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KU soccer team off to 2-0 start

Posted Monday, Sept. 1, 2008

For the first time since 2004, the 25th ranked Kansas soccer team is 2-0. Read more.

KU soccer lackluster in victory

Posted Monday, Sept. 1, 2008

A hint of satisfaction pierced through Mark Francis’ scathing words. Just don’t hurt your eardrums trying to pick it up. Kansas University’s soccer coach first took a trip to Negativetown, lamenting his team’s poor play Sunday afternoon at Jayhawk Soccer Complex against Auburn University. The Jayhawks didn’t control the tempo, Francis said. They continually got beat to the ball. They allowed the Tigers to fire freely away on goal. Read more.

Two KU players honored

Posted Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008

The Big 12 Conference honored Kansas University soccer players Estelle Johnson and Emily Cressy this week. Read more.

KU soccer team ranked no. 25

Posted Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008

After whipping 20th ranked Purdue last Friday, 3-0, the Kansas soccer team finds itself ranked! Read more.

Second-half surge carries KU soccer to rout

Posted Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008

Rather than pacing the sidelines Friday afternoon, Mark Francis could be spotted perched above Jayhawk Soccer Complex, catching the Kansas University women’s soccer season opener from a camera tower just outside the pitch. Read more.

Kansas soccer expects increase in scoring

Posted Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008

There were times last season when the goal looked as tiny as a thimble for the Kansas University women’s soccer team. Eight times, to be exact. That was the number of games in which KU failed to record a score, with players stumbling through their first losing season (7-10-4) since they arrived at KU. Read more.

Red-shirt freshman leads KU to soccer rout

Posted Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008

Emily Cressy didn’t record a shot last season for Kansas University’s soccer team. In fact, she never even saw the field, choosing instead to sit out and take a red-shirt year. If she continues to perform the way she did Saturday afternoon, there won’t be any reason for her to come off the field again. Read more.

KU picked sixth in Big 12

Posted Saturday, Aug. 16, 2008

The Kansas University soccer team was picked to finish sixth in the Big 12 by the league's coaches in the annual preseason poll, released by the conference office Friday. Texas was selected to finish first, garnering five first place votes and 94 total points. Read more.

KU soccer team has high hopes

Posted Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008

Two weeks is all that remains before the start of the fall season for the Kansas soccer team. Andrew Baker has the story. Read more.

KU soccer season starts

Posted Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008

The 2008 Kansas soccer team took the pitch for the very first time Tuesday. Read more.

KU soccer wins final exhibition

Posted Sunday, April 20, 2008

Sophomore Monica Dolinsky scored a pair of first-half goals, and goalkeepers Julie Hanley and Stephanie Baugh combined to hold visiting Washburn scoreless as Kansas University blanked the Lady Blues, 5-0, Saturday at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex as KU wrapped up its spring exhibition season. Read more.

KU women’s soccer falls to men’s club, 4-1

Posted Monday, April 14, 2008

When Kansas University women’s soccer coach Mark Francis learned this week his team might lose one of its seven exhibition games during an already shortened spring season, he scrambled to find a replacement. Read more.

Kansas soccer splits

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008

Kansas University’s soccer team split a pair of exhibition matches at the Nebraska Soccer Field Sunday. Read more.

Marjanovic named soccer assistant

Posted Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Antoinette Marjanovic has been named an assistant soccer coach at Kansas University. Marjanovic spent last season as the interim head coach at the University of Nevada-Reno. Read more.