About the Panthers:
2010 marks a new era for the Ohio Dominican women’s soccer team, competing at the NCAA Division II level in the GLIAC for the first time. The Panthers made the most of their final year in the NAIA, compiling the second-most wins in school history with a 12-3-3 record and finishing No. 24 in the final regular season poll. ODU just missed out on back-to-back trips to the NAIA National Tournament, falling in a shootout to Cal. State-San Marcos in the A.I.I. final in Phoenix. Second year head coach Jonathan Meade returns 17 letterwinners, including 10 starters and six all-conference selections from last season.

First Team All-A.I.I. selections Sierra Patterson and Becky Williams lead the Panthers returning offense. Patterson led the team with 30 points, finishing second in goals (10) and assists (8). Williams led ODU with 13 goals and ranked second in points (29) after transitioning from goalkeeper to forward. Two-time NAIA All-American and First Team All-AMC selection Anna Cameron leads the returning midfielders. Goalkeeper Aimee Simonet, a Second Team All-A.I.I. selection, returns to anchor the pipes for the Panthers. Simonet allowed just 16 goals in 1651 minutes, posting an 0.87 goals against average and .800 saves percentage.

About the Greyhounds:
The UIndy women’s soccer team returns 20 letterwinners, including nine starters from last year’s 15-6-0 squad. Geoff VanDeusen enters his fourth season as the head coach of the Greyhounds, compiling a 34-21-2 overall record in his first three years. After finishing fourth with 11-3-0 mark in the Great Lakes Valley Conference in 2009, UIndy was recently picked to finish fifth out of the 15 member schools in a preseason coaches vote.

For the full PDF version of the women's notes, click here 

Contact: Bryan Desch
deschb@ohiodominican.edu

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Full-color versions of the 2010 Ohio Dominican Men's and Women's Soccer Information Guides are now available.

For the men's guide, please click here. For the women's guide, please click here.  more

The guides feature player and coaches bios, record books, stats and more.

The Panthers begin their season on Thursday with a doubleheader at the University of Indianapolis. The women's contest begins at 5 p.m., followed at 7 p.m. by the men's kickoff.

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio Dominican University and Press Box Productions will team up for a third season to bring live audio and video of 25 sporting events this fall, as well as a brand-new weekly coaches show, "The Panther Spotlight."

All 10 football games will also air live on 1580 AM St. Gabriel Radio (Columbus) and simulcast with a video stream on www.pressboxproductions.net, starting 30 minutes before kickoff with the Panther Countdown Pregame Show.  more

Meanwhile, five men's soccer, five women's soccer and five volleyball matches will also air live over the internet with audio and video at www.pressboxproductions.net.

Click here for a full broadcast schedule.

Veteran broadcaster Todd Bell returns to handle the play-by-play duties for the football season and will be joined in the booth by John Westenhaver, while Ohio Dominican students will call the soccer and volleyball matches.

The coaches show - "The Panther Spotlight" - features one-on-one interviews with the ODU coaching staffs, recapping all of the action and looking forward to the week ahead. Bell and ODU sports information director Scott Miles will handle the interviews, which will be available on the Panthers' official athletics Facebook page, www.facebook.com/ODUAthletics, as well as on http://www.pressboxproductions.net/. They will first air next Tuesday, Sept. 7.

Contact: Scott Miles
miless@ohiodominican.edu

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Dominican women’s soccer team was selected fourth in the South Division in the preseason GLIAC coaches’ poll, released today.

ODU, entering its first year in the GLIAC, earned nine points and one first-place vote, followed by the league’s third new team, Lake Erie College, with five points. Just five points seperate Ohio Dominican from first-place Tiffin, which earned 14 points and three first-place votes. Ashland and Findlay tied for second with 11 points, with the Oilers picking up the final first-place vote.   more

“The team and I are very excited to be competing in such a respected conference as the GLIAC and look forward to the tough challenges before us,” said second year head coach Jonathan Meade. “It feels good that someone felt that highly about our program to give us a first place vote, but only hard work and execution will lead to what we all care about and that is to be No. 1 at the end of the season.”

The Panthers’ season opener is slated for 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 2 at the University of Indianapolis. The women host Alderson-Broaddus College (WV) in their home opener at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 8. at Panther Field.

 2010 GLIAC Women’s Soccer Preseason Coaches’ Poll