Competitive on the Field AND in the Classroom

The NSCAA has published the winners of the 2011 Team Academic Award and the FSU Women's Soccer Team has been honored for the 4th straight year!
The team GPA of 3.52 for the 2010-2011 academic year is a best-ever for the program and the highest GPA in the Capital Conference and the State of Maryland among all men's and women's college soccer teams. The FSU team GPA also ranks in the top 40 of the 571 women's college teams that earned the award this year in all NCAA Divisions.

Congratulations to these committed students!

NSCAA Team Academic Award Winners

2011 ECAC South Champions!

Our 2011 Season ended Sunday with a big home win to capture the 2011 ECAC South Championship!  Liz Seligman, our all-conference right back, hit a wonder goal from 30 yards after running with the ball for 60. [Check our YouTube channel on the right of this page] Stevenson is a very good team that pressured us throughout the game but both our back line defending and goalkeeping were terrific.
It was our 12th shutout as we finished the year with a 17-2-2 record.

 The Cumberland Times News covered our game and included this photo of Liz running to score the game winner on Sunday.

Playing for a Championship on Sunday!

We had a terrific burst of offense against Altoona and won 5-1 today in the ECAC Semifinals here at FSU.  As a result, we'll host the ECAC South Region Final at Noon on Sunday against our conference rivals from Stevenson. It's the 3rd time in 4 years, we've hosted the ECAC Final and hope to prevail at home here in 2011.

fashion statement?

Our Seniors decided to show their fashion sense at our final practice of 2011.

Home Win Sends us to ECAC South "Final Four" here this Weekend

Adria Graham scored twice and Steph Fazenbaker and Dorie Gedridge each added a goal in a 4-1 home win over Grove City in our ECAC first round game on Wednesday here at FSU.  The victory means as the #1 seed, we will host the Semifinals and Final this weekend. Here's the schedule of games in our Bobcat Stadium:
Sat. 11/12- FSU vs Altoona, Noon
Sat. 11/12-Stevenson vs Albright, 2:30
Sun 11/13-Winners meet at Noon

The Cumberland Times-News covered the game and took the picture shown here of Adria scoring her first goal of the game.

Post-Season Game at FSU!!

On Wednesday at 6pm, FSU will host Grove City in the ECAC South Region Tournament.  It's the 3rd time in 4 years that FSU has earned the #1 seed in the ECAC Tournament and hosted post-season games here at Bobcat Stadium.   Details and the Tournament bracket are available at the ECAC women's soccer site here:

ECAC Women's Soccer Page
ECAC South Tournament Bracket

Tough start to the postseason

We are still a bit stunned by having a game decided after 18 penalty kick attempts.  Unfortunately, our opponents made 1 more than we did and advance now to our conference semifinal this week.  We are healing fast and will begin to train this week in anticipation of a post-season tournament bid. Announcements will be made on November 7th at these relavent sites for the NCAA and ECAC tournaments.

NCAA D3 Women's Soccer Page
ECAC Women's Soccer Page

What a difference a day makes

Our snow crews had our field cleared within hours of the snow ending on Saturday night. 



Sunday morning, our men's coaching staff put the finishing touches on the stadium cleanup and the hot sun provided by mother nature did the rest. 

It IS still October right?

For the first time in many years, we've had a significant snow fall in October that stretched from Virginia to Maine. A few of our players visited the FSU stadium today during the storm.  Our snow crews are awesome and we do expect to play tomorrow!  Our game is scheduled for 4pm now instead of 2.

Our 2011 Conference Tournament

Sun., Oct. 30 CAC Tournament First Round:
No. 6 St. Mary's at No. 3 Frostburg State - 4:00 pm
No. 5 Mary Washington at No. 4 York

Wed., Nov. 2 CAC Tournament Semifinals:
York/Mary Washington at No. 1 Salisbury
FSU/St. Mary's at No. 2 Stevenson

Sat., Nov. 5 CAC Tournament Championship:
Teams and times TBA

It's Playoff Time!

We've concluded our regular season with a 14-2-1 record after Senior Jessica Kraemer smashed in a golden goal in overtime at Wesley on Saturday in Dover, Delaware.  After a play between Cassie Donahue and Adria Graham was broken up by a defender, Kraemer stepped into the loose ball and found the upper corner from about 20 yards out for the games decisive moment.
With our 2 wins this week, we have secured the #3 seed in our conference tournament.  We'll host a Quarterfinal game this weekend here at FSU, likely on Sunday at 2pm, but our opponent will not be determined until Wednesday.  Either St. Mary's or Mary Washington will travel to Frostburg to determine who moves on to the CAC semifinal on Wednesday.  The CAC has published a preliminary bracket that is linked here:

2011 CAC Tournament Bracket

Big Conference Win!

Our returning players were very happy to recall our regular season game with York last year as we made our first trip to the York campus in CAC play.   After a terrific header by Abbie Aposporos was clipped in by Adria Graham, York evened the score with a counter-attack goal mid-way through the 2nd half.  Dorie Gedridge came up big in the final minutes however as she sprinted down the right flank and hit a curling shot up and over the head of the YCP keeper for the game winner.
We have now secured ourselves at least one home game in the CAC Tournament and could still finish anywhere from 1st to 4th place with one big conference weekend of games to be played.   After our Saturday game at Wesley, we'll know when we'll host that CAC playoff game.