Tuesday, August 14, 2007
PC Women’s Soccer Reports
CLINTON, S.C. – Presbyterian College women’s soccer reported to PC’s Clinton campus on Tuesday for its first NCAA Division I preseason camp. The Blue Hose will begin with a fitness test Wednesday morning and will hold their first practice of the preseason at 3 p.m.
Entering his 19th year at the helm of the Blue Hose women’s soccer program, PC head coach Brian Purcell is excited and eager to get started.
“We will begin this week to work to get our new players acclimated to the speed and intensity of college soccer and begin to put together the foundation of our team defensive concept,” said Purcell. “We have nine freshmen out of our 20 field players so there will be a lot of getting acquainted both between the players and between the coaches and the players.”
After a very successful stint in NCAA Division II soccer and the South Atlantic Conference, the Blue Hose concluded their final season in DII with an 8-10 record and a 3-4 mark in the SAC.
PC ended the 2006 campaign strongly, downing two nationally-ranked NCAA Division II teams in two of its final three games in Catawba and Tusculum.
The Blue Hose placed three women’s soccer players on the SAC Women’s All-Conference teams. Claire Joyce and Lindsay Leffler were both chosen to the first team, while Lytle Cannon was selected as a second team member.
Only Cannon (Spartanburg, S.C.) returns to the Blue Hose lineup in the 2007 season.
PC opens its year with three road contests, beginning the regular season at 7 p.m. on Aug. 31 against Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, Fla. The match is the first of two games in the Sunshine State for the Blue Hose to open the season as they will square off against Stetson at 1 p.m. on Sept. 2.