2008-09 Northern Athletics Conference Women's Soccer Headlines

April 21, 2009
Oliveira tabbed new Alverno College head women’s soccer coach
MILWAUKEE, Wis.. -- Brittany Oliveira, a former volunteer assistant for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee women’s soccer team and a four-year player at Stanford University, is Alverno College’s new head women’s soccer coach.

April 13, 2009
Regents net new soccer coaches
ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Rockford College recently announced that Chris Kindschi and Benjeman Shaw have been hired as the new women’s and men’s soccer coaches for the Regents.

November 14, 2008
Northern Athletics Conference women's soccer awards announced
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- The Northern Athletics Conference has released the All-Northern Athletics Conference awards for the 2008 women's soccer season.

November 10, 2008
Edgewood College women’s soccer travels to Stevens Point for NCAA Tournament opener
MADISON, Wis. -- Edgewood College will enter their first NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer Tournament since 2001 against a familiar foe. The Eagles will travel north to Stevens Point for a first round match with UW-Stevens Point. The Pointers will be hosting a four-team regional, with the other first round game featuring 11th-ranked University of St. Thomas (Minn.) and Loras College (Iowa).

November 8, 2008
Beck header sends Eagles to NCAA Tournament
AURORA, Ill. -- Edgewood College now has something on Aurora University that no other Northern Athletics Conference team has ever had: a winning streak. Fourteen days after ending the Spartans 37-game NAC winning streak, the Eagles did it again with a bigger prize on the line. Kelsey Beck headed home a Melinda Schwab cross as the first half wound to a close to give the Eagles a 1-0 victory in the NAC Tournament championship game and claim an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.

October 30, 2008
Lakeland's Christenson named Academic All-District
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. -- Senior forward Amy Christenson of the Lakeland women's soccer team has been selected to the CoSIDA's ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America District 5 first team for the 2008 season.

October 30, 2008
Concordia Chicago’s Kari Zielke named First-Team Academic All-District
RIVER FOREST, Ill. -- Kari Zielke (Elmhurst, Ill. – Walther Lutheran H.S.), forward/midfielder for the Concordia University Chicago women’s soccer team, has been named as a first-team ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District (Midwest) by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Zielke’s honor follows on the heels of second and third-team regional recognition in 2006 and 2007 respectively from the organization.

October 30, 2008
Clouthier earns Academic All-District honor
MADISON, Wis. – The College Sports Information Directors of America announced today that Edgewood College’s Elyse Clouthier has been named to ESPN The Magazine’s All-District 5 Women’s Soccer Team.

October 30, 2008
Spartan women’s soccer student-athletes named ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District
AURORA, Ill. -– The Aurora University Spartan women’s soccer team had three players named to the ESPN the Magazine District V Academic All-District teams. To be considered for the honor, the nominated student-athletes are required to maintain a minimum 3.30 cumulative grade point average throughout their academic career at AU.

August 27, 2008
Aurora chosen for NAC women's soccer title three-peat
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- Aurora University has been tabbed to three-peat as Northern Athletics Conference women's soccer champions, according to the preseason coaches' poll.

August 25, 2008
Concordia Chicago adds former National Team member to women's soccer staff
RIVER FOREST, Ill. -- The women's soccer program at Concordia University Chicago has announced the addition of Kate Taylor to its coaching staff. Taylor will work with the team's goalkeepers.

July 11, 2008
Herrmann chosen as head coach of WLC's women's soccer team
MILWAUKEE, Wis. -- Ryan Herrmann, a 2003 graduate of Wisconsin Lutheran College and former men's soccer player, has been named the fifth head coach in WLC Women's Soccer history, it was announced Friday.