2008 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Women’s Soccer Prospectus Austin College • Birmingham-Southern Centre • DePauw • Hendrix • Millsaps Oglethorpe • Rhodes • Sewanee Southwestern • Trinity Past SCAC Champions Year School Conf. Overall Coach 1991 Rhodes College 2-0-0 10-3-1 Andy Marcinko 1992 Trinity University 3-0-0 16-5-0 Nick Cowell 1993 Trinity University 6-0-0 17-2-0 Nick Cowell 1994 Trinity University 7-0-0 14-4-1 Nick Cowell 1995 Trinity University 7-0-0 14-3-1 Nick Cowell 1996 Trinity University 7-0-0 15-3-1 Nick Cowell 1997 Trinity University 7-0-0 14-3-1 Nick Cowell 1998 Trinity University 8-0-0 17-1-3 Nick Cowell 1999 DePauw University 9-0-0 16-3-2 John Carter 2000 Trinity University 9-0-0 19-2-1 Greg Ashton 2001 Trinity University 9-0-0 15-3-0 Greg Ashton 2002 Trinity University 9-0-0 21-2-0 Greg Ashton 2003 DePauw University 9-0-0 15-5-1 John Carter 2004 Trinity University 8-0-0 16-1-0 Lance Key 2005 DePauw University 8-1-0 11-7-1 John Carter 2006 Trinity University 9-0-0 16-1-2 Lance Key 2007 Trinity University 8-0-1 13-3-2 Lance Key All Time SCAC Single Season Record Holders Individual Records Team Records Goals Scored Goals Scored Sara Morgan, Centre 26 (1998) Trinity – 102 (2000) Goals Scored Per Game Goals Scored Per Game Sara Morgan, Centre 1.44 (1998) Rhodes – 5.41 (1993) Assists Assists Erica Adelstein, Trinity 19 (2002) Trinity – 76 (1993) Assists Per Game Assists Per Game Tanya Zwick, Trinity 0.95 (1993) Trinity – 4.00 (1993) Points Team Defense Sara Morgan, Centre 64 (1998) Trinity – 0.1762 goals allowed per game (2004) Points Per Game Defensive Shutouts Sara Morgan, Centre 3.56 (1998) Trinity – 16 (1996) Saves Goal Differential Christine Koenig, Millsaps 352 (1998) Trinity – GF 101 / GA 11 / +90 Differential (1993) Goals Against Average Winning Percentage Stephanie Bull, Trinity 0.1918 (2004) Rhodes (1993) & Trinity (2004) - .941 SUWANEE, Ga. – The Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference is gearing up for what promises to be an exciting year in women’s soccer. Last year Trinity University won its second straight SCAC title and seventh since 2000. The Tigers advanced to post-season play as the lone representative of the SCAC losing in the first round to Hardin-Simmons University. One of the strongest women’s soccer conferences in the nation, it was the first time since 2004 that the SCAC has had less than two teams enter post-season play in the NCAA Tournament. With a bevy of talent returning the conference looks to play a major role in the national championship picture once again. Trinity University will enter the season certainly as one of the favorites in the conference. Coach Lance Key, now entering his fifth season, has the Tigers ranked pre-season 23rd in the nation according to the NSCAA poll. With seven starters returning to the roster, Trinity is poised for another SCAC title run, but the Tigers will have to replace last season’s SCAC Offensive-Player-of-the-Year Jennifer Wray. Wray, who was also named to the All-South region squad, helped lead the Tigers to the top of every offensive category in the conference in 2007. Junior midfielder Michelle Grumbeau just may be the answer to fill the large shoes left behind by Wray as she comes off a sophomore campaign in which she scored seven goals – two of which were game-winners. Defensively Trinity will have a new player between the posts with the graduation of Jennifer Fifield. Replacing Fifield will be a task as the Tigers allowed only 12 goals in 18 games last year which was good enough for 27th in goals against average in all of Division III last year. Southwestern University is coming off the most storied season it has experienced since joining the ranks of Division III. With a 7-2 mark in SCAC play, the Pirates finished second in the conference – the highest finish in school history. This year however begins a new chapter in the history of Southwestern women’s soccer with the hiring of first-year coach Jene’ Baclawski. Baclawski will inherit a team of 23 returning players and nine incoming freshman with nothing less than high expectations. Returning for the Pirates are a handful of All-SCAC selections from a year ago including sophomore forward Amy Douglas and senior goalkeeper Eryn Snyder. As a freshman Douglas was third in the conference in points (26) and second in goals (10), which included four game-winners. The senior keeper Snyder will provide leadership in the backfield that will try and improve on the seven shutouts the Pirates produced a year ago. Coming off a season in which it climbed to its highest-ever national ranking (17th), Rhodes College and its ten returning starters is excited to start a new season. Head coach Bobby Lessentine, now in his fourth season at the helm of the Lynx, has had success each season since he arrived back at his alma mater. In each of the past three seasons, he has guided his team to no fewer than eleven wins. Rhodes will be one of the most experienced teams in the SCAC with ten returning starters and seventeen returning letters winners (eight of which are seniors). These veterans will be joined by ten incoming players to form the largest team in Rhodes history. The Lynx will be lead by an experienced back line starting with senior captain Katy Joyner – a second team All-SCAC selection last year. Joining her will be goalkeeper Becca Clarin who lead the league in shutouts (7) in 2007 and was apart of a defense that provided ten games in which the opponents did not see the back of the net. Jay Hoffman has continued his success in Danville, Kentucky as Centre College has now won ten plus games over the past three seasons. Hoffman and the Colonels return eleven seniors from a team that went 11-6-1 a year ago. Leading that group will be Kate Anderson and Erin Menard. Anderson, the reigning SCAC Defensive-Player-of-the-Year, was also recognized by D3kicks.com by being named to the All-Great Lakes Region team. Menard returns as the league’s career active leading goal scorer with 49 goals, which places her tenth all time. The senior forward needs just nine goals this season to break into the SCAC’s top five for all-time leading goal scorers. The Colonels, who finished fourth in the league last year, will have a favorable home schedule that sets up a chance to make a run at the SCAC title. All three teams that finished ahead of Centre in the standings last year will visit the Colonels this year, which should make for some exciting soccer in Danville. With Coach John Carter entering his 19th season as the head coach of DePauw University, the Tigers are experiencing a feeling they have never had under his tutelage. Last season marked the first time DePauw has had a losing season in the 17 previous seasons under his leadership. However one streak did remain in tact and that was the team’s winning record in conference play. Since joining the league in 1998, the Tigers are one of only two teams that can stake that claim over that 10-year stretch. Seven seniors and sixteen letter winners return this year, led by senior defender Jacki Ponder. Ponder, a second team All-SCAC selection a year ago, will continue to anchor the Tiger backline. DePauw, only three years removed from their most recent SCAC title and the only other school other Trinity to win a conference title in the last fifteen years, will look to get back on top in ’08. Sewanee, with eight returning starters under the leadership of third-year coach Dylan Harrison, will look to improve on its .500 record a year ago. Leading the Tigers will be two all conference selections from 2007 – Fritsl Butler and Allison Davis. Butler, who earned first team honors as a first-year player, will lead the midfield as just a sophomore. Davis, a third team selection, returns after finishing second in the conference last season in game-winning goals with four. The Tigers however will be challenged this year on the Mountain with not only a grueling conference schedule but also with four non-conference opponents that reached the NCAA Tournament just a year ago. Austin College returns to the pitch after its eleventh straight winning season under coach Paul Burns. Even more impressive is that the soccer program has only been around in Sherman, Texas for twelve years. The Roo’s will be led by a handful of returning players starting with LeAnne Nguyen. Nguyen was honored with first team All-SCAC last year and was also named the teams MVP for the second straight year. Senior Holly Messamore returns to ignite the offense and has led the ‘Roos in goals scored each of her previous three seasons. Defensively Austin looks to be strong again after surrendering just 16 goals all of last season with the return of three starters. Of the group goalkeeper Kaitlin Elledge, who finished fourth in the league in goals against average (1.03), will be poised for her sophomore campaign. Coach Paul van Hooydonk enters his sixth season at Millsaps and there seems to be a different buzz around his team this year. The Majors are coming off their most successful season since 1995 and are looking to build off that success.