2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!The Rock women's soccer team enters the 2007 season looking to continue a successful five-year run, including two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference titles ('03 and '05) and five consecutive conference semifinal appearances. Head Coach Noreen Herlihy's squad, which went 12-7-1 overall and 8-2-0 in the PSAC in 2006, returns seven starters from a team which earned its third NCAA regional tournament berth since 2001, before a semifinal loss to national final-four participant and PSAC-East foe West Chester.
In 2005, the Rock men's soccer team captured its first Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference title in 31 years thanks to the play of some young and untested sophomores. Those same sophomores are now game-hardened seniors trying to lead a veteran-laden group to its third-consecutive PSAC playoff appearance.
After being ranked among the top three teams in the region, the Slippery Rock men's and women's cross country teams are doing nothing small this season. The No. 1 ranked men's team and the No. 3 ranked women's team will compete in Anchorage, Alaska this Saturday.
To say that the Rock football team is peeved is an understatement. It's had almost 10 months to agonize about its 2006 season-ending 21-20 loss to West Chester. Players and coaches have had an entire off-season to seethe and stew and think about how they were thisclose to the team's first NCAA Division II playoff berth since 1999.
The women's tennis team has good reason to have high expectations for the upcoming season. Last year, the tennis team set a school record with 23 wins in 29 dual matches, earned a berth in the NCAA Division II postseason competition and took 3rd place in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Team Championships.
Young talent can beat skilled experience. At least that's what the SRU Women's Volleyball team is hoping for this season from a squad that includes ten freshmen. Coming off a 31-9 campaign last year, the most wins by an SRU team since 1993, head coach Laurie Lokash starts her 23rd season with a team that returns only two seniors, Andrea Campbell (RS) and Co-captain Louise Schultz.
Brandon Fox, Sports Editor Michael Vick should never step foot on an NFL field again. What he did was sick, and he has given the NFL yet another black eye. He killed and gambled on dogs, regardless of what his plea with authorities says. I think that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is doing the right thing by suspending him indefinitely.
As a freshman in 2006, he led the team in scoring with five goals and two assists. Through three games this year, Jeremy has been held scoreless. When did you start playing soccer and why? Jeremy Deighton: I started kicking a ball basically when I could walk.
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