Thursday, October 10
Queens, N.Y.
6 p.m. CT
Marquette University
at
St. John's University
Marquette heads on East Coast swing at St. John’s and Seton Hall
10/9/2019 2:20:00 PM | Women's Soccer
The Golden Eagles face the Red Storm on Thursday and the Pirates on Sunday
Weekly Notes (PDF)
MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University women's soccer team continues BIG EAST Conference action on the East Coast this weekend with matches at St. John's and Seton Hall on Oct. 10 and Oct. 13, respectively.
The Golden Eagles and Red Storm will square off at Belson Stadium in Queens, New York on Thursday at 6 p.m. Central time. The match will air live on the BIG EAST Digital Network, which can be viewed through the BIG EAST's YouTube channel, on Twitter and Caffeine TV.
Sunday's match at Seton Hall will air live at noon CT on Pirates Sports Network through Seton Hall's athletics website, SHUPirates.com. The contest will be played at Owen T. Carroll Field in South Orange, New Jersey.
The Golden Eagles are 14-1-1 all-time against St. John's and 7-1-1 against Seton Hall. MU has posted four wins in a row over the Red Storm and three consecutively against the Pirates since losses to both teams during the 2015 season
Following the road swing out east, Marquette returns to Milwaukee to host Villanova on Sunday, Oct. 20.
MARQUETTE (3-8-1): The Golden Eagles dropped each of its first two conference matches prior to a 1-1 draw with Creighton on Oct. 6 … BIG EAST All-Preseason Team selection Katrina Wetherell posted her first goal of the year against the Bluejays in the 51th minute to push the match to extra time …MU has scored in four of its last five matches after beginning the season with just three goals in its first seven games … Five of its first seven games overall were decided 1-0 … MU earned its first win of the season on Sept. 1, courtesy of Kylie Sprecher's 108th minute goal in double overtime … Sprecher's score was MU's first goal of the year, ending a stretch of 379:36 to start the year without a tally … Freshman Josie Kelderman scored the winner in the 1-0 victory at Minnesota on Sept. 5 but MU was outshot 13-4 … Sophomores Alyssa Bombacino and Macey Shock scored MU's two goals in the Sept. 22 win over Colorado State.
ST. JOHN'S (4-8-1): The Red Storm has dropped BIG EAST matches to Providence (4-0) and DePaul, but picked up a 1-0 victory on Oct. 3 over Seton Hall on Maia Cabrera's lone score of the year … Redshirt junior Zsani Kajan leads the squad with four goals of the team's eight goals this season and has recorded 38 of SJU's 106 shots … St. John's is led by head coach Ian Stone in his 25th season, the longest-tenured head coach in the BIG EAST (one year longer than MU head coach Markus Roeders).
SETON HALL (1-8-1): The Pirates have scored just four goals through 10 matches this season with all four tallies coming from different players … SHU's lone victory of the season came on Thursday, Aug. 29 against Lafayette, 1-0, and the squad has gone 0-7-1 since that triumph … The Pirates fell 3-0 to Butler in their league opener and lost at St. John's and Xavier last week … Head coach Ciara Crinion is in her first season after serving as associate head coach at Hartford.
GOLDEN EAGLES EARN UNITED SOCCER COACHES TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD
• The Marquette women's soccer team earned the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award for the 2018-19 academic year, marking the 11th consecutive year and 22nd season overall that the squad has been honored. The Golden Eagles recorded a team cumulative grade-point average of 3.496 last year.
WETHERELL RETURNS AFTER ALL-BIG EAST CAMPAIGN
• Sophomore Katrina Wetherell, who was a BIG EAST All-Preseason Team selection in August, notched her first goal of the year, the equalizer, against Creighton on Oct. 6. Wetherell led the team as a freshman in 2018 with four assists while starting every match in the midfield. She earned All-BIG EAST Second Team honors as a rookie in addition to all-freshman accolades.
SHOCK SPARKS THE MU OFFENSE
• Sophomore Macey Shock played her first two matches of the season on the weekend of Sept. 20 and provided a needed offensive spark for the Golden Eagles. MU had scored just three goals entering the match against NIU and Shock scored two of MU's three goals on the weekend against the Huskies and Colorado State. Shock's first career goal in the 87th minute pushed the match against NIU to overtime and she provided the equalizer in the eventual win over the Rams in the 77th minute.
GOLDEN EAGLES BEGIN 15TH BIG EAST SEASON
• Marquette played its first season as a BIG EAST member in 2005 and is in its 15th year of conference action. The Golden Eagles have accumulated a record of 97-33-14 in BIG EAST action, which includes six regular season conference titles and a pair of tournament championships in 2012 and 2013. MU went a remarkable 39-1-1 in BIG EAST play in the four seasons from 2010-13.
CONTINUAL CHANGES IN STARTING LINEUP
• Marquette head coach Markus Roeders has used a different starting lineup for 10 of the 12 matches so far in 2019. Senior defender Bri Jaeger is the only player to have started every contest, while Kylie Sprecher, Maddy Henry, Emily Hess and Katrina Wetherell have started all but one match. The Sept. 29 game at Georgetown was the first time this season that MU used a lineup it had used previously.
Keep up with the Marquette University women's soccer program through social media by following on Twitter (@MarquetteWSOC) and Instagram (@MarquetteWSOC) and 'liking' on Facebook (/MarquetteWSOC).
MILWAUKEE – The Marquette University women's soccer team continues BIG EAST Conference action on the East Coast this weekend with matches at St. John's and Seton Hall on Oct. 10 and Oct. 13, respectively.
The Golden Eagles and Red Storm will square off at Belson Stadium in Queens, New York on Thursday at 6 p.m. Central time. The match will air live on the BIG EAST Digital Network, which can be viewed through the BIG EAST's YouTube channel, on Twitter and Caffeine TV.
Sunday's match at Seton Hall will air live at noon CT on Pirates Sports Network through Seton Hall's athletics website, SHUPirates.com. The contest will be played at Owen T. Carroll Field in South Orange, New Jersey.
The Golden Eagles are 14-1-1 all-time against St. John's and 7-1-1 against Seton Hall. MU has posted four wins in a row over the Red Storm and three consecutively against the Pirates since losses to both teams during the 2015 season
Following the road swing out east, Marquette returns to Milwaukee to host Villanova on Sunday, Oct. 20.
MARQUETTE (3-8-1): The Golden Eagles dropped each of its first two conference matches prior to a 1-1 draw with Creighton on Oct. 6 … BIG EAST All-Preseason Team selection Katrina Wetherell posted her first goal of the year against the Bluejays in the 51th minute to push the match to extra time …MU has scored in four of its last five matches after beginning the season with just three goals in its first seven games … Five of its first seven games overall were decided 1-0 … MU earned its first win of the season on Sept. 1, courtesy of Kylie Sprecher's 108th minute goal in double overtime … Sprecher's score was MU's first goal of the year, ending a stretch of 379:36 to start the year without a tally … Freshman Josie Kelderman scored the winner in the 1-0 victory at Minnesota on Sept. 5 but MU was outshot 13-4 … Sophomores Alyssa Bombacino and Macey Shock scored MU's two goals in the Sept. 22 win over Colorado State.
ST. JOHN'S (4-8-1): The Red Storm has dropped BIG EAST matches to Providence (4-0) and DePaul, but picked up a 1-0 victory on Oct. 3 over Seton Hall on Maia Cabrera's lone score of the year … Redshirt junior Zsani Kajan leads the squad with four goals of the team's eight goals this season and has recorded 38 of SJU's 106 shots … St. John's is led by head coach Ian Stone in his 25th season, the longest-tenured head coach in the BIG EAST (one year longer than MU head coach Markus Roeders).
SETON HALL (1-8-1): The Pirates have scored just four goals through 10 matches this season with all four tallies coming from different players … SHU's lone victory of the season came on Thursday, Aug. 29 against Lafayette, 1-0, and the squad has gone 0-7-1 since that triumph … The Pirates fell 3-0 to Butler in their league opener and lost at St. John's and Xavier last week … Head coach Ciara Crinion is in her first season after serving as associate head coach at Hartford.
GOLDEN EAGLES EARN UNITED SOCCER COACHES TEAM ACADEMIC AWARD
• The Marquette women's soccer team earned the United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award for the 2018-19 academic year, marking the 11th consecutive year and 22nd season overall that the squad has been honored. The Golden Eagles recorded a team cumulative grade-point average of 3.496 last year.
WETHERELL RETURNS AFTER ALL-BIG EAST CAMPAIGN
• Sophomore Katrina Wetherell, who was a BIG EAST All-Preseason Team selection in August, notched her first goal of the year, the equalizer, against Creighton on Oct. 6. Wetherell led the team as a freshman in 2018 with four assists while starting every match in the midfield. She earned All-BIG EAST Second Team honors as a rookie in addition to all-freshman accolades.
SHOCK SPARKS THE MU OFFENSE
• Sophomore Macey Shock played her first two matches of the season on the weekend of Sept. 20 and provided a needed offensive spark for the Golden Eagles. MU had scored just three goals entering the match against NIU and Shock scored two of MU's three goals on the weekend against the Huskies and Colorado State. Shock's first career goal in the 87th minute pushed the match against NIU to overtime and she provided the equalizer in the eventual win over the Rams in the 77th minute.
GOLDEN EAGLES BEGIN 15TH BIG EAST SEASON
• Marquette played its first season as a BIG EAST member in 2005 and is in its 15th year of conference action. The Golden Eagles have accumulated a record of 97-33-14 in BIG EAST action, which includes six regular season conference titles and a pair of tournament championships in 2012 and 2013. MU went a remarkable 39-1-1 in BIG EAST play in the four seasons from 2010-13.
CONTINUAL CHANGES IN STARTING LINEUP
• Marquette head coach Markus Roeders has used a different starting lineup for 10 of the 12 matches so far in 2019. Senior defender Bri Jaeger is the only player to have started every contest, while Kylie Sprecher, Maddy Henry, Emily Hess and Katrina Wetherell have started all but one match. The Sept. 29 game at Georgetown was the first time this season that MU used a lineup it had used previously.
Keep up with the Marquette University women's soccer program through social media by following on Twitter (@MarquetteWSOC) and Instagram (@MarquetteWSOC) and 'liking' on Facebook (/MarquetteWSOC).
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