2011 Media Guide
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2011 Milwaukee Panthers Women’s Soccer Media Guide Table of Contents/QuickPlayer Profi Facts les Table of Contents Quick Facts/Table of Contents 1 2011 Preview 2-3 Coaching Staff 4-7 Head Coach Michael Moynihan 4-5 Associate Head Coach David Nikolic 6 Coaches/Staff 7 Milwaukee Sports Information 8 2011 Milwaukee Panthers 9-31 Roster 9 Jamie Forbes 10 Mary Wandolowski 11 Sara Stern 12 Makenzie Gillaspie 13 Quick Facts Sarah Hagen 14-15 Keara Thompson 16 General Information Coaching Staff Helen Steinhauser 17 Name University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Head Coach Michael Moynihan City/Zip Milwaukee, Wis. 53211 Alma Mater, Year Wisconsin, 1990 Hannah Kaul 18 Founded 1885 Record at UWM 174-81-38 (14 years) Melanie Coderre 19 Enrollment 30,000 Career Record Same Laurel Ragalie 20 Nickname Panthers Associate Head Coach David Nikolic Caity Bestwina 21 Colors Black and Gold Alma Mater, Year Milwaukee, 1990 Demi Price 22 Home Stadium/Capacity Engelmann Stadium/2,000 Assistant Coach David Madsen Sammy Vovos 23 Affi liation NCAA Division I Alma Mater, Year Whitewater, 2003 Newcomers 24-26 Conference Horizon League Athletic Trainer Chad Henneberry 2010 in Review 27-30 Chancellor Michael Lovell 2010 Statistics 27 Director of Athletics Rick Costello Team Information 2010 Box Scores 28-29 Assoc. AD/SWA Kathy Litzau 2010 Record 12-7-2 2010 Horizon League in Review 30 Athletics Phone 414-229-5151 2010 League Record/Finish 6-2-0/t-1st Records 31-47 Ticket Offi ce Phone 414-229-5886 2010 League Tourn. Results v. Wright State - W, 2-0 Coaches Records 31 @ Butler - W, 5-0 Annual Leaders 32 Media Relations 2010 NCAA Tournament Wisconsin - L, 2-1 Individual Single-Game Records 33 Asst. SID/W-Soccer Contact Kevin Conway Letterwinners Returning/Lost 13/11 Individual Single-Season Records 34 Offi ce Phone 414-229-2413 Starters Returning/Lost 5/6 Individual Career Records 35 Cell Phone 414-750-0298 Newcomers/Redshirts 10/0 Team Records 36 E-mail [email protected] All-Time Series v. Opponents 37 SID Kevin O’Connor History All-Time Series Histories 38-41 Assistant SID Chris Zills First Year of Soccer 1984 Year-By-Year Results 41-45 SID Fax 414-229-5749 All-Time Record 267-174-50 (.595) All-Time Letterwinners 46-48 Press Box Phone 414-750-0298 NCAA Appearances/Last 8/2010 Award Winners 48-51 Internet www.uwmpanthers.com All-Time Tournament Record 0-8-2 Engelmann Stadium 52-IBC Laura Moynihan Field at Engelmann Stadium The Milwaukee Panthers play their home games on Laura Moynihan Field at Engelmann Stadium. The surfaced was renamed from Engelmann Field to Laura Moynihan Field in honor of the former women’s soccer coach prior to the 2011 season. In terms of the home of the Panthers, they play at Engelmann Stadium and on Laura Moynihan Field. Engelmann Field is no longer correct. If you have any questions, please contact the Milwaukee Sports Information offi ce. The 2011 Women’s Soccer Media Guide was written, designed and edited by Kevin Conway, Milwaukee Assistant Sports Informa- tion Director. Editorial assistance provided by Kevin O’Connor and Chris Zills of the UWM Sports Information Offi ce. Photographs courtesy of Trevor Thompson, Warren DeJardin, Jeff Golden, Joe Raymond, Marcus Snowden, and UWM Photographic Services. 1 Player2011 Season Profi les Preview 2011 Milwaukee Panthers Women’s Soccer Media Guide Panthers On Track To Continue Run In 2011 The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women’s third-straight season leading the league in goals seasons, she hit a lot of posts and was very close to soccer team has the pressure of maintaining a very and a campaign where she was named to the NSCAA scoring a lot of goals that didn’t materialize. Last year, impressive run in the Horizon League while expand- All-America First Team. She enters her senior season she broke through a little bit. If she can increase that ing its reputation beyond the region. But, with already the school and league leader in goals and by even a couple, I think that would be phenomenal.” 11-straight league regular season championships— points. She also had a second summer of interna- the second-longest streak in the nation—and fi ve tional competition with the U.S. U23 National Team. Gillaspie and Steinhauser have both been used in the NCAA Tournament appearances in the last six sea- attack and on defense in their careers. Each started sons, that pressure is hardly new. “She is defi nitely going to be a marked person,” out on defense as freshmen before gradually moving Moynihan said. “Whenever you are a physically big higher up on the attack. Gillaspie is one of the team’s Head coach Michael Moynihan and his staff have player and when you are dangerous, you will attract most versatile players, lending support on the back done a tremendous job of maintaining that level for attention and draw some fouls. People are going to line while also posing as a scoring threat. She has split well over a decade and 2011 should be no diff erent. be physical with you. People were very familiar with her time all over the fi eld but still put in three goals her, and that only grows. Her reputation has grown. and assisted on another last season. The Panthers return a fi ve-player senior class that is Everyone we play talks about her and, now that she looking to become the fi rst class in school history to has been playing well with the national team and Steinhauser moved from defense to the midfi eld as a play in four NCAA Tournaments. They also return over scoring goals for them, other countries know who she sophomore and could continue her ascension forward 87 percent of their off ense from a year ago. The ques- is. She’s not going to surprise anybody or sneak up on as a junior. She sparked the off ense from the midfi eld tion for this season will be can Milwaukee reload on anybody.” in 2010, fi nishing second on the team with six assists defense, where fi ve key players graduated after last while adding goals in each of the team’s two league season. All told, Hagen has scored 67 goals and 151 points in tournament games to fi nish with 10 points on the three season, both totals that are tops in the nation year. “The big question mark is that we graduated three in that time. She has also made three trips to Europe of our four starting defenders, so we have a lot of with the U23 team, scoring and starting all six games “(Steinhauser) started in the back and moved more youth back there,” Moynihan said. “It will be getting and fi nishing with seven goals and an assist. Last sea- into the midfi eld (in her fi rst two years),” Moynihan everybody on the same page and fi guring out who son, she scored 19 goals for Milwaukee and added six said. “We’ve been using her increasingly in attacking. works best together. I think it’s going to be a work assists. She was among the nation’s leaders in goals I think she has become more and more eff ective as in progress and we will get better as the season goes and points (44) for the third-straight season. an attacking player and I think she can complement on. Hopefully we can get things organized enough to (Hagen).” have an eff ective start to the season, but I expect us to “Sarah is going to be a marked player again so it will keep getting better as the season goes on. Even with be a matter of how do we attack as a team and do we The Panthers also return senior Laurel Ragalie and the youth, though, I think we have potential to have a have players that complement each other,” Moynihan sophomore Sara Stern at forward. Ragalie was limited strong defensive group.” said. “If we fi nd some other people to be a little more by injuries last season, but tallied 11 points in each threatening, certainly, that takes away from the abil- of her fi rst two seasons. She enters her senior cam- Moynihan is confi dent in the team’s off ense, as he ity of other teams to focus solely on her. I think we’ve paign among the team’s active leaders with 10 career should be. He returns 34-of-39 of last season’s goals, got that now. We have a few other good attacking op- scores. Stern was a spark late in the season, starting including one of the nation’s top goal scorers from the tions that will make it diff erent for other teams. The all three of the team’s post-season games up top. She last three years. other thing about Sarah is she makes very good deci- was named to the league’s all-tournament team, sions with the ball. If she’s not scoring, she can hold scoring the game-winner in the title game, and as- “We have some key individuals returning in our at- the ball on the attack and distributes very well. That sisted on an equalizing score in the NCAA Tournament tack, our two leading goal threats—Sarah Hagen part of her game is very, very good. Very rarely do you First Round. Despite her strong fi nish as a freshman, and Keara (Thompson). They were our leading point see her make a bad decision in terms of distribution.” Stern could fi nd herself helping out on defense, split- people last year and are coming back off very good, ting time between outside back and forward.