Thursday, January 17, 2013

As a New Year resolution for 2013, we are working at keeping our blog updated more regularly. 
These pictures of the field are a few months old now but they show they excellent playing facilities that Penn State Behrend offers its soccer athletes!!
We will have a few home night games in 2013 and it will be great to play under the lights!!




The nice part is we still have a new bathroom/concession stand complex to be added this fall. 

Monday, January 14, 2013

AMCC Championship Game 2012

This is footage from our 2012 AMCC Championship victory over a strong Pitt-Bradford team.
After being 1-0 down in the first half the team rallied to tie the game 1-1 before half time with a nice goal from Julia Schroeck after a great run from Valerie Wagner. No more goals were scored until the second overtime when Melissa Huff capped off an excellent freshmen year by scoring the game-winning goal giving Behrend our second AMCC Championship in two years and our eighth overall.




2012 Women's Soccer Year in Review!

2012 Penn State Behrend Women's Soccer


·         8th AMCC Championship out of 16

·         5th trip to the NCAA Tournament

·         2 players named NSCAA Great Lakes All-RegionThird TeamJulia Schroeck and Valerie Wagner

·         Earned a team GPA of 3.16 with 6 players earning 3.5 GPA or higher – Freshman Abbie Schuster earned a team high 3.98 GPA

·         Overall record of 12-9 with a stellar AMCC conference record of 8-1

·         Team led the conference in goals scored with 26, and Goals per Game with 2.89 per game

·         Placed second in the conference in Assists with 15, and Assists per game with 1.67 per game

·         Team posted a 0.67 goals allowed per game,  led by Freshman Goal Keeper Taylor Troyan, which placed them as the second strongest defense in the conference

·         Senior Julia Schroeck led the conference in goals with 7

·         Senior Valerie Wagner recorded the second most assists in the conference with 5, and named to the 2012 AMCC All-Conference Sportsmanship Team

·         8 players earned AMCC All-Conference awards for their excellent play during the season, the most out of any team in the conference. 

·         Head Coach Patrick O’Driscoll named AMCC Co-Coach of the Year, and he currently stands at 99 career wins for the program

·         Senior Valerie Wagner finished her career 1st in program history in games played (85), 3rd in Points (85), 4th in Goals (32), and 3rd in Assists (21)

·         Senior Julia Schroeck finished her career with 83 games played, ranking her tied for 6th in program history for career games played