WUGs, WUGs and ESPYs

THURSDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

- Corral corrrals in Koreans

- Field Hockey will teach you a thing or two

- WUGS in quarterfinals vs. Sweden

- Go Vote!


Charlyn Corral of Louisville Soccer seemsto be taking full advantage of her time representing her home country, Mexico, at the World University Games.   

Corral led her team to a 3-0 win over Korea in the quarterfinals on Thursday scoring 2 goals in the 3-0 win.  Corral has scored 7 goals in four matches and leads all scores in the tournament. 

Mexico will advance to the semifinals and face South Africa on Saturday, July 13. 

Congratulations to Corral for an outstanding performance thus far in the Games. 

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Coach Justin Sowry of Field Hockey kicked off her Elite Camp on Thursday, July 11 and it runs through Sunday, July 14.  The camp is for girls and boys in high school.  Campers can either commute or reside on campus for this event. 

If you are driving down Floyd Street you might see campers working on individual fundamental skills, team tactics or game play. 

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Shoni Schimmel and the basketball WUGs will be taking to the court Friday morning in the medal quarterfinals.  Teams win the medal rounds are competing for 1-8^th place. 

Team USA will face Sweden at 10:30 a.m. to open this round of play.  Also playing will be Australia vs Canada, Russia vs. Czech Republic and Taiwan vs. Hungary. 

You can follow updates through www.usabasketball.com.   The first opportunity to watch Team USA will be on Saturday, July 13 at 1:00 and 10:00 p.m. in the semifinals on ESPNU.  I believe the foregone conclusion is that Team USA will make it to the semi’s round.   Should Team USA advance to the gold medal game, that too, can be seen on ESPNU, Monday, 7/15. 

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Finally, if you have not done so yet, please VOTE!!!!  Louisville Women’s Basketball is nominated for ESPYs Biggest Upset in Sports for the biggest upset in the NCAA tournament (if not in the history of the tournament) , for the win over Baylor.   

Also nominated is former Cardinal Angel McCaughtry for MVP in the WNBA and Coach Rick Pitino for Coach of the Year.   

Please visit the below site and vote:

http://espn.go.com/espys/2013/vote/index?id=9402604
 

Several members of the team have been invited to attend the ESPY’s.  From what I can tell both Shoni Schimmel and Bria Smith will be in attendance.  Schimmel will arrive back in the States on 7/16 and will fly out to LA for the awards ceremony on 7/17.  I have read somewhere that 4 players were invited to attend, should I track down the names of the other two we will let you know.  

-Jenny O'Bryan

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