LOUISVILLE FIELD HOCKEY FACES CHALLENGES IN 2024 SLATE.
One thing you can say with certainy, Justine Sowry doesn't avoid a challenge . A look at the 2024 Louisville Field Hockey shows that. .. out of the 17 teams lined up to play the Cards... five of them make up the five best teams in the country and seven more of the opponents were in the top 20. at the end of 2023.
The always-loaded ACC has four of the top eight teams in the NFHCA poll and Louisville is playing four ACC opponents (Stanford, Boston College, North Carolina and Duke) at Trager stadium.
The Cards lost seven games last year, and five of the teams that beat them return to the 2024 schedule.
October begins with two in a row on the road, trips to play Syracuse and Virginia. Louisville then returns home to play UNC before travelling to Wake Forest. The Cards will have their final home contest hosting Duke...before ending the season at California and at UC Davis.
It is noticlable that Iowa is not on this year's opponents list, nor are Northeastern, VCU, JMU, Liberty, App. St., or Miami.
The Cards return 16 players from last year's roster, with only one freshman and one red-shirt freshman listed on the roster. Aimee Plumb, who led Louisville in points, is back...along with her sister Chloe for the Cards, but they do lose their goalkeeper...Merlin van der Vegt. Emily Young is on the roster at goal and was on the roster last year but did not see action as a freshman.
Louisville starts the season with two exhibition scrimmages... hosting Bellarmine to open the 2024 opponents and then going to Bloomington to face IU in a scrimmage. The Cards will go on the road for their first two regular season match-ups, a couple of top 25 matchups against Maryland and American...before returning home for five in a row --- Princeton, Penn, Northwestern, Cornell and Stanford.. September ends with UofL at Ball St., hosting Boston College and travelling to Ohio State.
October begins with two in a row on the road, trips to play Syracuse and Virginia. Louisville then returns home to play UNC before travelling to Wake Forest. The Cards will have their final home contest hosting Duke...before ending the season at California and at UC Davis.
The ACC Tournament will be held at Winston-Salem on the Wake Forest field from Nov 5-8.
It is noticlable that Iowa is not on this year's opponents list, nor are Northeastern, VCU, JMU, Liberty, App. St., or Miami.
The Cards return 16 players from last year's roster, with only one freshman and one red-shirt freshman listed on the roster. Aimee Plumb, who led Louisville in points, is back...along with her sister Chloe for the Cards, but they do lose their goalkeeper...Merlin van der Vegt. Emily Young is on the roster at goal and was on the roster last year but did not see action as a freshman.
The Bellarmine scrimmage is Aug. 23rd (Friday). We hope to see you out at Trager.
paulie
Looks like fall sports are getting closer. Two top ten squads and poor WSOC. Should be fun
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Playing the top five teams from last year is a death sentence.
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