Belmont Abbey College

Angela Placona-Congelli joined the Abbey women’s soccer program from her hometown of Tempe, Arizona. In her four-year career as a Lady Crusader, she scored 52 goals and had 29 assists. At the end of her first season, she was named “conference freshman of the year” and earned second-team honors. She would go on to earn first-team all-conference honors her last three years.

Placona-Congelli was also a three-time all-region selection and earned All-American honors as a senior. In 2000, Belmont Abbey College named her Female Athlete of the Year and that same year she was named the Carolinas- Virginia Athletics Conference Female Athlete of the Year. Off the field, she was a second-team academic all-district selection, and was named to the Dean’s List seven times and to the President’s List twice. Placona-Congelli graduated from the Abbey with a 3.52 GPA and a degree in Biology.