College Sports Madness All-American Teams
Moon Township, Pa. – Sophomore forward
Neco Brett (Kingston, Jamaica / Excelsior) was named to the College Sports Madness 2013 Men's Soccer All-American Team after leading NCAA Division I in scoring during the regular season. Brett was the Northeast Conference Player of the Year and an All-NEC First Team selection in addition to earning a spot on the Madness All-American Fourth Team.
Brett led the nation in regular season scoring registering 36 points, one point shy of the RMU regular-season record of 37 set by Major League Soccer draft pick
Musa Shannon in 1996. Brett scored 14 goals, second most nationally, and his eight assists placed him just outside the top 10. In RMU annals, his goal-scoring output places him third all-time and he is tied for fifth in assists.
Brett is the third player in team history to earn NEC Player of the Year and the first since
Rhian Dodds in 2002. This also marks the first time since 2006 RMU has had four players on the all-conference team, and the 2013 squad joins the 1992 team as the only ones to have three members on the first team in years the league has had more than one all-conference squad.
The sophomore's breakout performance came at the end of the non-conference season. He scored three goals in a 3-1 win over Buffalo and then scored twice as RMU beat George Washington. That ended a four-game goal scoring streak, a three-week period that saw him tally seven goals and two assists for 16 points.
The Jamaican-born striker scored in the team's last four games, a time in which he also showed he could set up goals. Brett tallied three assists in a 5-0 win over Sacred Heart and followed with two more helpers in a 4-1 rout of Howard.
As a team, RMU led the NEC in points with 104, 33 more than second-place Saint Francis University. The Colonials also led the conference in goals (36), assists (36) and shots (291). All of those marks led the league by a wide margin.
