VU WSO rebounded from a 1-4 loss at Purdue with a 1-1 draw against Kentucky in Lexington. Nice recovery ladies.
The Beacons are picked #2 in the MVC and are currently 2-1-1 with the last two games being played against FBS/P5 programs. John is not just fattening up his W-L record with cream puffs. This is a challenging OOC schedule with only 3 home games and five on the road.
Quote from: VULB#62 on August 27, 2023, 02:21:10 PM
VU WSO rebounded from a 1-4 loss at Purdue with a 1-1 draw against Kentucky in Lexington. Nice recovery ladies.
The Beacons are picked #2 in the MVC and are currently 2-1-1 with the last two games being played against FBS/P5 programs. John is not just fattening up his W-L record with cream puffs. This is a challenging OOC schedule with only 3 home games and five on the road.
All the while being down a few starters!
We are up 1-0
This team is loaded with talent-I think we will go far
Watched them a few times this year-best chance of winning a tournament of any of our teams-
Go Beacons!
Quote from: Valpo14 on October 26, 2023, 03:20:48 PM
We are up 1-0
This team is loaded with talent-I think we will go far
Watched them a few times this year-best chance of winning a tournament of any of our teams-
Go Beacons!
Valparaiso scored in the eighth minute off one of their eight corner kicks in the half. Kelsie James served the ball in for Lindsey Dusatko, as she finished the play with a header.
Belmont showed tremendous fight and resilience in a physical match. In the second half, Belmont had opportunities for an equalizer, but failed to convert.
Valparaiso won the match, 1-0, and advanced to the quarterfinals of the MVC Championship.
Bruin Bullets
Sarah Doyle made four saves in goal for the Bruins.
Belmont totaled ten shots as a team.
Maci Pekmezian led the team with three shots, with one on goal.
Kate Virtel, Anna Sweeney, Carly Ross, Eliza Paisley, and Natalie Haverland all recorded a shot.
The Bruins' 2023 season ended Thursday afternoon. Belmont finished 3-9-7 on the year, under first-year head coach Kelsey Cameron.
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DuSatko's header lifts Valparaiso - by Paul Oren (thevictorybell.com) (https://www.thevictorybell.com/p/dusatkos-header-lifts-valparaiso?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=663817&post_id=138322390&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=18pqsy&utm_medium=email)
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Missouri State will be tough, but we have the talent to beat both them and Drake
Valpo 1 Missouri State 0 in double OT. Between this and regular season 200 minutes, one goal. Drake beating UIC 2-0 through 30 minutes
Well, I guess our flagship MVC sport over the last two years is......................... WSO 😀
Let's go Valpo! After coming so close to an NCAA bid 3 seasons ago, in losing to Loyola in the title game, and then bowing out in the semi-finals after the regular season title last season, these ladies can do it this season! If we get that first goal, our coach and team know how to play lockdown defense, and we have the best GK in the league.
We win the MVC championship and NCAA bid 1-0, with a goal in the final 9 minutes! Congrats and well-deserved, as we should have been in the top 3 this season, based on last season. I look forward to the pairing announcement.
Great win against #1 seed Drake and their huge crowd! Very cool also that President Padilla was on the sidelines! :cheers: :thewave: :cheers:
Our GK, Coryell, set the MVC career clean sheet/shutout record in this game, as well
NCAA pairings will be announced Monday at 3pm. The last two times, we got to play Notre Dame. The Irish beat us 5-0 a few months ago.
I assume that you mean a few years ago, or was this an exhibition that doesn't show up? We last played ND during a regular season game around 8 years back (6-0), and lost to them the prior year (2014) in the first round of the NCAA tournament 1-0.
Yes, Exhibition game... not on the Valpo site... but the Notre Dame site... August 12th
https://fightingirish.com/sports/wsoc/schedule/
I'm wondering whether or not the Valley is respected enough to give Drake an at-large bid.
Quote from: vu72 on November 06, 2023, 08:11:39 AM
I'm wondering whether or not the Valley is respected enough to give Drake an at-large bid.
I'll answer my own question: No. Latest RPI had Missouri State ranked 101, Drake 105, UNI 137 and Valpo 146
We've received at-large bids for MVC Men's Soccer, but I believe Women's Soccer has been some time
Irish it is!!
Valpo at #3 seed Notre Dame Saturday 11/11 5pm Central (6pm Eastern)
Winner advances to play winner of
LSU - #6 seed Memphis
does feel strange that the Valley (or Missouri Conference as was reported at the pairings) only got one bid, and the Ivy League got FOUR?
Ivy League had 4 teams in the top 20 RPI. MVCs best team (MS) didn't even crack 100.
Anyone heard anything about tickets for the Notre Dame game?
Valpo leads Notre Dame 0-0 at the half! ;)
Going down to ND 2-0 is a great reflection on our WSO program. The recruiting carrot is huge.
Congrats to the women of our soccer team. The future is bright.
Quote from: VULB#62 on November 11, 2023, 07:09:50 PM
Going down to ND 2-0 is a great reflection on our WSO program. The recruiting carrot is huge.
Congrats to the women of our soccer team. The future is bright.
Scoreless tie at the half and losing 2-0 against the #3 team in the country is very impressive. Valpo's women's team belonged there and held their own. From the box score, my guess is that Valpos goalie (Coryell) was amazing.
Great season for the ladies team!
We are gonna miss Nikki big time next season, but two great seasons in a row (one regular season championship and an MVC tourney win that sent us to the dance) have got to juice up the recruiting talent level.
This is the reality. IMO. Valpo can actually compete for female talent better than it can for male athletes.
Why? Easy. DI males have delusions of professional careers (basketball, baseball are prime examples). They are easily seduced by grandure. For women, that is not always the case. These women want the highest level of competition they can achieve, of course, but the prospect of a professional career is seldom, if ever, a consideration. It's about the journey. And what a beautiful journey it is at a small university like Valpo where everyone is family, yet they play on a pretty bigtime stage. In a sport like soccer, the NWSL and the USWNT pools have already been established when players are 16 and 17, so, if one. Is not in that pool, now it's play for joy and personal challenge (and also get a great education).
So, why not come to Valpo, a close-knit, welcoming, beautiful and comfortable campus, play against DI competition for four years and walk away with a degree that means something.
I'm sure Volleyball and Tennis use a similar strategy. Softball and WBB need to leverage it as well. NCAA rules favor women's sports. Unlike Football and MBB, the cash outlay is nowhere as great. VU may want to be a player at the national level in men's sports, but it may actually be be easier on the women's side.
Just looked at the box score: Shots comparison. ND 33 (11 on net). VU 1 ( 0 on net). Nikki must still be shell shocked. I didn't see the game, but I'll bet Valpo played a very compact D and had few counter opportunities.
Quote from: VULB#62 on November 11, 2023, 10:12:24 PM
Just looked at the box score: Shots comparison. ND 33 (11 on net). VU 1 ( 0 on net). Nikki must still be shell shocked. I didn't see the game, but I'll bet Valpo played a very compact D and had few counter opportunities.
Yes, it is likely that Valpo "parked the bus" against Notre Dame.
TVB and PO
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Quote from: VULB#62 on November 11, 2023, 08:42:18 PMSo, why not come to Valpo, a close-knit, welcoming, beautiful and comfortable campus, play against DI competition for four years and walk away with a degree that means something.
Honest answer, with all things being equal among athletic programs, the dorms in general are not modern enough although most of the student/athletes are housed in Beacon Hall which is the most modern of Valpo dorms.
Yes, we did play with quite a few players in our own end for much of the game, and had a few counterattack opportunities, but Nikki wasn't challenged a ton as you would think from the 30+ shots. She made some high quality/tough saves and had great positioning on a lot of softer shots, but most of ND's shots were from 20-25 yards out. They couldn't get past our stellar team defense once they got close to our box, short of the set piece opportunities.
Great season, ladies!
I watched the match and the one thing that really stood out to me was the physical difference between the two teams. ND players for the most part were physically larger and in some cases faster than our team. Our girls played their guts out and did a great job of sticking to form on defense. I think that ND got frustrated with their lack of production in the first half. Our girls really represented VU well, let's hope they get a recruiting bump from their performance over the last two years!
Big blow to WSO next season. But Nikki deserves to give it a shot. Best of luck young lady!
https://twitter.com/UKWomensSoccer/status/1737410673598927047
It's her COVID year and no one was sure if she would return in any event. John has some very good candidates for replacement and, as Charles de Gaulle once said, "The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people"!
Here is a partial bio on a recently signed player:
Hailey Wade – GK – Fishers, Ind. – Hamilton Southeastern H.S. – Indiana Fire Juniors
Wade comes to Valpo after being named Indiana Player of the Year following her senior season. A two-time First Team All-State and All-District honoree, Wade is on the watch list for the 2023 High School All-American Game. She surrendered just 10 goals in the last two seasons for Hamilton Southeastern while recording 19 clean sheets in that span.
Their announcement doesn't include her stats from this season, as she had 23 more starts. Regardless, she did her time at Valpo over 4 full seasons, so I don't fault her for trying the SEC. I'm with a poster on another thread when I say that I think that the NCAA gave that extra COVID year to everyone a bit too soon. Many people played 4 full seasons, and it makes no sense. As much as we appreciate Nikki for her stellar play at Valpo, it doesn't really make sense that she has a full 5th year to use. The NCAA should have made it more conditional on actual games played during the COVID year.
Quote from: valpotx on December 21, 2023, 02:28:07 PM
Their announcement doesn't include her stats from this season, as she had 23 more starts. Regardless, she did her time at Valpo over 4 full seasons, so I don't fault her for trying the SEC. I'm with a poster on another thread when I say that I think that the NCAA gave that extra COVID year to everyone a bit too soon. Many people played 4 full seasons, and it makes no sense. As much as we appreciate Nikki for her stellar play at Valpo, it doesn't really make sense that she has a full 5th year to use. The NCAA should have made it more conditional on actual games played during the COVID year.
Completely agree the COVID year while well meaning has had the unintended results of penalizing those who came after. Thankfully this is the last year. Having said that hopefully she does well.
Ya gotta view this!
It's a master class in how to put together a video that will blow recruits away.
https://youtu.be/rp-dKnIuRuE?si=jh37wRMmi0vrcU7y
The COVID year rule was most likely originally intended for Football and both levels of basketball, while the rest of the sports were intentionally left out. I'm guessing more of the Olympic sports pitched a fit because of how many players OPTED OUT during that year, so they had to change the rule, especially as most all of D-II and D-III didn't play any sports during the worst of the pandemic.
Best of luck to Nikki in 2024.