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BIG TEN RUNNER-UP BADGERS WRAP REGULAR SEASON AT .500 THE BADGERS In a suprising twist for the Big Ten standings, Wisconsin and four other Conference 2002 Regular Season schools ended the regular season tied for second place with 3-3 conference records. Overall Record ...... 9-10-0 While raced to first place with 6-0 record for the Hoosiers and Overall Home/Away ...... 5-3-0/3-7-0 Northwestern fell by the wayside with a 0-6 record, Wisconsin joined , Big Ten Regular Season Record...... 3-3-0 Michigan State, State and Penn State all tied up entering the Conference Championships. Big Ten Regular Season Finish ...... T-2nd Highlighting the regular season, the Badgers kickstarted 2002 with three-straight Big Ten Championship Finish ...... T-5th shutouts and a sweep of both the Rocky Rococo-Wisconsin Soccer Classic and the Gonzaga Nike Soccer Classic. Coaching Staff In Conference play, the Badgers knocked off No. 20 Penn State 2-1 on Oct. 6 in Head Coach ...... Jeff Rohrman addition to later defeating both Michigan State and Northwestern. Both UW’s 1-0 over- Alma Mater ...... UW-Milwaukee, 1986 time loss to Ohio State (Sept. 27) and the 3-2 loss to Michigan (Oct. 20) were nailbiters Record at UW ..9-10-0, 3-3-0 Big Ten (first year) for Wisconsin. The Badgers held the Buckeyes scoreless throughout regulation, while Overall Record...... Same Bucky rallied back from a two-goal deficit to tie the Wolverines 2-2 before falling in the Assistant Coach ...... Jon Szczepanski final minutes. Alma Mater ...... UW-Milwaukee, 2001 UW’s contest against Michigan capped a three-game home stretch of five days, Oct. 16-20, where Wisconsin also held No. 11 UW-Milwaukee scoreless throughout regula- Assistant Coach ...... Nick Pasquarello tion, before the Panthers scored a lone goal against the Badgers in the 92nd minute for Alma Mater...... Wisconsin, 1994 the 1-0 decision. Team Manager ...... Phil Ayoub Captains ...... Valentine Anozie and John McGrady UW ENDS SEASON AT BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS Down 1-0 after an early Penn State goal in the 19th minute, the Wisconsin men’s soccer team barraged the Nittany Lions’ net in the closing minutes of Game Two of the Big Ten STORYLINES Championship tournament, but the Badgers ran out of time and out of season in the • Wisconsin finished its season with a 1-0 loss to first-round loss. eventual Big Ten tournament champions Penn State Penn State moved on to knock off No. 3 Indiana 2-1 with a 4-3 shootout victory followed by a 2-1 decision over Michigan in the Big Ten Championship Game for the at the Conference Championships in State College, tournament title. Both Penn State and Indiana received NCAA bids. Pa., Nov. 14. • The Badgers finished the regular season at .500 HEAD COACH JEFF ROHRMAN and tied for second place in the Big Ten with a 3-3 A Minnesotan by birth and former UW-Milwaukee MVP, in addition to professional soc- record. UW tied Big Ten opponents Michigan, cer player and a top-collegiate recruiter, first-year head coach Jeff Rohrman arrived at Michigan State, Ohio State and Penn State for the Wisconsin last January fresh from seven years as an assistant coach at nationally-ranked runner-up honors. Maryland. • The Big Ten named Wisconsin sophomore Nick Now 9-10-0 overall and 3-3-0 in the Conference, Rohrman led the Badgers to a .500 Van Sicklen as a first-team All-Big Ten selection. The record and a Big Ten runner-up finish in the regular season. award is Van Sicklen’s first All-Big Ten honor. The Badgers also earned their first national ranking since 1997 on Sept. 9, while • Three Badgers - Eric Hanson, Joe Anderson and three Badgers earned Big Ten Player of the Week honors and Nick Van Sicklen represent- Valentine Anozie - earned Big Ten Player of the ed UW as a first-team All-Big Ten selection. Week Honors in 2002. VAN SICKLEN EARNS FIRST-TEAM ALL-BIG TEN HONOR • Six Badgers earned Academic All-Big Ten honors: Wisconsin sophomore Nick Van Sicklen, a midfield/forward with the Badger men’s soccer Valentine Anozie, Noah Goerlitz, Eric Hanson, John team, was named a first-team All-Big Ten selection at the men’s soccer Big Ten McGrady, Christian Poppert and Nick Van Sicklen. Championship banquet. The award is Van Sicklen’s first All-Big Ten honor. A Madison, Wis., native and graduate of Madison West High School, Van Sicklen tal - lied seven goals and five assists to lead the Badgers in scoring with 19 points in 2002. He ranks first in both total goals and points on the team, while he is tied with teammate Erol Goknur for most assists. In just two years wearing the cardinal and white for Wisconsin, Van Sicklen’s totaled 10 goals and 10 assists for 30 points. He has played and started 17 of 19 games for UW this year, missing two due to a leg injury. He also was named the Offensive Making it two-straight for the SPREADING THE ATTACK MVP of the Gonzaga Nike Soccer Badgers, the Conference named sopho- Unlike past seasons for Wisconsin, the Classic after Wisconsin posted two more Joe Anderson the Defensive Player Badgers’ 2002 scoring was not an shutouts over Gonzaga and Oregon of the Week for Sept 9. individual effort. State to sweep the tournament held Anderson, the Badgers’ 2001 Most Three UW players - Nick Van Sept. 6-8. Outstanding Freshman, helped lead Sicklen, Phil Doeh and Valentine Anozie Wisconsin to four straight defensive - all hit double-digits in points scored FAN SUPPORT GROWS FOR shutouts to start the 2002 season, as this season, while a total of eight players BADGERS WITH ROHRMAN UW allowed just one goal from a recorded one goal or more during the Under first-year head coach Jeff penalty kick in the first four games. regular season. Rohrman, the Wisconsin men’s soccer Senior co-captain Valentine team ended its season with a 1-0 loss to Anozie’s Offensive Player of the Week FRESHMEN FIREPOWER eventual Big Ten Champion Penn State honor on Oct. 7 completed the Badger Wisconsin’s freshmen class built an at the Conference Championship Nov. trifecta, in addition to marking Anozie’s impressive portfolio in 2002 as seven 14 in State College, Pa. second P.O.W. career award. young Badgers recorded minutes on the However, the Badgers’ record, 9-10- field, while three frosh broke into the 0 overall and 3-3 in the Big Ten, doesn’t UW CLIMBS TO NO. 22 regular line-up for UW. clearly reflect the success that Rohrman Wisconsin returned to the Division I Leading the way, true freshman and his assistant coaches, Jon national polls on Sept. 9 after the Alec Neal started and played 18 of Szczepanski and Nick Pasquarello, have Badgers earned a No. 22 ranking in the Wisconsin’s 19 total games this year. A begun to build in the program. National Soccer Coaches Association of member of the Badger backline, Neal Most evident in UW fan support, America/adidas standings. The season- talllied his first career point, an assist, the Badger men’s soccer page on high ranking marked UW’s first national against Gonzaga on Sept. 6. UWBADGERS.com experienced a 200 poll position since 1997. Offensively, true freshmen Phil percent increase in hits this past Doeh and Pat Cronan both earned sig- September, as compared to September WISCONSIN’S MVPS nificant playing and starting time. of 2001. Additionally, attendance also The Badgers completed a two-tourna- Doeh ranks second in scoring with grew at the McClimon Soccer Complex ment sweep of MVP honors this year 6-1=13, including UW’s only hat trick of as the Badgers’ crowd of fans grew 50 after cleaning out all four awards at the the season in a 4-3 double-overtime percent from last year’s per-game Rocky Rococo-Wisconsin Soccer Classic win against -Chicago on Sept 15, average. and the Gonzaga Nike Soccer Classic. while Cronan scored his first career goal Sophomores David Martinez and against Michigan on Oct. 20 and is 1- BADGERS EARN BIG TEN Eric Hanson picked up the Offensive 2=4 overall this season. ACADEMIC HONORS and Defensive Most Valuable Player Six members of the Wisconsin men’s awards respectively at the Rococo BIG TEN NUMBER CRUNCH soccer team earned Academic All-Big Classic, while fellow classmates Nick • Among all Big Ten goalies, sopho- Ten honors this fall with cumulative Van Sicklen and Joe Anderson swept the more keeper Eric Hanson finished third grade point averages of 3.0 or higher. Offensive and Defensive MVP awards in the Conference with 77 saves overall, Proving they’re leaders both on and respectively at the Nike Classic in averaging 4.05 saves per game. off the field, 2002 team co-captains Spokane, Wash. Hanson also tied Michigan’s Peter Valentine Anozie and John McGrady Dzubay for sixth place with five both earned the honor. OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN shutouts overall this season. Fellow senior Christian Poppert Wisconsin’s 2002 team co-captains, also joins his teammates in the acco- Valentine Anozie and John McGrady, • In the front line, true freshman Phil lades, in addition to sophomores Noah led the Badgers by example in 2002. Doeh finished his first season as a Goerlitz, Eric Hanson and Nick Anozie, a forward serving his sec- Badger tied for fifth place in the Big Ten Van Sicklen. ond term as team captain, and McGrady, a core component of the with three game-winning goals. BADGERS HIT THE TRE FOR Badger backline, started and played in PLAYERS OF THE WEEK all 19 games of 2002, in addition to • Sophomore Nick Van Sicklen finished Three Badgers earned Big Ten Player of leading the entire team in total minutes seventh in total goals and ninth in total the Week honors this year, including played this season. points among all Big Ten men’s soccer two consecutive Defensive selections. A native of Nigeria who currently players. Keeper Eric Hanson shared the first lives in Toronto, Ont., Anozie ranks third Defensive honor of 2002, with Indiana’s on the team for scoring with 4-3=11. • Van Sicklen and teammate Erol John Swann on Sept. 2, after posting McGrady, who hails from West Bend, Goknur both placed eighth in the Big two shutouts during his net debut for Wis., has tallied two assists as a Badger Ten with five assists this season. the Badgers at the Rocky Rococo- defenseman this season. Wisconsin Soccer Classic. Hanson, a Madison native, collected four saves as the Badgers shutout both Iona and Florida Atlantic. 2002 MEN’S SOCCER SCHEDULE & RESULTS

DAY DATE OPPONENT (RANKING) TIME/RESULT UW GOAL SCORERS (GW) Saturday Aug. 17 NORTHERN ILLINOIS# W, 2-1 Goerlitz, Van Sicklen Monday Aug. 26 at Milwaukee Select Team# L, 0-1 ---

Rocky Rococo Classic, Madison, Wis. Friday Aug. 30 IONA W, 4-0 Anozie, Martinez, Van Sicklen, Prather Sunday Sept. 1 FLORIDA ATLANTIC W, 1-0 Martinez (2)

Gonzaga Invitational, Spokane, Wash. Friday Sept. 6 at Gonzaga W, 2-0 Anozie (2), Van Sicklen (2) Sunday Sept. 8 vs. Oregon State W, 2-1 Doeh, Prather (2)

Friday Sept. 13 at Valparaiso L, 2-1 Goknur Sunday Sept. 15 at Illinois-Chicago W, 4-3 (2ot) Doeh, Van Sicklen (3), Doeh, Doeh (4) Wednesday Sept. 18 at UW-Green Bay L, 1-0 (1ot) ------Friday Sept. 20 EASTERN ILLINOIS W, 1-0 Nord (1) Friday Sept. 27 at Ohio State* L, 1-0 (ot) ------Sunday Sept. 29 at Xavier L, 3-2 Van Sicklen, Van Sicklen (5)

Sunday Oct. 6 PENN STATE* (20) W, 2-1 Van Sicklen (6), Martinez (3) Friday Oct. 11 Indiana* (4) L, 5-1 Anozie (3) Wednesday Oct. 16 UW-MILWAUKEE (11) L, 1-0 (ot) ------Friday Oct. 18 DARTMOUTH L, 2-0 ------Sunday Oct. 20 MICHIGAN* L, 3-2 Cronan, Anozie (4) Sunday Oct. 27 at Michigan State* W, 2-1 Van Sicklen (7), Doeh (5)

Saturday Nov. 2 NORTHWESTERN* W, 1-0 Doeh (6) Saturday Nov. 9 at Marquette L, 3-0 ------

Wisconsin Record: 9-9-0 overall and 3-3-0 in the Big Ten

Big Ten Conference Championship, University Park, Pa. Thursday Nov. 14 Game 1: No. 3 Ohio State vs. No. 6 Michigan State Michigan State 3, Ohio State 2 Game 2: No. 4 Penn State vs. No. 5 Wisconsin Penn State 1, Wisconsin 0 Game 3: No. 2 Michigan vs. No. 7 Northwestern Michigan 1, Northwestern 0

Friday Nov. 15 Semifinal 1: No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 5 Penn State Penn State 2, Indiana 1 (4-2 PK) Semifinal 2: No. 6 Michigan State vs. No. 2 Michigan Michigan 1, Michigan State 0

Sunday Nov. 17 Championship Game: No. 5 Penn State vs. No. 2 Michigan Penn State 2, Michigan 1

All times are CENTRAL Home games in CAPS are held at the McClimon Soccer Complex # indicates exhibition games * indicates Big Ten games For ticket information call 1-800-GO-BADGERS 2002 MEN’S SOCCER STATISTICS

Wisconsin Overall Individual Statistics (as of Nov. 18, 2002) All games

Overall: 9-10-0 Conference: 3-3-0 Home: 5-3-0 Away: 3-7-0 Neutral: 1-0-0

## Name GP-GS G A Pts Sh Shot% SOG SOG% GW PK-ATT 3 Van Sicklen, Nick 17-17 7 5 19 37 .189 19 .514 0 0-0 15 Doeh, Phil 19-8 6 1 13 25 .240 14 .560 3 0-0 10 Anozie, Valentine 19-19 4 3 11 28 .143 21 .750 2 1-2 9 Martinez, David 19-16 3 3 9 23 .130 14 .609 2 0-0 8 Goknur, Erol 19-15 1 5 7 27 .037 14 .519 0 0-0 14 Prather, Watson V 19-11 2 1 5 13 .154 5 .385 1 0-0 13 Nord, Ryan 18-15 1 2 4 12 .083 3 .250 1 0-0 21 Cronan, Pat 16-2 1 2 4 11 .091 5 .455 0 0-0 12 McGrady, John 19-19 0 2 2 8 .000 1 .125 0 0-0 16 Neal, Alec 18-18 0 1 1 6 .000 1 .167 0 0-0 2 Goerlitz, Noah 17-17 0 1 1 3 .000 1 .333 0 0-0 20 Insko, Erik 9-5 0 0 0 6 .000 2 .333 0 0-0 4 Sinaise, Aymar 15-4 0 0 0 5 .000 2 .400 0 0-0 18 Jones, Phil 10-0 0 0 0 4 .000 2 .500 0 0-0 5 Epp, Mike 9-2 0 0 0 3 .000 2 .667 0 0-0 11 Smith, Perry 6-1 0 0 0 2 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 7 Anderson, Joe 17-17 0 0 0 2 .000 2 1.000 0 0-0 24 Poppert, Christian 7-1 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 22 Lipinski, C.J. 7-3 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 17 Byers, Seth 4-0 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 1 Hanson, Eric 19-19 0 0 0 0 .000 0 .000 0 0-0 Total...... 19 25 26 76 215 .116 108 .502 9 1-2 Opponents...... 19 28 28 84 213 .131 108 .507 10 3-3

## Name GP-GS Minutes GA Avg Saves Pct W L T Sho 1 Hanson, Eric 19-19 1738:42 28 1.45 77 .733 9 10 0 5 Total...... 19 1738:42 28 1.45 80 .741 9 10 0 5 Opponents...... 19 1738:42 25 1.29 82 .766 10 9 0 6 Team saves: 3

GOALS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total FOULS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Wisconsin 12 12 0 1 25 Wisconsin 138 123 2 0 263 Opponents 10 15 3 0 28 Opponents 185 173 8 0 366

SHOTS BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total ATTENDANCE SUMMARY WIS OPP Wisconsin 104 103 7 1 215 Total 6312 6656 Opponents 78 131 4 0 213 Dates/Avg Per Date 8/789 10/666 Neutral Site #/Avg 1/150 SAVES BY PERIOD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Wisconsin 37 42 1 0 80 Opponents 46 33 3 0 82

CORNER KICKS BY PRD 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total Wisconsin 33 34 0 0 67 Opponents 23 42 1 0 66