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Golden Moments: Barry Strike Voted National Goal of the Week
10/21/2020 9:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Each Wednesday from September to December, Cal Poly will look back at notable performances from past fall-season teams through the Golden 1 Credit Union Golden Moments in Mustang History series.
"The clip description calls this beastly effort a wonderstrike, and nobody in their right mind is arguing."
That's how TopDrawerSoccer assessed Chelsea Barry's 82nd-minute, 35-yard free kick against UC Santa Barbara at Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Oct. 13, 2016, which led Cal Poly to a 1-1 Blue-Green Rivalry draw with the Gauchos.
Barry, then a sophomore center back, "got on the board first with this ridiculous free kick you'd expect to see out of Zlatan Ibrahimovic," TDS' 91st Minute blog noted while opening up voting for its National College Goal of the Week.
Six days later, after 11,167 votes were counted, Barry won the College Goal of the Week award, earning 58 percent, topping Notre Dame's Jennifer Westendorf.
Then in December, TopDrawerSoccer announced the goal as one of its five candidates for the 2016 Goal of the Year. Ivan Abramovic from UMass Lowell went on to win, collecting 48 percent of just over 35,000 fan votes, for his overtime bicycle kick against St. Francis-Brooklyn.
The Mustang-Gaucho matchup put Barry up against three former teammates from her Monte Vista days in Danville.
"Honestly, it brings the energy to a whole new level," Barry told reporters on the pitch after the game of the added rivalry element.
Madeline Gibson, one of Barry's previous teammates on the field that night, commented, "When she went up to take the kick, I was like, 'This is Chelsea's forte — here it comes.' "
"Right when she took the kick, I knew it was going in," Gibson said of Barry, who graduated earning back-to-back All-Regional honors. "And there was nothing our keeper could have done about it. It was phenomenal ... an absolutely gorgeous goal."
Photos Courtesy of Matt Aguirre Photography ©
@CPMustangs • #RideHigh
"The clip description calls this beastly effort a wonderstrike, and nobody in their right mind is arguing."
That's how TopDrawerSoccer assessed Chelsea Barry's 82nd-minute, 35-yard free kick against UC Santa Barbara at Alex G. Spanos Stadium on Oct. 13, 2016, which led Cal Poly to a 1-1 Blue-Green Rivalry draw with the Gauchos.
Barry, then a sophomore center back, "got on the board first with this ridiculous free kick you'd expect to see out of Zlatan Ibrahimovic," TDS' 91st Minute blog noted while opening up voting for its National College Goal of the Week.
Six days later, after 11,167 votes were counted, Barry won the College Goal of the Week award, earning 58 percent, topping Notre Dame's Jennifer Westendorf.
Then in December, TopDrawerSoccer announced the goal as one of its five candidates for the 2016 Goal of the Year. Ivan Abramovic from UMass Lowell went on to win, collecting 48 percent of just over 35,000 fan votes, for his overtime bicycle kick against St. Francis-Brooklyn.
The Mustang-Gaucho matchup put Barry up against three former teammates from her Monte Vista days in Danville.
"Honestly, it brings the energy to a whole new level," Barry told reporters on the pitch after the game of the added rivalry element.
Madeline Gibson, one of Barry's previous teammates on the field that night, commented, "When she went up to take the kick, I was like, 'This is Chelsea's forte — here it comes.' "
"Right when she took the kick, I knew it was going in," Gibson said of Barry, who graduated earning back-to-back All-Regional honors. "And there was nothing our keeper could have done about it. It was phenomenal ... an absolutely gorgeous goal."
Photos Courtesy of Matt Aguirre Photography ©
@CPMustangs • #RideHigh
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