Soccer Preview: Trip to Whitewater for soccer team for WIAC tourney

Live Stats at UW-Whitewater

THIS WEEK'S GAMES: The Blue Devils (8-7-3, 2-4-1 WIAC) earned the sixth seed in the WIAC and will travel to UW-Whitewater (14-4, 5-2 WIAC), the third seeded team, for a first round game in the WIAC Championship, Tuesday, Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. The winner advances to the WIAC semi-final, Thursday, Nov. 5. The championship game is Saturday, Nov. 7 at the highest seeded team. For the second time this season, the Blue Devils will face Whitewater immediately after a rare conference loss.

ON-LINE: All Blue Devil home soccer games will be available by Live Stats, network providing.

BLUE DEVILS LAST TIME OUT: UW-Stout got goals from Sydney Kasper and Jenna Kizlik and Paige Meyer recorded her sixth shutout of the season as the Blue Devils defeated former conference foe UW-Superior, 2-0, Oct. 28 in Superior. | Complete Story and Stats

A LOOK AT UW-STOUT: Paige Meyer has played nearly all of the minutes in goal and has a goals against average of 0.97. Jenaa Kizlik leads the team in points with five goals and three assists. Freshman Sydney Kasper has matched Kizlik with five goals and has two assists. Addy Maher has four goals and four assists.  Megan Collins, Sarah Todey and Kelly Conn each have two goals, with Conn and Collins each recording an assist. Collins has scored all of her points since moving up to the midfield. Lindsey Concon has come off the bench to add two assists and defender Haley Wentz has two assists, the first of her collegiate career. Camille Fawcett also has an assist. The Blue Devils have scored 17 total goals and have given up 18. | 2015 Stats

ON THE RIGHT PAIGE: When UW-Platteville scored in the 78th minute of UW-Stout's 3-1 win at UW-Platteville, the goal stopped the longest scoreless streak in Blue Devil goalkeeper Paige Meyer's collegiate career. After allowing a goal in double overtime to Viterbo University, Sept. 16, Meyer did not allow a goal for 358 minutes, four games later at Platteville. So far this season, Meyer has six  shutouts. Charla Buxbaum (2005) and Melissa Ballweg (2002) share the season record for most shutouts with eight. Ballweg (2001-04) holds the career shutout record with 21. Meyer currently has 14 career shutouts, second on the all-time list. The teams from 2003, 2004 and 2005 produced 10 shutouts each season.


A LOOK AT UW-WHITEWATER: The Warhawks are in a rare spot. After four years as the top seed in WIAC Tournament, Whitewater dropped two conference games and will host a first round playoff game as the third seed. The Warhawks are a dangerous team. Brianna Reid has scored 17 goals and three assists, while Carly Pottle has scored 10 goals and three assists. The Warhawks have outscored their opponents, 57-19. GK Erin Doody has been a part of seven shutouts and has a GAA of 1.08. | 2015 Stats

WHITEWATER THE LAST TIME OUT: Playing in their final regular season game, along with keeping their hopes of a sixth straight Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference regular season title alive, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's soccer team lost to UW-Oshkosh in heart-breaking fashion Wednesday night. The Titans recorded an "own goal" in the second overtime to defeat the Warhawks 2-1 at J.J. Keller Field in Oshkosh. The Warhawks relinquished an early goal to the Titans and had to fight hard to even the score. | Story and Stats

THE LAST TIME STOUT AND WHITEWATER MET:Twenty-third ranked UW-Whitewater scored three times in the first half and went on to a 4-1 win over UW-Stout Oct. 24 at Nelson Field. Carly Pottle scored in the 21st minute and Brianna Reid scored her 17th goal of the season in the 22nd minute. Karina Rosales scored in the 39th minute. Stout got on the board in the 76th minute when Jenna Kizlik floated a shot from about 25 yards out over the goalkeeper's outstretched hands. | Story and Stats


AWARDS: Megan Collins was named CoSIDA Academic All-District VI. Collins is an Applied Math and Computer Science major and has a GPA of 3.89...Sarah Todey was the UW-Stout/Northwestern Mutual athlete of the week after a two goal week, including the game winner in double overtime against St. Scholastica...Nikky Sedivy earned WIAC defensive player of the week honors after the opening week of the season as Stout allowed only one goal in two overtime ties...Addy Maher was the Blue Devils offensive player of the week and Nikki Sedivy was the defensive player of the week after the first week of the season...2014: Jenna Kizlik and Vanessa Wrobel were all-WIAC selections, Kizlik for the second consecutive season...Paige Meyer was the WIAC defensive player of the week Oct. 21 after holding nationally ranked UW-Whitewater to one goal in double overtime.

TEAM CAPTAINS: Blue Devil team captains for the 2015 season are Sarah Ulrich, Vanessa Wrobel and Jenna Kizlik.

UW-STOUT COACH RYAN RAUFUS: Coach Ryan Raufus (38-41-11) is in his fifth year as the head coach of the Blue Devils. Raufus played his college ball at Springfield College in Massachusetts and came to Stout after coaching at La Crosse Logan High School and La Crescent, Minn., High School.

QUICK HITS: The Blue Devils posted five shutouts last year, but were kept off the scoreboard 11 times. Stout had two offensive breakouts, a 6-0 conference win over UW-Superior and a 6-2 non-conference win over Gustavus Adolphus. The Blue Devils were in the middle of the conference pack in just about every offensive and defensive statistical category.

TWENTY YEARS OF BLUE DEVIL SOCCER: After many years as a club sport, UW-Stout became the ninth WIAC team to join the varsity ranks during the 1995 season. The Blue Devils took their lumps to open the season, making their premiere by hosting Augsburg College, Sept. 10, in a 7-0 loss. Stout opened the conference season three days later at Nelson Field, hosting perennial conference powerhouse UW-Stevens Point, dropping a 6-0 decision. The Blue Devils finally broke onto the scoreboard in their third game. While hosting UW-Platteville, Sept. 17, Kari Stapleton scored in the 70th minute on an assist from Jenny Tyson in a 2-1 loss. The Blue Devils would get their first-ever win, a 3-0 decision at Martin Luther College, Sept. 23, collecting goals from Amie Frasier, Tyson and Joann Sognesand. Defender Andrea Schroeder was a second team all-conference selection in 1995, then was selected to the first team in 1996.

Members of that first 1995 team include: April Amys, Beeta Bastani, Tammy Beuch, Carrie Blaska, Jen Chapple, Michelle Coon, Amie Frasier, Aimee Grimm, Jamie Jester, Julie Kremer, Dorian Loberg, Amy Lyons, Kristin Manion, Anglea McDowell, Andrea Schroeder, Joann Sognesand, Kari Stapleton, Jenny Tyson, Alisa Zimmerman. Lisa Petruccelli was the Blue Devils first coach, leading the team from 1995-98, followed by Dave Morris (1999-2005), Meagan Frank (2006-10) and Ryan Raufus (2011-present). | 1995 Statistics

SAINTLY SCHEDULE: The Blue Devils may feel blessed (or not) after going through the early part of their schedule when they play five schools named after saints - College of St. Benedict (Sept. 5), St. Catherine (Sept. 8), St. Thomas (Sept. 12), St. Scholastica (Sept. 20) and St. Mary's (Sept. 23). The Blue Devils went 4-0-1 against all of the saints combined