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For Immediate Release
December 8, 2006
2006 Season Wrap-up
Nebraska Wesleyan repeated as conference regular
season champions in women’s soccer, going 13-3-2 overall (10-1-1
GPAC). It was the team’s seventh league crown since 1996.
After a tough start to the season against several top NCAA Division
III teams, NWU hit mid-season stride with three conference wins
and closed out the year with seven consecutive victories. The women
also extended their home unbeaten streak to 26 games. The Prairie
Wolves are 23-0-3 in Abel Stadium dating back to Oct. 11, 2003.
Macalester College (25-0-3 since Sept. 17, 2004) is the only Division
III women’s soccer team with a longer active home unbeaten
streak.
NWU played six overtime matches on the year, including wins over
Hastings College and Sioux Falls late in the season, but early OT
losses to the College of St. Benedict and Concordia College (Minn.),
a team that won the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference,
likely cost the Prairie Wolves their first trip to the NCAA Div.
III Women’s Soccer Championships.
Individually, junior Brooke Woodward led the league in game-winning
goals (6) and sophomore goalkeeper Vicki Koke led the conference
in shutouts (10). Senior forward Stephanie Anderson led the team
in goals scored and finished her career ranked ninth all-time at
NWU with 32 goals. As a group, the senior class did not break many
individual records, but NWU as a team finished 50-18-5 (.719) during
their four years.
Senior Lindsay Priefert and sophomore Monica Hilger joined Anderson
and Woodward on the All-GPAC Second Team. Meanwhile, junior Liz
Baltzell, sophomore Wendy Soenksen and senior Molly Shields each
earned honorable mentions.
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