Lady Cajuns Soccer 2002

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LAFAYETTE – Louisiana's Lady Cajun soccer head coach Dave Poggi announced Saturday five new additions for his fall 2003 squad.

The list includes four high school standouts and a transfer from Centenary College. One of the signees will return to the area where she starred as a prep soccer standout – Marielle Phillips of St. Thomas More who comes to the Cajuns after spending one season at Centenary.

Poggi’s third signing class also includes Melissa Barger (Triad HS – Troy, Ill.), Meghan Crawford (Gibault Catholic HS – Columbia, Ill.), Lauren Schwindt (McPherson HS – McPherson, Kan.) and Tanya Hopson (Klein Oak-Spring, Texas).

Phillips scored two goals and had one assist in her freshman season for the Ladies of Centenary College while playing in all 19 games. She was a member of the Dean’s List with a 4.0 GPA. At STM she helped lead her team to a 24-4-1 in her senior year and helped lead the Cougars to back-to-back district titles in 2001 and 2002. She will be joined by former STM teammates Tiffany Garber, Ainsley Breaux, Ashley Delahoussaye and Natalie Hanks.

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Louisiana rewarded for fewer than 10 yellow cards in 2002 season.

LAFAYETTE _ The National Soccer Coaches Association of America handed out its 2002 Team Ethics Awards and the University of Louisiana was a Bronze Award recipient as the lone representative for the Sun Belt Conference.

Sixty teams, from men’s and women’s programs in all divisions, received either the Gold, Silver or Bronze version of the Team Ethics Award, which recognizes teams that exhibit fair play, sporting behavior and adherence to the Laws of the Game, as reflected by the number of yellow caution cards or red ejection cards they are shown by referees throughout the season.

In order to be considered for one of the awards a team has to have 10 yellow cards or less and no red cards for the entire season.

Louisiana received just nine cautions in 18 games last season and was not issued a red card.

“As a team we set a goal to win the Sun Belt Conference "Sportsmanship Award", only to find that they didn't have one,” said head coach Dave Poggi. “This recognition (for men's and women's programs/all divisions) is something special and helps keep what we do in perspective.”

Poggi and the Lady Cajun soccer program are gearing up for the fourth season in program history in 2003. The Cajuns are currently working in spring drills.

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