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

2013 Women's Soccer Schedule!

The women look to defend their back-to-back AMCC titles in 2013 as they approach the upcoming season. The season starts off with a scrimmage against Division II Mercyhurst leading into the annual Herb Lauffer Memorial Tournament. This year's tournament pairs the women against two strong Ohio-sides in Baldwin Wallace and Capital University. The women will then travel less than an hour up I-90 to play Utica and SUNY Fredonia in the Fredonia State Tournament.

The women will also play the Western Pennsylvania schools with the likes of Westminster, Grove City, and W&J before they enter AMCC play. The Lady Lions start conference play as they face-off with Franciscan on September 28th.

Stay tuned for more updates to the Penn State Behrend Women's Soccer blog, and wish the women luck as they approach the fall season!

Team Banquet and Award Ceremony

Today was a nice day for our team to briefly reflect on the successes of the 2012 season. Although we are continually looking to better ourselves as a team on a daily basis it was nice to recognize the accomplishments of the team in the 2012 season. A group of around 60 including our coaching staff, players, and players' families enjoyed some great food at Logan House on the campus of Penn State Behrend.
Some nice words were said by senior captain Valerie Wagner at the banquet.

Then it was down to the Junker Center to watch the Behrend Lions women's basketball team compete against Franciscan. To make the day even better the women's basketball team got another nice AMCC win!!
At half-time the players were recognized by the crowd for their AMCC Championship winning 2012 season.
The picture below is of the team with their plaques!!

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. 

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.