BOSTON – Each week throughout 2021-22, Ram Nation will have the chance to pick the Ram of the Week, which will be presented at the beginning of the week to one Suffolk student-athlete voted on via Twitter poll.  

AND THE WINNER IS … 

With 48 percent of the 122 votes cast, women's soccer's Lily Christian has been dubbed the inaugural Ram of the Week for the 2021-22 academic year. 

The freshman from Plymouth, Massachusetts made the most of her collegiate-opening week and helped the Rams start the year 2-0 for the first time since 2011 and third time in program history overall. The forward finished the two-game week with two goals, both game winners, and one assist. 

In the 2021 opener, Christian potted the rock with just 1:38 left in regulation to break open scoreless play and lift the blue-and-gold to a 1-0 victory over Elms. Three days later, she found the back of the net again and aided in another tally to aid in a 3-0 decision against Framingham State.  

Christian will take a two-game point streak into this week's action, which features the first road trip of 2021, a pit stop at Wellesley Wednesday, Sept. 8. 

Let's meet the nominees ... @christian16Lily of @SuffolkWSoccer
Csiki-Fejer of @SUXCTF
Leo of @SuffolkMSoccer
@itsacaptialk of @SuffolkVB #RamNation pic.twitter.com/k9bVxMeAIO

— Suffolk Athletics (@gosuffolkrams) September 6, 2021

RAM RUNNER-UPS 

2ND PLACE – 22% OF VOTES – NIGEL LEO – MEN'S SOCCER 

Nigel Leo produced at least one point in each of Suffolk's three games to aid the Rams in a 2-1-0 opening week. The graduate transfer dished out one assist in the season-opener, a 4-0 shutout of Mass. Maritime, before potting two goals, including the game-tying mark, in a 4-3, overtime setback to Westfield State. A day later, he found the back of the twine again to help blank Lasell, 3-0. Overall, he finished the week with seven points on three goals and one set-up.   

3RD PLACE – 17 % OF VOTES – MCKENNA KEOWEN – VOLLEYBALL 

McKenna Keowen began the 2021 campaign and her collegiate career with a 2.33 kps, 2.33 dps effort in a 2-1-0 week. The San Ramon, California, native started with a seven-dig, four-kill, one-ace, one-block day at Brandeis, before upping her game in a tri-match with Husson and Albertus Magnus. Against the Eagles she registered eight kills and eight digs, respectively, with six aces at the service line. Keowen wrapped up the weekend with nine kills, six digs and a pair of aces in a sweep of the Falcons. 

4TH PLACE – 13% OF VOTES – MATYAS CSIKI-FEJER – MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY

Matyas Csiki-Fejer nearly won the 5k foot race at Suffok's Short Course Classic. The senior from Manchester, Missouri was on the heels of Brown's Evan Sherman, but came up nine seconds short. His 15:41 was good for second in the 102-runner field.  

RAM OF THE WEEK HISTORY