Greenville SC - The NCCAA is pleased to announce Jocelynne Lake of Regent University as the 2023 NCCAA Joe & Q Harding Award Recipient for Division I Women’s Soccer. 
 
Jocelynne Lake, a native of Virginia Beach, Virginia lives a life devoted to serving others. She consistently looks for ways she can help her teammates, professors, and family and has a positivity on the field that is contagious. The defender has played 24 games for the Royals, starting in 17. She has recorded five goals and two assists. In 2022, Lake was named to the NCCAA South All-Regional Second Team.
 
The senior studies government and has been honored with Dean’s List and Honors College Dean’s Circle while maintaining a 4.0 GPA. She has been an integral part of starting multiple clubs at Regent and currently serves as the secretary of the Model United Nations and vice president for the Boardroom. Lake also volunteers in the children’s ministry at her local church and is an instructor for a homeschool co-op. She currently works as a graduate assistant for the Robertson School of Government where she is co-authoring the working project “George W. Bush and the Fight for Peace."
 
Head Coach Christine Moorehead states, “Jocelynne is truly a selfless athlete who joined our team as a walk on and whose commitment and contribution to the team has been invaluable. She has a tenacious attitude on the field where she never gives up.”
 
Other Finalist
Kloe Totel, Carolina University
 
Award Description
Joe served multiple terms as NCCAA Men’s Soccer chair while coaching at Huntington University and Moody Bible Institute. His teams collected three NCCAA National Championships, and Joe earned both the NISOA Honor Award and the NCCAA Frank Jewell Award for his excellence and integrity in coaching. His most recent honor was as an inductee into the Malone University Hall of Fame (2021). Carol, or as all her friends know her, Q, was a five sport standout at Wheaton College. Throughout the years, while a university professor and assistant coach to Joe, she was an encourager and advocate for NCCAA, especially within the sport of soccer. She was a prayer warrior for Joe and his student-athletes and also for many of Joe’s opposing coaches and peers, always caring more for those leaders than for the result of the matches. The NCCAA is honored to be able to present this award in the names of Joe and Carol “Q” Harding.
 

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