Women's Soccer Announces All-Time Team - Penn Athletics

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PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania's Head Coach of women's soccer, Darren Ambrose, has announced the results of voting for the All-Time Team as part of the program's 20-year anniversary. The team consists of 11 field players and one goalkeeper.

"When I look at the names on this list, it reminds me of the incredible quality of student-athletes that we have had in the program at Penn," said Ambrose, who has been the program's head coach for 12 years and coached all but two of the women on the list. "We are still a relatively young program by Ivy and NCAA standards, but these women have helped put us on the map during their various careers.

"I feel fortunate to have had the privilege of working with many of them and am grateful for the contributions they have all made to Penn Soccer. They set the bar for our current student-athletes and have forged our program into the competitive one it is."

The Penn All-Time Team will be announced following Penn's game with Princeton Saturday night at Rhodes Field (5 p.m. kickoff). In addition, at halftime the program will recognize the 2001 team, which ten years ago was the first to win an Ivy League title. Penn has since won Ivy titles in 2007 and 2010, and can earn a share of this year's crown with a win Saturday over Princeton and a Harvard loss at Columbia. The Quakers and Tigers will kick off at 5 p.m. on Rhodes Field.

More than 225 votes were tallied, with 27 players receiving at least one mention in the voting.

The recipients, in alphabetical order, are:

Andrea Callaghan (1996-99) - The program's first four-time All-Ivy selection, she was a first-team recipient as a sophomore and senior. Callaghan led the Quakers in scoring her freshman and sophomore years -- her sophomore year being 1997, when the team won what is still a program record 14 matches -- and as a senior helped Penn to its first NCAA Championship bid.

Kaitlin Campbell (2007-10) - Part of the first class to win two Ivy League championships rings, she was a mainstay in the backfield for all four years, making 68 starts in 69 career appearances. Campbell was first-team All-Ivy and second-team NSCAA All-Region as a senior, as well as an NSCAA Scholar All-America.

Natalie Capuano (2005-08) - One of just three Penn players to earn first-team All-Ivy three times in her career -- she was second-team All-Ivy her freshman year -- and a three-year captain. Quite simply, Capuano might be the greatest leader this program has seen in its first 20 years.

Katy Cross (2001-04) - She received the most number of votes, and with good reason -- Cross graduated having shattered every offensive record, and nearly 10 years later she still holds almost all of them. Her 50 career goals are 14 ahead of second place, and her 125 points are a staggering 41 ahead of second place. Cross was the 2001 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and remains the program's only Ivy League Player of the Year (2002), NSCAA All-America, and four-time first-team All-Ivy recipient to date.

Michelle Drugan (2006-09) - Another four-year standout in the backfield, she was a captain in 2009 and a key member of the 2007 Ivy League championship squad. Drugan was an All-Ivy recipient her senior year.

Sarah Friedman (2007-10) - Another woman with two Ivy League rings, Friedman might be the best playmaking midfielder the program has seen. She shattered the single-season record for assists as a sophomore with 15, and graduated with 30 career assists which remains well ahead of the field. Friedman was first-team All-Ivy in 2008 and 2010 and second-team All-Ivy in 2009, as well as NSCAA All-Region and Scholar All-America as a senior.

Jess Fuccello (2006-09) - If not for an injury that kept her out of the lineup her junior year, this might have been the woman to challenge Cross' scoring records. As it is, Fuccello is second all-time in goals (36) and points (84) despite missing an entire season. A two-time first-team All-Ivy and the program's first ECAC All-Star selection, she scored 16 goals her senior year, which is tied with Katy Cross for the program record.

Deb Goldklang (1991-93) - The first goalkeeper in program history remains the best, according to the voters, and with good reason. Goldklang put up staggering numbers between the pipes, making 566 saves in three seasons. She also holds the three top single-season save marks -- 222 in 1991, 180 in 1993, 164 in 1992 (compare that to this year, where four different goalies have combined for 48).

Eileen Larkin (2005-08) - A two-time All-Ivy recipient, Larkin headlined the defense for four years and was captain as a senior. A two-time captain, she was one of the leaders of the Quakers' 2007 Ivy League championship squad.

Adrienne Lerner (2008-11) - The only current player voted to the All-Time Team, Lerner has amassed in her senior year what most take four years to accomplish. One of this year's captains, she has led a defense that enters the weekend having posted a school-record 13 shutouts and allowed just six goals in 16 matches (the school record for fewest goals allowed in a season is 13).

Kellianne Toland (1997-2000) - A mainstay in the midfield during her time at Penn, Toland joined Andrea Callaghan as the program's first two-time first-team All-Ivy recipients. When she graduated, Toland was the program's all-time leader in assists, second in career points, and third in career goals. Toland and Callaghan were also the first Penn players to earn NSCAA all-region honors.

Robin Watson (2002-05) - Watson joins Capuano and Cross on the exclusive list of being voted first-team All-Ivy at least three times. One of the best backs the program has ever seen, she was a captain of the 2004 and 2005 squads.

Women's Soccer Sets For Showdown With Yale - Penn Athletics

PHILADELPHIA - The Penn women's soccer team hosts Yale Saturday evening in what is a big game for both teams. Both the Quakers and the Bulldogs are 3-1-0 in Ivy League play and tied for second place behind Harvard (3-0-1) which hosts Princeton Saturday night. Coincidentally, Penn and Yale' s losses in the league came to the Crimson. Penn and Yale will kick off at 5 p.m., the first half of a doubleheader that will conclude with the Quaker and Bulldog men at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Around The League: Penn and Yale will kick off the fifth full weekend of Ivy play, followed at 7 p.m. by Princeton (1-3-0) at Harvard (3-0-1) and Columbia (2-2-0) at Dartmouth (1-3-0). On Sunday, Cornell (0-3-1) will host Brown (2-2-0) in the final match of the weekend.

Penn vs. Yale: The Bulldogs lead the series, 12-5-4, a number that is skewed by the fact that they won the first seven meetings from 1991-97. Since then the series is even, 5-5-4, with the Quakers going 2-1-1 in the last four matchups. Last year, Penn defeated Yale 1-0 in New Haven on the way to the Ivy title. Two years ago, the Bulldogs came to Philadelphia and pinned the Quakers with a 2-1 loss.

About Yale: The Bulldogs (7-4-2, 3-1-0) defeated Cornell 2-1 in overtime last Saturday to keep pace with Penn in the Ivy standings. Enma Mullo had both goals, both off free kicks. She leads Yale with 16 points (6g, 4a), followed closely by freshman Melissa Gavin who has 13 points (5g, 3a). Junior Kristen Forster, the 2009 Co-Ivy League Rookie of the Year and a second-team All-Ivy pick last year, has three goals and eight points. In goal, Elise Wilcox has started 11 matches and boasts a 1.14 goals-against average and a .733 save percentage.

About Penn...
*Penn is tied for fifth in the Mid-Atlantic Region rankings this week by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA).

*Penn entered the week ranked third nationally in shutout percentage (.769), 10th in goals-against average (0.46), 11th in win percentage (.846), and 24th in scoring offense (2.38 goals per game).

*Depending on how you look at it, you can argue that Penn's 11-2-0 start is the best in program history. The 2001 team was 10-1-2 through 13 matches, so they had fewer losses. However, if you count wins as three points and ties as one, as the Ivy League does, the 33 points racked up by this year's team trumps the 32 accumulated by the 2001 squad at this point. (The 2007 team was 10-2-1 after 13 matches, on the way to an Ivy League title.)

*At 11-2-0, Penn has reached double figures in the win column for the third time in five seasons and the eighth time in program history (since 1991).

*Penn has won 11 or more games just five other times in program history: 1997 (14 wins), 1998 (11), 1999 (13), 2001 (13), and 2007 (13).

*Penn has won six matches in a row, tying a program record set two other times (2001, 2007).

*Penn has scored 31 goals, which is already the seventh-best offensive output in program history with four games still to play.

*Penn has ten shutouts this season, which is one shy of the school record set in 1997. The 1998 and 1999 teams are the only other ones to reach double figures in shutouts.

*Penn has allowed six goals so far this season. The school record for fewest goals allowed is 13, set in 18 matches by the 2001 squad.

*Penn has won 11 games in a row at Rhodes Field dating back to last season, the Quakers' longest home winning streak since they won 12 in a row bridging the 2004 and 2005 seasons.

*In addition, Penn has allowed just one goal in eight home matches this season (Sept. 30 against Cornell).

*Ten different players have scored Penn's 31 goals this season (six have more than one goal), and 14 different players have a point.

*Sophomore Kathryn Barth had both goals in Penn's 2-0 win against Dartmouth last Saturday. Prior to that, she had a goal and three assists in only one half of play against NJIT on Wednesday. Not surprisingly, she received a host of awards this week including Ivy League and ECAC Player of the Week as well as a spot on Soccer America's National Team of the Week.

*Barth now leads Penn in assists (5) and points (17). In fact, six of Penn's top seven scorers are freshmen or sophomores.

*Penn's 8-0 win over NJIT last Wednesday was its biggest victory since Oct. 13, 1998 (a 9-0 win over Delaware) and marked just the third time in program history the Quakers have scored at least eight goals in a match.

*In the NJIT win, freshman Clara Midgley scored a hat trick, the 14th in program history and the first since Jessica Fuccello had three goals against Dartmouth on Oct. 17, 2009.

*In addition to Barth, classmate Laura Oliver also had three assists vs. NJIT, the first time two different players have had three assists in the same game. In fact, prior to Wednesday, it had happened only six times in program history, the most recent being by Sarah Friedman against Saint Joseph's in 2007.

*Marin McDermott and Callan Parra scored twice against NJIT. McDermott has 16 points this season and a team-high seven goals, while Parra has four goals and 10 points.

*Senior forward McDermott -- who was the Ivy League Player of the Week on Sept. 5 -- has 21 career goals, which puts her alone in sixth place all-time at Penn.

*McDermott also has 51 career points, which is seventh on Penn's all-time list in that category.

*Freshman Megan York had two goals and an assist against Saint Francis (Pa.) and was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week for Oct. 3. She is fourth on the team with nine points (4g, 1a).

*Penn was the second-to-last team in NCAA Division I women's soccer to give up a goal this season. The last team to do so was another Philadelphia squad -- La Salle shut out its first 11 opponents before finally gave up a goal.

*Penn's defense has recently been anchored by a back four of seniors Adrienne Lerner and Colleen Barry, junior Erin Thayer, and sophomore Brianna Rano. Junior Alex Dayneka has also been a catalyst despite some injuries, as have sophomore Claire Walker and freshman Kaitlyn Moore.

*In goal, junior Sarah Banks has started all 13 matches this season. She has gone the distance in five of the last seven outings, and has a 0.54 GAA (14th nationally) and an .828 save percentage (59th nationally).

*Senior Caroline Williams and freshman Katherine Myhre saw time last Wednesday against NJIT. For Williams (34 minutes), it was her first action since Sept. 18 at George Mason; for Myhre (11 minutes), it was her collegiate debut.

*Penn has won two of the last four Ivy League titles; last year, the Quakers went 4-1-2 in Ivy play and narrowly edged Princeton for the championship.

Women's Soccer Plays SLU to Scoreless Draw - RPI Athletics

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Women's Soccer Downed by Gardner-Webb, 3-2 - VMI Athletics

LEXINGTON, Va.- Senior Sarah Strand scored twice for the VMI women's soccer team, but it wasn't enough, as the Gardner-Webb Runnin' Bulldogs downed VMI 3-2 on Sat., Oct. 15, at VMI's Patchin Field. The Keydets managed to outshoot the Runnin' Bulldogs, 20-14 on the match, but were outscored 3-0 from the 15th to 65th minute.

VMI (3-9-2, 0-5-1 Big South) took the early lead on Strand's first score of the contest in the 10th minute of action. The Keydets utilized a short corner kick from the left flank, and the cross found senior Simone Jimenez inside the six. Jimenez then fed Strand inside the six, who beat Runnin' Bulldog keeper Erika Less far post to give the Keydets the early 1-0 advantage.

Gardner-Webb (3-6-5, 1-3-2 Big South) knotted the contest five minutes later, as Dawn Rollyson took a pass from Meagan Reynolds in the 15th minute. Rollyson then collected the pass under extreme pressure inside the area, and beat VMI keeper Amanda Berrios near post to knot the tally a 1-1.

The score remained 1-1 heading into the half, but Gardner-Webb's MacKenzie Davis broke the tie in the 53rd minute on an individual effort. Davis beat two VMI defenders inside the 18, and fired the shot home lower-left to give the Runnin' Bulldogs a 2-1 advantage. Rollyson notched her second tally of the match in the 65th minute on a Megan Curan helper, taking a through ball 30 yards out and took a shot at the top of the 18 to beat Berrios lower left for the 3-1 lead.

VMI fought back in the 80th minute, as GWU conceded a penalty-kick. Strand netted her second score of the match beating Lenns to her left to cut the Runnin' Bulldog lead in half with 10 minutes remaining.

The Keydet effort never wavered, as VMI pressured in the final 10 minutes to generate several chances. Strand and classmate Christelle Ndongo nearly connected with four minutes left, as Strand sent a pass in from 30 yards out to Ndongo, who took a shot from 16 yards out that was stopped by Lenns at the top of the box to preserve the 3-2 score line.

Lenns had eight stops GWU, while Berrios made five saves for VMI. Freshman Liz Affronti had six shots for the Keydets, and was backed by five from Ndongo. Rollyson had a team-high six opportunities for Gardner-Webb.

VMI returns to action Thursday, Oct. 20, as the squad travels to Lynchburg, Va., to take on the Liberty Flames. Match time is slated for 4 p.m.

Men's soccer beats Bard in overtime - RIT Athletics

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Men's Soccer Topples Seton Hall, 6-1 - Providence College Athletics

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Sophomore Greg Davis (Jamaica, N.Y.) scored a career-high three goals, while freshman Marcos Ugarte (Providence, R.I.) added one goal and two assists to lead the Providence College men's soccer team to a 6-1 victory over Seton Hall Saturday afternoon at Glay Field. With the win, the Friars improved to 7-5-1 overall and 2-2-1 in the BIG EAST. The Pirates are now 4-8-2 overall and 0-5-0 in league action. It marked the most goals scored by the Friars since last season when they defeated Saint Peter's, 6-2, in the NCAA Tournament on November 18.

Davis gave the Friars an early 1-0 lead when he stole and errant back pass, maneuvered his way around the Seton Hall goalkeeper and tapped the ball into the empty net in the sixth minute. Providence addedtwo goals late in the second half to take a 3-0 lead into the intermission. Junior Keith Jecewiz (Smithtown, N.Y.) scored from 10 yards out in the 41st minute, while Ugarte added another goal with 13 seconds remaining in the half.

Max Garcia pulled Seton Hall to within 3-1 when he converted a penalty kick in the 50th minute. However, the Friars scored three goals in a span of 9:31 to seal the victory. Senior Daniel Fabian (Southbury, Conn.) scored his first of the season in the 55th minute as he capitalized on a through ball from junior Marc Cintron (Piscataway, N.J.). Shortly thereafter, freshman Thomas Ballenthin (Lexington, Mass.) played a cross from the left side and Davis was able to get on the end of it and score his second goal of the afternoon. Freshman Fazal Nabi (Portland, Maine) also assisted on goal. Davis capped off his afternoon in the 65th minute with his team-leading fifth goal of the season.

PC senior goalkeeper Jhojan Obando (Kissimmee, Fla.) made four saves in 64:14 before giving way to classmate Byron Regester (Westerville, Ohio). Seton Hall's Mario DeClerico made eight saves.

The Friars are back in action on Tuesday, October 18 at 7:00 p.m. when they play at Pittsburgh.