The MSU football team has been getting attention lately because of some players’ tweets about the U-M football loss to Alabama, but one MSU student-athlete has been making an impression for quite some time — and causing much less trouble along the way.
With the Big Ten season looming, the MSU women’s soccer team looks to take its level of play to the next level in the next three games, which all are against in-state teams.
It sounds like the sentiments of a hopeless Detroit Lions fan circa 2008, but the above statements fit the MSU men’s soccer team (1-2-1) better than any other to this point in the season. Junior keeper Bryce Dobbins summed up the season perfectly last week, saying the team is always right there.
The MSU men’s soccer team (1-2-1) fell victim to the No. 1 Connecticut’s (3-0-0) undefeated record in a 1-0 loss Monday afternoon.
The Big Ten conference office announced on Monday that junior defender Annie Steinlage has been named Defensive Player of the Week after scoring a goal and tallying an assist in the Spartans’ 2-1 defeat of Akron on Sunday.
The MSU’s women’s soccer team defeated Akron 2-1 after a late goal by junior defender Annie Steinlage.
With classes starting up, the MSU women’s soccer team only has one game this week, specifically so they can focus on getting settled into the regimen of the new school year. Head coach Tom Saxton said the team prides itself on having a good grade-point average, or GPA.
The MSU women’s soccer team will look to get back on a winning streak this weekend when they face off against Akron at 12 p.m. on Sunday.
As the 2011 MSU men’s soccer season took off last year, a pair of its main competitors dropped like flies, leaving the front and back lines with gaping holes. Senior forward Domenic Barone and junior defender Kevin Cope both got struck with season-ending injuries before or just after the season began.
The team looked to be off to a good start as the preseason drew to a close, defeating Duke 1-0 and tying Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne, 1-1. But those two MSU preseason goals are the last they’ve managed.
The final day of the MSU men’s soccer team’s (0-1-1) season-opening weekend kicked off with an MSU women’s soccer (3-1-0) game versus Cal State Fullerton. The women kept the game scoreless until halfway through the second half, when Cal State Fullerton netted one, finishing the game 1-0. Shortly after, the men took the field against the New Hampshire Wildcats (1-1-0), or UNH, meeting a similar fate as their female counterparts.
With 24 Spartan alumni on hand, the MSU women’s soccer team couldn’t handle Cal State Fullerton, as they fell 1-0.
The MSU men’s soccer team opened up the 2012 season with a 0-0 draw against Valparaiso Sunday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
The MSU women’s soccer team picked up their third win of the season after defeating Loyola 3-1 Friday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
Even in returning a talent-heavy roster, there were doubts facing MSU women’s soccer coach Tom Saxton headed into the 2012 season. As is the case of any head coach who is forced to replace 11 players from a single team, there will be questions. And for Saxton, the questions are fairly obvious.
It’s no secret that the summer months are a critical preparation and training period for most NCAA sports, especially for those that take the field in the fall.
MSU announced Monday that former basketball forward Draymond Green was chosen as the 2011-12 George Alderton Male Athlete of the Year, while women’s soccer forward Laura Heyboer and golfer Caroline Powers shared the George Alderton Female Co-Athlete of the Year honors.
The MSU men’s soccer team saw its season come to an end Wednesday with a 2-1 loss to Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament in the quarterfinals. The Spartans fell behind 2-0 in the first 47 minutes before netting a goal in the 81st minute. The Hoosiers netted the first goal in the 38th minute with a shot from about 22 yards out.
It would be easy to feel disappointment about the way the season ended for MSU women’s soccer team. Sixty-four teams had their tickets punched for the NCAA Tournament, and even after one of the great seasons in program history, the “Spartans are on the outside looking in.
The MSU men’s soccer team will open up Big Ten Tournament play Wednesday in Ann Arbor. The Spartans (7-7-4 overall, 2-2-2 Big Ten), who finished fifth in the regular season, will take on the No.