Redshirted and Ready
11/7/2017 12:14:00 PM | Women's Soccer
Women's Soccer is One of Many Programs On-Campus Who Look to Utilize a Player's Redshirt Season into Growth On and Off the Field
Some see it as a setback, others use it as a stepping stone to improve. The Quinnipiac women's soccer team is all too familiar with players using redshirt seasons. Five current players have or are currently in a redshirt year, with several playing a leading role in the team's success this season. For the entire staff, Quinnipiac has proven over the years to be a place where players get better over their redshirt year.
According to the NCAA, redshirt, is a delay of an athlete's participation to lengthen his or her period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, a number derived from the four years of academic classes that are normally required to obtain a bachelor's degree at a college or university. However, in a redshirt year, student athletes may attend classes at the college or university, practice with an athletic team, and dress for play – but they may not compete in games. Using this mechanism, a student athlete has up to five academic years to use the four years of eligibility, thus becoming a fifth-year senior.
Quinnipiac's redshirted players: redshirt senior (fifth-year) Laura Nicholas, graduate student (fifth-year) Sarah Pandolfi, redshirt sophomore Kylie Lance, redshirt sophomore Charlotte Edmunds and redshirt freshman Kelsey Goldring, have all played a major role in the program's success throughout their careers, especially in 2017.
Leading the team on the field included Nicholas who played 18 games (16 starts), while posting career highs across the board in terms of minutes (1084), goals (one), assists (three) and points (five). Lance played all over the field, earning time on the back line, defensive and offensive midfielder positions, while seeing the second-most minutes (1511) of any player on the team on her way to a career high five points (one goal, three assists) including a season-ending four-game point streak. The 2017 MAAC Co-Rookie of the Year, Goldring led all MAAC freshmen in points (17) and assists (eight) while ranking second in goals (five) as she made an immediate impact in her first year of collegiate playing experience. Pandolfi and Edmunds, meanwhile, were forced to miss the 2017 season due to injury but were vigilant members of the team both in practice and at games, providing leadership at all times.
According to the NCAA, redshirt, is a delay of an athlete's participation to lengthen his or her period of eligibility. Typically, a student's athletic eligibility in a given sport is four seasons, a number derived from the four years of academic classes that are normally required to obtain a bachelor's degree at a college or university. However, in a redshirt year, student athletes may attend classes at the college or university, practice with an athletic team, and dress for play – but they may not compete in games. Using this mechanism, a student athlete has up to five academic years to use the four years of eligibility, thus becoming a fifth-year senior.
Quinnipiac's redshirted players: redshirt senior (fifth-year) Laura Nicholas, graduate student (fifth-year) Sarah Pandolfi, redshirt sophomore Kylie Lance, redshirt sophomore Charlotte Edmunds and redshirt freshman Kelsey Goldring, have all played a major role in the program's success throughout their careers, especially in 2017.
Leading the team on the field included Nicholas who played 18 games (16 starts), while posting career highs across the board in terms of minutes (1084), goals (one), assists (three) and points (five). Lance played all over the field, earning time on the back line, defensive and offensive midfielder positions, while seeing the second-most minutes (1511) of any player on the team on her way to a career high five points (one goal, three assists) including a season-ending four-game point streak. The 2017 MAAC Co-Rookie of the Year, Goldring led all MAAC freshmen in points (17) and assists (eight) while ranking second in goals (five) as she made an immediate impact in her first year of collegiate playing experience. Pandolfi and Edmunds, meanwhile, were forced to miss the 2017 season due to injury but were vigilant members of the team both in practice and at games, providing leadership at all times.
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