SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Following an opening weekend that saw the University of San Francisco women's soccer team go 2-0, redshirt junior Samantha Jehnings has been named the West Coast Conference Player of the Week as announced by the conference office on Monday morning.
 
This is her first Player of the Week award for Jehnings, it comes after a totally dominating performance at the Montana Cup in Missoula. Jehnings' line for the weekend: four goals, two game winning goals on four shots for a 1.000 shots on goal percentage. 
 
In the season opening win over Drake, Jehnings wasted no time to make her mark on the 2018 season.  Not only did she score her first goal in less than a minute – a program record for fastest goal scored in an opener – she followed that up with a second goal one minute and eight seconds later.  Two goals in less than two minutes, another program record.
 
Two days later, Jehnings wrapped up the weekend scoring two more goals in rapid fire.  She notched the only goal the Dons would need in the 19^th minute when she took a pass from Miciah Madison inside the box for an easy score.  Three minutes later she provided USF with an insurance goal, smashing a header past the keeper on the beautiful feed from Izzie Lueken. 


The four goals were all the offense USF needed, as they recorded back-to-back road wins to start the season for the first time since 2003 when USF opened the year up with wins over Rice and Boise State in Eugene, Ore.  With the four goals, Jehnings now has 17 for her career, which moves her into a tie with Pam Riggs (1989-92) for ninth all-time at USF.  
 
USF returns to action on Friday when they travel to Stanford, Calif., to take on the defending champion Stanford Cardinal at 8:00 p.m. The Dons wrap up the weekend at home when Harvard comes to Negoesco Stadium at 12:30 p.m.