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8 hours ago, almaman said:

Virginia isn't ranked?

They were unseeded in the NCAA Tourney this year out of 16 seeds. They have a good team.

In the NCAA Tourney, they defeated SIUE, BYU, Rice, TCU. BYU was a 12. Rice had an upset win over 5 West Virginia. TCU was the 4 seed.

Virginia of course plays in the crowded ACC. Two of those teams, FSU and UNC are the two best teams Nationally. Duke was 9. Clemson 14.

BYU, SLU, USC, would be perhaps 3 of the teams that moved ahead of them for seeds. 

Virginia is among the Power 5 leagues that played both a fall and Spring season. The ACC, SEC, and Big 12 did this. 

Seeding this season was challenging. Penn St. dominated the mediocre Big 10, then inexplicably lost to Iowa in conference tourney. They were a top 10 National Seed prior, and then were not seeded in top 16. 

Some teams were punished a little bit if they didn't get some spring results. UVA went 0-1-1 vs West Virginia in the Spring. They had a few games canceled, and defeated a few bad A-10 teams. TCU had a strong fall, and played more Spring games too. They were rewarded for scheduling and results. Vandy went from SEC Champs in the fall, as good as anyone, to not getting many Spring games, missing a few players, getting a 0-0 draw with Duke, so they were pushed down to 16.

TCU was an even game for UVA. But prior to that UVA has won comfortably in this year's NCAA. And, they are playing well.

The ACC has shown in the NCAA Tourney, that their top 5 can play with anybody nationally.

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55 minutes ago, courtside said:

They were unseeded in the NCAA Tourney this year out of 16 seeds. They have a good team.

In the NCAA Tourney, they defeated SIUE, BYU, Rice, TCU. BYU was a 12. Rice had an upset win over 5 West Virginia. TCU was the 4 seed.

Virginia of course plays in the crowded ACC. Two of those teams, FSU and UNC are the two best teams Nationally. Duke was 9. Clemson 14.

BYU, SLU, USC, would be perhaps 3 of the teams that moved ahead of them for seeds. 

Virginia is among the Power 5 leagues that played both a fall and Spring season. The ACC, SEC, and Big 12 did this. 

Seeding this season was challenging. Penn St. dominated the mediocre Big 10, then inexplicably lost to Iowa in conference tourney. They were a top 10 National Seed prior, and then were not seeded in top 16. 

Some teams were punished a little bit if they didn't get some spring results. UVA went 0-1-1 vs West Virginia in the Spring. They had a few games canceled, and defeated a few bad A-10 teams. TCU had a strong fall, and played more Spring games too. They were rewarded for scheduling and results. Vandy went from SEC Champs in the fall, as good as anyone, to not getting many Spring games, missing a few players, getting a 0-0 draw with Duke, so they were pushed down to 16.

TCU was an even game for UVA. But prior to that UVA has won comfortably in this year's NCAA. And, they are playing well.

The ACC has shown in the NCAA Tourney, that their top 5 can play with anybody nationally.

-getting 3 out for the Final Four is certainly good for their league

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2 hours ago, Cowboy said:

-getting 3 out for the Final Four is certainly good for their league

It is. The ACC is such a good league. You have those 3, two other NCAA Quarterfinal teams, (Clemson, Duke), plus several other good programs such as NC St., Virginia Tech, Wake Forest. And there have been a few good recent hires at Pittsburgh, ND, BC as well. Pittsburgh hired former Notre Dame head coach Randy Waldrum. He won two National Titles at ND before leaving a few years for professional coaching. He’s trying to build something there. Both NC St. and BC hired ex Wake Forest Assistants. 

In the ACC you could have a pretty good program and miss the NCAA’s once in awhile. Tough league. 

 

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37 minutes ago, courtside said:

United Soccer Coaches All Region Teams:

East Region:

1st team:

Hannah Friedrich

Brionna Halverson

Abbie Miller

 

2nd team:

Hannah Larson 

Emily Puricelli

 

-Congratulations Ladies!

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4 hours ago, courtside said:

United Soccer Coaches All Region Teams:

East Region:

1st team:

Hannah Friedrich

Brionna Halverson

Abbie Miller

 

2nd team:

Hannah Larson 

Emily Puricelli

 

Congrats and ALL of them back next year plus Lawler and Cytron (and anyone else Coach can add???)

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54 minutes ago, bauman said:

Congrats and ALL of them back next year plus Lawler and Cytron (and anyone else Coach can add???)

I believe someone else pointed out to you that health/injuries will be a factor for the above, Hannah Larson, etc...For example, ’Anna Lawler had a serious injury very early in her college career at Oklahoma St. She didn’t play her next game until over 12 months later. Then she played last fall, was injured again, etc...Who will be healthy? At what level? all questions that will be answered early next fall.

In addition to returning players, SLU will have some new faces as well. (Emily Gaebe, (goal scorer) Madelyn Smith, (field general midfielder) Katelyn Brinkman (defender), Lily-Anne Ellis (GK). etc...who can contribute early? how much? etc...

But yes, SLU had a great season, a top 15 National NCAA Tourney Seed. They return a lot of young players, and, they will add some additional players too. There is a lot to look forward to next season.

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1 hour ago, courtside said:

I believe someone else pointed out to you that health/injuries will be a factor for the above, Hannah Larson, etc...For example, ’Anna Lawler had a serious injury very early in her college career at Oklahoma St. She didn’t play her next game until over 12 months later. Then she played last fall, was injured again, etc...Who will be healthy? At what level? all questions that will be answered early next fall.

In addition to returning players, SLU will have some new faces as well. (Emily Gaebe, (goal scorer) Madelyn Smith, (field general midfielder) Katelyn Brinkman (defender), Lily-Anne Ellis (GK). etc...who can contribute early? how much? etc...

But yes, SLU had a great season, a top 15 National NCAA Tourney Seed. They return a lot of young players, and, they will add some additional players too. There is a lot to look forward to next season.

Thanks for the info on incoming recruits.  Honestly, it seems like a state secret on the SLU Official website.  All I have able to find about incoming recruits is about the group who are now on the team as FR.

Here's wishing Hannah Larson the best.  Hopefully her injury doesn't keep her from playing next year, although I know the season is coming up in just a few months.

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1 hour ago, bauman said:

Thanks for the info on incoming recruits.  Honestly, it seems like a state secret on the SLU Official website.  All I have able to find about incoming recruits is about the group who are now on the team as FR.

Here's wishing Hannah Larson the best.  Hopefully her injury doesn't keep her from playing next year, although I know the season is coming up in just a few months.

You also may want to remember that some teams are bringing back Seniors for an extra year. (Depends on player/team, but many are taking advantage of the extra year). And of course, other good teams will be bringing in strong recruiting classes. (SLU will be good and they will do fine.)

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15 minutes ago, courtside said:

Katie Shields and staff were named East Region Staff of the Year. (Chris Allen, Bry McCarthy, Montana Sutton, Olivia Silverman.)

-good recognition for their efforts, nice to see

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NCAA Women's All American teams announced today. Notables of interest...SLU opponents:

Anna Podojil, Arkansas Forward, 1st team.

Kim Rodriguez Oklahoma St. Defender, 2nd team.

Summer Yates, Washington Midfielder, 2nd team. (she sat out the NCAA Tourney game vs SLU due to injury but played the next game vs UNC)

Parker Goins, Arkansas Forward, 3rd team.

Local ties, Channing Foster,(SLSG) Midfielder, Ole Miss, 3rd team.

 

 

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45 minutes ago, courtside said:

NCAA Women's All American teams announced today. Notables of interest...SLU opponents:

Anna Podojil, Arkansas Forward, 1st team.

Kim Rodriguez Oklahoma St. Defender, 2nd team.

Summer Yates, Washington Midfielder, 2nd team. (she sat out the NCAA Tourney game vs SLU due to injury but played the next game vs UNC)

Parker Goins, Arkansas Forward, 3rd team.

Local ties, Channing Foster,(SLSG) Midfielder, Ole Miss, 3rd team.

 

 

-did Krug ever make 3rd team?

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NCAA College Cup Final Four:

Florida St. 0 Virginia 0. (FSU wins PK’s)FSU made every Penalty Kick and Virginia missed every penalty kick.

Tale of two halves. Virginia took it to FSU at times in the first half, creating lots of pressure on the left side. Great build up from Samar Guidry and Becca Jarrett. Jarrett hammers a shot off of the cross bar and straight down in the 22nd minute. Jarrett had a great first half, beating defenders from the wing. Diana Ordoñez also played well. FSU made good alf time adjustments and moved a few players around and added help against Jarrett.

https://twitter.com/ncaasoccer/status/1392980309814153219?s=21

FSU ramped up pressure in the 2nd half, creating corners and chances. Florida St. has so much depth that first team all ACC players come off of the bench at times. They could roll out their 2nd unit and win a lot. They create quickly with lots of short interior passing in the middle of the field, very committed to their style of play. 

FSU takes very good Pk’s. UVA was the better team in a close, even game, but their PK’s were poorly taken, telegraphed, and not enough on them depending on the shot.

Tough way for UVA to lose. They have a very young team with lots of Freshmen and Sophomores. FSU’s experience came through laternijnthe game and in PK’s, with help from a Freshman Keeper, Cristina Roque.

Game highlights here:

Santa Clara 3 North Carolina 1.

Exciting attacking game from the opening whistle. Santa Clara played as they do, with a lot of fire. On ball skill, speed,’physicality, unafraid. High pressure. They are very dangerous when forcing turnovers and building counters quickly. They win a lot of 50/50 balls. Julie Doyle, Kelsey Turnbow, Izzy D’Aquila created pressure and havoc. 

They withstood early UNC pressure and created open space in the middle of the field. And, later, controlled the game in the 2nd half.

https://twitter.com/ncaasoccer/status/1393017218384990210?s=21

https://twitter.com/ncaasoccer/status/1393024528650014721?s=21

All American Brianna Pinto had a 51st minute equalizer for UNC from a nice through ball between two defenders from Sam Meza. But SCU immediately 30 seconds later. Turnbow applying pressure with the ball, loose ball deflects to a hustling D’Aquila, and she finishes. 10 minutes later, Skylar Smith from the All American Turnbow. And Santa Clara shut down UNC defensively from there.

Game highlights here:

 

Florida St. Vs Santa Clara for the National Title. Santa Clara played only 7 games this season due to COVID-19. All of them were league games in WCC. And, here they are with wins over UNC, Clemson, Arkansas, Ohio St. ......Florida St. has wins over Virginia , Duke, Penn St. Milwaukee.

 

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Tonight's championship game is on ESPN 2 at 7:30. 

BTW, I saw Hannah Larson a couple of weeks ago and while she had a large knee brace on, she seemed to be walking fairly normal so hopefully that means her injury is not a career ending one

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41 minutes ago, bauman said:

Tonight's championship game is on ESPN 2 at 7:30. 

BTW, I saw Hannah Larson a couple of weeks ago and while she had a large knee brace on, she seemed to be walking fairly normal so hopefully that means her injury is not a career ending one

Today's Women's NCAA Championship game is at 4:30pm Central Time. The Men's NCAA Championship game will be played after the Women's game.

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#11 Santa Clara wins its 2nd National Title over #1 Florida St.

1-1 (4-1 PK’s)

Deserving champion with wins over Ohio St. 4-1, Arkansas 2-0, Clemson 1-0, North Carolina 3-1, Florida St. 1-1 (4-1 PK’s)

Fun game. A few chances both ways first half after much of first half was box to box. Good back line defending. 

FSU frequently controls the midfield in their games and they did so again much of this game. FSU broke through as SCU was giving too much space in final 3rd in 2nd half. Needed a higher line. Jenna Nighswonger with a two touch left, inside the 18, and bangs one off of the post and in. SCU pressured in the final 20 minutes for an equalizer and got it from its All American Kelsey Turnbow, as All American Emily Madril slipped just a bit on the grass (rained much of the game). Madril had been one of the game’s best players prior to that. 

Strong, spirited game from All American Center Back Alex Loera from Santa Clara. They received a big boost on the left wing from Kaile Halverson who won many balls, and pushed their attack with speed. 

All American Yujir Zhao patiently held the ball and turned inside the 18 and hit one off of the bar in OT for FSU. 

FSU banged its first two PK’s off of the post and SCU didn’t miss. 

 

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Stefanie Golan is the new Head Coach at Mizzou. (Bryan Blitz retired after 25 years) She was Head Coach at Minnesota for 9 seasons. (4 NCAA Tourneys, 1 Regular Season Big Ten Title, 2 Big Ten Tourney Titles.)

Prior to that she was HC at Army for 3 years, where she won both the Patriot League and conference tourney title securing Army's first ever NCAA Tourney.(3 yrs as assistant) as well as an assistant at Mercer, Evansville, and Pittsburgh when she started.

She played at Duke under Bill Hempen and Carla Overbeck. (3 NCAA Tourneys) Current long time Duke coach Robbie Church took over just after ahe graduated. Overbeck is still there.(28 years as an assistant) She is from St. Charles, MO. 

 

 

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12 hours ago, courtside said:

SLU officially announces its 7 newcomers for 2021 class:

https://slubillikens.com/news/2021/5/20/womens-soccer-adds-seven-for-2021.aspx

 

 

-of course Coach Shields would rave about the new kids, but the descriptions indicate these are high quality gets that will  be competition for playing time, well done

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2 hours ago, slufanskip said:

Any of them a top 50, top 100 type player that you know of? 

The two players that jump out first are Emily Gaebe and Madelyn Smith.

Smith scored the game winning goal in the 2019 USYS National Championship U16’s. She was one of four players on her team named to the best 11. (Chloe Netzel who won the golden ball award is committed to Xavier)

Smith is a very skilled, on the ball player, a creative, pass first, attacking midfielder. She spends more time creating opportunities for others, holding the ball, directing play, than scoring but can and does score as well. She does a lot of little things well and quietly. She would be expected to get time early at SLU.

Gaebe is an interesting story because she has scored a gazillion goals in high school. 112 in two seasons, 37 so far this year into the playoffs. And she has taken a lesser known soccer school into the final four twice before this year. She routinely gets double and triple teamed locally. She switched her club team to Smith’s higher profile team after the National Title. (even though her old one won two state titles) And, she kept scoring and scoring helping them go undefeated in league play and return to the National Playoffs the next year. (By the way, a high profile 2022 SLU commit plays up and starts on that team)

Gaebe is a pure goal scoring target forward. She doesn’t need much room.  Physical player, gritty. She can also play in space, can turn left or right and finish, can also score on set pieces. She is not a natural wing, or a box to box midfielder. She scores goals, and she does it often. (good basketball player too) Gaebe is likely to play up top and finish. Pure goal scorer type. The ball always seems to find her feet at the right time type of player. 

Gaebe’s nickname in hoops is “Bulldog” as she bulldogs herself down the lane. She averaged 14pts a game on a team that made its first hoops final four in 41 years. Reminds one a little bit of former SLU soccer standout Matt McKeon, nicknamed “Train” for barreling down the field through the opposition. It’s a different dynamic for SLU.

Some recruits over perform, some under perform, some perform as expected. And many things go into that of course.

These two mentioned are expected to have very good stand out careers at SLU once they adjust to the college game. They would be the two headliners. 2022 already has two higher profile recruit commits, both attacking midfielders. 

With regards to the others, 3 good defenders for back line depth, (Brinkman’s dad played locally on good Vianney teams, and D-2 at Rockhurst) backup keeper for Puricelli, and a speedy MF/F for depth there. We’ll see how they break into the mix. 

 

 

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