THE SENIOR / THE CAPTAINS #20 • LINDSAY CARTER MIDFIELDER/FORWARD • 5-2 • SR./SR. HILLIARD, OHIO (DARBY) CARTER AND THE FALCONS: Helped the Falcons to the 2004 MAC Tournament title, and both the regular-season and tourney titles in 2005 ... BGSU advanced to the NCAA Champi- onships each year ... the Falcons have advanced to the champion- ship match of the MAC Tournament in each of her three seasons. 2006: A BGSU co-captain ... enters the season as BGSU’s active career scoring leader, with 18 points on six goals and six assists. 2005: Played in all 23 contests, starting 20 ... fi nished fi fth on the team in scoring, with 10 points ... fourth on the Falcons with four goals ... netted both of the team’s goals in a 2-1 win at Central Michigan ... that performance earned her the MAC Player-of-the-Week honor on Oct. 24 ... also scored in home wins over Buffalo and Cleveland State ... had an assist in the Falcons’ regular-season title-clinching win at Toledo, and also assisted on the lone goal in a 1-0 win over Akron ... started the fi nal 17 matches of the year, including all 11 MAC contests, the three league tourney matches and the NCAA fi rst-round game vs. Michigan State. 2004: Played in 23 matches, making 19 starts ... scored fi ve points, on two goals and one assist ... fi rst collegiate points came at an opportune time, as she had the fi nal two goals in 3-0 win over Toledo as BGSU clinched a MAC Tournament berth ... those two goals came just 7:25 apart ... named the MAC Player of the Week for that effort at UT ... followed that with an assist in the league tourney quarterfi nal win at Kent State ... started 16 of the season’s fi rst 17 matches, and also started the fi nal three contests of the year ... named to the MAC’s Academic Honor Roll. 2003: Played in 21 matches in her fi rst season, making one start ... had three assists, all com- ing in one-goal wins ... fi rst collegiate point was an assist in the Akron match ... also had assists on the road vs. Miami and Northern Illinois ... initial collegiate start came in the regular-season match vs. Eastern Michigan. High School: Earned a pair of letters at Hilliard Darby (‘03) under coach Shane Woodruff ... an All-Ohio Capital Conference Second-Team selection for the Panthers ... also earned a pair CARTER YEAR BY YEAR of letters in cross country, where she was a two-time team MVP ... was a First-Team All-Ohio Year MP/MS Shots G-A=Pts. runner in 2002, placing 25th in the state ... also was named to the All-OCC and all-district fi rst 2003 21/ 1 10 0-3= 3 teams as both a junior and a senior ... captained the cross country team the latter year. 2004 23/19 6 2-1= 5 2005 23/20 15 4-2=10 Personal: Lindsay Michele Carter was born June 28, 1985, in Kingston, N.Y. ... exercise Career 67/40 31 6-6=18 specialist major with a 3.03 cumulative GPA at BGSU ... daughter of John and Julie Carter ... the youngest of four children ... has two brothers and a sister ... has played club ball with Ohio CAREER BESTS Premier as well as the Eagles ... former team won fi ve State Cups ... also has experience with Goals 2 at Toledo 10/28/04 Ohio South Olympic Development Program (ODP). 2 at Central Michigan 10/21/05 Assists 1 Six Times Points 4 at Toledo 10/28/04 4 at Central Michigan 10/21/05 Goal-scoring Streak 2 (10/16-21/05) Point-scoring Streak 2 (10/28-11/2/04) 2 (10/16-21/05) BOWLING GREEN FALCONS • 2006 WOMEN’S SOCCER 13 THE CAPTAINS / THE RETURNEES #3 • JANIE BABICH DEFENDER/MIDFIELDER • 5-3 • JR./JR. LAKE BLUFF, ILL. (PARKWAY WEST [MO.]) BABICH AND THE FALCONS: Has helped the Falcons to MAC titles in each of her fi rst two seasons ... helped BGSU to the fi rst MAC Tournament title in school history as a freshman in 2004 ... as a sophomore, helped the Brown and Orange to both the MAC’s regular-season and tournament crowns in ‘05. 2006: A BGSU co-captain as just a junior. 2005: Named to the Academic All-MAC Team ... saw action in all 23 matches, starting 22 ... started the fi rst seven matches of the fall, then started all 11 MAC contests, the three league tourney games and the NCAA Championships match ... settled into the role of the Falcons’ starting sweeper. 2004: Played in 22 matches, making eight starts ... started six consecutive matches from mid- September to early October, including fi ve league contests ... wore uniform #13 as a freshman. High School: Lettered two years at Parkway West (‘04) for coach Jim Hermann, after earning a pair of letters at Fargo (N.D.) South for coach Dan Weiler ... captained Parkway West to an 18-4-1 record and a Suburban West Conference title as a senior ... her freshman squad at Fargo South fi nished third in the state ... had 15 goals and 15 assists as a sophomore ... also earned a track and fi eld letter as a freshman. BABICH YEAR BY YEAR Year MP/MS Shots G-A=Pts. Personal: Janie Lee Babich was born Dec. 26, 1985, in Tulsa, Okla. ... interior design major 2004 22/8 5 0-0=0 with a 3.43 cumulative GPA through the spring, 2006, semester ... daughter of Bob and Nancy 2005 23/22 1 0-0=0 Babich ... the youngest of two children ... father played football at Mesa (Colo.) CC and Univ. Career 45/30 6 0-0=0 of Tulsa ... he was an assistant coach on the 1991 BGSU football team that won a MAC title, and was the head coach at North Dakota State Univ. from 1997-2002 ... he is currently the line- backers coach with the Chicago Bears of the NFL ... brother, Bobby, played football at NDSU and is beginning his fi rst season as a graduate assistant football coach at Kent State ... Special Olympics volunteer ... has played club ball with Red River (N.D.) Soccer Club and Busch (Mo.) Soccer Club. Janie Babich delivered the invocation at the 2005 MAC Tournament banquet 14 BOWLING GREEN FALCONS • 2006 WOMEN’S SOCCER THE RETURNEES #17 • DANIELLE CYGAN DEFENDER • 5-2 • JR./JR. NORTH ROYALTON, OHIO (PADUA) CYGAN AND THE FALCONS: Has helped the Falcons to MAC titles in each of her fi rst two seasons ... helped BGSU to the fi rst MAC Tournament title in school history as a freshman in 2004 ... as a sophomore, helped the Brown and Orange to both the MAC’s regular-season and tournament crowns in ‘05. 2005: Played in 21 contests, making nine starts ... had three points on a goal and an assist ... fi rst collegiate goal proved to be the match winner in the Falcons’ 2-0 victory over Miami in the MAC Tournament semifi nal home win ... had an assist at Cochrane Field, in the season opener vs. Oakland ... had eight shots on the year, with four on goal ... half of each of those totals came in the aforementioned Miami match. 2004: Played in 12 matches, making fi ve starts ... had one assist ... started fi ve consecutive matches as BGSU clinched a MAC Tournament berth ... fi rst career start came in the North- ern Illinois contest ... had an assist in the fi nal league regular-season match, as Kristy Coppes converted her long diagonal crossing ball for the opening goal at Toledo ... also started the conference tourney quarterfi nal win at Kent State ... saw action off the bench in the MAC Tour- nament championship-match win over Central Michigan. High School: Earned four letters at Padua Franciscan (‘04) under coach Narlin Shadd ... CYGAN YEAR BY YEAR totalled 60 goals in her four years, as the Bruins won the North Coast League title every season Year MP/MS Shots G-A=Pts. ... the league MVP her senior season ... a three-time all-league fi rst-team pick after earning sec- 2004 12/ 5 2 0-1=1 ond-team honors as a freshman ... also earned All-Greater Cleveland Honors every year ... team 2005 21/ 9 8 1-1=3 had a four-year record of 64-10-3, including a perfect 24-0-0 mark in the NCL ... Honor Roll. Career 33/14 10 1-2=4 Personal: Danielle Marie Cygan was born Sept. 17, 1985, in Cleveland ... sport management CAREER BESTS major ... daughter of Jeff and Debbie Cygan ... one of two children ... twin sister, Denise, also Goals 1 vs. Miami 11/4/05 played for the Falcon women’s soccer team in 2004 ... father played soccer at Akron and ten- Assists 1 at Toledo 10/28/04 nis at Cleveland State ... has played club ball for the Internationals, helping the team to eight 1 vs. Oakland 8/26/05 consecutive state titles. Points 2 vs. Miami 11/4/05 #16 • BRIANNE EISENHARD MIDFIELDER • 5-5 • SO./SO. WEST CHESTER, OHIO (LAKOTA WEST) 2005: Played in 19 matches as the Falcons won the MAC’s regular-season and tournament titles ... made a pair of starts ... started the home win over Buffalo as well as the MAC Tourna- ment quarterfi nal vs. arch-rival Toledo ... played in all of the Fal- cons’ MAC regular-season matches, as well as in the three league tournament contests and the NCAA Championships fi rst-round game vs. Michigan State. High School: Made the 2004 NSCAA/adidas High School Girls All-America Team (one of just nine defenders listed) ..