2018 Texas Women's Soccer

texasstrong12 · March 25, 2018

Spring schedule continues with Northwestern State on April 14th.

Results so far: 3-0 win vs UTSA, 3-1 win vs A&M Corpus, 2-0 win vs ST. Edwards.

Returning almost everyone from the Sweet 16 team last year.

Edited March 25, 2018 by texasstrong12

texasstrong12 · April 14, 2018

Finished 4-0 in the Spring.

We should be pretty good this year. Return everyone from the Sweet 16 team and add a couple really good freshman.

texasstrong12 · April 19, 2018

http://texassports.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=390

Schedule released. Non-conference is not great so we should get off to another good start. Should finish 8-1 in non-conference with the only loss to UNC.

texasstrong12 · April 19, 2018

http://admin.texassports.com/news/2018/4/18/soccer-announces-its-2018-fall-schedule.aspx

"UT is returning 23 letter winners from last fall's 14-4-3 squad that advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 for only the fourth time in program history. Those returnees combined to account for 97 percent (28-of-29) of UT's total goals and 90 percent (27-of-30) of the total assists from the 2017 campaign as well as all 14 goalkeeping wins and 11 shutouts between the pipes."

Pretty much return the entire roster from the Sweet 16 team.

Edited April 19, 2018 by texasstrong12

pacman · April 24, 2018

Worried that non-conf schedule will not get us ready for conference play.

Nice to have returning starters, but that will not mean much if we don't improve style of play. We can't have defenders turning the ball over with practically every touch.

texasstrong12 · April 24, 2018

I think there's going to be changes defensively. One of those Canadians is likely going to win an outside fullback position. If not both.

Edited April 24, 2018 by texasstrong12

pacman · May 6, 2018

https://texassports.com/news/2018/5/6/soccers-cameron-brooks-called-to-us-under-18-national-team-camp.aspx

Brooks called up to the u18s

texasstrong12 · May 7, 2018

Yeah, with Brooks and the 2 Canadians our defense is probably going to look different next year. Bringing in some real talent.

Edited May 7, 2018 by texasstrong12

texasstrong12 · June 10, 2018

As a soccer fan, I'm excited about next year. I think we are going to be really good.

Edited June 10, 2018 by texasstrong12

pacman · June 15, 2018

Brief chat with coach at her camp, ssys it will be a fight for @JordynHuitema but she is hopeful

texasstrong12 · June 15, 2018

Make it happen Texas.

texasstrong12 · June 15, 2018

Article on Grosso

https://wwfshow.tumblr.com/post/174742338993/canadas-17-year-old-midfielder-is-looking-to-make

In addition to potentially representing Canada at her first WWC, the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite product is getting ready for her freshman season with the University of Texas, alongside CanWNT fullback Emma Regan.

“I leave at the end of July,” said Grosso, "I’m looking forward to getting started with them. There’s someone on the [CanWNT] who’s going with me, so it’s nice to travel with someone [I know].”

pacman · June 29, 2018

The future is lighting the world on fire right in u18 girls da and youth national team.

Byars/Missimo (hopefully we are going after their club teammate #17 Meza

https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2018/04/27/22/45/20180427-recap-byers-scores-three-as-u16gnt-defeats-italy-reaches-torneo-delle-nazioni-championship

Edited June 29, 2018 by pacman

texasstrong12 · July 22, 2018

Chris Henderson has started writing previews of teams we play. First team up is UTRGV (picked to finish 7th in the WAC). This should obviously be a win.

http://www.allwhitekit.com/?p=16482

Texas Rio Grande Valley have not taken long to adapt to life in the WAC, already looking more credible than some of their (slightly) more high profile rivals in the league. While the Vaqueros were about as average as it gets in non-conference play, they were strong when league play came around. At least at home. UTRGV won all four of its matches at home and went 0-2-1 away from home in the WAC. Some would say that correlated to not just home/away but the best/worst teams in the league, but it was still enough to net third in the league. Their WAC Tournament stay was a short one though, as they were bounced by Grand Canyon in the quarterfinal.

The odds of repeating that league finish look considerably longer though. UTRGV loses four starters, including a couple of big ones. Leading scorer Andreya Barrera is one of the graduates after netting seven as a senior while also chipping in with four assists. Central midfielder Hanna Spets also graduates following a three assist season as a senior.

The cupboard’s not entirely bare on offense, as Ghanian winger Sarah Bonney does return and is the club’s leading returning scorer with five goals and six assists, though nobody else returning had more than three. A wild card could be Stony Brook transfer Lea Kalmbach, who was impressive as a central midfielder in the America East as a rookie in 2016 before finding opportunities more limited last year.

It may be a more defensively oriented Vaqueros side in 2018, and the club can rely on center-back Tuva Rolstad Nilsen, who also had five assists last season. UTRGV looks to be taking a bit of a step back this season given some of the departures, but they still have an outside shot at making it back to the postseason.

perfectchaos007 · July 22, 2018

UTRGV parked the bus and gave our offense fits last year as they took us to overtime before Texas netted the winning goal. Looking forward to this season getting under way. Our exhibition against TAMU-CC is less than 3 weeks away.

Edited July 22, 2018 by perfectchaos007

texasstrong12 · July 23, 2018

Missimo could probably play for Texas right now at 15 or 16 years old. Unreal talent. Byars and Missimo on the same club team is just unfair.

texasstrong12 · July 23, 2018

I actually wonder if both of these girls are asked to reclassify to the 20 class. They are probably ready.

texasstrong12 · July 24, 2018

https://www.hookem.com/2018/05/18/graduation-make-end-mikayla-flores-athletic-career-texas/

Just now seeing that Mikayla Flores isn't returning and is deciding to focus on medical school.

You could tell she was never healthy last year after her 2nd major knee injury.

Edited July 24, 2018 by texasstrong12

texasstrong12 · July 24, 2018

It's a good problem to have but Kelly is going to have a lot of decisions to make in terms MF/F. 6 or 7 starting spots out of Berg, Strouphauer, Billups, Adams, Hintzen, Dollas, Stearns, Graham, Falcone, and Glenn.

Two of the freshman (Grosso and Smith) are also very talented. But I think they will give Grosso an opportunity at outside fullback to start.

Crazy how our roster went from shit to pretty damn salty in a matter of a couple years.

Edited July 24, 2018 by texasstrong12

Goodman · July 25, 2018

Count me as one that did not expect or think Kelly would be able to recruit this well. I hope she continues to roll. What are expectations for this year?

texasstrong12 · July 26, 2018

21 hours ago, Goodman said:

What are expectations for this year?

Not sure but this is by far the best roster Kelly has had on campus since she's been at Texas. It's pretty much the same roster from the Sweet 16 team with a couple impact FR.

Feels like we should be a top 20 team at worst.

This is one of those situations where I hope Kelly keeps winning because the future recruiting classes are loaded with talent.

Edited July 26, 2018 by texasstrong12

Goodman · July 26, 2018

Is Kelly or her staff welcomed by our top state programs or is our recruiting national/international?

I am also curious to know if y'all think Kelly can make this a power program re:wins/championships or will she best viewed when an underdog?

Appreciate the info as I have zero clue on soccer recruiting/program.

Js1 · July 26, 2018

12 minutes ago, texasstrong12 said:

Not sure but this is by far the best roster Kelly has had on campus since she's been at Texas. It's pretty much the same roster from the Sweet 16 team with a couple impact FR.

Feels like we should be a top 20 team at worst.

This is one of those situations where I hope Kelly keeps winning because the future recruiting classes are loaded with talent.

I buy this. Top 16 seed, host an opening game at home, reach Sweet 16 again. Our ceiling is probably top 8, host 2 games at home. A lot of graduations in the Big 12 and we return basically our whole roster with some good impact freshman.

texasstrong12 · July 26, 2018

9 minutes ago, Goodman said:

Is Kelly or her staff welcomed by our top state programs or is our recruiting national/international?

I am also curious to know if y'all think Kelly can make this a power program re:wins/championships or will she best viewed when an underdog?

Appreciate the info as I have zero clue on soccer recruiting/program.

Combination of both. She's started to build her recruiting base in Texas but she's definitively using her Canada connections. She's recruited heavily in California too.

As for "power program" vs "underdog" I think Texas is always going to be an underdog type program because they don't have a men's program. We aren't a soccer school.

texasstrong12 · July 26, 2018

Also of note, Huitema is already getting interest from pro clubs at 17. This would a monster get if we can land her.

pacman · July 31, 2018

Uh oh..could pull a Pugh and skip college. Interesting.

pacman · July 31, 2018

On 7/23/2018 at 8:32 AM, texasstrong12 said:

I actually wonder if both of these girls are asked to reclassify to the 20 class. They are probably ready.

On 7/23/2018 at 8:28 AM, texasstrong12 said:

Missimo could probably play for Texas right now at 15 or 16 years old. Unreal talent. Byars and Missimo on the same club team is just unfair.

Still can't believe we got Missimo. Her dad is one of the leading North Carolina Men's Soccer goal scorers in history. But, understand he knows Kelly well so I guess that and access to both daughters trumps his allegiance to UNC.

texasstrong12 · July 31, 2018

#7 is Grosso. The Canadians are on campus. Also of note, every Canadian we are recruiting is beautiful. Not sure what they are putting in the water up there but it's working.

Edited July 31, 2018 by texasstrong12

texasstrong12 · August 1, 2018

3 hours ago, pacman said:

Uh oh..could pull a Pugh and skip college. Interesting.

I think she wants to play college soccer for a few years. She started for PSG and was one of the better players on the pitch. She's perfectly capable of making a pro roster right now if that was her desire.

Js1 · August 7, 2018

https://texassports.com/news/2018/8/7/soccer-starts-at-no-17-in-the-united-soccer-coaches-preseason-poll.aspx

#17 to start the season.

On our schedule:

#6 UNC

#9 WV

#16 UCF

#15 Baylor

RV: OK State

texasstrong12 · August 8, 2018

#17 is fair but I won't be surprised if we end up ranked higher at the end of the season.

That road trip to Chapel Hill won't be easy. #6 UNC on the road and then #16 UCF on a neutral field. Any type of result in those two games would be significant.

Js1 · August 8, 2018

Berg and Hintzen make preseason All Big 12.

perfectchaos007 · August 8, 2018

LHN has always aired the preseason soccer games but we're 2 days from the game against TAMU-CC and still no word on if it will be aired.

perfectchaos007 · August 8, 2018

Okay I just scrolled through the LHN schedule for Friday and it does show the Corpus game will be aired at 7pm Friday.

texasstrong12 · August 8, 2018

Interested to see who Kelly starts at outside fullback. I think it will look similar to the way we finished last year but as the season progresses I think one of the FR will win at least one of the outside fullback jobs.

texasstrong12 · August 9, 2018

I'm also interested to see what Kelly does with Berg. I still like her in the midfield but we've started to get more talent at the position. Berg and Hintzen up top would be deadly but Berg's technical ability is probably better utilized in a center midfield role.

But Texas has lot of options now in the midfield (especially center mid). Sterns, Dollas, Glenn, Grosso, and Strophauer can all play that role.

I'm going to guess Berg starts up top with Hintzen because there's too much talent to leave on the bench with Berg taking up one of the center midfield spots.

perfectchaos007 · August 9, 2018

I'm looking forward to seeing the Canadians mostly

texasstrong12 · August 9, 2018

29 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

I'm looking forward to seeing the Canadians mostly

I just hope we add their Canadian teammate because damn she's good.

Huitema, Berg and Hintzen together for a year would be so salty.

Edited August 9, 2018 by texasstrong12

texasstrong12 · August 10, 2018

Our non-conference schedule is much tougher than I realized. 3 of our first 4 games will be against good teams. Northern Colorado should be pretty good too. 1-1-1 over that 3 game stretch would probably be significant.

Edited August 10, 2018 by texasstrong12

perfectchaos007 · August 11, 2018

Still early in the exhibition and we have already hit 2 off the post. No score yet

perfectchaos007 · August 11, 2018

Make that 3 posts

edit: Finally got one to go. 1-0 Texas

Edited August 11, 2018 by perfectchaos007

texasstrong12 · August 11, 2018

Tough to get much of a read because Kelly is playing so many players and treating this like an exhibition. But that's fine. That's what should happen in these games.

Looks like the Canadians will start early. Regan is playing at outside fullback and looks like Grosso is playing an attacking central mid role. I started watching at the end of the first half so maybe it looked different to start the game.