Shelby Strong!

Shelby Roelke is a first year player on our team that was in a car accident in January.  She suffered a significant head injury and is recovering in a rehab hospital outside of Philadelphia.  Her condition improves daily and anyone who knows Shelby knows that she quickly became the most popular and hard working patient at the Bryn Mawr Hospital! 
Several fundraisers have been held by friends and family to help Shelby's immediate family with medical costs and travel expenses.   Below, our team wears "Shelby Strong" tees in our new Team Room at FSU.   Our entire FSUWS family wishes Shelby a successful and speedy recovery.

Team Ethics Award - 9th Year!

Very proud that we have both a quality AND disciplined team here at FSU.  We consistently win the NSCAA Ethics Award by respecting officials and opponents, managing our emotions, and letting our soccer speak for itself. 

From Frostburg State University - Bobcat Women Win Ethics Award For Ninth Time:
FROSTBURG, Md. – For the ninth-year in a row, the Frostburg State women's soccer team has garnered the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Ethics and Sportsmanship Award.

What a Great Year and Season!

The FSU Women's Soccer team had another wonderful season in 2016.  With a tough 2016 schedule, the team responded with our best-ever regular season conference record in the 7 years since joining the CAC.  7 CAC wins and our 4th appearance in the CAC Final.   Quite a year!

Records and Facts of Note for 2016:

• 23rd season without a losing record in the 23 year history of FSU Women’s Soccer
• 20th consecutive conference tournament appearance
• 4th appearance in the CAC Championship Game in 7 years as a CAC member
• Lost only 2 CAC regular season games shutting out 5 CAC opponents
• Won a Program Record 7 CAC regular season games to claim the #2 Seed and host the CAC Semifinal
• FSU placed 4 players on All-Conference Teams 
• Brooke Shehade was the 3rd leading scorer in the CAC as a Freshman
• Rhianna Lapen’s GAA (.71) and Save % (.868) ranked 2nd in the CAC
• Awarded both the NSCAA Team Academic and Ethics Awards for the 9th consecutive year
• FSU’s Team GPA was the highest in the CAA (3.48) and had the highest % of players earning CAC All-Academic Team Honors
• Karen Kotofski (Parisi) became the first-ever Women's Soccer Inductee into the FSU Athletics Hall of Fame.  She scored 83 goals for FSU, 20 more then the next closest FSU soccer player, men's or women's

Dani Ferris celebrates scoring in the 2016 CAC Semifinal at FSU.

Another Great Semester!

Our team earned a Fall 2016 GPA of 3.421. 8 of our players earn a 4.0! Melanie Bell, Katie Broadhurst, Kourtney McLain, AJ Malanik, Dani Ferris, Haley Dalphon, Gwen Schemm, and Rylee Learn all got straight A's! Another 5 players earned just one B grade and 14 earned a 3.5 or better. Another awesome semester in the classroom.

FSU Women's Soccer players continue to be excellent students and have all the options they could want with a college degree.

Congratulations!

Season Awards Banquet

The following players earned team awards at our Annual Awards Dinner at the historic Lyric Theater on Main Street Frostburg.

Best New Player, Brooke Shehade
Most Improved Player, Melissa Krofcheck
Unsung Hero, Anais Ventura
Most Sportsmanlike Player, Kelsi Folch
Scholar Athlete, Melanie Bell
Offensive Most Valuable Player, Dani Ferris
Defensive Most Valuable Player, Lia Kelly

Season Honors

We had a great finish to our season and played especially well in our CAC Conference games.  We finished in 2nd place and so with the #2 seed, hosted a playoff game and advanced to the CAC Final.   4 of our players were recognized by CAC coaches for their terrific 2016 seasons.  Congratulations to these All-Conference Bobcats and all those Honored.  More to come.....

All-CAC 1st-Team: Shehade, Bell  2nd-Team: Kelly, Malanik

The Post-Season

We've developed a long tradition here at FSU of playing important games in November.  When we don't get the opportunity to play in the NCAA Tournament, the regional ECAC Tournament is a great way to celebrate the careers of our Seniors and gain important experience for our team.  This year, we'll play in a familiar stadium near home for many of our players at Stevenson in Owings Mills, MD.  Saturday's game is at 11am with the winners advancing to a Noon Sunday match.

ECAC Tournament Info

It's Playoff Time!

We won our final 5 games allowing only 1 goal to secure the #2 seed in our upcoming CAC Conference Tournament.  After advancing in a shootout on Wednesday night in the Semifinal, we will play for the CAC Championship on Sat. Nov 5th, at 5:30pm at CNU. You can follow our tournament at these links:

CAC Women's Soccer Page
CAC Tournament Bracket

Senior Day!

It was a beautiful night for soccer at Frostburg State for Senior Day!  What other people call crazy weather, we call home field advantage!   3 2nd half goals and another shutout give us good momentum heading into the final week of the regular season and into the Conference Tournament.  We will not know our exact schedule until Wednesday night after our final game at 6pm but could host a game next Saturday here at FSU.

A Great Conference Rivalry

We really enjoy playing conference games in the CAC and all that they entail.  We've created several important rivalries but none more important than with our cross-state rival at Salisbury University.  They are good and that makes us better and we played very well on Saturday to get a result that really positions us for a home game in the CAC Tournament.  We certainly have business to take care of in our 3-game homestand to finish the regular season, but we just had a great weekend on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Frostburg Downs Salisbury, 2-0

Big Conference Games!

We won a very important conference game at Mary Washington on Wednesday when Mel Bell finished a great pass from Brooke Shehade to complete the 1-0 victory.  Rhi Lapen earned the shutout in goal and our team played great defense all over the field.   We host a very good CNU team this Saturday at home at 5pm as the big conference games keep coming!

Our New Media Guide is available for viewing on-line here:
http://tinyurl.com/FSUWS2016

A Good Start to Conference Play

We made it interesting but had a great finish to our first CAC game of 2016 and won 4-2 at home to start conference play this season.  Haley Dalphon scored 3 times, Dani Ferris had a great header, and Brooke Shehade had 2 assists for our "parents weekend" game on a beautiful day for soccer in Bobcat Stadium.  We  have a tough non-conference matchup at home Wednesday night before traveling to Southern Maryland next weekend.