High Point Panthers women's soccer

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|university = High Point University

|conference = Big South Conference

|conference_short = Big South

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|city = High Point

|stateabb = NC

|state = North Carolina

|coach = Aaron McGuiness

|tenure = 2nd

|stadium = Vert Stadium

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The High Point Panthers women's soccer team is an NCAA Division I college soccer team representing High Point University as part of the Big South Conference. They play their home games at Vert Stadium in High Point, North Carolina.{{cite web |url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/documents/2016/8/22/2016_Women_s_Soccer_Prospectus.pdf|title=High Point University Panthers - 2016 Women's Soccer Prospectus|website=High Point Panthers |access-date=May 14, 2017}}

History

The team was founded in 1992 as an independent Division II program, and it had a few 10-win seasons from 1993 to 1996, sandwiched by losing seasons in 1992 and 1997–98. In 1999, the Panthers jumped to NCAA Division I and the Big South Conference. The team struggled its first four years with 4- and 5-win seasons. The Panthers entered the 2003 Big South Tournament at 8–9 and the #6 seed, but surprised the conference by capturing the tournament title with a 0–0, 3–2 penalty-kick shootout win over UNC-Asheville to gain the first Division I NCAA tournament bid in High Point Panthers history.{{cite web|url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/news/2003/11/8/2677628.aspx?path=wsoc|title=Big South Champs: Women's Soccer Edges UNC Asheville In Shootout|website=High Point Panthers |date= |access-date=May 14, 2017}} In the NCAA tournament, High Point lost 8–0 to eventual champion North Carolina.{{cite web|url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/news/2003/11/14/1904788.aspx?path=wsoc|title=Women's Soccer Falls To North Carolina In NCAA Tournament|website=High Point Panthers |date= |access-date=May 14, 2017}} Forward Jen Evans, the career goals leader, paced the 2003 team with 10 scores, and also played a pivotal role on the 2007 squad that returned to the NCAA tournament. The Panthers once again ran into UNC in the 2007 tournament and lost 6–1, with senior Amy Anzovino providing the lone Panther score in the 55th minute.{{cite web|url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/news/2007/11/16/4140259.aspx?path=wsoc|title=Panthers Fall 6–1 at North Carolina in NCAA Tournament|website=High Point Panthers |date= |access-date=May 14, 2017}}

Head coach Marty Beall took over in 2009. A long-shot to make the field in the first place, HPU entered the 2009 Big South tournament as the 7 seed at 5–14–1, but took home the conference title with a 0–0, 4–2 penalty kick shootout win over Winthrop.{{cite web|url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/news/2009/11/8/W-Soccer_1108092241.aspx?path=wsoc |title=Panthers win the Big South Championship on penalty kicks|website=High Point Panthers |access-date=May 14, 2017}} The team was backstopped by senior goalkeeper Marisa Abbott, who brought a 527-minute shutout streak and a whopping 120 saves on the season to the first round of the NCAA tournament, where they faced North Carolina on November 13. North Carolina outshot High Point 31–0. Abbott made 14 saves, a High Point single-game record, but the Tar Heels notched a single goal off a rebound in the 69th minute for a 1–0 win.{{cite web |url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/news/2009/11/13/W-Soccer_1113090234.aspx?path=wsoc|title=Panthers lose 1–0 heartbreaker to No. 4 UNC in NCAA first round |website=High Point Panthers |access-date=May 14, 2017}}

The 2009 UNC team sported several future U.S. women's national team players including Tobin Heath, and went on to win the national title.

High Point won Big South Conference regular-season titles in 2010, 2012, 2016, and 2017, with NCAA tournament appearances coming in 2010, 2014, and 2017. In the 2010 NCAA tournament, High Point took a lead over No. 4 Maryland off freshman forward Kelli Joline's goal in the eighth minute, but the Terrapins equalized 21 seconds later and won 4–1.{{cite web|url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/news/2010/11/12/W-Soccer_1112104203.aspx?path=wsoc|title=High Point takes early lead but falls to No. 4 Maryland, 4–1|website=High Point Panthers |date= |access-date=May 14, 2017}} In 2014, High Point took the Big South conference tournament with a 2–2, 5–4 penalty-kick win over Liberty,{{cite web |url=http://www.highpointpanthers.com/news/2014/11/9/W-Soccer_1109140537.aspx?path=wsoc|title=Women's soccer wins fifth Big South Championship|website=High Point Panthers |access-date=May 14, 2017}} but fell 8–0 to Virginia. In 2017, the Panthers won the Big South regular season with a 7–1–1 record and rolled to three straight conference tournament wins to capture Beall's third NCAA bid. The Panthers traveled to familiar NCAA Tournament foe North Carolina, where they dropped a 3–0 decision.{{cite web |url=http://highpointpanthers.com/news/2017/11/11/womens-soccer-panthers-fall-to-no-2-unc-in-ncaa-tournament.aspx?path=wsoc|title=Panthers Fall to No. 2 UNC in NCAA Tournament|website=High Point Panthers |access-date=February 5, 2018}}

In February 2018, following Marty Beall's departure to Richmond, Brandi Fontaine was named HPU's sixth head coach of the Division I era. Fontaine had spent the last nine years as HPU's assistant coach and associate head coach.{{cite web |url=http://highpointpanthers.com/news/2018/2/5/brandi-fontaine-named-hpu-womens-soccer-head-coach.aspx?path=wsoc|title=Brandi Fontaine Named HPU Women's Soccer Head Coach|website=High Point Panthers |access-date=February 5, 2018}}

Individual awards

Big South Attacking Player of the Year

Kelsey Perrell – 2016

Big South Defensive Player of the Year

Alex Hank – 2015

Big South Freshman of the Year

Skyler Prillaman – 2018

CoSIDA Academic All-American

Becca Hemby – 2013

Big South Coach of the Year

Marty Beall – 2012, 2016
Brandi Fontaine – 2019

Big South Tournament MVP

Stephanie Moenter – 2003
Sara Rager – 2007
Marisa Abbott – 2009
Janay Whittaker – 2010
Jacky Kessler – 2014
Alex Hank – 2017

Big South Scholar-Athlete of the Year

Traci Andersen – 2006
Alex Torriero – 2007
Brielle Spencer – 2010, 2011
Becca Hemby – 2013
Becca Rolfe – 2016

Individual career records

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style="text-align:center;" \| Goals	30	Jen Evans Kelli Joline	2002–07 2010–13
style="text-align:center;" \| Assists	23	Sara Rager	2007–10
style="text-align:center;" \| Points	77	Jen Evans	2002–07
style="text-align:center;" \| Shots	239	Jen Evans	2002–07
style="text-align:center;" \| Saves	262	Alex Hank	2014–17
style="text-align:center;" \| GAA	0.86	Alex Hank	2014–17
style="text-align:center;" \| Wins	40	Alex Hank	2014–17
style="text-align:center;" \| Shutouts	29	Alex Hank	2014–17

Individual single-season records

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style="text-align:center;" \| Goals	10	Kelli Joline Becca Hemby	2010 2012
style="text-align:center;" \| Assists	9	Sara Rager	2010
style="text-align:center;" \| Points	27	Jen Evans	2004
style="text-align:center;" \| Shots	93	Jen Evans	2004
style="text-align:center;" \| Saves	134	Marisa Abbott	2009
style="text-align:center;" \| GAA	0.49	Alex Hank	2015
style="text-align:center;" \| Wins	12	Alex Hank	2016, 2017
style="text-align:center;" \| Shutouts	10	Alex Hank	2015, 2016

Seasons

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = NAIA Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

| startyear = 1992

| endyear = 1992

| conference= no

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| season = 1992

| name = Woody Gibson

| overall = 2–14–1

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = Dual membership: NCAA DII and NAIA Carolinas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

| conference= no

| startyear = 1993

| endyear = 1994

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| season = 1993

| name = Woody Gibson

| overall = 12–5–1

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| season = 1994

| name = Woody Gibson

| overall = 11–7–1

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| name = NCAA DII Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Conference

| conference= no

| startyear = 1995

| endyear = 1996

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| championship =

| season = 1995

| name = Heather Puckett

| overall = 12–6–2

| conference = 7–3

| confstanding = T-4th

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| season = 1996

| name = Heather Puckett

| overall = 10–9

| conference = 7–2–1

| confstanding = 3rd

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| name = NCAA DII Independent

| conference= no

| startyear = 1997

| endyear = 1998

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| name = Heather Puckett

| overall = 3–12–2

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| season = 1998

| name = Heather Puckett

| overall = 5–12–1

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead

| name = NCAA Division I Big South Conference

| conference= no

| startyear = 1999

| endyear = Present

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| season = 1999

| name = Traci Foels

| overall = 5–12–2

| conference =1–5–1

| confstanding =7th

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| season = 2000

| name = Traci Foels

| overall = 4–11–2

| conference =2–3–1

| confstanding =5th

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{{CBB yearly record entry

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| season = 2001

| name = Traci Foels

| overall = 4–12–1

| conference =2–4

| confstanding =T-5th

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{{CBB yearly record entry

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| season = 2002

| name = Traci Foels

| overall = 4–10–4

| conference =1–2–3

| confstanding =5th

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{{CBB yearly record entry

| championship = conference tournament

| season = 2003

| name = Traci Foels

| overall = 10–10–1

| conference =3–4

| confstanding =6th

| postseason =NCAA First Round

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{{CBB yearly record entry

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| season = 2004

| name = Traci Foels

| overall = 11–8–1

| conference =4–4

| confstanding =5th

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{{CBB yearly record entry

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| season = 2005

| name = Michelle Rayner

| overall = 10–7–1

| conference =5–3

| confstanding =T-2nd

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{{CBB yearly record entry

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| season = 2006

| name = Michelle Rayner

| overall = 4–15

| conference =3–5

| confstanding =T-6th

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{{CBB yearly record entry

| championship =conference tournament

| season = 2007

| name = Michelle Rayner

| overall = 11–8–3

| conference =5–2

| confstanding =T-2nd

| postseason =NCAA First Round

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| season = 2008

| name = Michelle Rayner

| overall = 8–5–8

| conference =3–2–4

| confstanding =5th

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{{CBB yearly record entry

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| season = 2009

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 7–15–2

| conference =4–4–1

| confstanding =7th

| postseason =NCAA First Round

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| season = 2010

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 11–11–1

| conference =6–2–1

| confstanding =T-1st

| postseason =NCAA First Round

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| season = 2011

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 8–10–3

| conference =6–2–2

| confstanding =4th

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| season = 2012

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 10–6–6

| conference =8–1–2

| confstanding =1st

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| season = 2013

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 9–10–1

| conference =6–4–1

| confstanding =6th

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{{CBB yearly record entry

| championship =conference tournament

| season = 2014

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 12–5–4

| conference =7–2–1

| confstanding =T-2nd

| postseason =NCAA First Round

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| season = 2015

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 12–5–4

| conference =6–3–1

| confstanding =4th

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| season = 2016

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 13–6–2

| conference =7–1–1

| confstanding =1st

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{{CBB yearly record entry

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| season = 2017

| name = Marty Beall

| overall = 13–7–1

| conference =7–1–1

| confstanding =1st

| postseason =NCAA First Round

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| season = 2018

| name = Brandi Fontaine

| overall = 5–10–4

| conference =3–4–3

| confstanding =8th

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| championship = conference

| season = 2019

| name = Brandi Fontaine

| overall = 10–7–2

| conference =8–0–2

| confstanding =1st

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|overall= 235–254–61 ({{Winning percentage|235|254}})

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=NCAA tournament results=

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align="center" \| 2003	First Round	North Carolina	L 8–0
align="center" \| 2007	First Round	North Carolina	L 6–1
align="center" \| 2009	First Round	North Carolina	L 1–0
align="center" \| 2010	First Round	Maryland	L 4–1
align="center" \| 2014	First Round	Virginia	L 8–0
align="center" \| 2017	First Round	North Carolina	L 3–0

References

Category:NCAA Division I women's soccer teams

Women's

Category:Soccer clubs in North Carolina