Since star striker Katie Benz suffered a season-ending injury at Santa Clara on Sunday, the No. 21 Cal women’s soccer team has affirmed that the rest of the season will be dedicated to Benz. “We are more motivated than ever now because we are going to play for Katie,” forward Read More…
The No. 17 Cal women’s soccer team suffered its biggest loss of the year — and it wasn’t the squad’s 3-0 defeat at Santa Clara on Sunday. Senior forward Katie Benz, in the midst of a breakout year with 10 goals this season, suffered a season-ending leg injury in the Read More…
Senior striker Katie Benz, who leads the No. 17 Cal women’s soccer team with 10 goals, broke her leg in the 61st minute of today’s match against Santa Clara. Benz suffered the injury after a rough tackle from a Broncos defender. The Santa Clara player was not carded. Although it Read More…
On Friday, the No. 17 Cal women’s soccer team squeezed past Arizona State, 1-0, winning its eighth consecutive match for the first time since the 2000 season. After 73 minutes of little offensive opportunities for both sides, the lone goal came very easy for the Bears. When senior midfielder Katie Read More…
Despite playing annually against top-five Pac-12 juggernauts like Stanford and UCLA, the No. 17 Cal women’s soccer team’s most difficult conference opponent could potentially be Arizona State. In their last three outings against the Sun Devils, the Bears (7-1) failed to finish the game within the regular 90 minutes of Read More…
Currently in the midst of the Rugby World Cup hosted in New Zealand, the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, has millions of eyes focused on it. Although they are the most decorated team in international rugby, the All Blacks are most famous for their haka — the pre-game Read More…
After a hot 6-1 start this season, Cal women’s soccer team began to turn some heads across collegiate soccer. This week, the Bears were rewarded with a spot in the top-25 ranking — currently No. 22 in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America rankings — for the first time since Read More…
Last season, Cal women’s soccer cruised past Long Beach State to a easy 6-0 victory at Edwards Stadium. Although this Friday’s match in Long Beach, Calif., was a far cry from last year’s match, the Bears (6-1) managed a pair of goals against the 49ers. The win marked Cal’s sixth straight victory Read More…
After Cal women’s soccer defeated Denver 4-2 last Sunday, coach Neil McGuire said he would have to look in fixing the Bears’ recent concerns about conceding goals in the first ten minutes of the match. This week, McGuire seemed to have found the solution to the defense, from a quite Read More…
Since the start of the season, the attention on the Cal women’s soccer team was focused not on the present roster, but on the player no longer with the team. Over the summer at the Women’s World Cup, star striker Alex Morgan skyrocketed to becoming one of America’s most popular Read More…