While most students were out and about until the early hours of the morning on Halloween weekend, the San Diego State women’s soccer team celebrated in a very different way.
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SDSU plays its last regular season game against TCU
It’s that time of year. The fog rolls in, Jack-O’-Lanterns come out, and the San Diego State women’s soccer team tries to finish its season on top. SDSU won its fourth straight game last weekend in Las Vegas, participating in the third consecutive game where a goal was scored in the first 10 minutes of play.
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There’s something to be said for a team that can set a goal and meet it consistently. “These last five games we outlined a goal for ourselves,” head coach Mike Friesen said. “It was to score in the first 15 minutes, get a shutout and win.” Sunday’s game in Las Vegas followed that outline, continuing the success the San Diego State women’s soccer team has ignited.
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Tomorrow's final home match of this season is Senior Day
The last home game of the season is Senior Day, and emotions are apparent. But the San Diego State women’s soccer team is making sure it doesn’t lose focus on its goals.
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Aztecs defeat Air Force in Mountain West face-off
The San Diego State women’s soccer team needed just one goal to seal the victory on Saturday, and they got it early on. At the 3 minute 36 seconds mark, junior midfielder Michaela DeJesus scored straight off a deflected block. The unassisted shot was the only shot DeJesus took the whole evening. Her second goal of the season proved to be all SDSU would get, but also all it would need for the 1-0 win.
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There may be such a thing as love at first sight, but for San Diego State women’s soccer midfielder Cat Walker, there’s certainly no such thing as love at first practice. Passion overwhelms the field nowadays for the redshirt junior, but soccer was not always enjoyable for SDSU’s most dynamic player.
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Aztecs finish with more corner kicks and shots on goal, but can't get the victory at home
There was unanimous agreement amongst the San Diego State women’s soccer team about why a win against Utah on Saturday afternoon was inaccessible: The team just couldn’t find the back of the net. With more than three times as many shots as its opponent, SDSU still couldn’t defeat visiting Utah on Saturday at the SDSU Sports Deck.
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Some teams pray together before games. Some teams have group dinners the night before a big match. The San Diego State women’s soccer team dances.
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Junior goalkeeper tallies 206th career save, giving her the SDSU school record
Home matches have been goldmines for the San Diego State women’s soccer team this season. Going into Sunday’s game, SDSU was 4-1-1 in home games. The Aztecs found success once again at the SDSU Sports Deck on Sunday, when they were able to shut out Seattle University. Junior Goalie Aubree Southwick helped SDSU achieve its fifth shutout of the season in a 2-0 victory against Seattle in the Aztec Classic.
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What does a team do with three consecutive wins under its belt about to face a team with a record of 7-2-0? “We’re setting the bar high for ourselves,” San Diego State women’s soccer head coach Mike Friesen said.
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It didn’t take more than three minutes for the San Diego State women’s soccer team to seal the deal. Three minutes of overtime, that is, for SDSU to score the winning goal that would clinch a victory against UC Irvine Sunday afternoon. After two consecutive wins, the regionally 10th-ranked Aztecs kept the homefield momentum against Irvine, which is ranked ninth in the Pacific region.
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Sophomore defender Hayley Marsh’s photo was plastered all across San Diego State’s official athletic site, www.goaztecs.com, but she hadn’t seen or heard why until her phone rang.
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It took a while to heat up, but once it did, there were some flaring tempers. In its Sunday afternoon game, the San Diego State women’s soccer team steered clear of wild activity from the visiting bench of CSU Long Beach.
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After a treacherous journey across America, the recovery period has begun. The San Diego State women’s soccer team has traveled so much this year, it’s beginning to affect everyone involved. “When we went up to Riverside last weekend,” head coach Mike Friesen said, “I was exhausted, and I didn’t even play.” From Harvard to Arizona State, SDSU has faced many teams throughout the last few weeks and is coming home with two wins, two losses and two ties, bringing the Aztecs’ record to 3-3-2 this season. However, the schedule is now in their favor, because as they will spend the next seven games at home. “I’ve been around for three years,” senior forward Jessica Gordon said. “But all the traveling this year was starting to take a toll on my body. Being at home you get to sleep in your own bed and relax more instead of being on the go.” Gordon has played in all eight games this season and shoots 73 percent of her shots on goal. She scored a goal in one of the biggest games of the season thus far, against one of the top four teams in the nation: Stanford. Her goal helped SDSU hold the biggest lead against the Cardinal for any team in the last two years.
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SDSU finishes out six-game road trip against ASU and UCR
If flying all around the country every weekend isn’t stressful enough, try traveling and playing the same day. That’s what the San Diego State women’s soccer team will have to do tomorrow. SDSU will fly out in the early afternoon and will take on Arizona State for an evening game. “The nice part,” head coach Mike Friesen said, “is we’ll be closer to home, we’re familiar with their style of play and we already know they have a really nice field that’s very similar to our field.” These benefits may not sound like much, but it is certainly more welcoming than what the Aztecs have been accustomed to these past few weeks. SDSU struggled to a tie last Friday against Harvard, and came out on top of a close match against Dartmouth on Sunday. The two games shared some similarities despite the different outcomes. Junior midfielder Cat Walker’s game-winning drive from 20 yards out on Sunday against Dartmouth hit the crossbar and post at the same time, bounced off of the goalie and into the net.
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After an entire game without a single goal from either side, the fate of two teams was decided with 42 seconds remaining. With 89:18 on the clock, San Diego State women’s soccer junior midfielder Cat Walker shot the ball from 20 yards out, banked it off the crossbar, bounced it off of the opposing goalie and landed it in the net.
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“We are now road warriors.” Head coach Mike Friesen spouted out that phrase when he defined the intensity the San Diego State women’s soccer team will bring to its competition this weekend.
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Good teams need hard work, dedication, good chemistry and the right state of mind to succeed in the Mountain West Conference. The San Diego State women’s soccer team is confident it has all of the above.
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After a one-goal victory against San Jose State, SDSU blows lead at Stanford
This year’s San Diego State women’s soccer team isn’t wasting anytime improving from last year.
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It certainly did not take long for Hayley Marsh to get adjusted to her new home. The transfer from Western Kentucky has only been on the San Diego State women’s soccer team for about a month, but Friday afternoon at the SDSU Sports Deck, the sophomore defender scored a goal in the first half that lead to an SDSU 1-0 victory against Fresno State in the Aztecs’ season opener.
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Aztecs lose to the Horned Frogs for the second time in six days in Las Vegas
As goalkeeper Christi Yount ran onto the field at the start of overtime, the senior knew it could very well be the last time she would do so donning red and black.
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Over the past two and half months, it has been on the mind of each player on the San Diego State women’s soccer team. It is what the top six teams in the conference have been waiting for since the first whistle was blown in late August.
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Despite falling to TCU 2-1, SDSU qualifies for the MWC Tournament
The San Diego State women’s soccer team has faced a multitude of obstacles over the course of this season. Whether it has been injuries to key players, tough road trips or just bad breaks, SDSU has struggled to find the success it had last year.
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Riker looks to make noise on senior night
For Jillian Riker, her first two years on the San Diego State women’s soccer team weren’t as eventful as the senior would have liked.
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Strong defensive effort sets up Aztecs for win, but poor shooting forces a deadlock
Coming into this season, the San Diego State women’s soccer team had its sights set high.
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The senior forward has found success despite suffering two knee injuries in her career
Anytime an athlete goes down with a season-ending injury, the road to recovery is never easy. Nobody knows that better than San Diego State women’s soccer midfielder Alicia Piz.
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Vandevanter excited to have Walker and Gordon back on field
When San Diego State women’s soccer forward Jessica Gordon went down with a groin injury in 2007, it appeared to be just another setback for an SDSU squad already missing it’s captain, Cat Walker.
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Aubree Southwick hurts shoulder in Utah
For the San Diego State women’s soccer team, last year was one of its best seasons-to-date. The team surpassed its 2006 win total by three games, earned its highest seed in the Mountain West Conference tournament since 1999 and goalkeeper Aubree Southwick collected a number of postseason awards in an unbelievable freshman campaign.
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Last year, the San Diego State women’s soccer team was poised for a breakout season. Mike Friesen had just taken over as head coach, four talented freshmen had just joined the team and 18 letter winners were returning. But one player in particular, midfielder Cat Walker, was one of the big reasons for the high expectations. The sophomore was coming off a true freshman season in which she started 17 games and scored three goals.
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Rebel goalkeeper Alicia Lugo brings tough defense to San Diego
So far this season, the San Diego State women's soccer team has faced some difficult opponents, but has repeatedly found a way to stay in the game and compete. This perseverance has been key for SDSU's development as a team, but in head coach Mike Friesen's mind, it is still missing one more important quality. "(UNLV is) a very confident team and I think that's been something we've been missing a little bit," Friesen said. "They're a team that isn't the most talented team in the conference, but they're hardworking, they're confident in their abilities, they know who they are and they're very good about playing within their own game."
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There are coaches who micromanage, harping on the details and each player's specific instructions. Then there is Mike Friesen, head coach of the San Diego State women's soccer team. After a season of inconsistencies, Friesen took his own approach this weekend during the halftime meeting in a game against San Jose State at the SDSU Sports Deck.
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In a season that has seen some inconsistencies and mistakes lead to a sub-.500 start going into conference play, the San Diego State women’s soccer team has been able to rely on one thing: solid play at home.
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All teams face obstacles and setbacks throughout the rigors of an entire season, but what separates a good team from a great team is its ability to overcome the adversity it faces. So when the San Diego State women’s soccer team started off Mountain West Conference play with a 0-3 record, its players knew they had a tough road ahead.
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A week after dealing with inconsistencies, the Aztecs bounce back for a victory
While all teams have their stars who rack up the stats, victories come from total team efforts, not individual performances.
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Whether it's the long hours on the road, the constant stops to use the bathroom or just the overall toll it has on the body, taking a road trip is exhausting.
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After ending August with consecutive victories over Pac-10 opponents, the San Diego State women's soccer team was looking to use its success as a springboard for September. But it appears as though SDSU has fallen off the trampoline.
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Washington head coach seeks a victory against her former team tomorrow
Washington women's soccer head coach Lesle Gallimore should see no surprises when the Huskies travel to face the San Diego State women's soccer team this weekend.
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While dealing with a tough opponent is always a challenge, it becomes nearly impossible to win a game when your own mistakes hinder your team.
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The transition from high school to college can be tough for any freshmen, but when Division I collegiate athletics are involved, it can be even more difficult.
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Opportunities don't usually knock more than once for Division I college teams. But when they do, it's critical for squads to capitalize on their extra chances.
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