Saturday,
August 18, 2001
BLUE HOSE
WOMEN’S SOCCER TEAM RETURNS
TO CAMPUS TODAY TO START PRESEASON
CLINTON,
SC – Presbyterian College women’s soccer program
returned to campus today to begin preseason practice.
The Blue Hose
return 18 letterwinners along with five newcomers to the roster
this season. Among
the returnees include seven starters from last season’s team
that went 13-5-1 overall.
The Blue Hose
are picked tied for second with Catawba College in this year’s
SAC coach’s preseason poll with 51 votes.
Tusculum College received 62 votes as the preseason
favorite to win the SAC regular season title.
“We are
very excited about getting started,” said head coach Brian
Purcell. “We
definitely have our work cut out for us, but we have two weeks
before we have to come together as a team and mesh into one
unit.”
The Blue Hose
returned to campus at 3:00 pm to have meetings followed by
physicals tomorrow morning before they start practice at 1:30
pm.
PC opens the 2001 season on Friday, August 31 at home as they take on King College in Martin Stadium at Edens Field.