12.21.2009 | Women's Soccer
Grinnell, Iowa – Grinnell forward Frances Leslie ’10, was named to the NSCAA Scholar All-Central Region Women’s Team. An  honorable mention selection, the English major also helped the Pioneer women claim the 2009 Team Academic Award from the NSCAA.

Leslie led the Pioneers in goals in 2009, including a four-goal performance against Illinois College that was just one shy of the school record.

12.14.2009 | Women's Soccer
Grinnell, Iowa – Grinnell College was one of 99 institutions to have both its men’s and women’s soccer programs earn the Team Academic Award from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

A total of 576 teams earned the award, 333 women’s squads and 143 on the men’s side.
Squads must have a team grade point average of 3.0 or higher to be honored.

The Grinnell women are coached by Heather Benning and the men by Brian Jaworski.

12.8.2009 | Women's Soccer
Four Midwest Conference women's soccer players have been named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America NCAA Division III All-North Region Team, NSCAA officials announced today.

Carroll University's Junior forward Cody Callender (Hawthorne Woods, Ill./Lake Zurich) and sophomore defender Kate Tarquino (Lake Zurich, Ill./Lake Zurich) were named to the second-team while senior goalkeeper Ashlee Reinke (De Pere, Wis./De Pere) and Lake Forest College's freshman forward Becky Esrock were third-team selections.

Callender, the Midwest Conference's Offensive Player of the Year, led the league in goals with 25, finding the back of the net 19 times during MWC action. She also finished the 2009 season as co-league leader in points with 55 (25 goals, 5 assists). Callender's 25 goals and 55 points are single season records for the Pioneers.

Reinke, the MWC's Defensive Player of the Year, and Tarquino, also a first-team All-MWC honoree, led a Pioneers defense that yielded just two goals in MWC regular-season play (no goals were scored against Reinke in MWC regular-season play). While shutting out a league-high seven opponents, Reinke's .64 goals against average was the top mark in the conference. With a strong defensive in front of her, Reinke was forced to make only 51 saves and allowed only 12 goals the entire season.

Esrock, a first team all-conference selection, finished her MWC debut season third in the league in points per game (2.53), goals (20) and goals per game (1.05).

2009 NSCAA Division III All-North Team

11.16.2009 | Women's Soccer
Ripon, Wis. -- The Midwest Conference (MWC) announced the 2009 MWC Women’s Soccer Awards today, November 16, 2009. Eleven student athletes garnered First Team All-MWC accolades, while eleven players earned second team honors and three were honorable mention recognitions.

Carroll University leads the list of all-conference honorees after junior forward Cody Callender and senior goalkeeper Ashlee Reinke were named the MWC Offensive and Defensive Players of the Year, respectively.

Pioneers' head coach Jason Bretzmann was named the 2009 Coach of the Year.

[2009 All-Conference Women's Soccer Awards]

11.14.2009 | Women's Soccer
St. Louis, Mo. - The Carroll University women's soccer team lost a heartbreaker in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Pioneers surrendered a goal in the opening period of overtime to fall 1-0 to Illinois Wesleyan University.

11.9.2009 | Women's Soccer
Waukesha, Wis. - For the fourth time in program history, the Carroll University women's soccer team will be competing for a National Championship. The team's 2009 quest begins on Saturday, Nov. 14 when they take on Illinois Wesleyan University at 1:30 p.m. in a four-team sectional hosted by Washington University in St. Louis.

 The Pioneers, 17-2-1 on the season, take on 15-3-3 IWU. The Titans were ranked No. 20 in last week's National Soccer Coaches Association of America top 25 poll but lost to Augustana College in the finals of College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin tournament.

 The other sectional game will pit No. 8 Washington University (14-3-1) against Webster University (15-3-1). Both game times will be announced at a later date. The winners will square off on Sunday, Nov. 15.

More information about the NCAA Tournament will be sent out as it becomes available.

11.7.2009 | Women's Soccer
Waukesha, Wis. -- Carroll University defeated St. Norbert College for the second time in less than a week to claim its third straight tournament title honor.

With a 2-0 victory over the Green Knights, the Carroll University Pioneers also earned the MWC's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament.

11.6.2009 | Women's Soccer
Waukesha, Wis. -- The 2009 Midwest Conference (MWC) Women's Soccer Tournament began today with the top two seeds advancing to the Tournament Title game. No. 2 St. Norbert scored the game winning goal late in the second half to edge No. 3 Lake Forest 3-2 and No. 1 Carroll topped No. 4 Lawrence 2-1.

No. 2 St. Norbert (7-2-0 MIAC, 11-8-0 Overall) will now face No. 1 Carroll (9-0 MIAC, 15-1-1 Overall) on Saturday, November 7 in the finals of the MWC Tournament. Game time is set for 7 p.m. The two teams last met less than one week ago with Carroll winning 3-0 in De Pere to take the regular season championship crown. The game will be web cast on www.midwestconference.tv.

11.3.2009 | Women's Soccer
Ripon, Wis. -- Host Carroll University enters this weekend’s 2009 MWC Women’s Soccer Tournament as the odds out favorite after sweeping the MWC during the regular season.

On Friday, the Pioneers will meet Lawrence in the second semifinal contest at 7 p.m., following the first semifinal that squares off St. Norbert against Lake Forest at 4 p.m. Saturday’s tournament title match will begin at 7 p.m. The winner will receive the league’s automatic berth to the 2009 NCAA Tournament.

[Tournament Preview]

11.2.2009 | Women's Soccer
Galesburg, Ill. - Coming into Saturday’s away game at Grinnell College, the Knox women’s soccer team was on the verge of setting several single season records.  Arielle Dorman (Right) was in need of one goal to break the single season record for most goals in a season for a freshman, while sophomore Emma Swanson was in need of one assist to break the Knox record for most assists in a single season.  In what has become typical fashion for the two, they were able to accomplish both on the same play. 

In the 80^th minute on Saturday, Swanson (Left) found Dorman, who found the back of the net, to score the lone goal of the game for the Prairie Fire.  With her 13^th goal of the season Arielle Dorman broke the record of 12 goals, set by Lloy Brodnicki in 1990.  With 13 goals/5 assists, Dorman has 31 points for the season, which puts her in a tie for “Most points in a single season for a freshman”. 

Swanson, who recorded her 10^th assist on the goal by Dorman, now has the Knox record for “most assists in a single season”.  The record was previously held by Kristin Garrison, who had nine assists in her sophomore season in 1993. 

10.31.2009 | Women's Soccer
Ripon, Wis. -- Three Midwest Conference (MWC) women's soccer student-athletes have been named to the 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District V Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).

Illinois College senior forward Stacy Bergen and Lawrence University junior forward Sarah Ehlinger represented the MWC on the Academic All-District Second Team.

Illinois College senior defender  Jennifer Henson was a second team Academic All-District selection.

The ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team is part of the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America program, administered by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) a 2,000-member organization consisting of sports public relations professionals for colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The Academic All-America program annually honors over 1600 student-athletes who have succeeded at the highest level on the playing field and in the classroom.

Top student-athletes from non-Division I programs in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ontario and Manitoba are eligible for inclusion on the district team. To be eligible, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.20 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at her current institution and be nominated by her sports information director.

10.31.2009 | Women's Soccer
De Pere, Wis. - The Carroll University women's soccer team earned its fourth Midwest Conference Championship in program history after a 3-0 victory at St. Norbert College to close out the 2009 regular season.

Carroll head coach Jason Bretzmann has guided the Pioneers to titles in 2009, 2007 and 2002 while Mike Stojsavljevic guided the program to the title in 1998. 

Three different players tallied goals for the Pioneers, starting with the game winner by Cody Callender in the eighth minute. Liz Melcher made it 2-0 in the 30th minute while Kendell Uttech added an insurance goal at 50:03. 

CU net-minder Ashlee Reinke had perhaps the best performance of her career, as the De Pere, Wis. native recorded eight saves to earn the title-clinching shutout. Reinke ended the 2009 MWC regular season surrendering zero goals in league play. In nine league matches, the Pioneers gave up just two goals. 

With the league title the Pioneers earn the right to host the 2009 Midwest Conference Championship, scheduled to be played Nov. 6-7. The four-team league tournament will decide the recipient of the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Along with Carroll, St. Norbert and Lake Forest College have secured spots in the tournament, with the fourth participant to be decided on Sunday.

10.21.2009 | Women's Soccer
Waukesha, Wis. - In a 5-0 win over Beloit College on Wednesday, Oct. 21, Carroll University juniors Cody Callender (Right) and Kendell Uttech (Left) stamped their names into the Pioneers women's soccer record book.

Callender (Hawthorne Woods, Ill./Lake Zurich) recorded her 21^st and 22^nd goals of the season in the win over Beloit, breaking the program's single season record of 20 goals she set a year ago. Her 49 points this season (22 goals and five assists) also broke the record of 44 points she set last season.

 Uttech (Watertown, Wis./Watertown) made her mark in the record book by topping the single season assists record. She had two assists against Beloit to push her season total to 13, passing the 12 helpers by Julia Bell in 2004.

10.6.2009 | Women's Soccer
Current Lake Forest Women's Soccer coach T.R. Bell is to be inducted into the Lake Forest College Athletic Hall of Fame, which will grow by five during Homecoming festivities on Saturday, October 10.

Bell is the men's soccer program's all-time leader in assists and helped the team capture conference championships as a freshman and senior. He earned all-conference and team MVP honors as a junior and senior and the team posted an overall record of 53-12-2 and their 17-1 mark his senior season is the best in team history. Bell also lettered in hockey all four years. In addition, he is the winningest women's soccer coach in school history and a two-time MWC Coach of the Year.

Lake Forest Release

9.20.2009 | Women's Soccer
Grinnell, Iowa – Miki Nakamura tied the Midwest Conference record for assists in a game while helping the Grinnell College women’s soccer team to a 9-1 home win over Illinois College on Saturday at Springer Field.

Nakamura recorded five assists in the contest, matching a mark held by former Pioneer Sofia Skraba in 2005 and Tracy Capes of Ripon College in 1997.

Grinnell Release

8.20.2009 | Women's Soccer
RIPON, WIS. -- With six first-place votes, Carroll University has been chosen by league coaches to capture the 2009 MWC Conference crown. The Green Knights finished second in the 2009 Preseason Coaches Poll after receiving two first-place votes, while the remaining two first-place votes went to Grinnell, who finished third in this year’s poll.

Lake Forest is predicted to claim the fourth and final tournament spot followed by Monmouth in fifth and Lawrence in sixth.

Beloit finished as a clear cut seventh ahead of Ripon and Illinois College and Knox rounded out the 2009 Preseason Coaches Poll in ninth and tenth, respectively.

2009 Preseason Coaches Poll
Rnk Team (1st place votes)
1. Carroll (6)
2. St. Norbert (2)
3. Grinnell (2)
4. Lake Forest
5. Monmouth
6. Lawrence
7. Beloit
8. Ripon
9. Illinois College
10. Knox

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7.9.2009 | Women's Soccer
Ripon, Wis. -- The Midwest Conference is pleased to announce Lake Forest College’s senior Alison Lynch and Knox College’s junior Maurice McDavid have been selected as the league’s 2009 Sportsmanship Award winners.

The pair will be the conference’s nominations for the 2009 NCAA Division III Sportsmanship Award. The NCAA Committe will select one male and female student-athlete from each division as finalists and then one male and one female from those six finalists as the NCAA Sportsmanship Award winners.

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