2011 Season Review

 

Thanks to the perfect mix young stars and experienced upper-classmen, the women’s soccer team had a breakout season, returning to the Centennial Conference playoffs for the fifth time in six seasons and reaching the semifinals.

Road wins over NCAA-participants Scranton and Cabrini highlighted the early part of the season, which included a five-match winning streak through September. That streak came to end at the hands of Centennial champion and Johns Hopkins, but not before the Garnet gave the unbeaten Blue Jays its best test of the regular season, falling 3-2 in the final two minutes of play.

The team rebounded from the tough loss to Hopkins with another long winning streak, taking five of its last six games to close out the regular season. The playoff clincher came on the final day of the regular season against rival Haverford, as Emma Sindelar ’15 headed home the game-winner in the 86th minute of play to give the women a 2-1 win. The victory propelled the team to Centennial Conference semifinals, where it fell to Gettysburg 1-0.  The Garnet’s 12-win season earned it the No. 3 seed in the ECAC South Region Tournament, where it succumbed in the opening round to Albright, 1-0.

Much of the credit for the Garnet’s turnaround season goes to first-year Sindelar. The freshman forward from Salt Lake City recorded one of the best offensive seasons in program history, scoring 11 goals, dishing three assists and tallying 25 points. For her play, Sindelar was named the   All-Centennial Conference First Team, becoming just the 22^nd freshman to earn first team honors. She was joined on the first team by midfielder Alexa Ross ’13, who was named All-Centennial for the third time in her career. Rounding out the team’s All-Centennial selections was defender Ari Spiegel ’13 (honorable mention).