Friday, October 19, 2001

Women’s soccer without top goalkeeper
Wagner leaves for personal reasons, will not play against Memphis Sunday
By Nathan Leowen
Wire Coordinator

The women’s soccer team will be without its starting goalkeeper Sunday when they face Memphis Sunday.

Sophomore goalkeeper Shannon Wagner withdrew from classes for personal reasons, head coach David Rubinson confirmed.

“I don’t wish to talk about it,” Wagner said.

Wagner declined to further comment on departure from the team.

Wagner has a 1.80 goals against average and a 5-5 record. Senior goalkeeper Adrianne Labovitz will start for the Frogs (7-7-0, 3-3-0 Conference USA) against Memphis (3-11-1, 1-5-0 C-USA) 1 p.m. at Garvey-Rosenthal Soccer Stadium.

“Nothing’s changed,” Rubinson said. “We need to do our best to keep the ball out of the back of our net.”

Freshman midfielder Cara Toulouse said the Frogs want to win the next four conference matches to get into a good position for the conference tournament.
“We want to win,” Toulouse said. “We need to take control of the game early.”

Rubinson said taking control of the game early has been a problem all season. The Frogs have been out-shot 94-70 in the first period.

“We’ve been our own worst enemies,” Rubinson said. “We need to be more effective.”

After Sunday’s match with Memphis, the Frogs will face three more conference teams: Tulane, Southern Mississippi and Houston. Tulane is the only team out of the three with a winning record in C-USA.

“We need to be better than we have been,” Rubinson said.

Toulouse said she feels like the team can win the final four conference matchups.

“We have the talent to win,” Toulouse said. “We want to go into the tournament on a winning streak.”

Nathan Loewen
n.d.loewen@student.tcu.edu