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History of Tennessee soccer cont.
2018 season
Tennessee made program history with its deepest run in the NCAA Tournament, reaching the quarterfinal round as a No. 2 national seed in 2018. The Vols finished the season 16-3-3 overall, good for the program's highest winning percentage (.795) and fewest losses (3) in a single season.
UT's stout defensive unit limited opponents to a program-best 15 goals on the season, while the Vols' 12 shutouts tied a Tennessee record that has stood since 2003. The Vols netted 44 goals on the offensive end, marking the first time Tennessee scored 40-plus goals in back-to-back seasons since 2002-03.
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Signing class
Abbey Burdette (Monrovia, Maryland), Makenna Curcuru (Henderson, Nevada), Emma Dize (Ashburn, Virginia), Jamie Goralski (Naperville, Illinois), Brice McInroy (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania), Mackenzie Ostrom (Manvel, Texas) and Amy Thompson (Ashburn, Virginia).
Most of these players left the team after their first year. Thompson left after her junior year. Ostrom didn’t play much her senior year. The highlight signing was Burdette, she is currently playing professionally in Iceland.
Abbey Burdette
Forward
Monrovia, Md.
Urbana High School
Burdette joins the Vols after a record-setting four-year career at Urbana High School. She was named the 2017 Maryland Player of the Year and earned United Coaches All-America and All-Region honors. She was part of the 2015 Maryland Class 3A state championship team. She finished as Urbana's all-time career assist leader (41) and totaled a record 16 assists in a season. She finished with 57 career goals. Burdette is listed at No. 120 of Top Draw Soccer's IMG Academy Top 150. In addition to playing soccer, she also competed in basketball and indoor track at Urbana for a year. She plays club soccer with Maryland United and was a 2017 ECNL PDP national training camp attendee. She plans to study biomedical engineering at Tennessee.
Burdette on Why Tennessee: "The feeling of home that I got the first time I visited campus. I also felt really comfortable with all the girls on the team."
Very special senior class, they could have won it all, if I remember correctly, Bunny Shaw wasn’t 100% fit for the Stanford match and we had also lost one of our best player that season to injury.
Anna Bialczak, Meghan Flynn, MacKenzie Gouner, Danielle Marcano, Rylie O'Keefe, Bunny Shaw and Shae Yanez
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Marcano put a nice ball in the box close to the end of the half and no one could connect.Brazil is ranked # 9 in the world
Puerto Rico is ranked 107
That PR has kept the game scoreless through 25' is already an achievement. I could watch this match but am not up for it as I don't think Marcano is going to see much of the ball in PR's attacking half in this game. I'm sure Brazil will dominate the ball. Maybe she'll get an chance or two on long-ball counters...
Brazil won 1-0
I think Puerto Rico can beat Panama.
Tennessee soccer history cont.History of Tennessee soccer cont.
2019 season
The Tennessee soccer program concluded the 2019 season 9-6-3 overall, including an 8-2 record at Regal Soccer Stadium.
Maya Neal (first team) and Katie Cousins (second team) concluded their careers as four-time All-SEC performers, becoming the fourth and fifth players in UT history to accomplish that feat. Senior forward MA Vignola had a breakout season with career-highs in goals (9) and assists (5) on the way to first team all-conference honors, while rookie goalkeeper Lindsey Romig broke the program record with a 0.58 goals-against average and was named to the SEC All-Freshman team.
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After such a brilliant 2018 season, 2019 was very disappointing. Lady Vols failed to qualify for postseason play.
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Michelle Alozie
Graduate transfer from Yale, currently playing in the NWSL
Isabella Cook
Transferred after her Junior year to Marquette after getting very little playing time her junior year.
Hadley Cytron
Transferred after her freshman year to Morehead State
Claudia Dipasupil
Played all four years and was planning to come back but Medically retired prior to the start of the 2023 season.
Alicia Donley
Played limited minutes in 2019 and 2020 transferred to Dayton.
Anna Quinn French
Younger sister of Wrenne French
Not sure what happened, I don’t think she ended up playing any soccer in college. Maybe @turbo remembers.
Mackenzie George
Played for 5 years and currently playing in Iceland.
Bridie Hermann
Transferred to Liberty after her Jr year
Tara Katz
Suffered a season-ending injury during preseason training last year, transferred to Furman.
Colleen Mcilvenna
Played limited minutes in 2019 and 2020, transferred to Holy Cross.
Maria Nelson
Missed the 2020-21 season due to injury. Graduated this year.
Sonia Ouchene
Left after yer freshman year to play professional in Europe.
Lindsey Romig
Played an instrumental role in Tennessee recording a program-record 13 shutouts during its record-setting 20-3-0 SEC Championship campaign.
Jaida Thomas
Ranks second on Tennessee's all-time goals list with 39; Kylee Rossi (2005-08) holds the program record with 43 career goals. Surely she will break it this year.
Giselle Washington
Graduated this year
Tennessee soccer history cont.Tennessee soccer history cont.
2020 season.
The season we all want to forget.
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In a season unlike any other, Tennessee played a conference-only slate in the fall before wrapping up the campaign with six non-conference matchups in the spring. The Vols captured the SEC East title, going 4-1-1 against divisional opponents which included shutout victories over No. 10 Vanderbilt (1-0) and No. 9 South Carolina (1-0). UT went 4-2 in the spring, posting clean sheets against Gardner-Webb (6-0), App State (7-0) and Wake Forest (2-0).
Redshirt freshman Jaida Thomas had one of the most prolific rookie campaigns in program history, leading the SEC with 12 goals, 25 points and five game-winners on the season. She was named to the SEC All-Freshman Team and picked up four SEC Freshman of the Week nods throughout the year. Junior forward Mackenzie George was selected to the All-SEC Second Team, rounding out the season with four goals and four assists.
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The sixth out of the last eight seasons, a Pensky team failed to make the NCAA Tournament.