Wake Forest Athletics
Women's Soccer ACC Championship Notes
11/1/2005 12:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Nov. 1, 2005
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Deacons open with Cavaliers in ACC Quarterfinals
The Wake Forest women's soccer team travels to the ACC Championship on Wednesday to face Virginia in the quarterfinals. The Demon Deacons (9-7-1, 4-6 ACC) enter the championship as the number seven seed, while the Cavaliers (13-4-1, 8-2 ACC) are the number two seed.
Wake Forest and Virginia have never met in the ACC Championship. Wake Forest has faced Duke three times (1-1-1), Florida State twice (0-1-1), North Carolina five times (0-5-0), Clemson twice (0-1-1), Maryland twice (2-0-0), and NC State twice (1-1-0). Wake Forest has also not faced any of the three ACC newcomers.
This season also marks the first in which not every team qualified for the ACC Championship. Only the top eight teams qualified for the championship. The three teams not making the trip to Cary this season are Miami, NC State and Virginia Tech.
The Demon Deacons are 3-8-1 all-time against Virginia. This season, the Cavs defeated the Deacons 1-0 in Winston-Salem. Virginia scored the match's only goal in the 17th minute when Noelle Keselica scored on a rebound. Sarah Curtis fired a shot at the top of the goal that Deacon keeper Kaitlyn Doe could only block. The ball fell right to Keselica who fired a shot into the left side of the net.
Last time out
Wake Forest defeated Miami 2-0 in a much needed win. After four consecutive losses, the Deacons were on the verge of not making the ACC Championship. However, with the win against the Hurricanes, the Deacons ensured the number seven seed for the championship.
Wake Forest scored the first goal of the match in the 34th minute when junior Kristen Kemp knocked in her first of the season and fourth career goal. Senior Melanie Schneider threw the ball in to junior Jayme Leigh Cargnoni who served the ball across the box. Kemp headed the ball past Hurricane goalkeeper Lauren McAdam.
Wake Forest put the game away with just 1:54 remaining in the match when junior forward Elizabeth Remy netted her sixth goal of the season. Junior goalkeeper Kaitlyn Doe punted the ball into the Hurricane half of the field. Remy let the ball bounce once and turned to push up field. With no defenders in sight, Remy dribbled the ball into the box, and fired a shot into the goal.
Kozey, Schneider named All-ACC
Wake Forest women's soccer players Sarah Kozey and Melanie Schneider were each named to the second team All-ACC squads in a vote by the league's coaches.
Kozey, a forward from Halifax, Nova Scotia, earned second team honors for the second consecutive year. The senior scored a team-high seven goals and recorded two assists during the regular season. Kozey also broke the Wake Forest career goals record just five games into the season.
Schneider, a midfielder from Peachtree City, Ga., was named All-ACC for the first time in her career. The senior scored three goals and registered four assists in the regular season.
da Luz reaches the century mark at WFU, closes in on career 150
With the win against Boston College, Wake Forest head coach Tony da Luz recorded his 100th win with the Deacons. da Luz is also closing in on career win number 150. da Luz previously coached at San Diego from 1992-96.
da Luz has a record of 102-67-15, as the Deacons' head coach. da Luz has also yet to experience a losing season at the helm of the women's soccer team.
For his career, da Luz has a record of 148-109-19. His 148 wins place him 48th all-time among active NCAA Division I coaches.
Cargnoni on the offensive
Junior Jayme Leigh Cargnoni is tied for the team lead in points in conference games with fellow junior Elizabeth Remy. The defender has registered two goals and five assists, for a total of nine points.
For her performance against Boston College, Cargnoni was named to the Soccer America Team of the Week on October 5th.
Cargnoni scored the first goal of the match in the 56th minute when she redirected in a shot from Amy Smerdzinski past the Boston College keeper.
After Boston College evened the match in the 82nd minute, Cargnoni beat the BC defense to the endline and sent a crossing pass into the box where junior Lindsey Jaco netted the gamewinner with just 1:20 remaining in the match.
Cargnoni assisted on Kozey's gamewinning goal against NC State. She also recorded her first goal and assist in the shutout win over Virginia Tech.
Remy continues to shine
Deacon forward Elizabeth Remy has continued her stellar season after her blazing start. The junior Norman, Okla., native leads the Demon Deacons with 22 points. Remy has scored six times and assisted on 10 other tallies.
Remy played a role in seven of the first nine Deacon goals scored. In recognition of her great start, the ACC named Remy its ACC Player of the Week for August 30.
Remy also earned national honors from Buzz Magazine and Soccer America as both publications named Remy to their weekly teams of the week (Aug. 30).
In the ACC/WCC Challenge, Remy was named the Offensive MVP as well as named to the all-tournament team. She netted her third goal of the season.
Against Washington State, Remy recorded two assists. She set up Melanie Schneider's goal which gave Wake Forest an early 1-0 lead, and later in the game created the scoring opportunity for Sarah Kozey's recordbreaking goal.
Remy added her fourth goal in the win over Virginia Tech. She recorded a goal and an assist in the loss to Clemson. Remy's sixth goal came in the 2-0 win over Miami.
Prior to this season, Remy had scored 13 goals and registered six assists. Through just 15 games of her junior campaign, the forward already has five goals and 10 assists. The 10 assists places Remy in a tie for the most in one season. She shares the single season record held by Anne Shropshire and Stefanie Matthews.
Kozey rewriting the record books
With her gamewinning goal against Washington State, senior Sarah Kozey broke Emily Taggart's career goals scored record with 30. Taggart, who played for the Deacons from 1998-2001, scored 29 career goals. Kozey, a forward from Halifax, Nova Scotia, added yet another goal against the Hokies and the gamewinner over NC State to give her 33 career goals. Kozey added her 34th career tally against Clemson.
Kozey also moved into second place in career points with 84. She passed Taggart (76 points) and trails Anne Shropshire (85 points). Kozey also ranks second on the career shots list with 203.
Spreading the wealth
This season, 11 players have scored 24 goals. Three more Deacons who have not scored a goal have registered assists, including freshman Camelyn Dillon who has three.
Garrick earns Soccer Buzz honors
Defender Keisha Garrick became the second Deacon this season to be named to the Soccer Buzz Magazine Elite Team of the Week. The publication honored the junior from Toronto for her stellar play against Santa Clara and San Diego. Garrick also was named the Defensive MVP of the Wake Forest/ACC/WCC Challenge. Junior Jayme Leigh Cargnoni, junior Elizabeth Remy, freshman Camelyn Dillon, and senior Melanie Schneider joined Garrick on the all-tournament team.
Hanley out indefinitely
Deacon midfielder Kristina Hanley is out indefinitely with a collar bone injury. The
sophomore had started the first eight games of the season in the midfield and had recorded a goal and an assist. Last season, Hanley missed the last seven games after tearing an ACL.
Fearless freshmen setting records
In their first career game, the Deacon freshmen stepped up when it mattered most. Trailing 1-0 in the match, midfielder Amanda Lebo netted a goal in the 25th-minute tying the game. Lebo collected a blocked Elizabeth Remy shot and fired a shot past the keeper. In the second half, midfielder Amy Smerdzinski knocked in a shot from 20-yards out into the upper right corner of the goal. In the 83rd-minute, forward Whitney Berry rebounded her own missed shot and rocketed a shot past the Seahawks' goalie. Freshman midfielder Camelyn Dillon recorded an assist on Berry's goal.
The three goals scored marked a Demon Deacon record. Three freshman had never scored a goal in their first career game before this season. The last time three freshman scored a goal in a game came last season when current sophomores Maggie Horne, Kristina Hanley, and Amber Bettenhausen each netted a goal versus Davidson.
So far this season, the freshmen have recorded four goals and seven assists.
Changing places
Several Deacons have changed positions from last year. Most notably is junior Kaitlyn Doe. Doe moved from her defensive spot in the field into the goalkeeper position.
Junior Jayme Leigh Cargnoni moved from the midfield to the back and has started every contest as an attacking defender.
Sophomores Ashley Spooner, defender to forward, and Megan Upchurch, forward to defender, also changed positions from 2004.
Wake returns top scorers
Out of the 34 goals scored last year, the Deacs return players that accounted for 33 of the scores. Sarah Kozey (12 goals), Elizabeth Remy (seven goals) and Melanie Schneider (six goals) finished 2004 as the leading scorers. Juniors Jayme Leigh Cargnoni and Kristen Kemp netted two goals last season.
Nine in a row
In 2004, the Demon Deacons earned their ninth straight trip to the NCAA tournament. Facing UAB in the first round, the Deacs fell 2-0.
They come from all around
The Wake Forest women's soccer team has players from all across the nation, representing 12 different states and Canada. North Carolina has five representatives and California has four girls. Three Deacons hail from Texas. Georgia, Colorado, Florida, Virginia and Pennsylvania each have two players. Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Michigan each have one player. Two players hail from Canada, one from Nova Scotia and the other from Ontario.
