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2019 INFORMATION GUIDE 2019 SCHEDULE AUGUST Friday 16 at San Diego State 7 p.m. Thursday 22 at Seattle U 7 p.m. Friday 30 Montana 7 p.m. SEPTEMBER Sunday 1 James Madison 1 p.m. Thursday 5 at Gonzaga 7 p.m. Friday 13 Michigan 7 p.m. (TV) Sunday 15 Loyola Marymount 1 p.m. Thursday 19 at Hawai’i 10 p.m. Sunday 22 vs. Pepperdine 4 p.m. Saturday 28 Oregon State * 7 p.m. (TV) OCTOBER Thursday 3 at Stanford * 8 p.m. (TV) Sunday 6 at Cal * Noon (TV) Thursday 10 Arizona * 7 p.m. (TV) Sunday 13 Arizona State * 1 p.m. Saturday 19 at Oregon * 7 p.m. Thursday 24 at USC * 3 p.m. (TV) Sunday 27 at UCLA * Noon (TV) Thursday 31 Utah * 7 p.m. (TV) NOVEMBER Sunday 3 Colorado * 11 a.m. Friday 8 at Washington * 7 p.m. (TV) Fri-Sat. 15-16 NCAA 1st Round $ - Fri.-Sun. 22-24 NCAA 2nd & 3rd Round $ - Fri-Sat. 29-30 NCAA Quarterfinals $ - DECEMBER Fri.-Sun. 6-8 College Cup $ - * Pac-12 Conference match $ NCAA Tournament match All home matches played at Lower Soccer Field All times listed are Pacific time Denoted matches televised on Pac-12 Networks WASHINGTON STATE WOMEN’S SOCCER 2016 INFORMATION GUIDE QUICK FACTS 2019 SOCCER QUICK FACTS TABLE OF CONTENTS THE UNIVERSITY COACHING STAFF Head Coach Todd Shulenberger 4-5 LOCATION: Pullman, Wash. Assistant Coach Jon Harvey 6 AFFILIATION: NCAA Division I Assistant Coach Greg Sheen 7 CONFERENCE: Pac-12 Coordinator of Operations Jess Greer 8 ENROLLMENT: 20,286 Video Coordinator Anthony Wallace 8 NICKNAME: Cougars COLORS: Crimson and Gray 2019 SEASON PRESIDENT: Kirk H. Schulz Roster 9 Ella Dederick | Aly Hay 10 DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS: Pat Chun Marin Auth | Makamae Gomera-Stevens 11 SWA: Anne McCoy Ebony Clarke | Morgan Weaver 12 FACULTY ATHLETICS REPRESENTATIVE: Nancy Swanger Elaily Hernandez-Repreza | Rose Young 13 Sydney Pulver | Brianna Alger 14 COUGAR SOCCER Bridget Rieken | Katie Jones 15 HEAD COACH: Todd Shulenberger Elyse Bennett | Molly Myers 16 RECORD AT WSU/OVERALL: 45-29-7 (Fifth Season) Courtney Worstell | Averie Collins 17 ASSISTANTS: Jon Harvey (Sixth Season) Hailey Smith | Sarah Davidson 18 Greg Sheen (Second Season) Liz Weis | Aaqila McLyn 19 Hanna Goff | Shayna Whieldon 20 COORD. OF OPERATIONS: Jess Greer (Fourth season) Mykiaa Minniss | Kaitlyn Kowalchuk 21 VIDEO COORDINATOR: Anthony Wallace (First Season) Rachel Johnson | Skye McMillon 22 HOME FIELD: Lower Soccer Field (2,000) Sophie Dimry | Megan Sullivan 23 SOCCER PHONE: (509) 335-0343 MacKenzie Frimpong-Ellertson | Grayson Lynch 33 2018 OVERALL RECORD: 13-6-1 Kelis Barton 25 2018 PAC-12 RECORD: 5-5-1 (Seventh) 2018 POSTSEASON: NCAA Second Round 2018 SEASON REVIEW Statistics | Game-by-Game Results 26 ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Awards | Pac-12 Standings | NSCAA Rankings 27 ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: Bill Stevens SOCCER CONTACT: Ben Laskey HISTORY E-MAIL: [email protected] Year-by-Year Scores 28-35 PHONE: 509-335-0265 (W) | 209-608-2173 (C) Year-by-Year Statistics | All-Time Statistics 36 All-Time Series Records 37-40 ATHLETIC WEBSITE: www.wsucougars.com Team Records 41 Individual Records 42-44 Athletic Honors 45 Academic Honors 46 All-Time Roster 47-48 3 WASHINGTON STATE WOMEN’S SOCCER 2019 INFORMATION GUIDE COACHING STAFF Todd SHULENBERGER Head Coach Fifth Season Todd Shulenberger enters his fifth season as the Cougars head coach. 19 in the final United Soccer Coaches’ poll. In addition to their run in the postseason, Shulenberger guided the Cougars to their biggest up- In just four seasons, coach Shulenberger has reshaped the Cougar set in program history when WSU took down No. 2, and eventual na- program in his image, taking the Cougars among the elite programs tional runner-up, UCLA, 1-0, at home on Oct. 19. Throughout the sea- in NCAA soccer. In four seasons, the Cougars have won 45 games in- son, the Cougars would boast the 12th ranked strength of schedule cluding a program-record 14 victories in Shulenberger’s first season. while shutting out five top-25 teams. In all, the Cougars would shutout Shulenberger became the second coach in program history to lead his 11 opponents on the year, the second most in program history. Three team out of the first round of the NCAA Tournament in back-to-back Cougars earned All-Pac-12 honors on the year with goalkeeper Ella season following in the footsteps of Matt Potter who took the Cougs Dederick and star forward Morgan Weaver earning third team awards to the second round in 2009 and 2010. In 2018, the Cougars broke a while Elyse Bennett took home all-freshman honors. Weaver would number of program records including beginning the season a per- go on to earn all-region honors as well. fect 10-0, the best start and longest win-streak in program history. The wins to start the year propelled WSU to a No. 7 ranking in the coaches Continuing to slowly change the program into his own image, Shulen- poll, the highest ranking in the history of Cougar soccer. berger oversaw a pair of Pac-12 All-Conference players in his second season as senior Kaitlyn Johnson took home second team honors By the end of the year, and despite injuries wreaking havoc on the while freshman Morgan Weaver earned all-freshman honors. Addi- WSU’s squad, the Cougars earned a home game in round one of the tionally, Weaver was named a TopDrawerSoccer.com Top-100 Fresh- NCAA Tournament. after posting a 9-1-1 record at home in the regular man after leading the Cougars with eight goals. season, the Cougs would tack on a record 10th home win in the tour- nament, dismantling Montana, 5-1, to advance to the second round In the classroom, 10 Cougars were named to the Pac-12 All-Academic of the NCAA Tournament for the second-straight year. In all, WSU fin- team with senior Susie White leading the way on the first team. As a ished the 2018 season with 13 wins, one-shy of the program record. team, the Cougars were earned a NSCAA Team Academic Award with On the field, the Cougs play was recognized repeatedly over the year a cumulative 3.19 GPA. by the Pac-12 with a conference best nine weekly awards, the most of any team in the conference on the season. Junior Morgan Weaver and In his first season at the helm of the Cougar soccer program, Shulenberg- senior Maddy Haro would earn all-region honors for their play with er guided WSU to a record-tying 14 wins.The Cougars boasted a perfect Weaver taking home first team honors. record (6-0-0) on the road in conference play for the first time since 2000. Shulenberger guided WSU to its fifth-straight postseason appearance. For the first time in program history, the Cougars, under Shulenberg- er, advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament in 2017. Trav- Implementing his new system, Shulenberger dominated the of- eling across the country, WSU took down No. 8 UCF, 1-0, to open the fensive side of the ball with 13 goal-scorers and 34 total goals. tournament before advancing past No. 20 Tennessee in a shootout to Washington State rose to as high as No. 16 in the national rank- advance to the sweet 16. The Cougars finished the season ranked No. ings before finishing at No. 23 in the country. The WSU backline 4 WASHINGTON STATE WOMEN’S SOCCER 2019 INFORMATION GUIDE COACHING STAFF » The Cougars have advanced to NCAA Tournament in 3 of 4 seasons including winning their first round game in back-to-back seasons » In 2017 WSU played its way into the third round of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history » WSU has won 45 games under Shulenberger including a record 14 wins in his inaugural season and 13 wins in 2018. allowed just 0.92 goals per game and held opponents to just 19 goals Missouri regularly assembled several of the top recruiting classes in in the season. The collegiate soccer world took note, honoring Shu- the country during Shulenberger’ s tenure, including a pair of classes lenberger’s first-year team with four NSCAA All-Pacific Region selec- in 2010 and 2011 that ranked in the top 10 nationally. tions, and four Pac-12 All-Conference honorees. Shulenberger arrived at Missouri following a two-year stint as an as- Academically, the Cougars saw their team GPA rise to 3.14 with eight sistant coach at Clemson where he also served as recruiting coordina- Pac-12 All-Academic selections. Junior Susie White picked up Pac-12 tor. He maintained the program’s budget and served as an assistant All-Academic First Team selection, while sophomore Sofia Anker-Ko- director for the Clemson camp program while with the Tigers, who foed was named to the second team. advanced to the NCAA Tournament in his first season in 2007. Shulenberger became the seventh head coach in program history af- Along with his collegiate experience, Shulenberger has worked on ter spending the previous two seasons as the associate head coach the club scene, spending 10 years as the Director of Coaching for the at Texas Tech. In 2014 the Red Raiders reached the third round of the TopHat Soccer Club based out of Atlanta. While at TopHat, Shulen- NCAA Championship and finished with a 16-4-2 record. berger oversaw player development and staff and also served as the club’s college placement advisor. During his stay with TopHat, Shu- The Red Raiders finished 18-2-3 overall in Shulenberger’s first sea- lenberger spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Georgia State son in Lubbock, snapping the single-season school record for wins en where he prepared and conducted practices while also assisting with route to an appearance in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.