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The Week That Was 9/8/2008 |
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FSU |
Lost to Florida 1 to 0 in a game they dominated. Still the best in the State |
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Miami |
Yet to be really tested, but a 5 and 0 start. Purdue should be the first test. |
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Florida |
Beat Florida State 1 to 0 |
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UCF |
Beat Pacific and tied UC Davis |
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FGCU |
Beat Wingate and Gardner Webb |
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FSU Opens Season Ranked No. 4 By NSCAA
Aug. 13, 2008
 Tallahassee, Fla.
- What do you get when you combine eight returning starters and 13 letterwinners from last year's squad that played for a national championship and a recruiting class that ranks
among the nation's best? How about the highest preseason ranking in school history. The Florida State soccer team will open the 2008 campaign ranked No. 4 by the NSCAA.
This marks the third straight season and the fourth time in the last five years that the NSCAA has ranked the Seminoles in the top 10 in their preseason poll. In
2006 and 2007, FSU opened the season ranked sixth nationally, while beginning at No. 7 in 2004. more 8/13/2008
Women’s Soccer Gets Fourth Place Nod in Preseason Poll
ORLANDO, Fla. (August 13, 2008) – For the third straight year, the Rollins women’s soccer team was selected to finish fourth in the
Sunshine State Conference preseason poll announced on Wednesday by Commissioner Michael J. Marcil. Defending SSC and NCAA champion Tampa topped the poll for the third year running. Voting
for the preseason poll was conducted among the league’s women’s soccer coaches and sports information directors. more
Aug. 12, 2008
Miami: Head Coach Tricia Taliaferro Sits Down With hurricanesports.com
CORAL GABLES - The University of Miami women's soccer team is preparing for the 2008 season and will open at Stetson on Aug. 22. One week into fall practice, head coach
Tricia Taliaferro
sat down with hurricanesports.com and gave her thoughts on the upcoming season.Last season you led Miami to its second NCAA tournament appearance, what do you think you can take from last
season's success into the 2008 season?The success we experienced last season was due to years worth of work. Since the first day I stepped on campus at Miami, I had a vision to build this
program to national prominence. Over the last five years I have been very fortunate to attract some of the best players and coaches in the country to be a part of it.
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Aug. 12, 2008
 ORLANDO, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - With
the 2008 season less than two weeks away, Conference USA released its women's soccer preseason rankings and awards Tuesday. The league's coaches voted UCF second behind Memphis, while senior
midfielder Hanna Wilde
(Westlake, Ohio) and junior defender Nikki Moore
(Virginia Beach, Va.) grabbed spots on the Preseason All-C-USA Team.
"I think being picked to finish in the top three in the preseason is fair," said 10th year head coach
Amanda Cromwell.
"We lost some key defensive players and the C-USA Defensive Player of the Year in Jennifer Manis,
so some teams might have put that into account when voting. MORE
August 12, 2008
Brauer's Soccer Career Ends Early
TAMPA, Fla.
– It has been a rollercoaster ride of a summer for University of South Florida
 women’s
soccer standout Lindsay Brauer. Upon the senior’s return from the U-23 U.S. National Training Camp, a week in which she dazzled national coaches, she learned of some abnormalities in the
results of an EKG during her yearly required USF athletics physical.
An EKG test, short for electrocardiogram, is a facet of the USF student-athlete athletic physical procedure.
Brauer’s test came back abnormal, which is not that uncommon in athletes. The abnormalities led to a stress echocardiogram
test. Results again showed problems. A third test, a Cardiac MRI, along with the previous test, showed that she had a thickened left
ventricle, a heart condition known as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. more
Sun Sports & FSN Florida To Televise Seminole Soccer In 2008
Fans can catch four games on either television network this season.
Aug. 11, 2008
 Tallahassee, Fla.
- Sun Sports & FSN Florida in conjunction with Florida State University announced the television schedule for the 2008 Seminole soccer season. The two networks will combine to broadcast four
of the nine home games at the Seminole Soccer Complex. Three of the four games will feature Atlantic Coast Conference foes while the lone non-conference match-up pits the Seminoles against
their intra-state rival, the Florida Gators. more
2008 Soccer Season Set to Begin
Release: 08/11/2008
 With
12 of the 2007 Sun Belt All-Conference players returning in 2008 and four of the 11 first team all-conference members returning this season, the Sun Belt Conference will feature programs
with winning experience in 2008.
Most notably, WKU returns 16 letterwinners from a team that went 14-3-3 overall, 9-2-2 in Sun Belt play and captured the conference’s
regular season crown. Reigning SBC Player-of-the-Year Morgan Thomas returns to the pitch looking to improve on a stellar 2009 campaign which saw the junior lead her team in shot percentage
with a 0.263 clip, along with five goals. more
UCF Practices in Full Swing
Aug. 11, 2008
 ORLANDO, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - Six
days into the 2008 preseason camp, the UCF women's soccer team is making enormous progress towards being ready for match No. 1 on Aug. 22. The Knights will have three more days of training
before a scrimmage at USF Aug. 16, then another four days of work before battling Florida State in Tallahassee to open the regular season.
While UCF returns its top nine scorers from 2007 when it went 15-4-4, three goalkeepers, senior Jesse Gardner, junior
Lynzee Lee and redshirt freshman
Aline Reis (freshman Stephanie Gagnon will likely redshirt) will have the task of replacing
Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year Jennifer Manis.
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8/11/2008
Rollins Returns to Pitch for 2008 Season
 WINTER PARK, Fla. (August 11, 2008) -
With the loss of only one senior from their 2007 squad, the Rollins women’s soccer team returns to the pitch on Monday to kick off preseason training.
Head coach Tony Amato enters his sixth year at the helm after leading the women’s soccer team to
10 or more wins for the fourth time in five years. The Tars finished the year with an overall record of 10-8-1, and a conference mark of 4-3-1, placing the team fourth in the Sunshine State
Conference for the second straight season. more
FIU Preseason Kicks Off
The 2008 FIU women’s soccer season got underway Friday with the first day of pre-season
 practice.
Nearing the end of day one, it is evident that there’s a youth movement within this team, and the veterans are excited about
it. “It’s a young team, but from what I’ve seen so far from them, they have skills individually,” said senior defender Kia Rigsby. “They are very skillful and very talented. As long
as we can get everyone to come together and work together as a team, I think we’ll do great.”
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Aug. 7, 2008
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (August 7, 2008) For the fifth consecutive season, the University of
 West
Florida womens soccer team was tabbed the pre-season favorite in the Gulf South Conference coaches poll, it was announced on Thursday by GSC Commissioner Nathan N. Salant. The Argonauts
collected five of nine possible first place votes among the leagues head coaches, with the other four going to defending champion Montevallo.
I think this shows how tight things will be this year, UWF Head Coach Joe
Bartlinski
explained. It also shows what a great job the other coaches in the conference have done in building quality programs. more
August 6, 2008
Bulls Ready for the Next Step
TAMPA- Entering her second season with the University of South Florida, head coach Denise
 Schilte-Brown and her women’s soccer teams are ready to take the next step forward
as a program.
The Bulls return eight players, including two seniors, from a squad that gained the school’s first berth in to the BIG EAST Women’s Soccer Championships since joining the league three
seasons ago. Coach Schilte-Brown will look to those eight returnees to lead a talent-filled group of 18 newcomers.
Coach Schilte-Brown and her staff used the first year as a learning experience and are excited for the upcoming season as they continue to build their program.
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FSU Soccer Opens Practice Wednesday
Aug. 6, 2008
Tallahassee, Fla. - The 2008 Florida State women's soccer season officially opens on
 Wednesday, August 6 as the Seminoles look to build on the success of last year
which included a berth in the national title game and the finest offensive output in school history. Twenty-three student-athletes, including eight newcomers, will take to
the field on Wednesday under the direction of fourth year head coach Mark Krikorian.
Florida State returns eight of 11 starters and 13 of 20 letterwinners for the upcoming season. Included among the eight returning starters are all four of FSU's starting
backline. The quartet of Katrin Schmidt,
Sarah Wagenfuhr,
Becky Edwards and
Erika Sutton guided the Seminoles to the second most shutouts (12) and the third lowest goals against average (0.94) in school history.
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August 6, 2008
Bulls Holds First Practice
TAMPA - Many new faces were present at the USF Practice Facility as the University of
 South Florida women’s soccer team opened up practice this morning in preparation for the
upcoming season.
Head coach Denise Schilte-Brown, eight returners and temperatures reaching close to 90 degrees welcomed 18 newcomers as they work towards their exhibition opener on Aug. 22 against the
University of North Florida at the University of Tampa.
Entering her second campaign as the Bulls coach, coach Schilte-Brown was really encouraged by the organization of practice and the overall effort of her team.
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August 6, 2008
Women's Soccer's Journey Towards Another C-USA Title Starts Wednesday
The 2008 Knights begin training this week to prepare for the season opener at Florida State.
 "I trained up until Sunday before taking off two days to let my body acclimate, and then we moved in Tuesday which took all day. I know a lot of the girls will be ready for the
preseason since we made sure we were on top of our workouts."
All home matches at the UCF Soccer Complex are free to the public this season. The Knights will have a total of nine games on the UCF campus, including a clash against Big Ten foe
Illinois Sept. 14, which reached the 2007 NCAA Second Round. more
Past and Present UWF Women's Soccer Players Travel World
Argos Seeing Action in Costa Rica, Denmark, England, Iceland, Mexico, Sweden, Trinidad & Tobago
 Current and former players on the
University of West Florida women's soccer team have been seeing action across the globe this summer. Not only have the Argonauts played in Costa Rica, Denmark, England, Iceland,
Mexico, Sweden, and Trinidad & Tobago this summer, but they have spread out across the United States as well, playing in more familiar climates in California, Florida, Georgia, and
Maine. Current team captain Sheka Codner spent time away from her Atlanta, Ga.
home this summer playing abroad and in the U.S. preparing for the upcoming season. Codner played for San Jose F.C. in the Costa Rica capital before returning home to finish out her
summer playing for the Florida Surge. more
Hurricanes Selected to Finish Seventh in ACC Preseason PollAug. 5, 2008
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The University of Miami soccer team was voted to finish seventh in the
 Atlantic
Coast Conference by the league's 11 head coaches. For the third consecutive season, the Tar Heels were selected to be the top team in the ACC.
Florida State and Virginia were chosen to be second and third respectively, the third consecutive year that each program as been selected in the top three in the
conference.
In 2007, the Hurricanes finished sixth in the ACC with a 4-4-2 record, and were undefeated in conference play on their home field. One of those home wins came in the form
of a 1-0 victory over perennial powerhouse, North Carolina, the first win against UNC in program history. more
Aug. 4, 2008
Florida State Soccer Slated To Finish Second In The ACC
The Seminoles garner 102 points including two first-place
votes in 2008.
Greensboro, N.C. - The Atlantic Coast Conference and Commissioner John D.
Swofford announced on Monday, August 4 the preseason poll for the 2008 women's
soccer season, as determined by a vote of the league's 11 head coaches. For the
third consecutive year, Florida State was the coaches' pick to finish second as
the Seminoles garnered two first-place votes for 102 points.
"It's great to see that our program has continued to earn the
respect of our peers which is nice and flattering," stated head coach
Mark Krikorian.
North Carolina was picked to win the league for the 17th
straight year as the defending ACC champions received seven first-place votes
and 117 total points. It marked the fewest number of first-place votes garnered
by the Tar Heels since 2003 when the league sponsored eight teams in women's
soccer. MORE
Lofton-Malachi Named
W-League Goalkeeper of the Year
Courtesy: USF
Release: 08/04/2008
Tampa, Fla.-A few days after
being named to the 2008 W-Lenague Eastern All-Conference Team,
 the
United Soccer Leagues announced University of South Florida junior goalkeeper
Mallori Lofton-Malachi as the 2008 Goalkeeper of the Year as voted on by the
league's coaches and general managers.
Lofton-Malachi helped guide the Tampa Bay Hellenic to a
third-place finish in the Atlantic Conference. In doing so, she compiled a 6-1-2
record with three shutouts.
Her finest effort came in a shut out of the vaunted attack of
the Atlanta Silverbacks, a game in which she made four saves, including a
penalty kick to preserve the tie, against the league's top team.
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August 3, 2008
Goalkeeper of the Year – Mallori Lofton-Malachi (Tampa
Bay
Hellenic)
Tampa Bay netminder Mallori
Lofton-Malachi left quite an impression on the opposition this season, earning
the Goalkeeper of the Year honor despite finishing six in the league in goals
against average. She helped guide the expansion side to a third-place finish in
the Atlantic with a personal record of 6-1-2 on the season and three shutouts.
In her lone game against the top two in the division, Lofton-Mallachi posted a
shutout against the vaunted Atlanta Silverbacks attack, including a penalty kick
save. She allowed just five goals in her nine appearances.
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Aug. 1, 2008
FAU Women's Soccer Preps for
2008 Season
BOCA RATON, FL - Florida
Atlantic University's women's soccer program officially begins its 2008
campaign on Tuesday, August 5, when the team's student-athletes report to
FAU's Boca Raton campus for preseason camp. The Owls' match on Friday,
August 22 at Florida Gulf Coast University will initiate the University's
2008-09 athletics schedule.
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Olympic Action for Athletes with UF Ties Starts Wednesday - Mitts Expected to Start for U.S. Soccer
Gainesville, FL - Tuesday August 5, 2008
 Opening
ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games aren't until Friday, Aug. 8, but Olympic soccer action kicks off Wednesday, Aug. 6. The U.S. Women's soccer team faces Norway in its opening
match of Group G play (live at 7:30 a.m. ET on MSNBC) and former Gator All-American Heather Mitts is
expected to be the U.S.'s starting right back. Mitts will be the first of 31 athletes with ties to the University of Florida athletic program to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
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August 5, 2008
Nordby Begins Olympics Aug. 6
TAMPA, Fla.
– Former University of South Florida standout Siri Nordby, and the Norway National
 Women's
Soccer Team, will face the United States in Round 1 of the Olympics on Wednesday, Aug. 6 in Beijing, China.
(Due to the length of the tournament, the women's soccer competition must begin before the
Opening Ceremonies.)
The crucial Group G match at the Qinhuangdao Olympic Sports Center Stadium kicks off at 7:45
p.m. local time, which is 7:45 a.m. ET, and will be broadcast live on MSNBC and Universal HD. The game can also be seen on the NBC Olympic Soccer Channel.
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July 27, 2008
Ashlee Elliott
Scores Opening Goal
Rising University of Florida junior
Ashlee Elliott scored the opening goal of US Youth Soccer National
Under-19 championship match Sunday, but her Slammers Futbol Club of
California eventually fell 2-1 to the Force Football Club of Michigan.
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July 27, 2008
Mooi named assistant
women's soccer coach
 ST.
AUGUSTINE, Fla. − Former Flagler College women’s soccer standout Breanne
Mooi was named assistant coach this afternoon by head coach Teddy Meyer.
Mooi replaces Ashley Martin who left to take a similar position at
Slippery Rock University.
"Breanne is a great addition to the Flagler College women’s soccer
program," said Meyer. "For Breanne, everything has come full circle from
being a talented player to now coaching at her alma mater.”
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Ashlee Elliott
Part of Slammers FC Team that Plays for US Youth Soccer National U-19
Title Sunday
Rising junior Ashlee Elliott
and the rest of the Slammers Futbol Club of California will play for the
US Youth Soccer
 National
Under-19 championship on Sunday, July 27. The 2008 national tournament is
being played at the Burns Park Soccer Complex in North Little Rock, Ark.
The Slammers FC is undefeated in the
championship series’ round-robin play. An injury-time goal Wednesday gave
the Slammers a 3-2 win over the 2007 U-18 national champion Force Football
Club of Michigan. In Thursday’s action, the Slammers posted a 3-1 win over
Challenge 89 of Houston, guaranteeing the Slammers a spot in Sunday’s
final. The Slammers used a late goal to end round-robin play with a 2-1
win over FC Pennsylvania Strikers 88/89 (based near Philadelphia).
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July 25, 2008
Cromwell and the U.S.
Soccer Under-20 Team Ready for a Trip to England
ORLANDO, Fla. (www.ucfathletics.com) - After qualifying
for the 2008 FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup, UCF
 head
coach
Amanda Cromwell rejoins the United States team and its coaching staff
this weekend. The Red, White and Blue will train in New Jersey before
heading to London on Monday where it will practice and also take on
Chelsea FC and Arsenal FC.
Cromwell and the U.S. posted four-straight shutouts en
route to the championship match of the CONCACAF qualifications in June in
Mexico. Even though they lost to Canada, 1-0, the Americans still secured
a spot in the World Cup, which is scheduled to begin in late November in
Chile.
more
July 24, 2008
Klotz Selected to Region
III Pool
TAMPA, Fla.
– Chelsea Klotz, an incoming freshman to the University of South
Florida women's soccer team, has been named one of 25 members of
the 2008 Olympic Development Program Region III pool.
“I think
for Chelsea she has gotten one step closer each time in the
Olympic Development Program," said USF volunteer assistant coach
Chris Brown. "It goes to show the strides that she has made. Her
ultimate goal is to be on the National Women’s Soccer Team and
our goal is to facilitate her ambition.”
more
Tori
Huster Earns W-League Team Of The Week Honors
Huster scored the
game-winning goal in leading Boston to a 2-1 victory over
Connecticut
July 23, 2008
Tallahassee, Fla.
- United Soccer Leagues announced Thursday, July 17 the W-League
Team of the Week for the 13th week of the USL season. Boston
midfielder
Tori Huster was named to the list after leading the
Renegades to victory.
Huster notched the game-winning goal for
Boston in a 2-1 victory over the Connecticut Passion. In front
of the hometown crowd, Huster broke a 1-1 tie finding the back
of the net in the 69th minute of action to give the Renegades
the lead for good. The goal was the fourth of the season for
Huster in W-League play.
more
July 15, 2008
BULLS IN SUMMER LEAGUES
 Five
University of South Florida women's soccer
players are playing in summer league games
across the state this summer
MORE
GK Garners Second W-League Award
TAMPA, Fla.
– University of South Florida junior goalkeeper
Mallori Lofton-Malachi was selected to the
United
 Soccer
League (USL) W-League Team of the Week, on July
12, after the 12th week of the season.
Lofton-Malachi notched the W-League Team of the
Week honor after she blocked a penalty kick in a
shutout against the Atlanta Silverbacks. This
award is Lofton-Malachi’s second award in the
W-League this season, her first was an honorable
mention award on June 4.
Lofton-Malachi is the only player this season to
shut out the powerful Atlanta Silverback charge.
Lofton-Malachi had a total of four saves in the
match and knocked the Atlanta Silverbacks out of
the lead position of the playoffs.
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July 14, 2008
Brauer Acknowledged by USL
TAMPA,
Fla. – University of South Florida senior forward Lindsay
Brauer was selected to the United Soccer League
 (USL)
W-League Team of the Week, on June 23, the ninth week of the
USL season.
Brauer notched the W-League Team of the Week honor after she
scored the game-winning goal against the Carolina RailHawks.
This award was Brauer’s first award in the W-League this
season. In the 2008 Hellenic season, she has played in six
games, scoring one goal, in her 495 minutes. She joins her
Bulls and Hellenic teammate, Mallori Lofton-Malachi, in the
accolade category this summer.
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July 11, 2008
UT Women's Soccer to be Highlighted on ESPN2
 BRISTOL,
Conn. – The 2007 NCAA II national championship
University of
Tampa women’s soccer team will be among the teams highlighted on a
July 21 feature on ESPN2.
The piece will feature all NCAA sports national champions from
the Fall of 2007 through the Summer of 2008. Athletes from the UT women’s soccer
team will also be featured in the program.
The show will air on Monday, July 21, from 3-4 p.m., EST time.
Please tune to ESPN2 for viewing.
July 11, 2008
Seminole Summer Soccer Update
A look at Seminole players in the W-League and
Women's Premier Soccer League
Tallahassee, Fla. - Florida
State has a number of Seminole student-athletes competing in the W-League this
summer, while three Seminoles are participating in the Women's Premier Soccer
League (WPSL). Here is a look at who is playing and where they are competing
before returning to Tallahassee in the fall.
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Seminole
Summer Soccer Update
A look at
Seminole players in the W-League and Women's Premier
Soccer League
July
1, 2008
Tallahassee, Fla.
- Florida State has a number of Seminole student-athletes
competing in the W-League this summer, while three
Seminoles are participating in the Women's Premier Soccer
League (WPSL). Here is a look at who is playing and where
they are competing before returning to Tallahassee in the
fall.
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Let's Celebrate Another Successful Year!
Florida State
concludes a tremendous athletic year with No. 15
ranking in Final Director's Cup standings.
June 26, 2008
 Three-peat, back-to-back-to-back, third time's a
charm ... any way you phrase it, a third straight
National Championship for Florida State's Men's
Outdoor Track and Field team is truly remarkable
and certainly something to celebrate. Now add in
a third consecutive Soccer College Cup appearance,
including reaching the national championship game
for the first time in program history, a trip to
the College World Series and numerous other
stellar accomplishments by Seminole athletic
teams, and it's clear that FSU, with a No. 15
ranking in the final 2008 Director's Cup
standings, is among the elite programs in the
country. FSU (971.50) and North Carolina
(978.50), who finished No. 14 and just seven
points higher than the Seminoles, are the only two
ACC schools among the Top 15.
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