Women’s Soccer’s Birtwistle Wins Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for Second Time

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown University women’s soccer junior defender Brooke Birtwistle has earned Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week honors for the second time this season after the Bears earned a 1-0 shutout victory over Harvard this past weekend, the Ivy League conference office announced on Monday afternoon. Birtwistle – one of the Bears’ starting center backs who has played all 1,260 minutes on the season – helped Brown post a shutout in a 1-0 victory over Harvard with the Bears limiting the Crimson to just five shots in the contest. The Crimson came into the match ranked eighth…