WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The William & Mary women's soccer team concludes the road portion of the regular season schedule as it travels to Drexel on Saturday, Oct. 19. Kickoff between the Tribe and the Dragons is set for Noon.
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Scouting the Tribe
William & Mary looks to get back into the win column after suffering four consecutive one-goal losses. The Tribe closes a three-game road swing at Drexel on Saturday afternoon. Junior
Alex Kuhnle (4 g, 1 a) and sophomore
Renee Kohler (2 g, 5a) lead the team in points with nine. Redshirt senior
Sarah Segan is just off the pace with three goals and six assists. Meanwhile, eight different players – Kohler, redshirt senior
Sarah Segan, senior
Charlotte Hyland, redshirt junior
Lauren Kelly, junior
Courtney Miles,
Alex Kuhnle, and
Colleen Norton, as well as freshman
Kayleigh Shackford – have all scored goals this season. In goal, both senior
Katelyn Briguglio and sophomore
Maisy Fling have seen action for the Tribe this year. Briguglio has seen the bulk of the action with 11 games and nine starts. She owns a 2.08 goals-against-average with 55 saves, and two shutouts. Fling has started three times and appeared in four games, with a 2.96 goals-against-average, and eight saves.
Scouting the Dragons
Drexel (5-7-3, 1-4-1) enters Saturday's game with the identical CAA record as W&M. The Dragons look to get back into the win column after dropping a 2-0 decision at UNCW last Sunday. Lauren Currey leads the Dragons offense with four goals, three assists, and 11 points. Meliss Lyon is just off of the pace with two goals, two assists, and six points. In goal, Libby Beaza and Miyuki Schoyen have seen action this season. Beaza has seen a bulk of the action making 13 appearances with 12 starts, a 1.09 goals-against-average, 42 saves and 1.5 shutouts.
Series History vs. Drexel
W&M and Drexel collide for the 19th time in series history on Saturday afternoon in the City of Brotherly Love. The Tribe has a commanding 15-3 series, including a 2-0 victory at home last year. The Tribe got goals from
Arundel Miguelez in the first half and
Sully Boulden scored an insurance goal in the second half, while
Katelyn Briguglio made two saves in the clean sheet.
What's Ahead
W&M wraps up the regular season with two matches at home next weekend. The Tribe welcomes Charleston on Thursday, Oct. 24, before hosting Hofstra on Sunday, Oct. 27 on Senior Day. The matches are slated for 7 p.m. and 1 p.m. kickoffs, respectively.
Too Close for Comfort
Ten of W&M's 15 games this season have been decided by one goal, or less, including all six of the Tribe's CAA contests. The Green and Gold are just 2-6-2 in game's decided by one goal, or less, this season.
Balanced Attack
After having 11 goal scorers in the 2018 season, the Tribe has had a similar story in 2019. The Tribe has had eight –
Alex Kuhnle,
Renee Kohler,
Sarah Segan,
Kayleigh Shackford,
Courtney Miles,
Lauren Kelly,
Colleen Norton, and
Charlotte Hyland – different goal scorers this season.
Makes You Wanna Stay
The William & Mary women's soccer team has gone to double-overtime in each of the last two contests, and four times this season. W&M is 0-2-2 in overtime this season, while the Tribe owns a 0-3-3 record in extra time under head coach
Julie Shackford. The four overtime matches are the most in a single-season since the Tribe played four overtime contests in 2016.
Norton Notching Goals
After scoring in the exhibition, junior
Colleen Norton had gone scoreless in the first 10 games of the season. However, the junior has found the back of the net in two of the last five contests for the Tribe. For her career, she has three goals, four assists, and 10 points, all in the last two seasons.
Kohler Getting Going
Sophomore
Renee Kohler has been getting into the attack over the last 12 games and has all of her points over those contests. The sophomore leads the team with five assists as she had her second two-assist game against Elon last Thursday. Her two goals, five assists, and nine point stat line has already surpassed her freshman year mark.
Kuhnle's Big Week
Junior
Alex Kuhnle catapulted herself to the team lead in points, thanks to a five-point weekend against James Madison and Towson. The junior scored a goal in the 45th minute against the Dukes, before setting a career-high with three points (goal and assist) against the Tigers on Sunday afternoon. Kuhnle now leads the team with four goals, one assist, and nine points.
Home Sweet Home
W&M has been really tough to beat at Martin Family Stadium at Albert-Daly Field in 2019. The Tribe has posted a 3-1-1 record in Williamsburg this season. The Green and Gold has posted a 115-42-23 (.703) record since the current facility opened in 2003.
Lineup Shuffle
W&M has had 18 different players earn at least one start this season at some point. Six players – juniors
Kelsey Hamer and
Mariana Hershner, sophomore
Maisy Fling, as well as freshmen
Emily Crocco,
Jillian O'Toole, and
Kayleigh Shackford – have earned their first career starts this year.
All CLASS
W&M women's soccer senior
Sarah Segan was named one of 30 national women's soccer candidates for the Senior CLASS Award. An acronym for
Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities. She is the third Tribe player (Caroline Casey and Clara Logsdon) in the last five years to be a candidate for the award, and joins Elon's Luke Matthews as the only two representatives from the CAA.
Weekly Awards
Senior Katelyn Brigulio won the Tribe's first weekly award of the season when she was named the CAA's Defensive Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 9. It was the second-time the senior has won the award, and was honored after making eight saves, and conceding only one goal in 200 minutes of action against High Point and Fairleigh Dickinson.
Experienced Lineup
W&M returns nine starters from last year's team, as well as a handful of starters that made spot starts and played valuable minutes last season. The Tribe also returns 72.2-percent of its goal-scoring, 85.7-percent of its assists, 76-percent of its points, and 88-percent of its minutes played in goal from a season ago.
Segan Tabbed to Preseason All-CAA Team
Redshirt senior
Sarah Segan was named to the Preseason All-CAA Soccer Team. Segan is the Tribe's returning leading scorer and coming off of a First-Team All-CAA selection in 2018. She finished last year with six goals, four assists, and 16 points starting 16 of the Tribe's 17 matches. For her career, Segan has appeared in 50 matches with 48 starts, scoring 24 goals, 10 assists, and 58 points. The Fogelsville, Pa. native has earned four all-conference postseason honors as she has been named to the All-CAA First-Team, All-CAA Second-Team twice, and picked up an all-rookie nod after her freshman season.
Bleeding Green and Gold
Three of W&M's freshmen are following in their mother's footsteps as members of the Tribe women's soccer program.
Kayleigh Shackford whose mom, Julie, played from 1984-87 and is the current head coach,
Jillian O'Toole whose mom, Nancy, played for the Tribe from 1984-87, and
Zoe Doughty whose mom, Margaret League, played 1992-96. The family connections just stop with Tribe women's soccer. Sophomore
Addie Puskar parents and grandparents, and six other uncles, aunts, or cousins that attended W&M. Freshman
Emily Crocco's father, Gary, was a two-sport athlete (football and baseball) for the Tribe, while her uncles Dave and Steve Wiley, were on the football team, and her aunts, Jennifer (Volgenau) Wiley and Sofia (Cedergreen) Wiley were women's soccer players. Senior
Hannah Keith's father, Barry, is a member of the class of '92, freshman
Caroline Monahan's aunt is a member of the class of 1983, redshirt junior
Lauren Kelly's brother, Colin, was a member of the class of 2016, and
Mariana Hershner's uncle, Ron, is a member of the class of 1971.
New Kids on the Block
W&M welcomes eight true freshmen and a transfer to their roster for the 2019 season.
Laurel Hagen,
Emily Crocco,
Kayleigh Shackford,
Jillian O'Toole,
Madeleine Hayes,
Sophie Geslao,
Zoe Doughty, and
Shelby Hachtel are all true freshman, while sophomore
Hannah Potter joins the Tribe as a transfer from Kentucky.
Setting the Slate
W&M will play an 18-game schedule in the 2019 season. The 18-game slate features five games against 2018 NCAA Tournament teams and seven home games at Martin Family Stadium at Albert-Daly Field.
