Coastal Carolina senior Daniella Famili of Stockholm, Sweden was voted the Sun Belt Preseason Women’s Soccer Player of the Year and the Chanticleers were picked to finish second in a vote of the league’s head coaches.
Coastal was picked second to defending champion South Alabama, but was just one point behind the Jaguars in the voting (109 points to 108) despite the Chants getting a league-best four first-place votes to USA’s three.
Little Rock (106 points and three first-place votes) was picked third, followed by Appalachian State (84 points) and Louisiana (60 points) to round out the top five.