Men's soccer to play Butler at home
Two powers will clash in Bloomington today.
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Two powers will clash in Bloomington today.
The IU attack put ripples in the net three times Saturday. The only problem was that it was the wrong side.
IU men’s soccer has won 14 Big Ten Championships. Saturday, it begins its pursuit of another with a game against Penn State.
IU sophomore Colin Webb stood on the goal line, staring at Dartmouth senior Colin Heffron 12 yards away.
IU freshman Trevor Swartz scored the first goal of his career, and IU’s only goal of the game, in the team’s 1-0 victory against Kentucky on Friday in the Mike Berticelli Tournament.
IU freshman Trevor Swartz scored the first goal of his career, and IU’s only goal, in its 1-0 victory against Kentucky on Friday.
IU will once again fight Notre Dame for a title.
IU scored a pair of sniffers over the weekend and recorded a bagel.
Sophomore Tanner Thompson played a ball in to junior Andrew Oliver and darted towards the bottom left corner of the 18 yard box.
The history of IU men’s soccer is littered with the number one.
IU sophomore Tanner Thompson might as well have been born on a soccer field.
After losing its first exhibition match against Xavier 1-0, IU men’s soccer closes its preseason against the No. 6 team in the country, Washington.
IU entered Tuesday’s exhibition against Xavier with many questions. The answers started to become more clear after a 1-0 defeat.
IU will take its first step toward eradicating the losing ways of last season with an exhibition match against Xavier Tuesday night.
Before Sunday only one Hoosier had ever run 800 meters faster than 1:47.5. Thanks to IU freshman Tre'Tez Kinnaird, it is now a party of two.
IU Freshman Tre’tez Kinnaird has competed for Team USA before. In 2011 he won the 800 meters in South Carolina to qualify for the World Youth Championships.
IU graduate Kyla Buckley has been competing at the USA Outdoor Championships in Sacramento, Calif. for the past week.
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The Stanford Cardinal rowing team sat at the NCAA Rowing Championships stone-faced. Next to them sat Princeton, whose demeanor seemed like something you might see in a movie before the big game. But something seemed to be breaking their concentration.IU was also at the NCAA Championships. But instead of imagining every upcoming stroke like a contender should be, they were dancing. With their music blaring, it almost seemed to the other teams that the IU team didn’t quite grasp the magnitude of the situation.IU Coach Stephen Peterson wouldn’t have it any other way.“We had nothing to lose, it was the first time the team’s ever been there,” Peterson said. “Every race they just went out there and went after it. They didn’t really think about what happens if we lose, it was just go as fast as we can.”One might say this IU team had no business entering the water at Eagle Creek Park that day in Indianapolis. They were the underdogs, the ones nobody expected to be in the NCAA Championships. IU’s first varsity eight and first varsity four boats had a combined two seniors rowing. Except Peterson, this was the first time anyone on the coaching staff had coached at the collegiate level.The first varsity eight boat finished 10th in the country. The first varsity four boat finished ninth, giving them what Peterson called “rock star status.”Peterson won National Coach of the Year, and his entirely new coaching staff won National Staff of the Year.“I’m flattered, I appreciate it and I’ll take the honor of National Coach of the Year,” Peterson said. “But there’s so many people and so many things that go into making a program successful. I think it’s kind of naïve to sit there and say this one person is solely responsible for it.”How did a team with a limited number of seniors and almost no experience on its coaching staff earn the highest national finish in program history?Peterson embraced the youthfulness of the team. He did not appoint captains, instead letting the team figure out the leaders for themselves.“The idea was, we’re not going to elect captains, and we said that at the middle of the year we would figure out our captains,” Peterson said. “But when the season started in the fall, what became very apparent was the senior class as a whole kind of took over that leadership role without being appointed captains.”Junior Meradith Dickensheets earned first team All-American honors, the first time someone from IU has been a first team All-American rower. Freshman Alice Wright won Big Ten Freshman of the Year, the first time a Hoosier rower has won any type of individual award.The first time Peterson knew this team was different from others was during spring break this year. IU traveled to Oakridge, Tenn., for a scrimmage against Wisconsin and Dartmouth.“We’ve never beaten Wisconsin in any boat ever,” Peterson said. “Wisconsin has always beaten us.”The first race in the water was among the freshman boats. IU won. The second race in the water was the varsity race. Wisconsin jumped out to a big lead, and it appeared that water would find its level reaffirming Wisconsin as a superior program.“Our kids just rowed right through them,” Peterson said. “They didn’t even have a problem.”It was at this moment Peterson said he believed his young squad came to the realization of how fast they actually were.This was just one memory Peterson said was important to his team’s historic season. He said he remembered the million meter party the team had. It occurred after every member of the team rowed one million meters on the rowing machines in a month and a half.Or the time his team took two-time defending national champions Ohio State to the brink at a meet in April. There was the day Dickensheets first rowed 2,000 meters in less than seven minutes.All these moments have Peterson believing his team can contend nationally not only next year, but every year going forward.“There’s no reason we shouldn’t be faster,” Peterson said. “There’s no reason that we shouldn’t be No. 1 sooner or later.”?
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Five Hoosiers came to Eugene, Ore., this past weekend to compete in the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships. Four left as members of an All-American team.Two Hoosiers left with the title of first team All-American, both of whom competed in the women’s pole vault.Senior Kelsie Ahbe finished second while sophomore Sydney Clute finished eighth, earning IU two All-American pole vaulters for the second time in four years. Ahbe and Vera Neuenswander both earned first team All-American honors in 2009.“I think the two pole vaulters, particularly Kelise Ahbe, did really well,” IU Coach Ron Helmer said. “Sydney just getting a place and a score is a big deal, and Kelsie had a PR and a good shot at winning.”Ahbe’s clearance of 4.40 meters was not only a personal record, but also a school record. Her second-place finish was the highest Hoosier finish in the pole vault since Neuenswander finished second in 2009.“We’re kind of getting used to that,” Helmer said. “It’s not the first time that Coach Wiseman has had people preform like that, and I expect it won’t be the last. He’s consistently developed outstanding pole vaulters, and these are kids who were 12 footers in high school who are now 14 footers.”IU’s two other All-American performances came through senior Kyla Buckley’s 11th-place finish in the women’s shot put and junior Rorey Hunter’s ninth place finish in the men’s 1500-meter.While Buckley’s and Hunter’s similar results earned second team All-American honors, the reactions to their finishes are very different.In Buckley’s fourth NCAA Championship appearance, Helmer said he was expecting better than an 11th-place finish.“She was quite a bit off her PR, and had she thrown her PR she’d have been right in the mix,” Helmer said.In Hunter’s second career appearance in the NCAA Championships, he ran the second fastest time of his life. Helmer said there were still areas in which Hunter could have done better, but those areas will correct themselves with experience.“I could say I wish he’d have been out a little faster, I could say I wish he positioned himself a little better,” Helmer said. “He’ll figure all those things out as he becomes more experienced, that’s the way he’s been running all year long, and up until this point it’s served him very well.”Had Hunter run nine hundredths of a second faster, he would be a first team All-American.“I think if he got out a little bit better, I think he would have improved his chances to end up in a scoring position at the end,” Helmer said. “More than anything he needs to become more experienced in running against that level of competition. If he does that he has the talent to let him be a factor in those high level races.”Another Hoosier who competed in Eugene, Ore., was freshman Matt Schwartzer. He finished 17th in the 5000-meter, earning him honorable mention All-American honors.“That was maybe one of the toughest events in the meet,” Helmer said of the 5000-meter. “It was a high level event with some high level kids and we knew that going in. We hoped he could get close to a PR and in the top 16 and be a second team all American. He ended up 17th and was just a couple seconds off his PR.”When Helmer was asked to reflect on his team’s season, he praised those athletes who performed above perceived expectations, but also dreamt of what his team could have been.“I think we had places where we certainly had success,” Helmer said. “We’re not the team that I wish we were, and we’re not the team that I expect us to be. Certainly I don’t want to negate the positive things that have happened with some individuals who did some really good things. "Overall as a team, we have some room for improvement and we need to get better."
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Several Hoosiers will try adding to the esteemed history of IU track and field this weekend.Five IU athletes will begin competition today in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore.The first Hoosier to compete in Track Town USA will be junior Rorey Hunter in the 1,500-meter semifinals.Hunter punched his ticket by winning his heat at the preliminaries two weeks ago. Hunter, like many others making the trip to Eugene, is no stranger to winning titles. He won the Big Ten Championships with a facility record time of 3 minutes, 44.59 seconds earlier this season.Friday is the first opportunity for the Hoosiers to earn hardware and the first opportunity for freshman Matt Schwartzer.Schwartzer qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 5,000-meter, thanks to a preliminary performance where he placed fourth in his heat.He’s the first freshman runner to qualify for the NCAA Championships under the guidance of IU Coach Ron Helmer. But this weekend won’t be Schwartzer’s first experience at the NCAA level. Last fall, he competed at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, and he helped the team to an eighth-place finish.Senior Kelsie Ahbe and sophomore Sydney Clute are the Hoosier duo vying for a championship in the pole vault Friday.Of all the pole vaulters to don the cream and crimson, Ahbe might be among the best. This will be Ahbe’s third trip the NCAA Championships. She followed up her freshman finish of 14th with a sixth-place finish her sophomore year. Ahbe is the IU indoor pole vault record holder with a mark of 4.21 meters, and she needs just one more centimeter to tie the outdoor record of 4.36 meters.Clute qualified for her first NCAA Championships with a career best vault of 4.20 meters at the prelims.Senior Kyla Buckley will be the final Hoosier to compete. Buckley will throw her first shot put Saturday, the final day of competition.She looks to add to her prior successes this season, which include two Big Ten Championships in the shot put and a ninth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships.Buckley’s mark of 17.19 meters is the eighth best in the country this season.A Hoosier leaving the NCAA Championships victorious is anything but a rarity. It has happened 26 times. These five Hoosiers will try to continue the tradition.