Four Florida Tech Panther Soccer Players Earn Sunshine State Conference All-Conference Awards

By Space Coast Daily // November 16, 2024

Three Panthers named to All-SSC First Team

Florida Tech men’s soccer placed four scholar-athletes on the Sunshine State Conference All-Conference awards, announced Thursday. Three Panthers made it on the All-SSC First Team. (Florida Tech image)

BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Florida Tech men’s soccer placed four scholar-athletes on the Sunshine State Conference All-Conference awards, announced Thursday. Three Panthers made it on the All-SSC First Team.

The Panthers’ first-team selections were Filippo Fazzi and Jacopo Ghezzi as midfielders and Alvaro Ivorra Ronda as a defender.

Iker Bastida was selected on the All-SSC Second Team for the second consecutive season. This is also the third straight season with four or more Panthers making an All-SSC Team.

Fazzi earned his first All-SSC First Team nod after landing in the conference’s top 10 in goals (7) and game-winning goals (3).

The graduate midfielder played in all 17 games and started 16, accumulating a team-leading seven goals and tallying the second-most assists with four. Fazzi amassed three game-winning goals, including two games in which one goal was the difference.

Ghezzi grabs his first All-SSC honor as a first-team member. He was a menace at the start of the season, racking up four goals in the first six games, including the first goal of the 2024 campaign.

Ghezzi registered three points in wins over Embry-Riddle and Palm Beach Atlantic, scoring a goal and assisting another in both games. Among the conference, Ghezzi was eighth in total shots with 37, 13th in shots on goal (14), and 10th in goals.

Ronda stepped up big on defense in his first season with Tech, which is how he earned first-team recognition. The sophomore helped the team keep five clean sheets and only allowed 19 goals, which was second-best in the conference.

He put in the work every game, leading the team in minutes played for a non-keeper with over 1,500 minutes.

Bastida is no stranger to the All-SSC Second Team, earning the honor in 2023. The graduate keeper started all 17 games, allowing the second-fewest goals in the conference with 18 and recorded 52 saves.

He is second in the conference in goals-against-average (1.078) and third in shutouts with five.