UW Sports Information 1440 Monroe Street Madison, WI 53711 Phone: (608) 262-1811 W I S C O N S I N Fax: (608) 262-8184 2001 Badger women’s Soccer Contact: Dan Uttech, 265-3545 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: UWBADGERS.COM Release Date: Sept. 4, 2001

GAME 3: at Oakland UPCOMING EVENTS DATE: Friday, Sept. 7, 2001 TIME: 3 p.m. BADGERS CONTINUE ROAD TRIP - The Badgers remain on the road this SITE: OU Soccer Field, Rochester, Mich. weekend, traveling east to face Oakland and Notre Dame. faces the Oakland Golden Grizzlies (2-0) Sept. 7 at 3:00 p.m. Formerly known as GAME 4: at Notre Dame State University - Oakland, OU is located in Michigan’s Oakland County, not on DATE: Sunday, Sept. 9, 2001 the Pacific Coast. TIME: Noon SITE: Alumni Field, South Bend, Ind. NUMBER THREE’S COMPANY - The Badgers will be thinking ‘upset’ when they step on the field Sunday, Sept. 7 at Alumni Field in South Bend, Ind. Currently ranked third, Notre Dame (2-0) finished last year ranked third after hold- Quick Facts ing the top spot.

ROCKY ROCOCO = HOME OPENER - The McClimon Soccer Complex will About the Badgers be a welcome sight for the Badgers when they return home for the annual Rocky 2000-01 Overall Record...... 1-1-0 Rococo Invitational. After opening the season with four road contests, the 2000-01 Conference Record...... 0-0-0 Badgers’ first home game pits UW against Maine, Sept. 14 at 5 p.m. In the Badgers’ second game of the weekend, they’ll take on Evansville, Sept. 15 at 2 Head Coach...... Dean Duerst p.m. The Badgers compete at McClimon Soccer Complex on the west end of the Alma Mater...... Wisconsin UW campus. Record at Wisconsin...... 87-52-17 (7 years) Overall Record...... Same Assistant Coaches...... John Reddan NOTES OF THE WEEK ...... Kristie Braunston DUERST AT NEWS CONFERENCE - Badgers’ coach Dean Duerst will be in 2001 Schedule attendance at the weekly UW news conference in the W Club room of Camp Aug. 31...... at , W 4-2 Randall Stadium Monday, Sept. 10. Duerst will be available for interviews follow- Sept. 2...... at Colorado College, L1-2 Sept. 7...... at Oakland, 3 p.m. ing UW football coach Barry Avarez’s usual question and answer forum. Duerst Sept. 9...... at Notre Dame, Noon will review the Badgers’ first four games of the season and look forward to his Sept. 14...... Maine, 5 p.m. team’s home opener against Maine in the Rocky Rococo Invitational. Sept. 15...... Evansville, 2 p.m. Sept. 21...... Purdue, 7 p.m. TAGGART TO HALL OF FAME - Former Badger goalkeeper Heather Taggart Sept. 23...... , Noon (1988-91) will be inducted to the UW Athletic Department National W Club Hall of Sept. 28...... at Michigan State, 3 p.m. Fame Friday at the Camp Randall Memorial Sports Center at 6:30 p.m. The only Sept. 30...... at Michigan, Noon two-time first team all-American in women’s soccer, Taggart led the Badgers to Oct. 5...... , 7 p.m. their second-place finish at the 1991 NCAA Championship. The four-time all- Oct. 7...... , Noon region selection was named the 1991 adidas Goalkeeper of the Year. Taggart was Oct. 10...... UW-Milwaukee, 7 p.m. also a 1992 first team Academic all-American and three-time Academic all-Big Oct. 14...... , Noon Ten selection. Named Wisconsin’s Female Athlete of the Year in 1992, Taggart Oct. 19...... at Penn State, 6 p.m. was also the Big Ten Medal of Honor recipient in that same year. Oct. 21...... at State, 1 p.m. Oct. 26...... Northestern, 7 p.m. Oct. 28...... Marquette, 3 p.m. THE RANKINGS Nov. 2...... at Illinois State, 3 p.m. Nov. 4...... at St. Louis, 1 p.m. BUZZ WORTHY - The Badgers are ranked 8th in the Great Lakes Region by Nov. 8-11 ...... Big Ten Championship the Soccer Buzz preseason poll. UW fell one spot after being ranked 7th in the Home matches in bold, All times Central preseason poll. Wisconsin finished last year ranked No. 5 by Soccer Buzz in the Great Lakes Region. UW opponents in the regional top 10 include No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 2 Illinois, No. 4 Purdue, No. 5 Oakland, No. 6 Marquette and No. 7 Polls Evansville.

LAST SEASON - The Badgers were ranked as high as No. 20 in the National NSCAA/adidas National Rankings Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) women’s NCAADivision I Sept. 3, 2001 national poll. Wisconsin debuted at No. 24 (Oct. 16) and jumped to the No. 20 1. North Carolina position during the last week of October. The Badgers finished the season receiv- 2. UCLA ing votes in the national poll and No. 4 in the NSCAA Great Lakes regional polls. 3. Notre Dame 4. 5. Portland ON THE SIDELINE 6. Virginia 7. Santa Clara - In seven years as head coach of the 8. Penn State HEAD COACH DEAN DUERST Badgers, Duerst has led Wisconsin to the NCAAs five times. Under Duerst, UW 9. Connecticut 10. Texas A&M has also captured one Big Ten regular season title and one Big Ten Tournament 11. Clemson championship. The Badgers have finished in the top 20 nationally three times 12. Cal-Berkeley under Duerst’s tutelage and finished second in the Big Ten four times, including 13. Florida State last year. 14. Maryland Duerst began his work with the UW women’s program in 1987 as an assistant 15. Washington coach and helped guide the Badgers to their 1988 NCAA semifinal appearance 16. Stanford and 1991 NCAA second-place finish. 17. Texas As head coach of the 1993 U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team, Duerst 18. Illinois gained international experience and the team captured first place in the 19. Massachusetts Montricoux Tournament in France. 20. Florida A midfielder on the Wisconsin men’s team from 1981-83, Duerst captained the 21. Tennessee team in 1982 and 1983. He was selected second team all-America Midwest in 22. William & Mary 1992 and was named to the first team in 1983. 23. Arizona State 24. BRAUNSTON A BRAND NEW BADGER - Kristie Braunston, a former gradu- 25. Hartford ate assistant coach at Texas Christian University, begins her first season as an Also mentioned: Wake Forest, BYU, assistant coach at Wisconsin. Harvard, Georgia, Baylor, San Diego, Braunston was a graduate assistant coach at TCU from August 1999 to August Oakland 2001. From May 1998 to May 1999, Braunston was an assistant coach for Louisiana State’s women’s soccer program. Braunston has also worked various Soccer Buzz National Rankings summer soccer camps. Sept. 3, 2001 This summer, Braunston played for the Texas Odyssey in the United Soccer 1. North Carolina 2. UCLA League’s W-1 League. The 37-team W-League includes both current and former 3. Notre Dame college players and is classified as an open league, allowing collegiate players to 4. Portland play with professionals. 5. California Braunston was a three-year starter at Vanderbilt from 1995-97 and was select- 6. Virginia ed to the SEC All-Tournament team in 1997. A member of the Dean’s List, 7. Penn State Braunston was academic all-SEC and served on the Student Athletic Advisory 8. Stanford Board at Vanderbilt. She also started at outside midfield for the U.S. Soccer 9. Nebraska Festival South Team in 1996 and 1997. 10. Santa Clara 11. Washington 12. Florida State 13. Clemson 14. Connecticut Soccer Buzz Great Lakes 15. Texas A&M Regional Rankings 16. Florida Sept. 3, 2001 17. Texas 1. Notre Dame 18. Arizona State 2. Illinois 19. William & Mary 3. Kentucky 20. Illinois 4. Purdue 21. Wake Forest 5. Oakland 22. SMU 6. Marquette 23. Kentucky 7. Evansville 24. West Virginia 8. Wisconsin 25. Maryland 9. Ohio State Receiving votes: BYU, Hartford, Harvard, 10. Michigan NC State, Purdue, San Diego, Tennessee Receiving votes: Dayton, Indiana, Iowa PLAYER PROFILES

Big Ten Standings VERMEULEN REPRESENTS FOR ROOKIES, AGAIN - In the Badgers’ season opener against Colorado, Amy Vermeulen (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) scored the first goal of the game and the first of her collegiate career in the first School Overall Big Ten half of UW’s 4-2 win over the Buffs. Vermuelen later assisted on a goal to give her Illinois 2-0-0 0-0 Ohio State 2-0-0 0-0 three points in the game. Vermeulen is one of 12 first-year players on this year’s Indiana 1-0-0 0-0 soccer squad and will also be a rookie for another Badger team: women’s hockey. Michigan State 1-0-1 0-0 Iowa 1-1-0 0-0 ‘ROED’ WARRIOR - The Badgers’ top returning scorer, Natalie Roedler Minnesota 1-1-0 0-0 (Mendota Heights, Minn.) scored a goal and registered an assist against Northwestern 1-1-0 0-0 Colorado in Wisconsin’s first game of the season. Roedler, who had 16 points in Purdue 1-1-0 0-0 2000, shares the team point lead (3) with Vermeulen. Wisconsin 1-1-0 0-0 Penn State 1-1-0 0-0 WE ARE FAMILY - Sophomore Jenny Kundert (Madison, Wis.) and senior Michigan 0-2-0 0-0 Kelly Kundert (Madison, Wis.), are once again setting up Wisconsin with a con- siderable advantage. The sisters have an uncanny ability to know where the other is going on the field before the other one gets there. Against Colorado, Kelly tal- Last Week’s Results lied her first goal of the year off an assist by Jenny.

August CONWAY’S HOMECOMING - Last weekend, junior Kelly Conway (Littleton, 31 ILLINOIS def. Iowa State 6-0 Colo.) had no trouble adjusting to the mile-high state. Conway was born in INDIANA def. Cincinnati 1-0 Englewood, Colo., grew up in Littleton, Colo., and attended Arapahoe High IOWA def. UW-Milwaukee 1-0 School. A member of the 1999 women’s amateur national champion Colorado Loyola Marymount def. MICHIGAN 1-0 Rush, Conway faced many former teammates when Wisconsin battled Colorado MICHIGAN STATE def. W. Michigan 2-0 and Colorado College. Against Colorado, Conway made a momentum-altering MINNESOTA def. Xavier 1-0 save against Heather Zonker - a former Arapahoe teammate - and led the NORTHWESTERN def. Utah State 2-1 Badgers to victory. OHIO STATE def. Wright State 2-1 Notre Dame def. PENN STATE 2-1 A SURE BET(Z) - Vermeulen has been a rookie force for the Badgers, register- PURDUE def. Georgetown 3-1 ing three points in one game, but she isn’t the only talented freshman. Kristen WISCONSIN def. Colorado 4-2 Betz (Pewaukee, Wis.) has started her first two collegiate games, tallied three shots and registered an assist on the Badgers’ lone goal against Colorado September College. 2 ILLINOIS def. Kansas 4-3 Marquette def. IOWA 2-1 DEPTH OFF THE BENCH - Sophomore Tia Dale (Stoughton, Wis.) doesn’t California def. MICHIGAN 4-2 just score goals; she scores important goals. After playing in just eight games and MICHIGAN STATE t. Bowling Green 1-1 taking only two shots last season, Dale tallied her first career goal over the week- Cincinnati def. MINNESOTA 2-0 end. It was also the game winner against Colorado. Dale found the back of the OHIO STATE def. Kent State 5-0 PENN STATE def. Connecticut 2-0 net at 73:54 to break a 2-2 tie in a tight game. SMU def. PURDUE 2-1 Colorado College def. WISCONSIN 2-1 GIMME FIVE - If the first two games are any indication for the rest of the year, Wisconsin will have a very balanced scoring attack this season. Five different Badgers have scored UW’s five goals this season. Vermeulen, Kelly Kundert, Dale, Roedler and Wynter Pero (Chicago Heights, Ill.) have tallied scores for UW. The Badgers’ six assists, which rank second in the Big Ten, have also been accumulated by five different players. Jenny Kundert (2), Roedler, Lisa Himrod (St. Charles, Ill.), Vermeulen and Betz have registered assists. 2001 Badger Women’s Soccer Roster

No. Player Ht. Pos. Yr./Elig. Hometown/High School/Last School 2 Kristen Betz 5-8 MF Fr. Pewaukee, WI/Catholic Memorial, Waukesha, WI 16 Sarah Capel 5-6 MF Fr. New Berlin, WI/Nathan Hale, West Allis, WI 4 Lindsay Chavez 5-3 D So. Shorewood, WI/Shorewood 1 Kelly Conway 5-7 GK Jr. Littleton, CO/Arapahoe 13 Tia Dale 5-8 F Jr./So. Stoughton, WI/Stoughton 22 Marla Froelich 5-4 F Fr. Iowa City, IA/Iowa City West 30 Bethany Heine 5-3 D Jr. Waukesha, WI/Waukesha South 7 Lisa Himrod 5-3 MF So. St. Charles, IL/St. Charles 24 Shelby Johnson 5-2 MF Sr. Madison, WI/West 21 Jenny Jurkowski 5-5 MF Sr./Jr. Madison, WI/West 26 Becky Katsma 5-8 D Fr. Plymouth, WI/Plymouth 23 Katie Kincaid 5-6 D Fr. Granite Bay, CA/Granite Bay 15 Toni Koram 5-5 MF So. Ann Arbor, MI/Ann Arbor 17 Jenny Kundert 5-7 MF So. Madison, WI/West 8 Kelly Kundert 5-5 F Sr. Madison, WI/West 01 Lisa Mattiacci 5-7 GK So./Fr. Brookfield, WI/East 3 Molly Meuer 5-6 MF Fr. Madison, WI/Memorial 18 Elly Patterson 5-5 D So. Atlanta, GA/Paideia 20 Wynter Pero 5-2 F Sr. Chicago Heights, IL/Mother McAuley 10 Anne Poulin 5-10 D So. St. Charles, IL/St. Charles/Arizona State 29 Jessica Ring 5-8 D Fr. Rockford, IL/Guilford 5 Natalie Roedler 5-7 F Sr. Mendota Heights, MN/Cretin-Derham Hall, St. Paul, MN 9 Allie Rogosheske 5-4 D Sr. St. Cloud, MN/Tech 19 Esther Schmidt 5-6 D Fr. Berkeley, CA/Berkeley 14 Lauren Schmidt 5-9 F Jr. Milwaukee, WI/Divine Savior-Holy Angels 27 Amy Shapiro 5-3 MF Fr. Santa Rosa, CA/Montgomery 11 Amy Vermeulen 5-6 MF Fr. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan/Marion M Graham Collegiate 6 Brooke Vanderby 5-10 D Fr. Madison, WI/Memorial 25 Jessica Wolff 5-4 F Jr. Watertown, WI/Watertown 12 Katrina Ziaja 5-4 MF Fr. Hartland, WI/Arrowhead 00 Jodi Zilinski 5-8 GK Sr. Brookfield, WI/Divine Savior-Holy Angels