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THOMAS MORE, W&J TIE FOR TOP SPOT ON WOMEN'S SOCCER PRESEASON COACHES' POLL (8/25/12)
Thomas More College and Washington & Jefferson College tied atop the 2012 Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Women’s Soccer Preseason Coaches’ Poll. For more great PAC women's soccer information check out our online season preview section.
WARREN NAMED HEAD COACH AT CHATHAM (7/16/12)
Chatham University
has announced the hiring of Betsy Warren as head women's
soccer coach. Warren spent the 2011 season as head coach of the
women’s soccer program at the University of Pittsburgh at
Greensburg. From 2009-2011, Warren served as Director of Operations
and Youth Development for the Penns Forest Football Club. Warren was
an assistant women’s soccer coach at Carnegie Mellon University from
2007-2009. She began her collegiate coaching career at Ashland
University, where she was an assistant men’s and women’s coach from
2004-2007. As a student-athlete, Warren was a standout soccer player
at NCAA Division I Radford University.
BRENNAN NAMED PAC SAAC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE
(1/18/12)
The PAC announced today that
junior soccer standout Abby Brennan of Chatham University has
been named PAC Student-Athlete
Advisory Committee (SAAC) Female Scholar-Athlete of the Month for
January, 2012.
WAYNESBURG TABS GRIFFITHS AS HEAD COACH
(12/29/11)
Waynesburg University
has hired Carl Griffiths as its new head men's and women's
soccer coach. Griffiths comes to the Yellow Jackets from Wheaton
College in Wheaton, Ill., where he spent the past two-plus seasons
as the first assistant coach to the Thunder men's soccer team, which
is the winningest program in NCAA Division III history. Griffiths is
also a graduate of Wheaton, where during his four years with the
Thunder, Griffiths played in 67 games as a defender, including 24
starts as a senior co-captain en route to All-CCIW first team
laurels. That same year, Griffiths helped lead the Thunder to the
NCAA Division III Men's Soccer National Championship, where they
lost to national power Messiah. For his efforts, he was also tabbed
for the NCAA Final Four Tournament Team.
EIGHT
FROM PAC NAMED NSCAA ALL-REGION (12/12/11)
Eight
PAC women's soccer standouts have been selected to the
2011 NCAA Division III All-Great Lakes Region Women's Soccer teams,
released today by the National Soccer
Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). PAC regular season
champion
Washington & Jefferson led the conference with three honorees,
led by the 2011 PAC Player of the Year, sophomore F
Holly Shipley. Shipley was joined on the first team by
Waynesburg senior F Courtney Ebersole. Second team honorees
included the W&J duo of senior GK
Stephanie Saussol and junior M
Chrissy Marcius, along with Thomas More junior D Abby
Gindling and Grove City junior M Grace Rieman. Earning
third team laurels was Westminster senior D Tyler Dever and
Thomas More sophomore F Courtney Clark.
W&J'S
SHIPLEY NAMED NSCAA ALL-AMERICAN (12/10/11)
Washington &
Jefferson College sophomore forward Holly Shipley
became the first women’s soccer All-American in school history
after being named to the
National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/Continental
Tire NCAA Women’s Division III All-America Team. Shipley was a
third-team selection. Shipley was one of only three sophomores on
the three All-America teams. The NSCAA honored 40 players from the
440 NCAA Division III women’s soccer programs. Shipley becomes the
first All-American in the 22-year history of varsity women’s soccer
at W&J. The
2011 PAC Player of the Year led the Presidents with 32 points on
12 goals and eight assists. She scored three game-winning goals and
produced a team-high 63 shots.
ALL-PAC WOMEN'S SOCCER TEAM
RELEASED (11/16/11)
The 2011 All-PAC women's
soccer teams are now online. Thomas More head coach Jeff Cummings
was tabbed as the 2011 PAC Coach of the Year, while 2011 Player of
the Year laurels went to Washington & Jefferson sophomore F
Holly Shipley.
TMC SUFFERS 2-0 NCAA FIRST ROUND LOSS (11/12/11)
The
2011 PAC champion Thomas More women's soccer teams saw its season
come to an end on Nov. 12, as the Saints dropped a
2-0 decision at Washington (Mo.) in the opening round of the
2011 NCAA
Division III Women's Soccer Championship tournament. TMC closes
the 2011 campaign at 12-5-1 overall.
BOTH GROVE CITY SOCCER TEAMS FALL IN ECACs (11/9/11)
Both Grove City soccer teams were eliminated in first round ECAC
play. The
#7-seeded GCC men fell 1-0 at #2 Medaille in the
2011 ECAC D-III South Men's Soccer Tournament, while the
eighth-seeded Wolverine women dropped a 4-1 decision at
top-seeded Frostburg State in the
2011 ECAC D-III South Women's Soccer Tournament.
PAC TEAMS EARN ECAC FALL TOURNEY BERTHS
(11/7/11)
The PAC has had four teams earn berths into this week's ECAC
Division III South Tournaments for volleyball and soccer, including
both Grove City soccer teams. The GCC women (12-8-1) are seeded
eighth in the
2011 ECAC D-III South Women's Soccer Tournament and will play at
top-seeded Frostburg State (14-2-2) Wednesday at 6 p.m. First round
winners will advance to the weekend "final four" in each sport,
hosted by the highest remaining seed.
TMC TO WASHINGTON FOR D-III CHAMPIONSHIP (11/7/11)
Three PAC fall sport champion learned their tournament fate
today as the NCAA announced the 2011 Division III Championship
brackets in the sports of women's volleyball and men's & women's
soccer. PAC women's soccer champion
Thomas More (12-4-1) will
compete in a
2011 NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship first round
game at UAA member Washington (Mo.) (15-4) on Saturday (Nov. 12) at
5 p.m.
FIVE FROM PAC NAMED ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT (11/7/11)
A total of 10 PAC soccer student-athletes (five men, five women)
have been named to the
2011 Capital One
Academic All-District Soccer first teams, released recently by
the College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA). As first team honorees, all 10
PAC student-athletes now advance to the Academic All-America soccer
ballot.
For the women, Thomas More senior D
Kelsie Rust (3.97, middle school education) was tabbed in
District II, while in District IV the Washington & Jefferson duo of
junior M
Dawn Murphy (3.63, history) and junior F
Chrissy Marcius (3.49, child development education) was
joined by Westminster senior D
Tyler Dever (3.84, political
science) and Grove City senior F
Arielle Goyzueta (3.74,
elementary education).
THOMAS MORE SWEEPS 2011 PAC SOCCER TITLES (11/4/11)
The Thomas More Saints swept the 2011 PAC soccer titles on November
4 with a pair of home championship victories. The Saint women had
little trouble with fourth-seeded Waynesburg in the
2011 PAC Women's
Soccer Tournament final, as Thomas More outshot the Yellow Jackets
24-0 en route to a
3-0 victory. The final of the
2011 PAC Men's
Soccer Tournament
was a different story, as second-seeded Geneva led 1-0 at the half
and 2-0 early in the second, only to see TMC rally to tie the game
2-2 with under three minutes to play in regulation, then post the
game-winning 5:43 into overtime for a
3-2 OT victory. Both Saint
squads now receive the PAC's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division
III Championship playoffs which begin next week.
PAC FALL TOURNAMENTS GET UNDERWAY (11/1/11)
The 2011 PAC Championship Tournaments in the fall sports of
women's soccer and
volleyball got underway on Tuesday,
November 1. In women's soccer, top-seeded and three-time defending
PAC champion Washington & Jefferson was upset
1-0 by fourth seed Waynesburg, allowing the Yellow Jackets to
advance to the PAC title match this weekend at #2 seed Thomas More,
which posted a
2-0 semifinal shutout against #3 Grove City. The 2011 PAC
women's soccer final will take place at The Bank of Kentucky Field
at Thomas More on Friday (Nov. 4) at noon, with the date and time
change due to a facility conflict with Thomas More football
Saturday.
PAC ANNOUNCES SOCCER TOURNEY SCHEDULES (10/29/11)
The PAC
has announced the schedules for the
2011 PAC Championship Tournaments in the sports of men's & women's
soccer and women's volleyball. The tournaments, which take place
next week on campus sites, will crown the 2011 PAC champions in all
three sports that will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Division
III Championships the following week (Nov. 10-12). Admission for all
PAC Championship events is $5 for adults, $2 for students and $1 for
programs. PAC and institutional passes are not accepted at PAC
championship events.
2011 PAC FALL SPORTS
PREVIEWS: W. SOCCER (8/25/11)
Today, we
look at PAC women's soccer. The quality of play in women's soccer
continues to grow.
Last year, both tournament semifinals
came down to penalty kicks and the championship had a scoreless
first half. Three-time defending PAC Champion Washington &
Jefferson will attempt to reach the NCAA Division III Tournament for
a school-record fourth consecutive season. The Presidents return
nine starters from a team that posted a 14-6-1 record last year.
However, W&J will again face quality
competition from several conference foes, including Thomas More who
will return eight of its 10 scorers that went undefeated in the
regular season last year. Other challengers include Grove
City, who returns seven full-time starters, and Westminster, who
made a late-season surge and upset top-seeded Thomas More in the
conference semifinals last season. Also Geneva, after being
approved for NCAA Division III active
membership this summer, will be looking to build off of a
10-8-3 record last season including its third consecutive trip to
the NCCAA East regional tournament.
The complete
2011 PAC Women's Soccer Preview
is now online, along with the
2011 composite women's soccer schedule.
MILLS NAMED PAC SAAC SCHOLAR-ATHLETE (2/15/11)
The PAC today named soccer goalkeeper Kirstie Mills
of Saint Vincent College as the
PAC Student-Athlete Advisory
Committee (SAAC) Female Scholar-Athlete of the Month for
February 2011.
PARAKAKIS TABBED AS HEAD COACH AT BETHANY (2/2/11)
Former Mary Baldwin College women’s soccer coach
Peter Parikakis has been selected as the new head women’s
soccer coach at Bethany College. He replaces Barry
Christmas, who resigned to take a similar position at Division
II West Liberty State. This past fall, Parikakis was an
assistant for the Bison men’s program. He helped Bethany rebound
from a two-win campaign in 2009 to 11 victories this past fall,
a berth in the PAC Tournament Championship match and a bid to
the ECAC Tournament.
PAC PLAYERS NAMED ALL-REGION BY NSCAA (12/10/10)
A total of 10 PAC soccer standouts (seven women, three men)
have been selected to the
2010
All-Great Lakes Region teams by the
National Soccer Coaches
Association of America (NSCAA).
The
women's squads were highlighted by a pair of Thomas More
teammates - junior GK
Katie Burger and sophomore F
Abby Gindling - earning second team honors. Five others
were tabbed to the third team: Thomas More senior D
Alex Crouch, Washington & Jefferson sophomore D
Lauren Reynolds, Grove City senior F and 2010 PAC Player
of the Year
Hannah Yang,
Westminster senior F
Sarah Nee, and Waynesburg junior F
Courtney Ebersole.
On the
men's side, Thomas More senior M and 2010 PAC Player of the
Year
Dan Miller was joined by Bethany freshman F
Arkangelo James on the second team, while Grove City
senior M
Chuck Witt
garnered third team laurels.
2010 ALL-PAC SOCCER TEAMS RELEASED (11/17/10)
The 2010 All-PAC teams for both
men's soccer and women's soccer
have been released. MVP honors for 2010 went to Thomas More
senior M Dan Miller and Grove City senior F Hannah
Yang, while Bethany's Sean Regan (men) and W&J's
Pete Curtis (women) earned 2010 PAC Coach of the Year
laurels.
SIX PAC TEAMS EARN ECAC TOURNEY BERTHS (11/8/10)
Six PAC soccer and volleyball teams have been selected to
compete in the
2010 ECAC Division III South Region Tournaments.
Saint
Vincent is the top-seed in the eight-team
ECAC D-III South Volleyball Tournament and will host #8 Penn
State-Behrend at the Carey Center Wednesday (Nov. 10) at 7 p.m.
If the Bearcats win, they will host the semifinals and finals in
Latrobe this weekend.
Bethany volleyball is also at home
Wednesday night, as the third-seeded Bison host #6 Stevenson at
7 p.m. Three PAC teams are in action in the
ECAC D-III South Men's Soccer Tournament, with two facing
each other on Wednesday. #2
Washington & Jefferson will host #7
Grove City in a first-round contest at 6 p.m., while #8
Bethany
will play top-seeded Penn State-Behrend in Erie at 1:30 p.m.
Finally, in
ECAC D-III Women's Soccer Tournament action,
Grove City is
the second seed and will host a first round match against Misericordia at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
PAC TEAMS HIT THE ROAD FOR NCAA PLAYOFFS (11/8/10)
All three PAC champions in the sports of soccer and
volleyball will be on the road for the opening round of the NCAA
Division III playoffs this week. In
men's soccer, PAC champion Thomas More (11-5-2) will face
Dominican (18-1-1) in a first round match Friday at 11 a.m., at Calvin College in
Grand Rapids, Mich. PAC
women's soccer champion Washington & Jefferson (14-5-1) will
face Illinois Wesleyan (16-1-3) in an opening round contest at
Denison University in Granville, Ohio on Saturday at 11 a.m. Finally, in
volleyball first round action, league champion Thomas More
(28-7) will travel to Atlanta and Emory University for a
first-round matchup against Southwestern (29-6) on Friday at
12:30 p.m.
FOUR TITLES AWARDED ON CHAMPIONSHIP SAT. (11/6/10)
It was "Championship Saturday" in the PAC on November 6, as
conference titles were awarded in men's & women's soccer and
volleyball, while in addition the football conference crown was
also clinched (see below). All three defending soccer/volleyball
champions from 2009 posted repeat performances and earned
automatic bids to next week's NCAA Division III Tournaments. In
men's soccer, #4 seed Thomas More
posted the tourney's third straight upset win, as the Saints
edged #3 Bethany
2-1 for their second straight league crown.
Women's soccer saw #2 Washington &
Jefferson earn its third straight PAC title, as the Presidents
broke open a scoreless halftime tie with three second half goals
to defeat #4 Westminster
3-0. Finally, top-seeded Thomas More rallied from an opening
set loss to defeat #2 Thiel
3-1 in the PAC volleyball title
match, giving the Saint spikers their third straight league
championship.
W&J, WESTMINSTER REACH PAC FINALON PKs (11/3/10)
The 2010 PAC Women's Soccer
Championship Tournament got underway on November 3 with a
pair of nip-and-tuck semifinal matchups. In the opener,
top-seeded Thomas More was eliminated from the tournament, as
the unbeaten Saints tied #4 Westminster
1-1 in double-overtime only to see the Titans advance via a
4-2 advantage in penalty kicks. In the nightcap, two-time
defending PAC champion Washington & Jefferson was just seconds
away from elimination, but a goal with just six seconds to play
in regulation against #3 Grove City knotted the score at
1-1. After two scoreless overtime periods, W&J advanced to
the title match via a 3-1 penalty kick advantage over the
Wolverines. The Presidents will host the Titans for the 2010 PAC
title at Alexandre Stadium in Washington, Pa., Saturday (Nov. 6)
at 1 p.m.
PAC HAS SEVEN NAMED ACADEMIC ALL-DISTRICT (11/2/10)
A total of seven standout PAC women's soccer student-athletes
(seven men, seven women) have been selected to the
2010 ESPN
Academic All-District soccer teams, released today by the
College Sports Information
Directors of America (CoSIDA). Leading the way for the PAC
women was the lone first team selection in District II, Grove
City senior M
Emily Ostlund (3.51, molecular
biology/Spanish), who now advances to the Academic All-America
national ballot. Thiel senior GK
Jill Harry (3.88,
accounting/business administration) was the lone second team
honoree, while five players garnered third team recognition:
three in District II (the Westminster duo of senior F
Danielle Struble (3.45, financial economics) and junior D
Tyler Dever (3.81, political science) as well as Grove City
senior F Hannah Yang (3.58, molecular biology) and two in
District IV (Thomas More junior D
Kelsie Rust (3.95, middle school education) and
Christina Green (4.00, nursing).
PAC ANNOUNCES SOCCER TOURNEY SCHEDULES (10/30/10)
The Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC)
has announced seeds and pairings
for the 2010 PAC Championship Tournaments in the sports of men's
& women's soccer and women's volleyball. All three
tournaments will take place on campus sites next week, with all
three PAC champions earning automatic bids to the 2010 NCAA
Division III playoffs, which begin the week of November 8.
2010 PAC PREVIEW: W&J HAS MOMENTUM (8/26/10)
The 2009 PAC women's soccer race appeared to have regular
season champion Grove City and #2 seed Thomas More on a
collision course for the PAC title, but defending 2008
conference champion Washington & Jefferson had other plans. The
Presidents, who entered the PAC Tournament as the third seed,
posted a pair of postseason upsets, topping the Saints 2-1 in
overtime in the semifinal round and the Wolverines 1-0 in the
title tilt to earn their second straight conference title. Can
W&J keep the momentum going this fall, or will a new PAC
champion emerge? Read all about it in the
2010 PAC Women's Soccer Preview.
The 2010 PAC women's soccer
composite schedule is also online. |
