Eastern Washington University Athletics

As both a junior in 2005 and senior in 2006, Tiera Como-Irby was selected as Big Sky Conference Defensive Player of the Year. She left Eastern having earned seven Big Sky Player of the Week honors and a pair of first team All-Big Sky accolades (2005 and 2006). In 2004, when the soccer program won its first-ever Big Sky Conference regular season title, she earned second team All-Big Sky honors. Como set school records for career shutouts (12), total saves (420), saves per game (6.46) and goals against average (1.44), which all still stand entering the 2017 season. She also set records for saves percentage (.816) and wins (16), which were later broken. She played in 65 total games in a four-year career that included two appearances in the Big Sky Conference Tournament. Entering 2017, she owns three of the top seven single season saves performances in school history with 152 in 2006 (second), 121 in 2005 (fifth) and 92 in 2004 (seventh), plus had 55 as a freshman in 2003 to rank 18th. She had identical saves percentages of .829 in 2004 and 2005 to rank second all-time at Eastern, and her five shutouts in 2005 and four in 2005 rank third and fourth, respectively. On single game lists, her 16 saves versus Weber State on Oct. 19, 2006, equal the fourth-most in school history, and she had two other performances of at least 13. Como was also honored academically on the All-West Region third team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America as a senior in 2006. She was named to the Big Sky All-Academic team four-straight seasons. She earned the team’s Golden Eagle Award as a senior as EWU’s most complete player on and off the field. The 2002 graduate of East Valley High School out of Spokane, Wash., majored in mathematics education and had a 3.46 grade point average. She received her bachelor’s degree from EWU in 2007 and now resides in Spokane.