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Monday, June 1, 2015

Challenges ahead for Louisville women's soccer -- Monday Cardinal Couple

SECOND YEAR IN ACC AND NON-CONFERENCE SLATE DEMANDING

Having the advantage of being the home team in the best college soccer stadium in the nation is a plus for Karen Ferguson Dayes women's soccer team. Facing the schedule that lies ahead for the Kickin' Cards, though, is a task that will test her young squad.

Louisville will have 10 regular season games and one exhibition in Lynn Stadium this fall...five of them ACC teams and also four non-conference opponents. Things get started on Aug. 12th. when the Cards travel to NKU for an exhibition match and host Indiana on Sunday Aug. 16th.

A Friday night season opener in Lynn brings in Wright State on Aug. 21st. and Washington visits on the 23rd. The Huskies were an NCAA Tournament participant in 2014.

After hitting the road to face Kent State and Kentucky (Fri. Sept 4th.) UofL returns home to face SE Missouri State on Sunday Sept. 6th. A three-game road trip ensues with stops at UAB. Ole Miss and the conference opener against Boston College on Sunday, Sept. 20th.

The ACC is one of...if not the toughest...conferences in the ACC in women's soccer. Dangerous NCAA tournament entry from 2014 Miami comes to town Thursday, Sept. 24th. Pitt visits on the 27th. and then the Cards will seek a little revenge in Lynn against Morehead State for last year's loss when they battle the Eagles on Thursday, Oct 1st.

October looks to be a month of tough challenges for the Cards. They head to Syracuse on Oct. 4th. before returning home for a brutal three game stay against UNC, Duke and defending national champion Florida State on Saturday, Oct. 17th.

Louisville will end the ACC slate and regular season with three on the road...journeying to Virginia, NC State and Wake Forest on Halloween night.

Fourteen teams play ACC women's soccer. Louisville will face ten of them and the top four teams qualify for the ACC Championships on Nov 6-8.

The Cards may be young (just 5 seniors) but they bring back a ton of experience from 2014. Goalkeepers Paige Brown and Taylor Smith return and the strong defensive unit of Chatham DeProspo, Rachel Avant, Inger Katrine Bjerke and Hannah Konermann (Louisville Mercy) will help defend the net.

Mid-fielders Lexie Niedoba, Kari Weinland and Victoria Martinis saw valuable field time last year and the forwards will feature Allison Price, Casey Whitfield, Isabella Habudu and Shannon Dennehey (Louisville Manual).

The Cards may not be ACC Top-4 material just yet...but an improvement over 2014's 7-9-2 (3-5-2 ACC) record is certainly expected by the players and coaching staff.

Coach KFD is optimistic about the season:

"We pride ourselves on playing a tremendous non-conference schedule as we feel it helps prepare us for the rigors of the very prestigious ACC Conference and the NCAA Tournament....our first year in the ACC allowed us to gain valuable experience that we will look to build on this season and we are excited for the challenges we face."

paulie
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Tuesday Cardinal Couple -- Women's Soccer faces early opening tests

TUESDAY CARDINAL COUPLE

- Women's Soccer faces early road tests

- Who was your UofL women's sports Player of the Year?

It isn't easy being UofL women's soccer head coach Karen Ferguson Dayes these days...

Beside preparing for the home season's opener against Ole Miss on Aug. 29th. as part of a opening stadium debut in Lynn Stadium...her squad faces two exhibition games on the road the the first two regular season games as the visiting squad also.

Soccer "kicks off" on 8/13 with the season opening exhibition in Knoxville against SEC power Tennessee. Three days later they head north to face BIG 10 foe Indiana for an exhibition match.

The regular season begins six days later at Wright State.

Two days later, the "kickin" Cards head to Champaign, IL. to take on the Fighting Illini.

It is a season that will test Louisville women's soccer...especially since scoring machines Charlyn Corral and Christine Exeter have graduated.

Stylish Casey Whitfield is one of the leading returning
scorers for Louisville women's soccer.

In fact, over half the goals scored by Louisville women's Soccer in 2013 have graduated...so to speak. Coach Karen will look to senior Angelika Uremovich...returning from a year off due to injury...Shannon Dennehey and Casey Whitfield to find the back of the net.

The Cards do return goalie Paige Brown to shore up a defense that also took some major hits due to graduation.

Louisville's 12-5-2 record and NCAA Tournament selection may be a hard feat to accomplish in 2014...to say the least.
The 7-1 AAC conference record will also be a major challenge to repeat in talent-laden ACC conference play.. .

Seven ACC schools were ranked in the top 25 at the end of the NCAA Tournament in 2013. Florida State lost to UCLA in the championship game. The Cards will go there on Sept. 25th.

This 1-2 scoring punch for the 2013 squad will be greatly missed.

10 ACC conference games await in addition to the rival match against UK and two other in-state challenges from Morehead State University and NKU.

No official 2014 women's soccer roster has been released yet and CARDINAL COUPLE is still trying to get in for a pre-season interview with Coach Ferguson-Dayes.

Higher stakes, better opponents and challenging away games await in the next three months before ACC Tournament play starts on 11/7. A state of the art stadium to host 10 visitors as well.

A transition season in several aspects for women's soccer.

The challenge awaits.

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We've posted a poll over on the Right Side of the Site asking you who was your UofL women's sports Player of the Year in the 2013-14 season.

It was tough to narrow it down to four players...and someone will undoubtedly gripe about us leaving their choice off the list...but we selected:

- Shoni Schimmel (if you have to ask why...welcome back from your four year trip to Mars)

- Charlyn Corral (senior soccer star led UofL in goals)

- Nikki Boltja (lacrosse forward was the leading scorer)

- Catlin Welch (volleyball's best Libero ever )

paulie

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