2007 Loyola College Women s Soccer Media Guide

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1 Introduction Table of Contents...1 The Loyola Mission Statement...1 Loyola College Quick Facts...2 The Coaches Head Coach John Byford Associate Head Coach Peye Garcia6 Assistant Coach Carly Draper Season Outlook Outlook Women s Soccer Roster The Players Ty Glenn Brittany Marano Brynn McGrath Kristina Balfoort Carly Deiter Lea Day Theresa Ferraina Sarra Moller Amanda Piccirilli Heather Cooke Kelly Farrell Christine Gomez Brittany Henderson Table of Contents Colleen Kinealy Amanda Meehan Rachel Shuck Andrea Toro Marissa Greco Taylor Santypal Lina Staropoli Kelly Thomas The Opponents Bucknell Canisius Central Florida Colorado College Fairfield Iona James Madison Manhattan Marist Marquette Niagara Old Dominion Rider Richmond Saint Peter s Siena Loyola College Athletics Mission Statement In accordance with the Loyola College motto, Strong Truths Well Lived, the Department of Athletics is committed to maintaining a climate that encourages excellence in both academic and athletic pursuits. Through competiton and training in 18 NCAA Division I programs, 10 for women and eight for men, the Department of Athletics challenges its studentathletes to learn, lead and serve in the Jesuit tradition. Student-athletes at Loyola College will learn and develop skills in teamwork, sportsmanship and dedication that will serve them while on campus and throughout their lives. They will become leaders within their teams, their campus and their communities, and strive to be well-rounded individuals. They will serve others by helping to create pride and community among Loyola students, alumni, faculty and staff, and they will serve themselves by striving for the highest in personal development both in athletic competition and in the classroom. In addition, student-athletes at Loyola will be nurtured by a staff and administration that is committed o the ultimate development and well-being of the student-athlete and to allow for the best possible athletic and academic experience. The Department of Athletics will provide equitable opportunities, and foster an atmosphere of diversity and tolerance among its staffof men and women. The Department of Athletics is committed to this educational mission and to its responsibility to assist its student-athletes in growth abd leadership in a diverse and changing world. Virginia Tech Wake Forest Season in Review 2006 Season in Review Game Results Final Statistics MAAC/Standings and Honors 42 The Tradition The Recordbook Career Scoring Leaders MAAC, Regional & National Honors 46 Year-by-Year Results All-Time Records This is Loyola College Welcome to Loyola Loyola Administration Academic Support Athletic Training Strength & Conditioning This is Baltimore The MAAC Field Credits Writer/Editor... Sara Day Photography...Larry French Printing...Webb Mason Hunt Valley, Md. Editorial Assistance...Ryan...Eigenbrode On the Covers Front: Brittany Marano & Brynn McGrath Inside Front:... Class of 2008 Inside Back:... Christine Gomez Back:...Schedule Greyhound Soccer - 1

2 Loyola College Quick Facts Location... Baltimore, Md Founded Enrollment... 3,400 men and women undergraduates Nickname... Greyhounds Colors... Green & Grey Affiliation...NCAA Division I Conference... Metro Atlantic Athletic Home Fields (Capacity)... Diane Geppi-Aikens FIeld (3,000)/Alumnae Field (3,000) College/Athletic Administration President: Rev. Brian Linnane, S.J....(410) Director of Athletics: Joseph Boylan...(410) Associate Director of Athletics: Teddi Burns...(410) Associate Director of Athletics for Business Affairs: Dave Gerrity...(410) Assistant Director of Athletics Director of Sports Medicine: Joe Artuso...(410) Assistant Director of Athletics for External Affairs: Marty Kelly...(410) Assistant Director of Athletics for Compliance and Student Athlete Welfare: Bill Wnek...(410) Department of Athletics Fax...(410) Team Physician: Dr. O Connell Assistant Athletic Trainers: Steve Austin, Pam Sommerhauser and Kate Hill...(410) , 2743 Assistant Facilities Managers: Darren Artuso, Skip Evans, Len Novotny, Wally Woodford...(410) Athletic Chaplain: Rev. Francis McManamin (Emeritus)...(410) Women s Soccer Staff Head Coach: John Byford...(410) Record at Loyola/Seasons /two seasons Overall Career Record: Associate Head Coach: Peye Garcia...(410) Assistant Coach: Carly Draper...(410) Women s Soccer Quick Facts 2007 Season...16th season All-Time Record (.646) NCAA Tournament Appearances...five Starters Returning/Lost... 7/4 Lettermen Returning/Lost...15/ Overall/Conference Record /8-1 Athletic Communications Assistant Director of Athletic Communications: Ryan Eigenbrode (Women s Soccer Contact)...(410) Eigenbrode s ... rceigenbrode@loyola.edu Director of Athletic Communications: Tom Milajecki...(410) Milajecki s ... twmilajecki@loyola.edu Assistant Director of Athletics for Marketing and Media Affairs: Joe DelBalso...(410) DelBalso s ...jedelbalso@loyola.edu Athletic Communications Fax...(410) Loyola Sportsline...(410) Athletics Website Greyhound Soccer

3 The Coaches Head Coach John Byford Greyhound Soccer - 3

4 Head Coach John Byford The 2007 season will be John Byford s third as Loyola College head women s soccer coach and his fifth overall at Evergreen. Prior to his tenure as head coach, which began in 2005, Byford was the assistant coach to then-head Coach Joe Malia from Under Byford s guidance, the Greyhounds have strengthened their status as one of the area s top programs. In Byford s two seasons as head coach, Loyola has a overall record, a 17-1 mark in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) and two MAAC regular-season crowns. Last season, Byford was honored by his peers as the MAAC Coach of the Year after the Greyhounds finished overall, 8-1 in the conference. Loyola earned its 14th-straight trip to the MAAC tournament and took home its fourth-consecutive regular-season title. The squad was also ranked as high as 10th regionally in the Soccer Buzz poll, and 11 of Byford s players earned all-league selections. Senior Caitlin McCusker was named to the College Sports Information Directors of America/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-Disctrict II Second Team. In 2005, Byford s first season at the helm, Loyola finished with a 15-5 overall record and a 9-0 mark in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, a record which gave Loyola the league s regularseason title. The Greyhounds were ranked by Soccer Buzz as high as fifth regionally during Byford s first season. Loyola student-athletes took home two individual honors from the MAAC in Byford s first season. Ali Andrzejewski earned the conference s Offensive Player of the Year for the second straight season, while freshman Sarra Moller was named the Defensive Player of the Year. Moller was the third Greyhounds player to win the award in as many yeras. In addition to Andrzejewski and Moller, three other Greyhounds received first-team All-MAAC honors and four more earned a spot on the second team. Andrzejewski and Moller also earned regional honors earning first-team and third-team all-mid-atlantic, respectively. Five members of Byford s first squad earned spots on the conference s all-academic team, while Andrzejewski was named to the CoSIDA/ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District team. Byford worked with the Greyhounds in 2003 and 2004 as an assistant coach. During that time, they won two Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference titles and participated in two NCAA College Cups. During the 2003 season, Loyola outscored conference opponents by a 26-1 margin, while breaking school records for most wins (16), highest winning percentage (.800), most points (160) and goals (59) in a single year. In addition to his time at Loyola, he has also worked with the Maryland ODP program. Byford came to the Evergreen Campus with several years of successful coaching experience under 4 - Greyhound Soccer

5 his belt, including a two-year stint as the head women s soccer coach at St. Joseph s University in Philadelphia. After his work at St. Joe s, Byford worked as the Director of Coaching and Player Development for the Mandeville Soccer Club in Mandeville, La., where he was responsible for coaching education of recreational level and travel team coaches. He also set curriculums for different age and ability levels of players, wrote articles for the club newsletter and evaluated the players and coaches involved in the Mandeville Club. Byford also worked as a head coach for the Region 1 ODP U-13 Girls team from He was an assistant coach of the squad in the previous year to earning the head position. He also worked as a staff coach for the Region 1 girls ODP squad for seven years as well as the Eastern Pennsylvania Girls ODP from His team Head Coach John Byford won the ODP national championship in 2002 and the regional championship in 1998 and Byford began his coaching career at Villa Joseph Marie High School in Holland, Pa., where he was the assistant coach of the 1993 state championship team. In 1994, Byford was named the head coach at Delaware Valley College in the first year of the program s history as a varsity sport. Byford moved on to Villanova University from where he was an assistant women s coach and to Kutztown University from to work with the men s program. Byford then went on to lead the Downingtown High School girl s soccer team to the league and district championship and to the state playoffs for the first time in school history in Byford and his wife, Allison, reside in Bel Air, Md. Greyhound Soccer - 5

6 Associate Head Coach Peye Garcia Peye Garcia is in his third season at Loyola and this season adds associate head coach to his title. In his two years with the program, Garcia has helped the Greyhounds to two Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference regular season titles, an overall record of and a conference mark of Garcia came to Loyola after spending three-anda-half seasons as an assistant coach at St. Joseph s. There, he helped the Hawks record the most wins in school history in 2003, their first ever appearance in the A-10 quarterfinals the same year and the conference semi-finals in Garcia also helped to recruit the 18th and 20th best recruiting classes in the Mid-Atlantic region in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Before coaching at St. Joe s, Garcia spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the men s soccer squad at Delaware. He has also worked as a part of the Region I Olympic Development Program since 2003 and has been the Under-14 s Eastern Pennsylvania State Coach since Prior to his ODP coaching work in Pennsylvania, Garcia worked as the U14 Delaware Sate Coach from He also worked as the head coach for the FC Delco Tarheels club team from Garcia spent three years as a member of the University of Massachusetts men s soccer team after transferring from Hartwick College in1996. At UMass, he was a two-year captain and earned all-conference selections in 1997 and After leaving UMass, Garcia spent a season playing professionally with both the Delaware Wizards ( ) and Western Mass Pioneers (2001). Garcia, 30, received his bachelors degree in Sports Management from UMass in Greyhound Soccer

7 Assistant Coach Carly Draper The 2007 season will be Carly Draper s first as an assistant coach with the Loyola College Women s Soccer team. She comes to Evergreen after a successful career at St. Lawrence University where she was a four-year starter for the soccer team. Draper started at goalkeeper for the Saints in all 66 games from , earning All-Liberty League Honorable Mention after her junior and senior years. Last season, Draper played over 1,600 minutes in goal, posting a 1.24 goals against average and a.800 save percentage. The Saints finished with a record, closing the year with four straight victories. During her career, Draper notched 23 shutouts, six during her senior season. Over her four years at St. Lawrence, the Saints had a record. Draper, a native of Gloucester, Ontario, Canada, has also served in several coaching roles. Last spring, Draper was an intern coach for the St. Lawrence women s soccer program, assisting the head coach in practice planning and implementation and strength and conditioning. She also was the advanced goalkeeping coach at St. Lawrence s Lake Placid Soccer Center during the summer of Draper served as the assistant coach and goalkeeping coach of F.C. Freeze Youth Soccer in Canton, N.Y., from , and she was an assistant soccer coach for the Nepean City Soccer Club in her native Ontario during the summers of 2003 and Draper graduated from St. Lawrence in May 2007 with a bachelor of science in biology with a minor in chemistry and exercise science. White at St. Lawrence, she was a recipient of the Andrew and Rosellen Welti Scholarship and earned the Bradley R. Evers Outstanding First-Year Student Award. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta and the American Chemical Society. Greyhound Soccer - 7

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10 2007 Season Outlook The 2007 Loyola College women s soccer team is youthful and hungry for success. The team returns just three seniors and six juniors while the sophomore class is the largest group of returners with nine. Head Coach John Byford also added four newcomers this season to make for a youthful but talented team that is eager to return the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference trophy back to Baltimore. The team played very well throughout the season, ending with a record, 8-1 in the conference and a win against local powerhouse, the University of Maryland, Byford said about the 2006 season. Our disappointment came again at the MAAC Tournament where, as the No. 1 seed, we lost in the semifinal round. This year, our goal must be to win our conference championship and progress to the national tournament. We have a young group, but a hard-working and talented group who are learning all the time. The Greyhounds, despite winning the regular season MAAC title in 2006, fell in the conference tournament, taking away their chances of making the College Cup. Loyola has a history of dominance in the MAAC with seven regular season titles, seven tournament titles and five trips to the NCAA College Cup. The Greyhounds hold a dominant record in MAAC play since the start of the program in 1992 and hope to continue that success in A position-by-position breakdown of the 2007 Loyola College Women s Soccer Team Forwards At forward, Byford posts the experience of a senior, two sophomores who saw significant playing time in 2006 and another sophomore returning from an injury. At forward, our leading returning scorer is back in Christina Gomez along with Kelly Farrell who was recovering from an ACL injury last year, classmate Rachel Shuck who had a good first campaign and Ty Glenn who can impact any game, Byford said. Gomez appeared in 17 games as a freshman while earning starts in 15 of those contests. She scored six goals, to tie the lead in goals, and added four assists to tie for second in points with 16. She earned a spot of the conference all-rookie team and was also once named the MAAC Rookie of the Week for her efforts over the season. Shuck meanwhile appeared in 12 games and scored her first collegiate goal and assist over Iona on October 22. In addition to Gomez, Shuck and Farrell, who spent last season on the sidelines because of an injury, Byford returns senior Ty Glenn to the forward group. Glenn has played in 34 games over her career while scoring eight goals and adding 11 assists. Midfielders At midfield, the Greyhounds post the largest group of returners with seven while adding two freshmen to the mix. The returners are experienced with two seniors, three juniors and two sophomore. In the midfield, we return a strong group which includes Brynn McGrath, a team captain, and Brittany Marano, a senior who had an excellent spring season, along with juniors Lea Day, Theresa Ferraina and Kristina Balfoort, Byford said. Colleen Kinealy and Andrea Toro have last season s experience under their belt while our freshman class includes Lina Staropoli, a Region I ODP player and Marissa Greco. McGrath is a senior who has played in and started in 38 games for the Greyhounds since she transferred to the Evergreen campus from UCLA. She has earned first and second-team all-maac honors for her work as a defensive midfielder. Marano, a fellow senior, has appeared in Brynn McGrath 26 games while starting in one during her career. She gained valuable experience this spring and will use that knowledge in the fall. Day is one of the returning starters at midfield, having started in all 19 games last season and appearing in all 20 as a rookie. She has scored four goals and added seven assists in her career while earning second-team all-maac last season. Ferraina joined the team last year as a sophomore 10 - Greyhound Soccer

11 and appeared in 19 games while starting in four. She made an impact at forward, scoring a goal and adding two assists. Balfoort also joined the team last season, transferring from Northeastern. She gained experience last season in three games. Kinealy had a standout rookie year, playing in 19 games and starting in 16. She scored three goals while adding three assists in her first season while being named to the conference all-rookie team. Toro, another Colleen Kinealy sophomore, gained valuable experience in the 2006 season, appearing in four games while starting in one. The Greyhounds add freshmen Greco and Staropoli in the midfield. Greco comes to Loyola from West Morris Central High School in New Jersey where she earned coaches all-state, all-area and first-team allcounty accolades during her career. Staropoli played at Bridgewater Raritan where she helped her team to numerous championships. Defenders At the back we return team captain and previous MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, Sarra Moller, along with sophomores Amanda Meehan, Heather Cooke and Kristine Perez, Byford said. This group will be boosted by freshmen Kelly Thomas and Taylor Santypal who will be fighting for starting spots and junior Carly Deiter who returns from injury. Moller, a junior, has appeared in all of the 39 games the Greyhounds have played in the last two seasons. She has been named MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, allrookie team, first-team all-maac twice and third-team All-Mid-Atlantic Region. Moller has also scored three goals from her defensive position Cooke also returns on defense where she played in 18 games, starting in half of those contests. She scored her first collegiate goal over Iona and tallied her 2007 Season Outlook first assist as a Greyhound against Florida State. Meehan also earned a good amount of playing time as a freshman, appearing in 18 games while starting 13. She earned a spot on the conference allrookie team and was once named the MAAC Rookie of the Week. She scored a goal and added an assist from her defensive position. Perez gained valuable experience, playing in three games. Byford adds his final newcomers to defense with the addition to Thomas and Santypal. Thomas helped her Walsh Jesuit squad to numerous championships including the Ohio State title in 2004 and Santypal comes to Loyola from Massapequa where she helped her team to state, Long Island and county championships. Deiter, a transfer from the University of Florida last season, sat out 2006 due to an injury. Byford and staff are hopeful about what she can bring to the team this season. Goalkeepers Loyola s roster boasts two qualified goalkeepers, both with experience. We return two excellent goalkeepers in Amanda Picirrilli and Brittany Henderson, Byford said. Amanda is a team captain and a great leader, while Henderson will build on her first year of experience. Amanda Picirrili Picirrilli has appeared in 21 games in goal for the Hounds while starting in 15. She posts an impressive 0.47 goals against average over her career with an 81.6 saves percentage. Last season she appeared in five games with four starts and allowed just one goal. Henderson appeared in 16 games as a rookie, starting in 15 of those outings. She recorded 53 saves for an 85.7 saves percentage and posted a 1.24 goals against average. She earned a spot on the MAAC allrookie team and was a one-time MAAC Defensive Player of the Week selection. Greyhound Soccer - 11

12 2007 Roster No. Name Class Position Height Hometown/High School/Previous School 0 Amanda Piccirilli Jr. Goalkeeper 5-5 Lansdale, Pa./North Penn 2 Brittany Marano Sr. Midfield 5-6 Barnegat, N.J./Southern Regional 3 Ty Glenn Sr. Forward 5-1 Moorestown, N.J./Southern Regional 4 Marissa Greco Fr. Midfield 5-4 Long Valley, N.J./West Morris Central 5 Carly Deiter Jr. Defense 5-3 Freedom, Pa./Sewickley/Florida 6 Rachel Shuck So. Forward 5-7 Kensington, Md./Academy of the Holy Cross 7 Kelly Thomas Fr. Defense 5-3 Shaker Heights, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit 8 Sarra Moller Jr. Defense 5-3 Manalapan, N.J./St. John Vianney 9 Lea Day Jr. Midfield 5-7 Boulder, Colo./Boulder 10 Theresa Ferraina Jr. Midfield 5-2 Long Branch, N.J./St. John Vianney 11 Brynn McGrath Sr. Midfield 5-3 Old Brookville, N.Y./St. Anthony s/ucla 12 Lina Staropoli Fr. Midfield 5-7 Raritan, N.J./Bridewater Raritan 13 Heather Cooke So. Defense 5-8 California, Md./Leonardtown 15 Taylor Santypal Fr. Defense 5-7 Massapequa, N.Y./Massapequa 16 Brittany Henderson So. Goalkeeper 5-7 Commack, N.Y./Commack 17 Kelly Farrell So. Forward 5-5 Oceanside, N.Y./Oceanside 19 Kristina Balfoort Jr. Midfield 5-8 Latham, N.Y./Shaker/Northeastern 20 Amanda Meehan So. Defense 5-4 Frederick, Md./Frederick 21 Colleen Kinealy So. Midfield 5-7 Chesterfield, Mo./St. Joseph s 23 Christina Gomez So Forward 5-7 Upper Saddle River, N.J./Northern Highlands 25 Andrea Toro So. Midfield 5-9 Darnestown, Md./Connelly School of the Holy Child Head Coach: John Byford Associate Head Coach: Peye Garcia Assistant Coach: Carly Draper 12 - Greyhound Soccer