of play. Her 42 saves in 705 minutes of play was good for a 0.51 goals against average.

“Brittany Anghel has become one of the most dominating goalkeepers in the country. She is a beast in the net. Able to cover post to post--ground to crossbar, it is very difficult to get anything past Brittany,” commented her coach. “Excellent hands and very dangerous with her distribution makes Brittany a counterattacking nightmare for opposing defenses. She is a keeper you hate to see in the opposition’s goal because you know it will be a long day trying to get anything by her.”
 
Coach Demakis concluded by commenting, "We are so excited and proud that we had three of our Fury players making the All-WPSL Team this year. We couldn't be more happier for Alyssa, Lorraine and Brittany. Each of them showed the commitment, dedication and desire one needs to achieve these accolades. All three players have earned this through their relentless training, play on the field and leadership qualities they bring. We look forward to having them back next year so we can hopefully bring the WPSL national championship back to the Long Island Fury."