End of Spring Update with Teeny Vogt!

I think the spring season was awesome for our team. We had a rough start, but I think that lost to Truman was essential for our team. It definitely showed us our weaknesses, but when that weekend was over and we went back to practice, it was like everyone knew what they had to do.

We went to St. Louis the next weekend and came back with two wins against SLU and Wash U, battling the weather conditions and rain delays. That was a big accomplishment for us because it proved to everyone and ourselves that we bounce back. I don't think we would have played as well as we did that weekend and the next against Lindenwood and Maryville without that first loss. I think that this was the perfect spring season to set up for season in the fall.

We know now that this group is capable of recognizing our weaknesses and making them better, which is the best quality of a great team. We are playing in a league this summer, keeping up on touches while working on our own and everyone is going to come back better and stronger in the fall. In addition to our team we have great freshmen coming in that I think can step up and be a huge part of our program. Also, we are all hoping that Tori and Molly come back strong for the fall because they will be a tremendous help to our team as well. Fall of 2012 is going to be our season.

Teeny Vogt #6

Spring Update: Catching Up with Head Coach Dave Musso

Winter Training Update!

"The Will Must Be Stronger Than The Skill"

“Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill”. Muhammad Ali

This quote was given to us after our night practice on Tuesday by Molly Costello, a quote that everyone on the team can relate to. This quote could not be more perfect after a practice that all of us were already tired for beforehand and were exhausted when the practice finished. This quote struck me a lot because I have always lived by the motto of passion and heart will give you the win. There has been plenty of times last season that will came into play to win like playing Parkside and NKU in the tournament, but we all fell short in the conference championship. Our team is blessed with 25 talented players from all over the St. Louis and Quincy areas, but what make us unique and special is the heart that every player has when they show up to play.

Training indoors and playing futsol is a great example of the will and competitiveness we all have because we do everything possible to get a win or finish the cross-fit. Seeing the girls push themselves makes me want to do better more and I want to win for them. It was tough on everyone losing the championship game in PKS, but we came together as one and realized that we have another opportunity to get there, but first we have to come together in the off-season.

I am so excited for our team to start playing again because I know the chemistry we are forming now will be unstoppable by fall and no team is going to step in our way. We all have the talent, but great players have the will and we were all born to be great. Our team is reaching for the next level to be champions and to be a threat nationally. I cannot wait to experience this journey with all these girls.

Jaclyn Mastroianni
Sophomore Lady Hawk
 

2012 Lady Hawk Knockout!

After a great week of off-season conditioning, the Lady Hawks played some basketball knockout!

Ballin' it up with Sam and Sam!

Caught up with Sam and Sam the other day playin' a little basketball and taking a break from all the off-season winter workouts...enjoy!

Quincy Lady Hawks Add Five For 2012

We welcome Brianna Andert, Ashley Burton, Taylor Lindwedel, Haylye Markway, and Maxine Peat to the Quincy Lady Hawk Soccer Family.  Click HERE for the details on the QU Athletics Website.

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