2013 Penn State Behrend Women’s Soccer ID Clinic

Penn State Behrend Head Women’s Soccer Coach Patrick O’Driscoll will be holding the program’s first ID clinic for high school soccer players interested in playing at the next level. The ID clinic will be hosted at the new Penn State Behrend soccer stadium. Coach O’Driscoll will be running two, one-day sessions to expose prospective student-athletes to college-level soccer training. The dates are set for Sunday, June 23^rd and Saturday, July 27^th. Players will become familiar with the technical and tactical sides of soccer that produced back-to-back conference titles and automatic bids into the NCAA Tournament for the Penn State Behrend women in 2011 and 2012.

Click on the link below to learn more about the ID clinic and Penn State Behrend Women’s Soccer:

http://psblions.com/sports/wsoc/2012-13/files/CollegeID.pdf

2013 Spring Scrimmage Schedule

The Penn State Women's Soccer team will play on April 14th, 2013 in the new turf stadium. The schedule pairs them up with a local Division II side in Mercyhurst University at 11 a.m. Mercyhurst University plays in the strong Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. This will be a good test for the women as they look to repeat as conference champions in the fall of 2013. The other game will match up the women against Northern Steel, a strong club team from the Pittsburgh area. This will be the first time the Penn State Behrend Women will play Mercyhurst and Northern Steel in the new stadium. The times of the games are listed below. Stay tuned for more updates.

11:00 am     Penn State Behrend vs. Mercyhurst University
12:30 pm     Mercyhurst Univeristy vs. Northern Steel
2:00 pm       Penn State Behrend vs. Northern Steel

TOPSoccer kicks off 13th Year

This past Wednesday kicked off the 13th year of the TOPSoccer program at Penn State Behrend. TOPSoccer gives the women's and men's soccer teams, along with other Behrend students, an opportunity to volunteer and spend time with special needs children. Each player is matched up with a child, and they will spend the next 7 weeks developing their soccer skills and building life-long friendships along the way.

Over 70 children showed up last night excited to participate in TOPSoccer. The Junker Center gymnasium was packed with children, parents, and volunteers. Below are some pictures from the first session.



2012 Team Award Winners

Every year the team selects their award winners in four categories. The 2012 award winners were announced at our team banquet earlier this spring. Congratulations to these players for being recognized by your peers:

Team MVP: Val Wagner
Rookie of the Year: Taylor Troyan
Most Improved Player: Melissa Huff and Rachael Hazen
Scholarship/Leadership: Val Wagner