Soccer

Late goals send KU soccer past Louisville, on to Sweet 16

A dominant second-half performance eventually paid dividends for the Kansas soccer team in the final minutes on Thursday afternoon, as Jillian Gregorski and Lexi Watts’ late goals lifted No. 3 seed KU to a 3-1 victory over No. 6 Louisville at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, North Carolina. The ...

Midseason position changes helped KU soccer get where it is now

The Kansas soccer team’s lineup was so consistent in the early stages of the season that head coach Nate Lie started the same 11 players for the entirety of the Jayhawks’ unbeaten nonconference slate, and even for a few games afterward. But after a stretch of three losses in four matches ...

KU advances past Cal Baptist with 3-1 victory in NCAA Tournament

Kansas coach Nate Lie had been hoping for his team to get off to a fast start to its tournament run. The Jayhawks did exactly that in the fourth minute of Friday night’s match at Rock Chalk Park when Caroline Castans played in a service from the left wing for Saige Wimes, whose header ...

KU soccer to host Cal Baptist in opening round of NCAA Tournament

The Kansas soccer team may have entered this year’s NCAA Tournament selection show on a bit more of a down note compared to last season — it fell short of a Big 12 tournament title this time around — but the Jayhawks came out of Monday with a more favorable seed than last year and the ...

BYU denies KU second straight Big 12 tournament title, beats Jayhawks 1-0

In the lead-up to Saturday night’s Big 12 tournament final, Kansas coach Nate Lie had said he was stressing to his team that the championship would be theirs until someone took it from them. Well, BYU’s Ellie Walbruch essentially did just that early in the championship match, launching a ...

KU soccer to meet BYU in Big 12 title game

The Big 12 soccer tournament has demonstrated to this point the fundamental irrelevance of regular-season results when it comes time for the postseason. Baylor, which lost 1-0 to Texas Tech at home on Sept. 19, beat the Red Raiders in penalties on Monday, only to fall two days later in ...