Soccer
New soccer coach reflects on challenging first season
By Jacob Taylor | December 3, 2018The 2018 season for women’s soccer head coach Marty Beall marked the start of a long-term transition process.
The 2018 season for women’s soccer head coach Marty Beall marked the start of a long-term transition process.
Most varsity athletes that play a fall sport get to spend one semester of their four years as “typical” students.
Players said they loved the team dynamic that encouraged cohesion and commitment in spite of the challenges they faced this season.
Updates on the football, women's golf, men's golf, men's tennis, soccer, field hockey ad swimming and diving teams' competitions.
Updates on the football, women's golf, cross country, soccer, women's tennis, field hockey and women's swimming competitions last week.
Updates on the football, soccer, women's golf, cross country, men's golf, field hockey and men's tennis teams' competitions last week.
The Spiders had a six-game losing streak coming into the final match of the season, but that stigma was dropped as they defeated rival VCU.
Richmond (2-1) soccer returns to the E. Claiborne Robins Stadium for their second home game of the season.
Meaghan Carrigan of the women's soccer team is the athlete of the week. She has scored 13 goals this season.
Women’s soccer defeats ODU and reveals the diversity of the team's talent. The rest of the season looks promising for the Spiders.
Although the University of Richmond made a decision in the fall to decrease the number of Division I athletic teams it sponsors, it did not adopt a fixed ratio of student-athletes, and the actual percentage of student-athletes is likely to change from year to year, President Edward Ayers wrote in an email to The Collegian last week. Soccer alumnus Scott Byrnes said that this statement contradicted what Ayers had said at the Save Our Sports forum held in September when soccer and track were being dropped and lacrosse was being added as a varsity sport. During the September forum, Ayers and other participants mentioned several times that 13 percent of each incoming class was made up of student-athletes. "The fact is that 13 as a percentage is a large number," Ayers said in September.
The Board of Trustees met today at the University of Richmond for its regularly scheduled meeting.
As has been widely publicized across campus in the past few days, the men's soccer and track and field programs were terminated as intercollegiate sports at the university. Being a sophomore member of the men's soccer team, I have gotten a firsthand look at the student-athlete reaction to this situation.
Editors note: Senior Charlie Hudson spoke with The Collegian before the team was asked to not speak to the media. Yesterday, about three hours before the varsity club lacrosse team had its first practice of the season, Charlie Hudson, a senior player, sat down for an interview about the team's soon-to-be NCAA division I status. "It was definitely exciting," Hudson said, remembering how the team reacted to the announcement.
University of Richmond soccer player Becca Wann said the highlight of her 2012 soccer year didn't happen in E.
Representatives from 30 sports club teams set up booths in the Forum for the University of Richmond's Sports Club Rush to recruit new members for the school year. The event was held Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. Members handed out candy, stickers and pamphlets while music played and students played games. "We're looking for committed players, and we would like to win a couple of games," said Jillian Husband, a sophomore on the club soccer team. The women's club soccer team had a rough year last year, losing all of its games, she said.