Friday, August 18
Linda Johnson Smith Soccer Stadium - Worcester, MA
7:05 PM
Quinnipiac University
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QU Women’s Soccer Opens 2017 Season with Road Matches at Holy Cross and Drexel
8/16/2017 4:01:00 PM | Women's Soccer
Bobcats Head on the Road for Two Straight Night Contests to Open 2017
Quinnipiac Bobcats (0-0) at
Holy Cross Crusaders (0-0)
Friday, August 18, 2017 • 7:05 PM
Linda Johnson Smith Soccer Stadium • Worcester, MA
All-Time Series vs. Holy Cross: 8-4-1
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Quinnipiac Bobcats (0-0) at
Drexel Dragons (0-0)
Monday, August 21, 2017 • 7:00 PM
Vidas Field • Philadelphia, PA
All-Time Series vs. Drexel: First All-Time Meeting
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Fresh off a resoundingly successful 2016 campaign, the Quinnipiac women's soccer team opens the new 2017 season with two straight away night games at Holy Cross (Friday) and Drexel (Monday). Coming off a season in which the Bobcats won 12 games and advanced to the MAAC Championship game for the first time, Quinnipiac has designs on competing in the top half of the league with future sights set on a MAAC title and trip to the NCAA Tournament.
TOP STORYLINES HEADING INTO 2017
Holy Cross Crusaders (0-0)
Friday, August 18, 2017 • 7:05 PM
Linda Johnson Smith Soccer Stadium • Worcester, MA
All-Time Series vs. Holy Cross: 8-4-1
Game Links
Quinnipiac Bobcats (0-0) at
Drexel Dragons (0-0)
Monday, August 21, 2017 • 7:00 PM
Vidas Field • Philadelphia, PA
All-Time Series vs. Drexel: First All-Time Meeting
Game Links
Fresh off a resoundingly successful 2016 campaign, the Quinnipiac women's soccer team opens the new 2017 season with two straight away night games at Holy Cross (Friday) and Drexel (Monday). Coming off a season in which the Bobcats won 12 games and advanced to the MAAC Championship game for the first time, Quinnipiac has designs on competing in the top half of the league with future sights set on a MAAC title and trip to the NCAA Tournament.
TOP STORYLINES HEADING INTO 2017
- Quinnipiac was recently selected second in the MAAC Preseason Coaches' Poll, earning the program's highest preseason ranking since joining the MAAC in 2013 while also picking up their first-ever first place vote in the poll
- The Bobcats return 21 letterwinners from a 12-win squad a season ago that put together the third-highest single-season win total in the program's Div. I era as well as the winningest campaign since 2001
- Quinnipiac reeled off a 9-0 home record in 2016, including a 3-0 MAAC quarterfinal win over Canisius in Hamden that marked the program's first postseason victory since 2000
- That 9-0 record on the QU Soccer Field also marked the final season playing on that surface as the Bobcats have moved into the newly renovated 1,500 seat turf complex that formerly housed Quinnipiac's field hockey and lacrosse programs
- Nadya Gill headlines the returning class for Quinnipiac as she was selected to the 2017 Preseason All-MAAC Team for the second straight season following a 2016 campaign that saw her tally 21 points on the strength of a team-high nine goals
- Gill was honored with First Team All-MAAC honors in 2016 as well as NSCAA All-Northeast Second Team, NEWISA All-New England Second Team and All-ECAC Honorable Mention laurels
- Al Pelletier returns on the forward line for her junior season after a breakthrough 2016 season that saw her record 14 points (five goals, four assists) while scoring the biggest goal of the season, a game-winning second half tally in the 1-0 MAAC semifinal upset win over Siena
- Kylie Lance (midfield) and Mackenzie Tibball (fullback) both made the MAAC All-Rookie Team in 2016 as both helped solidify a defensive unit back-to-back clean sheets in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds of the MAAC Tournament
- Jess Gargan turned into an impact player midway through the season following her move to the center back position as the team allowed just eight goals in a 10-game span while posting five clean sheets in the 11 games in which she started at the back
- Jess Cascio has played the most minutes (3164) over the last two seasons of anyone on the team
- Emma Greco joins the team's defensive unit as a graduate student following a distinguished four-year career with the nationally-ranked Quinnipiac women's ice hockey program that won the 2016 ECAC Championship in her junior season
- Ally Grunstein dished out eight assists on her way to a 14-point freshman season that stands as the seventh-highest single-season assist total in program history
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