Hoosiers healthy for first practice
When the Hoosiers start practice Friday, every eligible player for this season will be on the court.
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When the Hoosiers start practice Friday, every eligible player for this season will be on the court.
Hundreds of students walk past them, but few ask what it is they’re doing. Nearly every day when the weather is nice, senior Evan Anttonen, among others, plays a sport in Dunn Meadow.
Andrew Gutman had a bit of a cheering section Sunday — not just the Hoosier fans in attendance, but a large amount of relatives who came to watch the Illinois native.
He wasn’t going to listen to the outside noise. He never has, so why start now?
Grant Lillard wasn’t trying to think about last Wednesday, but he couldn’t get the thought out of the back of his mind as a defender.
Tanner Thompson knew something was wrong, he just couldn’t fix it.
INDIANAPOLIS — Through the first five games of the season, the Hoosiers scored five goals.
Rees Wedderburn did something a month ago he said he hadn’t done in years.
IU Coach Todd Yeagley isn’t concerned. Not with the loss Sunday at Penn State, not with the five goals his team has only managed to score in five games and not with the recent string of Hoosiers missing penalty kicks.
Junior goalkeeper Colin Webb doesn’t know about the streak. Sophomore defender Grant Lillard doesn’t know about the streak either, except that it’s ending this weekend.
IU has won a regular season Big Ten Championship fourteen times. After missing out on both a regular season and tournament title last season, IU begins its quest for a 15th when it travels to Penn State on Sunday.
Last season, Grant Lillard was a freshman who started every game at center back for IU. His transition into the starting lineup was eased by then-senior Patrick Doody who was starting at left back, next to Lillard.
The ball was loose in the IU box. It looked like a Hoosier defender was going to be able to clear the ball and run the little remaining time off the clock.
When freshman defender Andrew Gutman walked on the field before his first game Friday against St. John’s, he said he was nervous.
Tanner Thompson still remembers how he felt late last November.
Twenty-eight of the best players in college soccer traveled to Carson, California in early August for a U.S. soccer college identification training camp.
The Hoosier preseason ended Saturday night in Fort Wayne when they beat Marquette 2-0 as part of the Shindigz National Soccer Festival.
For the first three halves of the exhibition season, IU wasn’t quite good enough. After a loss in the exhibition opener to Valparaiso, IU ended the first half of its second exhibition match against Western Michigan scoreless.
Michael Hughes
If junior defender Billy McConnell could tell the current freshmen on the IU men’s soccer team one thing, he would tell them to remain confident.