2001 News

  • 2001 Season in Review
    January 10, 2002
  • Wittenberg Women's Soccer Coach Fran Kulas Resigns
    December 14, 2001
    Wittenberg University Womens Soccer Coach Fran Kulas has resigned his position after three years on the job. He departs to become the director of coach and player development for the Kentucky Youth Soccer Association.
  • Tigers Lose to Regional Champions
    October 30, 2001
    The Tigers faced a schedule packed with top-notch regional and national competition and never blinked. And while moral victories are never the team's goal, it must be noted that Wittenberg was extremely competitive every night out during the 2001 season, including in the season finale last Wednesday night at Ohio Wesleyan in the semifinals of the NCAC Tournament.
  • Tigers Take a Winning Season Going Into the NCAC Tournament
    October 24, 2001
    The Tigers have had their backs against the wall for several weeks. They responded with three wins and a tie in their final four NCAC games to claim an improbable spot in the conference's postseason tournament. Wittenberg, seeded fourth, will open up with the tourney's No. 1 seed, nationally ranked NCAC defending champion Ohio Wesleyan, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Delaware.
  • Dawson Wins 200th Game As Wittenberg Men's Soccer Head Coach
    October 18, 2001
    Wittenberg University's 4-1 men's soccer victory over Wabash College on Wednesday, Oct. 17 in Crawfordsville, Ind. was a big win for the team, improving the Tigers to 10-4-1 overall and 4-2 in the North Coast Athletic Conference on the 2001 season. In addition, it was Men's Soccer Head Coach Steve Dawson's 200th career victory, a landmark that puts him in some elite company.
  • Tigers Seal the Deal for NCAC Tournament Entry
    October 13, 2001
    Facing their biggest week of the 2001 season and the prospect of elimination from the NCAC tournament, the young Tigers fought back last week to tie Wooster and defeat Allegheny in double overtime. Both teams were ranked in the Great Lakes Region and ahead of Wittenberg in the conference standings when the week began.
  • Tigers Split a Pair With Denison and Oberlin
    October 09, 2001
    Undaunted by a brutal non-conference schedule in which the Tigers faced seven teams with winning records and three with national rankings, the women's soccer team continues to battle back in hopes of moving back into the NCAC tournament picture. The top four teams in the conference advance to the tourney.
  • Tigers Rally To Defeat Rival Kenyon
    October 02, 2001
    After two tough weeks in which the Tigers lost four straight games, the hope is that the ship has been righted after a 1-0 victory over NCAC rival Kenyon on Saturday. Sophomore forward Geri Woessner (Dayton, Ohio/Oakwood) scored a second half goal off an assist from freshman forward Katie Mazzio (Wilmington, Del./A.I. duPont), and sophomore goalkeeper Jenny Miller (Cincinnati, Ohio/Mother of Mercy) made it stand up with eight saves.
  • Tigers' Schedule Only Gets Tougher
    September 26, 2001
    The women's soccer team has played one of the toughest schedules in the country, and while the young Tigers have held their own consistently, they have not been able to break through. Last week, Wittenberg was defeated by NCAC favorite Ohio Wesleyan, the fifth-ranked team in the country, on Wednesday and then traveled to Elmhurst (Ill.) on Saturday and absorbed a 1-0 loss there.
  • Tigers Start Off With a Tough Season
    September 15, 2001
    It has been an uneven start to a promising 2001 season for the Wittenberg women's soccer team, made more difficult by a tough early schedule that leads into an even tougher North Coast Athletic Conference schedule that is set to kick off this week. First up for the Tigers is a road date at nationally ranked Ohio Wesleyan on Wednesday.
  • 2001 Women's Soccer Preview
    The Wittenberg University Tigers are young but could be ready to pounce in 2001. A year after posting the program¹s first 10-win season since 1995 and earning a berth in the inaugural North Coast Athletic Conference tournament, Wittenberg returns 12 letterwinners and welcomes a strong recruiting class into the fold.