ESU women’s soccer team ends season with 6-0 loss
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Originally published 03:57 p.m., October 29, 2007
Updated 03:57 p.m., October 29, 2007
The Emporia State soccer team ended its season with a 6-0 loss to Missouri Southern on Saturday in Joplin, Mo.
Nikki Llewellyn started the scoring with two first-half goals, while Erin Whelan, Allison Schaughnessey, Lauren Kurelac and Angela Westphal all scored for Southern in the second half.
MSSU (11-5-3, 7-5-2 MIAA) had 24 shots to ESU’s four.
ESU keeper Megan Martin had five saves, giving her 149 this season — the third-highest single-season total in MIAA history.
The junior now has 265 saves in her career, which is good for eighth on the MIAA’s all-time list.
The Hornets (0-19) have now lost 23 straight matches dating back to the 2006 season.
gregorymed (anonymous) says...
ESU football is bad but this womens soccer is embarrassing! It is time for the AD (weiser) to go....Maybe oregon State would take him back or possibly his alma matter, KU.
October 30, 2007 at 4:10 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
batbatly (anonymous) says...
That's a great idea! Let's kick Weiser out! Then, maybe you gregorymed, in all your infinite wisdom about running athletic departments, could apply for the job and magically raise all the funds needed for Emporia State to become the athletics center of the Division II universe!
Better yet, why don't you, gregorymed, assume the role of athletics director and football coach and women's soccer coach and track coach and tennis coach. We'll leave basketball to coach moe and schneider, they're doing all right. But you, oh wonderful omnipotent gregorymed, seem to have all the answers. Please, won't you save ESU from its athletics funk? I'm sure you could do it. You obviously seem to think so.
October 30, 2007 at 4:28 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
gregorymed (anonymous) says...
batbatly,
there is only one person that can "save "ESU from its athletics funk......Dr. Michael Lane. He will decide what is acceptable for his admin when it comes to ESU athletics. When you take your head out of the sand you will realize it is not always a coach's problem. ESU has some very, very good coaches so they do not need me or anyone else to re-coach them or their programs....what all of them need is resources to fairly compete in the MIAA. There is no magic involved in raising funds but rather a need to build relationships and the money will come. Rather than making brash statements about me why don't you take the same energy and encourage Dr. Lane's support of ESU Athletics in a positive financial manner. These are challenging times and ESU needs and deserves an AD who will and can help raise the bar and compete against his MIAA peer group. Kent Weiser should be leading the way for fund raising and building relationships
for the ESU athletics department as does his MIAA peer AD's.
October 30, 2007 at 5:17 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
beth (anonymous) says...
gregorymed
Do you know that all of ESU's winter and spring sports teams made the NCAA Tournament in 2007? ESU and Grand Valley State are the only schools in the country that can say that. This fall the volleyball team is going to make it to the NCAA tournament for the second time in school history. The men's cross country team placed fourth in the MIAA...the only non-freshman on the women's team won the cross country title. If this is a funk what is it at SBU, MSSU, FHSU, etc.?
October 30, 2007 at 6:41 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
gregorymed (anonymous) says...
Beth,
Come on.....get real. Minor sports do not develop public perception of a university. Do you think people judge KU or Northwest Missouri on their cross country or tennis teams or maybe....just maybe...basketball and FOOTBALL(the revenue sports) is the benchmark. Same for ESU. Hiding behind success in minor sports that take little money and result in little if any public awareness is not reality. Why do you think Pittsburg State places such a premium on football and not softball or golf or volleyball???? PUBLIC PERCEPTION.I would dare say there are more people watching one football game than an entire fall or spring season of minor sports. I do agree with you there is similiar "funk" at SBU, FHSU, and MSSU but at least Ft. Hays and Mo. Southern have ponied up the money for football and are in improving programs now.
October 31, 2007 at 9:05 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )