For the second year in a row, our players voted on our top goals from the 2016 season. We had many to choose from, 32 in fact, so to be on this short list means these goals are pretty special. Here are some other fun facts about our goal scoring this year:
- Did you know Maggie Leininger scored the first freshman goal this season vs. Crown? Here are the first freshman goals over the last five years:
Honorable Mention: our first HM goal from the 2016 season is Senior Maddison Ackiss's second goal vs. St. Mary's. And yes, that's an assist from Sophomore Ashley Becker! First career point? Excellent. Make sure to watch Maddi take off and cover ground to get on the end of this punt.
Honorable Mention: our second HM goal from the 2016 goes to this goal vs. Eau Claire where Junior Hannah Sturtz plays a cheeky pass to Sophomore Emily Skogseth, who beats her defender and then blasts this dirty shot far post, side netting from outside the 18. Guarantee you can't just watch this goal once.
#5: Goal of the 2016 Season: Here's the scenario, we knew we needed to make a big push to qualify for the conference tournament... big push meaning we needed to win 4 of the last 5 conference games. Heading into the St. Kate's, we had won our previous two and were riding the momentum. We were up 3-2 and looking for a buffer goal to put the game away.
Who else than Junior Hannah Sturtz to make that happen? We moved the ball up the field with Sophomore Emily Skogseth finding Hannah into space. As the keeper approached she calmly placed the ball high and near post.
T-#3: Goal of the 2016 season is Junior Sophie Leininger's second vs. Concordia for senior day. Only 12 minutes after she scored her first goal of the season, Sophie powered this left footed shot into the side netting on the far post to double our lead (as well as her # of career goals). Nice feed from Sophomore Emily Skogseth... her being involved in great goals is starting to become a trend here...
T-#3: The other #3 goal of the 2016 season actually came in the same game. Who could have written a better script than to have Senior Maddison Ackiss score a fantastic left footed bomb from 28 yards out, straight to the top corner in her Senior Game? After writing herself into the record books during her career, she deserved every bit of this fantastic goal.
#2: Goal of the 2016 season goes to Grace Brustad in the waning minute against Macalester. First career goal and an excellent one at that. Shout out to Emily Skogseth beating five Macalester defenders before finding Grace in the slot. Great assist, great finish -- no wonder this goal was voted #2!
And now....
2016 - Maggie Leininger vs. Crown College
2015 - Chase Miller vs. St. Thomas
2014 - Molly Johnston vs. Crown College
2013 - Maddison Ackiss vs. UW Stout
2012 - Brittany Chase vs. Martin Luther
- The team scored 32 goals with 28 assists. Those assists came from 13 different players. That's fantastic team play!
- Senior Maddison Ackiss wrote herself into the record books:
6th for Career Goals with 36
7th for Career Points with 83 (36g, 11a)
2013 - 8g, 3a; 2014 - 10g, 2a; 2015 - 9g, 2a; 2016 - 9g, 4a
So here we go, take a look at our top five goals from the 2016 season:
Honorable Mention: our second HM goal from the 2016 goes to this goal vs. Eau Claire where Junior Hannah Sturtz plays a cheeky pass to Sophomore Emily Skogseth, who beats her defender and then blasts this dirty shot far post, side netting from outside the 18. Guarantee you can't just watch this goal once.
Who else than Junior Hannah Sturtz to make that happen? We moved the ball up the field with Sophomore Emily Skogseth finding Hannah into space. As the keeper approached she calmly placed the ball high and near post.
#4: Goal of the 2016 Season: Sophomore Chase Miller crushes a free kick from half field, ball takes one bounce inside the 18 before hitting the back of the net. The best part? Game was tied 0-0 before this goal in the 87th minute. Talk about clutch.
T-#3: The other #3 goal of the 2016 season actually came in the same game. Who could have written a better script than to have Senior Maddison Ackiss score a fantastic left footed bomb from 28 yards out, straight to the top corner in her Senior Game? After writing herself into the record books during her career, she deserved every bit of this fantastic goal.
#2: Goal of the 2016 season goes to Grace Brustad in the waning minute against Macalester. First career goal and an excellent one at that. Shout out to Emily Skogseth beating five Macalester defenders before finding Grace in the slot. Great assist, great finish -- no wonder this goal was voted #2!
And now....
our top goal...
of the...
2016 Season...
goes to...
#1: Our top goal of 2016 goes to Chase Miller's goal to put us up 1-0 vs. St. Kate's in the playoff quarterfinals. Chase destroys this ball one time. Jaw dropping. And then just turns around like it was no big deal.
P.S. These are all on Facebook where you can watch them in HD if you follow the instructions. Check it out and give it a LIKE: https://www.facebook.com/GACWomensSoccer/
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