Women’s Soccer Ends Storybook Season

December 1, 2011 Cat Tacopina 0

The book has closed on the SUNY New Paltz Women’s Soccer Team’s fall 2011 season. The Lady Hawks completed their run in the NCAA Div. III Tournament after a 1-0 loss to No. 1 Messiah College. A week before the loss to the No. 1 seed, the Hawks defeated No. 11 Lynchburg college after tying 0-0 in regulation and advancing on penalty kicks. The team then went on to beat Rowan University with a 2-1 overtime victory. “It was amazing,” Head Coach Colleen Bruley said. “I think after the Fredonia game the confidence kept building and building and every […]

Slaying Dragons

November 10, 2011 Andrew Wyrich 0

For the first time in program history, the Lady Hawks are SUNYAC Champions. In a 1-0 contest, the New Paltz Women’s Soccer team defeated the No.1 seeded SUNY Cortland in the tournament final on Nov. 5, securing not only a SUNYAC Championship title, but a berth into the NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Championship tournament. “It was of course unbelievable,” Head Coach Colleen Bruley said. “I just bent over and started crying. [The team] jumped on each other in the middle of the fiel. It was incredible. I was in a daze about the whole thing all day. It was surreal.” Third-year forward Shelby […]