2011 Lady Hawk Awards Wrap-up

Saturday January 28 was our 2011 Lady Hawk Awards Banquet. It was an outstanding turnout as all the 2011 players got back together again and many family members made the trip up to Quincy to celebrate the 2011 NCAA Tournament season. The highlights of the day were the Team Awards and Mr. Wingenbach’s 2011 Highlight Video. A HUGE thank you to Mr. Wings for putting it all together. It was a special moment especially for our seniors.

Here are the Award Winners for 2011

Lady Hawk Team Awards…

Most Valuable Player – Senior Megan Wingenbach

Best Defender – Junior Sam Martinez

Best Attacker – Senior Aimee Ubriaco

Best Midfielder – Senior Megan Wingenbach

Most Improved – Senior Lauren Drewett

Best Newcomer – Freshman Brittney Kuster

Best Student-Athlete – Freshman Taylor Darnell, Graduating Junior Danielle Estes, Sophomore Jaclyn Mastroianni, and Senior Aimee Ubriaco (4 time winner)...all had 4.0 GPAs this past fall.


Other 2011 Awards…

NSCAA All-American – Sam Andert
NSCAA All-American Link - Click Here

NSCAA All-Region – Sam Andert, Jodi Chapie, Sam Martinez, Aimee Ubriaco, and Megan Wingenbach
NSCAA All-Region Link - Click Here

NSCAA Scholar All-Region – Sam Martinez, Aimee Ubriaco, and Megan Wingenbach

NSCAA Scholar All-Region Link - Click Here

All-GLVC – Sam Andert, Jodi Chapie, Sam Martinez, Aimee Ubriaco, and Megan Wingenbach
All-GLVC Link - Click Here

2011 Lady Hawk Awards Banquet

Senior Day!

Today, Quincy University Lady Hawk Soccer is celebrating their end of the year awards banquet! This video was made in the fall, but we were unable to upload it at the time. Today, we are celebrating the 2011 Seniors and this video is for them! Thank you for an AMAZING 4 years and we will miss all of you! GO HAWKS!

2012: New Year, New Beginnings

We ended our 2011 season in the NCAA tournament and had to face the reality that we would be losing some AWESOME seniors. Now, as the new year has begun, we are building something special; it is the beginning of a new team. In the fall new players will come into the mix of our current players, all striving for one goal: a GLVC championship. In the words of sophomore Jodi Chapie, “I want that ring!”

Currently, the Lady Hawks have been hard at work. For the past couple of months we have all been training on our own, demonstrating a “Fit for Life” attitude so that when we started team training again that we would not miss a beat. We are now two training sessions in and things are looking fantastic. The hard work that this group puts in throughout each session is extraordinary. We are hungry for that championship title! Each player has their own unique strengths that we bring to the table, and when all of us use those together in one unit it truly is special.

Personally, I have my own new beginning. I am now considered an upperclassman. Wow! These last two seasons have gone by so fast. I remember coming in as a freshman in the fall of 2010, being so timid and hardly saying a word to anyone. Now, my teammates can’t get me to shut up! The experiences I have had so far here as a Lady Hawk will help me in my own leadership role as a big Junior. But, for now, I am going to work hard this off season and spring season, pushing myself and my teammates to get better each day. This is a special group, and if we better ourselves each day, that championship is ours.

Lori Mannion
Sophomore Lady Hawk

Welcome Back Lady Hawks!

2011, What a Year!

Our 2011 journey was filled with many special memories.  It started in the off-season with our awesome seniors and their leadership.  This 2011 group headed into the off-season and one word comes to mind…opportunity.  After graduating seven very good core players in 2010, this 2011 group had to step up…and they did!  The group went undefeated in the spring beating Western Illinois, Truman, Maryville, and the Alumni…and tying Evansville.  Once August hit, this group kept building its momentum.   We started out going 7-0 and Nationally Ranked as high as 3^rd in the Country...a school record.  Two major keys to this year’s success were our team defending and having a variety of players step up at different times to score goals.  Total team effort.

Our defense only allowed 10 goals all season and recorded 14 shutouts, which both tied school records.  Some thrilling games were the WI-Parkside 2-1 home win, Drury 1-0 road overtime win from a Lauren Drewett bomb, Truman 3-0 home win, two Rockhurst home wins, and knocking off Northern Kentucky on their home turf in the GLVC Semifinals.  All of those were magical nights but that NKU night was something every one of our Lady Hawks will remember for the rest of our lives as we will never face the Norse again. 

This was a very strong year for the GLVC as five teams made the NCAA Tournament.  The opponents were as tough as our program has ever faced but as always, we focused on the next game/opponent.  In those tough games, two key sayings we used often were “find a way to win” and “Enjoy da Moment”.  Lead by our seniors, this team went 15-5-2, made a record sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance, and we were a PK shootout away from taking home the GLVC Championship. It was tough going into that shootout when our opponent was in the stands watching during our semifinal shootout.  Just ask the 2011 US Women’s National team.  Even though we fell a shootout short, every one of these ladies were Champions.  The experiences we had together will last a lifetime and the memories with this group are priceless. This group did all the little things right.

For the third year in a row, another class of seniors will get to graduate from Quincy University saying they made FOUR NCAA TOURNAMENTS.  Wow, that is special.  It has almost become expected and part of our Quincy Lady Hawk tradition.  What outsiders do not truly understand is that the real reason to the success we have does not get seen.  The true key to our success is our teams behind the scenes off-season work (goals and development), in-season training and preparation, and our team cohesiveness.  Our togetherness is the key to everything we do.

What a fun group lead by awesome seniors, what special memories that were earned through preparation and training, and what a year we will always remember.  I am thankful for the memories...let's do it again!  "The Lady Hawk Way!"

Dave Musso

Lady Hawk Walk with Emma and Lori!

Once a Lady Hawk ALWAYS a Lady Hawk

The journey for every senior was started freshman year excited about being able to play the sport they love for another four years. There were butterflies of it being our first preseason on a college level and the thought of how difficult it is going to be. For the six seniors this preseason was our last. With that is what motivated us to do our best and that carried all the way through this great season.

There are many different things that could be remembered from this year but to touch on some of them. With the beginning of the season and starting to play with new freshman we went 7-0! An amazing accomplishment. It was always great to hear “seniors have you ever been 7-0?” and being able to say “NO!” This was exciting for everyone on the team, birds were flying high. As the season went on one other favorite memory was the NKU game at NKU during the GLVC Tournament. In the four years that seniors have been here we have never beat NKU. We were told to forget the past, all the games in the past the only game we needed to focus on was the next game, and the next game was NKU. We wanted to make it to the conference championship and say that we beat NKU. We did it we beat NKU in PK’S! Most exciting moment is watching Emma Walker’s PK go in and knowing that we just beat NKU! #BIRDZFLYINHIGH This was a moment the seniors will never forget, having a giant dog pile knowing we were going to the conference championship. Although the conference championship did not go our way, we fought hard. The NCAA Tournament was next. Making this the 6th straight time this program has made the national tournament is a nod to the coach who has made it all possible. 6 is a serious number and we were ready to make our way to Allendale, Michigan. The place where the seniors post season began. Ready to go with our warm baseball coats, we were ready to face Parkside. A night game under lights in November is where every team wants to be. It was magical. The game was a great game; just it wasn’t in our cards to win that one. We all wanted it, all 25 of us wanted to win that game. Unfortunately this was our last game of the season. The moment when you have the mini meeting with coaches, and taking off our stuff for the last time is when you realize this is a special group of girls. This is a unique group with all of us being there for each other from the beginning to the end. After Jodi’s speech and the seniors’ last words we did our final cheer “Quincy Lady Hawks”.

The memories are the thing we have to remember this unbelievable season. The little things (the gnome), the competitions (Aimee, Drewett and also Teeny and Lori), and the tradition (on the bus) is what holds us all together. These are the moments we will never forget. This season was the best season a senior could have asked for, this group we had was such a special group and will never be forgotten. We have to remember we shed sweat, blood and tears for this team and we are proud to be a Lady Hawk. Good Luck to the Lady Hawks in the future years and make that SEVEN trips to the NCAA Tournament, for us alumni!

Bergie Bower
2011 Senior Lady Hawk

GLVC Tournament Update: Semifinal against Northern Kentucky University

2011 Post-Season

Well, the regular season has come and gone in the blink of an eye. It’s hard to believe we have played over two months of games. Like any other season, we have experienced some amazing highs and some not-so-fortunate lows. Soccer is one of the few sports where you can completely outplay a team and still come out on the losing end, which is the hardest loss to take. Being in post-season, that’s just not an option anymore. It wouldn’t be a typical Lady Hawk season without stopping to refocus on what our team is capable of and what it’ll take to get there. Saturday our focus was on getting past Rockhurst to the next weekend. Now it’s on getting past NKU to that championship game. I’m sure all the other seniors, like myself, are experiencing that strange feeling knowing we will never play on our own field again, but what a way to leave our home with a big post-season win to keep our season alive.

Megan Wingenbach
2011 Senior Lady Hawk

Weekend Update with Head Coach Dave Musso and Senior Aimee Ubriaco

Birdz Flyin High

We’re entering into one of the best months of the year, in my opinion. Next to February (my birthday month) and December (duh, Christmas), October is such a great month. There are beautiful colors all around. The weather is just perfect; just chilly enough for a jacket, but no need for pants. The most candy-intensive holiday ends it. And most of all, it is the very best time to play soccer.

We’re 10-1 (How flipping awesome!) entering the final month of regular season. Each game is getting more and more important to win. As a senior, I’m beginning to realize this could be the last time I will play some of these teams….ever. And as usual, there’s a pride factor; I can’t leave my last impression with a loss/tie. It’s gotta be a WIN! As a member of this incredible team, I’m focused on finding ways to win games. That’s what good teams do in October. They find ways to finish their schedule in a way that will put them in the best position. If we just keep playing well and finishing games on top, we’ll be in good position.

I get so excited seeing this team and its potential, and I have to calm myself down all the time to refocus and understand this season is a marathon. Each game is as equally important as the last and the next one. Plus, I swear half of my team doesn’t even understand how well we’re doing or what it means for us later. I think that helps us. We’re just a group of girls going out there to play some high quality soccer so we can be fed afterwards! But seriously….what’s for dinner later?

Aimee Ubriaco
2011 Senior Lady Hawk

Two Fun Lady Hawk Media Links



Click Here For A Cool KHQA Video



Click Here For DOB's Midweek Grades

Thank you to all the Quincy, IL Media. We appreciate all the coverage and support from everyone (Whig, WGEM, and KHQA).  This is a long season and it is very early.  Our focus is on today and getting better as a group so we can be there when November arrives.

Lady Hawk Update: Wisconsin Parkside

Week Three Update With Casey

What a weekend!! Every game we play in the GLVC is a battle! After putting UMSL away on Friday night we mentally prepared for the tough game against Maryville. When we found out earlier last week that we were ranked 13th in the nation we were beyond excited!! And after these last two games, being 4-0 really has motivated us and pumped us up for Friday's game against Wisconsin-Parkside. Our team has so much fun together on and off the field, our  chemistry is amazing. The fact that we have so many people who are able to step up and score really makes the game fun and gives us an advantage over opponents. Our solid defense gives our team the backbone and support to score and put teams away! Our games are so exciting to be a part of because we move the ball so well and we are confident that every game is OURS TO WIN! The team practices hard all week to prepare for Friday night games and the intensity during practice shows how much we want this to be our year! Our fans add to the intense atmosphere on Friday nights and they pump us up! The focus now is on WISCONSIN-PARKSIDE another very good team in the GLVC, it won't be an easy game but we are both mentally and physically ready for the challenge! This Friday, September 16 at 5pm we face the Wisconsin-Parkside Rangers at our QU North Campus Field! We hope to get as much support as possible on our road to Victory!!

Brittany Casey
2011 Junior Lady Hawk

Lady Hawk Update: Southwest Baptist