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Congratulations to LVFL Kylee (Rossi) Flynn

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KYLEE FLYNN NAMED WOMEN’S SOCCER HEAD COACH - Monmouth University Athletics

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A native of Pennington, NJ, Flynn started her coaching career as a student assistant coach at her alma mater, the University of Tennessee following her stellar playing career in 2009. A two-time All-American as a Lady Vol and four-time All-Southeastern Conference (SEC) performer, Flynn, graduated as UT's all-time leading scorer with 102 points on 43 goals and 16 assists. She was named the SEC Offensive Player of the Year in both 2006 and 2007, and a 2007 Third-Team Soccer Buzz All-America.

A two-time Hermann Trophy preseason watch list honoree, she was tabbed a Soccer America and Soccer Buzz Freshman All-American in 2005 and twice named a Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Season selection (2006, 2007).

Flynn, who was a three-time first-team All-SEC player, was added to the SEC Academic Honor Roll in 2006, 2007 and 2008, and spent three years in the United States National Team player pool. In 2005, Flynn was part of the U-18 National Team Pool, advanced to the U-21 Pool in 2006, and competed in four matches for the U-21 National Team in England in 2007, registering two goals.

The Pennington School-product, who tops the Tennessee record books with 15 game-winning goals, sent the Lady Vols to the 2007 NCAA Sweet 16 behind her tally in the 104th minute.

The only Lady Vol to lead the team in scoring in each of her four seasons at Tennessee, Flynn was a preseason candidate for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award in 2008.
 
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Previewing the Top 10 Teams for the 2022 NCAA Women's Soccer Season

7. Tennessee
Longtime Tennessee assistant Joe Kirt takes over for Brian Pensky and considering he’s been with the school since 2007, he knows his way around Knoxville. He also inherits an incredibly deep team with barely any seniors. Their top five players are returning, and Taylor Huff really burst onto the scene as a Freshman to support Jaida Thomas in the attack.

Considering they finished 11th in the polls last year and bring back everyone, it’s hard to see how the Lady Volunteers won’t be a top ten team competing for the national title this season. Arkansas and Tennessee duking it out this year will be a ton of fun.
 
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if you don’t have a team to pull for in this years Euros, there is a team that is all Orange.
They play today at 3 vs Sweden.

 
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24. Taylor Huff- Soccer Super Star, National Player of the Year | The Dream Huge Podcast

Taylor Huff the soccer superstar Sophomore for the Tennessee Lady Volunteers!! Taylor ranks number 4 in Top Drawer 100, 2021 All-SEC Second Team, 2021 SEC Freshman of the year, started 22 of 23 matches, finishing second on the team in goals with 10. Called into the U-20 Women’s Youth National Team, 2020 United Soccer Coaches National Player of the Year & four time All American. Holds the Ohio state record with 93 assists to go along with 133 goals scored. 2020 Ohio OSSCA player of the year who led the Madison Rams to an undefeated season and captured the state title!! All while carrying a 4.0 GPA!! The AMAZING TAYLOR HUFF!!!
 
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You've been on a roll, Mad--thanks for all the good content finds.

I'm not sure exactly when Fall camp starts--but we're essentially about 2 and half weeks away. Sometime between July 25 and 30, I think.
 
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turbovol said:
You've been on a roll, Mad--thanks for all the good content finds.

I'm not sure exactly when Fall camp starts--but we're essentially about 2 and half weeks away. Sometime between July 25 and 30, I think.
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I was wondering if you would be interested in writing a little short bio on each player on the squad and what to expect from them this upcoming season. Not sure if you have the time but would be nice to have at least one each day to get to know the team better.
 
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I will try to do one a day on the regulars, spotlighting each player's role, strengths, maybe a little on weaknesses, what to expect
this year--though with some we simply won't know until we see how much they are playing and where. I'll start that tomorrow.

For now, I'll make some quick observations about this coming season.

With all but one starter back on a team that was 20-3 last year, won the SEC Tourney title and got a 3 seed in the NCAA tournament (and should have
gotten a 2 seed), and won two NCAA games before being knocked out by a good Michigan team, in Michigan, the Vols seemed poised to have another strong year. The team has a lot of talent--probably the most it's ever had--plus a lot of experience and a lot of depth. The team's goal for '22/'23 is to be better and go farther in the NCAA than it did last year. The could certainly do that--but it's worth remembering that winning margins are often small in soccer, mostly because it can be hard to score goals, and so inferior teams that are well-organized and fairly athletic and that defend well can and often do make it difficult for superior teams to beat them. We saw this last year's SEC opener against Auburn: Tennessee was certainly better in run of play--but Auburn scratched out a goal first and seemed poised to win the game before Taylor Huff hit a 20-yard screamer with her left (weaker) foot to equalize with about 5 minutes to play, and then the Vols won it in overtime. It took another late laser from Huff to beat a good and always very defensively strong South Carolina team, 1-0, in another game in which Tennessee was the better team.

What the Vols will want to better this year:

1) Score early and more often. It's not easy to do in soccer, or in a conference where every team puts a lot of good athletes on the field--but the Vols will be talented enough to score multiple goals in most games, and will want to do so to avoid lesser opponents stealing a result. In other words, you'd like to avoid games like the Auburn and SC games of last year--in which you play well but struggle to score and thus give the opponent a chance to get an //undeserved// result. You don't want to rely on late-game heroics to win a match at minute 85 that you could have put away earlier if you'd taken your chances.

2) One way to score more, and this was a UT weakness last year, is to convert more corner kicks into goals. We generated a massive number of corner kicks last year; if we didn't lead the country in corner kicks, we were in the top 3, I think. Problem was, we had great difficulty scoring off of all corner kicks we generated. It's always difficult to score off courners--but our conversion rate was VERY low. At one time we'd had more than 100 corner kicks on the season and yet had only scored maybe 2/3 goals out of them. That is a TON of wasted opportunities. We need a better corner-kick conversion rate this year, and so we need some players who can get up in the air like W. French did in the SEC Tournament title game against Arkansas, put their heads on the ball, and put the ball in the net.

3) The biggest area of concern this year will be the centerback position. You simply can't be a good team if your centerbacks are mediocre, and before last year, we had two years of very mediocre CB play and did not have great seasons. Wrenne French was a 3-year starter at CB--but it wasn't until last year that she really developed into a solid central defender. She was helped by being paired with 5'10" Lawson Renie, a former forward who took on the new position last year. Renie was a very pleasant surprise. She adapted to CB quite well--was poised, athletic, read the game well, and was confident with the ball. Her switch to CB was a monstrously smart move by the staff. The problem now is that French is gone, graduated, and so Renie, who has only the one year of experience, will be paired with a new CB who will have virtually no experience at the position. So we'll have one rookie CB and one with one year of experience. That is not ideal, to say the least. I'd love to know who played with Renie this spring--but I don't. My bet is the coaches played two/three individuals at the position, and so we'll have to see what unfolds in training camp and and who earns the job to start the season. Whoever gets the nod, she needs to have a very high upside--needs to be athletic, read the game well, be physical--AND be poised enough with the ball to set possession and not just neverously lump the ball forward (and back to the opponent). Choosing Renie's CB partner will be the biggest decision that staff makes in camp. I worry about it because the Vols will be playing maybe the toughest non-conference schedule the team has ever played---and so our CBs will be dealing with some good attacking players and teams from the very first game, when we class with an always strong Notre Dame side in an exhibition match.
 
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turbovol said:
I will try to do one a day on the regulars, spotlighting each player's role, strengths, maybe a little on weaknesses, what to expect
this year--though with some we simply won't know until we see how much they are playing and where. I'll start that tomorrow.

For now, I'll make some quick observations about this coming season.

With all but one starter back on a team that was 20-3 last year, won the SEC Tourney title and got a 3 seed in the NCAA tournament (and should have
gotten a 2 seed), and won two NCAA games before being knocked out by a good Michigan team, in Michigan, the Vols seemed poised to have another strong year. The team has a lot of talent--probably the most it's ever had--plus a lot of experience and a lot of depth. The team's goal for '22/'23 is to be better and go farther in the NCAA than it did last year. The could certainly do that--but it's worth remembering that winning margins are often small in soccer, mostly because it can be hard to score goals, and so inferior teams that are well-organized and fairly athletic and that defend well can and often do make it difficult for superior teams to beat them. We saw this last year's SEC opener against Auburn: Tennessee was certainly better in run of play--but Auburn scratched out a goal first and seemed poised to win the game before Taylor Huff hit a 20-yard screamer with her left (weaker) foot to equalize with about 5 minutes to play, and then the Vols won it in overtime. It took another late laser from Huff to beat a good and always very defensively strong South Carolina team, 1-0, in another game in which Tennessee was the better team.

What the Vols will want to better this year:

1) Score early and more often. It's not easy to do in soccer, or in a conference where every team puts a lot of good athletes on the field--but the Vols will be talented enough to score multiple goals in most games, and will want to do so to avoid lesser opponents stealing a result. In other words, you'd like to avoid games like the Auburn and SC games of last year--in which you play well but struggle to score and thus give the opponent a chance to get an //undeserved// result. You don't want to rely on late-game heroics to win a match at minute 85 that you could have put away earlier if you'd taken your chances.

2) One way to score more, and this was a UT weakness last year, is to convert more corner kicks into goals. We generated a massive number of corner kicks last year; if we didn't lead the country in corner kicks, we were in the top 3, I think. Problem was, we had great difficulty scoring off of all corner kicks we generated. It's always difficult to score off courners--but our conversion rate was VERY low. At one time we'd had more than 100 corner kicks on the season and yet had only scored maybe 2/3 goals out of them. That is a TON of wasted opportunities. We need a better corner-kick conversion rate this year, and so we need some players who can get up in the air like W. French did in the SEC Tournament title game against Arkansas, put their heads on the ball, and put the ball in the net.

3) The biggest area of concern this year will be the centerback position. You simply can't be a good team if your centerbacks are mediocre, and before last year, we had two years of very mediocre CB play and did not have great seasons. Wrenne French was a 3-year starter at CB--but it wasn't until last year that she really developed into a solid central defender. She was helped by being paired with 5'10" Lawson Renie, a former forward who took on the new position last year. Renie was a very pleasant surprise. She adapted to CB quite well--was poised, athletic, read the game well, and was confident with the ball. Her switch to CB was a monstrously smart move by the staff. The problem now is that French is gone, graduated, and so Renie, who has only the one year of experience, will be paired with a new CB who will have virtually no experience at the position. So we'll have one rookie CB and one with one year of experience. That is not ideal, to say the least. I'd love to know who played with Renie this spring--but I don't. My bet is the coaches played two/three individuals at the position, and so we'll have to see what unfolds in training camp and and who earns the job to start the season. Whoever gets the nod, she needs to have a very high upside--needs to be athletic, read the game well, be physical--AND be poised enough with the ball to set possession and not just neverously lump the ball forward (and back to the opponent). Choosing Renie's CB partner will be the biggest decision that staff makes in camp. I worry about it because the Vols will be playing maybe the toughest non-conference schedule the team has ever played---and so our CBs will be dealing with some good attacking players and teams from the very first game, when we class with an always strong Notre Dame side in an exhibition match.
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Great write up. Excited for the upcoming season. Hopefully one of the freshmen will fit into Wrenne’s old spot. Looking forward to reading the spotlights on the players, thanks.
 
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