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| Aug. 13 |
#12 Marquette (Exh.) |
L, 0-2 |
| Aug. 19 |
at #1 Notre Dame |
L, 0-2 |
| Aug. 26 |
#23 Washington |
W, 2-1 |
| Aug. 28 |
Green Bay |
W, 1-0 |
| Sept. 2 |
at Dayton |
W, 3-1 |
| Sept. 4 |
at Cincinnati |
W, 2-1 |
| Sept. 8 |
at Northern Illinois |
W, 2-0 |
| Sept. 11 |
at #14 Milwaukee |
L, 1-2 (OT) |
| Sept. 14 |
Central Michigan |
L, 1-2 |
| Sept. 17 |
#21 Penn State* |
W, 1-0 |
| Sept. 23 |
at Michigan State* |
W, 2-1 |
| Sept. 25 |
at Michigan* |
T, 0-0 |
| Sept. 29 |
Minnesota* |
T, 2-2 |
| Oct. 2 |
Ohio State* |
L, 0-1 |
| Oct. 7 |
at Nebraska* |
W, 2-0 |
| Oct. 14 |
at Northwestern* |
T, 1-1 |
| Oct. 16 |
at Illinois* |
L, 0-1 |
| Oct. 21 |
Purdue* |
W, 5-1 |
| Oct. 23 |
Indiana* |
W, 2-0 |
| Oct. 29 |
Iowa* |
L, 0-2 |
| Nov. 2 |
vs. Minnesota |
7:30 p.m. |
| Nov. 4 |
TBD |
3:45 p.m. |
| Nov. 6 |
TBD |
3 p.m. |
Printable Schedule  |
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| 1 |
Lauren Gunderson |
SR |
GK |
| 2 |
Lacey Warner |
JR |
D |
| 3 |
Lindsey Hamann |
JR |
MF |
| 4 |
Carly Vogel |
FR |
D |
| 5 |
Lauren Reid |
FR |
D |
| 6 |
Meghan Flannery |
SR |
D |
| 7 |
Erin Jacobsen |
SR |
MF |
| 8 |
Leigh Williams |
SR |
MF |
| 9 |
Catie Sessions |
SO |
D |
| 10 |
Julia Roddar |
FR |
MF |
| 11 |
Derya Kelter |
JR |
MF |
| 12 |
Alev Kelter |
JR |
MF |
| 13 |
Alyssa Vogel |
JR |
D |
| 14 |
Monica Lam-Feist |
JR |
MF |
| 15 |
Cara Walls |
FR |
F |
| 16 |
Laurie Nosbusch |
SR |
F |
| 17 |
Lindsey Johnson |
JR |
D |
| 18 |
Michele Dalton |
RS SR |
GK |
| 19 |
Olivia Tehan |
FR |
F |
| 20 |
Lauren Cochlin |
SR |
MF |
| 21 |
Paige Adams |
JR |
F |
| 22 |
Kodee Williams |
SO |
MF |
| 24 |
Genevieve Richard |
SO |
GK |
| 25 |
Joana Bielefeld |
JR |
D |
| 26 |
Grace Shea |
FR |
D |
| 27 |
Krissy Many |
FR |
MF |
| 28 |
Nicole La Petina |
SO |
MF |
| 29 |
Nikki Greenhalgh |
FR |
F |
| 30 |
Alexandra Heller |
SO |
D |
| 31 |
Olivia Hoff |
JR |
GK |
| Complete Roster |
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Oct. 31-Nov. 6
The Wisconsin women’s soccer team (10-6-3, 5-3-3) opens up play Wednesday at the Big Ten tournament against Minnesota (8-9-2, 5-4-2) at 7:30 p.m. on the campus of Northwestern. The Badgers earned the No. 4 seed, while the Gophers are seeded fifth. The game will air live on BTN.com.
Wisconsin has won two titles - 1994 and 2005 - at the Big Ten tournament, which returns for the first time since 2008. The Badgers last played in the tournament in 2006, losing in the first round to Illinois, 3-0. Overall, Wisconsin has a 12-10-2 record at the event.
The winner of Wednesday’s Wisconsin-Minnesota contest moves to the semifinals to face either No. 1 Penn State or No. 8 Northwestern at 3:45 p.m. on Friday afternoon.
The finals are set for 3 p.m. on Sunday. Both semifinal matchups and the finals will be televised live by the Big Ten Network.
Series History
Wisconsin leads the all-time series against Minnesota, 11-10-1, though the Gophers have won the only game between the schools on a neutral field.
Earlier this season, the two teams battled to a 2-2 draw in Madison. Minnesota led 1-0 at halftime and pushed its lead to 2-0 in the 47th minute before the Badgers began their comeback. Lindsey Johnson scored on a header off a corner kick from Catie Sessions to cut the Gophers’ lead to 2-1 in the 59th minute. Just over two minutes later, at the 61:06 mark, Alev Kelter let go a shot from 25 yards that deflected off a Minnesota defender and into the back of the net for the equalizer.
Dalton leads group of Badgers honored by Big Ten
Senior Michele Dalton has been named the 2011 Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year. The Mt. Prospect, Ill., native was also named first-team All-Big Ten, becoming just the third Badger in history to accomplish the feat. Dalton joins Julie Johnson (1996) and Ursula McKnight (1994).
Lindsey Johnson was named a second-team All-Big Ten defender, the first conference honor of her career. Johnson has started all 19 games with one goal and four assists to rank fourth on the team with six points. In addition, she has helped anchor a back line that has recorded six shutouts on the season and ranks fourth in the Big Ten with 0.95 goals allowed per game.
Cara Walls was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman team, the fourth-straight season that a Badger has earned a spot on the squad. She leads the team with nine goals and 19 points. That is the most goals by a Badgers freshman since Allison Wagner also had nine in 1997.
Wisconsin’s Sportsmanship Award honoree was given to Julia Roddar, a freshman midfielder who has played in all 19 games with one goal and two assists.
Two-win weekend earns Badgers spot in Big Ten tourney
Needing to keep pace in the Big Ten standings, the Badgers earned two big wins over the weekend of Oct. 21-23.
Friday night, the Badgers got goals from five different players and 10 different players registered a point a 5-1 win over Purdue. Monica Lam-Feist, Julia Roddar, Paige Adams, Alev Kelter and Laurie Nosbusch all found the back of the net for UW.
It was the most goals scored by the Badgers since a 7-1 victory over Vermont on Sept. 7, 2008, and it was the largest margin of victory by the team since a 4-0 victory against Nevada on Sept. 21, 2008.
Freshman Cara Walls provided all the scoring for the Badgers in Sunday’s 2-0 win over Indiana. She scored her team-leading eighth and ninth goals of the year, the most for a Badger freshman since Allison Wagner also had nine in 1997.
In posting her sixth shutout of the season, Michele Dalton stopped a penalty kick from Indiana’s Orianica Velasquez in the 58th minute. Velasquez, who played for Colombia in the 2011 Women’s World Cup, looked to go to the lower left corner, but Dalton dove to her right and came up with the big save to keep IU off the board.
Dalton posted nine saves over the weekend and allowed just one goal to earn her second Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honors of the season and the sixth of her career.
In the polls
After going 0-1-0 last week, Wisconsin is not receiving votes in the latest NSCAA/adidas Coaches Poll. UW earned 36 votes in the previous poll, which put the team 29th.
Wisconsin is 2-2-0 on the season against teams in the NSCAA/adidas coaches poll. The Badgers’ wins came over No. 23 Washington on Aug. 26 (2-1) and No. 21 Penn State on Sept. 17 (1-0). The two losses came at No. 1 Notre Dame (2-0) on Aug. 19 and at No. 14 Milwaukee on Sept. 11. (2-1 in overtime). The Badgers also beat Dayton, who was receiving votes, 3-1, on Sept. 2.
Three UW opponents are ranked in the latest Coaches poll (see Page 3), while three others are also receiving votes. When the NSCAA/ADIDAS Coaches Preseason Poll was released on Aug. 9, five of the Badgers’ opponents were ranked, and another was receiving votes.
Two is the magic number in Badgers' winning formula
For the Badgers, two goals has proven to be the difference between a win and a loss this season. When UW scores two or more goals this year, it is 8-0-1, but only 2-6-2 when scoring zero or one goal. Conversely, when Wisconsin allows two goals, it is 0-4-1 compared to a 10-2-2 mark when allowing one goal or less.
Big Ten stat rankings
Laurie Nosbusch is sixth in shots (73) and shots per game (3.84) and tied for 10th in assists (6) ... Cara Walls is fifth in game-winning goals (4) and 10th in goals (9) and goals per game (0.47) ... Michele Dalton ranks fourth in goals against average (0.91), save percentage (.825)
To be ranked in the Big Ten stats, a player must appear in at least 50.0% of their team’s games goalies at least 33.0% of their team’s minutes.
Historically speaking
Seniors Michele Dalton and Laurie Nosbusch have both worked their way up the Wisconsin record books.
Dalton has tied the school record for saves per game (4.714) and ranks fifth in saves (264) and goals against average (.871) and seventh in shutouts (23), In addition, her 89 saves this season is tied for fifth-most in UW single-season history and her .850 goals against average this season is eighth-best.
Nosbusch sits fifth in both goals (29) and points (78), is tied for sixth in assists (20) and is 10th with 76 starts in her career and three multi-goal games.
Dalton, Walls earn Big Ten weekly honors
A 2-0 win over Nebraska on Oct. 7 garnered conference accolades for Michele Dalton and Cara Walls, the Big Ten announced Monday.
For scoring her team-best seventh goal of the season, Walls was named the co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week with Becca Roberts of Minnesota. Walls’ two previous awards came after a four-point (two goals) effort in a 2-1 win against Michigan State, and a five-point (two goals, one assist) weekend against No. 23 Washington and Green Bay. Since the Freshman of the Week was added was by the Big Ten in 2009, Walls becomes the first Badger to win the award three times.
In earning her first Defensive Player of the Week honors since Oct. 4, 2010, Dalton set a season high with 11 saves. After making six saves in the first half, she came back with five more in the second period to finish one save shy of her career high of 12. It was also Dalton’s fifth clean sheet of the season.
With Dalton and Walls being honored, it’s the first time Wisconsin had multiple players recognized by the Big Ten in the same week since Dalton and Nosbusch were tabbed on Sept. 20, 2010.
Walls guides Badgers to 2-0 start in Big Ten play
Behind a pair of goals from freshman Cara Walls, the Wisconsin women’s soccer team snapped Michigan State’s eight-game win streak with a 2-1 victory on Sept. 23 in East Lansing, Mich. It was the first time since 1998 that the Badgers opened Big Ten play with back-to-back wins.
Walls became the first player to score two goals in a game for the Badgers since Monica Lam-Feist did it in the NCAA tournament last season against Marquette. She’s the first freshman to accomplish the feat since Alev Kelter scored twice against DePaul on Sept. 13, 2009.
Badgers open Big Ten with upset win over No. 21 Penn State
The Badgers kicked off Big Ten play against No. 21 Penn State on Sept. 17 with a 1-0 victory, marking the second-straight season in which UW beat the Nittany Lions. Since Paula Wilkins came from Penn State to become head coach of the Badgers in 2007, the series is tied at 2-2-1. Prior to Wilkins’ arrival, the Badgers were just 1-13-4 all-time against PSU.
Laurie Nosbusch scored the only goal of the game in the 18th minute. It was Nosbusch’s fourth goal of the season, tying with freshman Cara Walls for the team lead. Nosbusch also now sits all alone in fifth place at Wisconsin with 26 career goals.
Michele Dalton stopped seven shots in posting her third shutout of the season and the 21st of her career. In addition, the Badgers’ defense stifled Penn State’s Maya Hayes, who entered the game as the nation’s leader with 12 goals. Saturday, Hayes did not even attempt a shot.
Chippewas stop Badgers' home unbeaten streak
On Sept. 14, Central Michigan ended Wisconsin’s nine-game home unbeaten streak with a 2-1 win. Laurie Nosbusch scored the equalizer in the second half, but CMU scored in the 89th minute to capture the win.
It was Wisconsin’s first loss at home since suffering a 1-0 defeat to Cincinnati on Aug. 29, 2010. With a loss on Sunday to No. 14 Milwaukee, it’s also the first time UW has lost back-to-back games since the aforementioned loss to Cincinnati was followed by a 2-0 loss to Portland.
If it were not for a Washington goal with 27 seconds left in the home opener, UW would have posted nine straight shutouts in Madison. Wisconsin was 6-0-3 during its nine-game run and outscored its opponents, 12-1.
After shutout win at NIU, win streak snaps at Milwaukee
The team extended its winning streak to five matches with a shutout win at Northern Illinois on Sept. 8, but an overtime loss at No. 14 Milwaukee on Sept. 11 brought it to an end.
Against the Huskies, Alev Kelter and Monica Lam-Feist each scored their first goals of the season in a 2-0 win. The Badgers held a 23-4 edge in shots, including a 9-1 lead in shots on goal. In picking up her second shutout of the year, Michele Dalton made one save.
Freshman Cara Walls scored her team-best fourth goal of the season, but the Badgers fell in overtime at No. 14 Milwaukee on Sept. 11, 2-1. The Panthers struck first before Walls tallied the equalizer. Michele Dalton had seven saves in the loss.
The five-match winning streak was the Badgers’ second in their past 12 games, going 10-1-1 in that stretch. Wisconsin won its final four games of the 2010 regular season before defeating Milwaukee in the first round of the NCAA tournament. After tying Marquette in the second round and losing on penalty kicks, the Badgers opened the 2011 season with a loss at No. 1 Notre Dame before going on its recent streak. UW outscored its opponents 10-3 in its latest run.
Taking two in Ohio
The team extended its winning streak to four matches with a pair of victories in the state of Ohio. On Sept. 2, UW won at Dayton, 3-1, before taking a 2-1 decision at Cincinnati on Sept. 4.
In the win over the Flyers, Cara Walls scored her team-leading third goal of the season, while Laurie Nosbusch and Nikki Greenhalgh each added their first of the year. Goalkeeper Michele Dalton finished with eight saves to secure the win.
The Badgers had to endure a pair of lightning delays totaling 69 minutes before beating the Bearcats. After falling behind 1-0, Nosbusch scored the equalizer in the 35th minute for the Badgers. An own goal by Cincinnati in the 69th minute proved to be the deciding goal.
Home schedule opens with a sweep
The Badgers opened the home portion of their 2011 schedule with a 2-1 win over No. 23 Washington on Aug. 26, then followed it up with a 1-0 win over in-state foe Green Bay.
Freshman Cara Walls recorded the first goal and assist of her career, while senior Leigh Williams tallied her first since the 2009 NCAA Tournament in the win over the Huskies. Senior Laurie Nosbusch assisted on both of the goals.
It was all Walls against the Phoenix as she scored the game’s lone goal in the 28th minute. The Badgers kept the pressure up throughout the contest, outshooting Green Bay, 20-4.
Badgers open season with loss at No. 1 Notre Dame
Wisconsin kicked off its 31st season with a 2-0 loss at defending national champion and No. 1-ranked Notre Dame on Aug. 19.
The Fighting Irish flexed their muscles with goals in the 43rd and 61st minute to record the win. UW goalkeeper Michele Dalton had 10 saves in the loss, while Laurie Nosbusch led the team with three shots, including two on goal.
Position Previews
Goalkeepers | Defenders | Midfielders | Forwards
Badgers picked third in Big Ten
The Wisconsin women's soccer team was picked third in the Big Ten preseason coaches' poll, marking the second season in a row that the Badgers have been selected third in the poll. Prior to that, the last time the team was chosen among the top three was in 2003.
The Badgers return 10 of 11 starters from a squad that reached the second round of the NCAA tournament, its second-straight postseason appearance. In addition, 17 letterwinners return as head coach Paula Wilkins enters her fifth season.
Seniors Michele Dalton and Laurie Nosbusch and junior Alev Kelter were chosen as Wisconsin's Players to Watch for the upcoming season.
Tough schedule prepares Badgers
With the Wisconsin women's soccer team looking to reach the NCAA tournament for the third year in a row, its 2011 schedule features a level of competition that will serve the Badgers well.
Non-conference highlights include a matchup at defending national champion Notre Dame as well as a home contest against a Washington squad that reached the quarterfinals. In all, 10 of the Badgers' 19 opponents on the schedule are coming off appearances in the NCAA tournament.
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