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OLLU congratulates soccer teams’ achievements

OLLU recognized the men’s and women’s soccer teams from the 2022-2023 season during the virtual 11th Annual Big Blue Athletics Banquet.

The women’s team finished the regular season with a 8-4-7 overall record and 5-1-5 in the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) for the third seed in the postseason. After defeating Louisiana Christian University 2-0 in the opening round of the tournament, they ended their season as semifinalists after losing to Texas A&M University – Texarkana. The Saints have made it to the postseason every season except the first in 2008 and in 2017.

The men ended the season with a 2-11-3 overall record and 2-7-2 in the conference.

Both the men and women excelled in academics after capturing NAIA Scholar-Team and United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award recognition. The women earned OLLU’s TOP GPA Award with a 3.62 GPA, while the men finished with a 3.02 GPA.

Selected as the teams’ Top Saint award winners were Randy Dominguez and Madison Herrera.

Four Saints join San Antonio Athenians for Summer Competitions

The OLLU women’s soccer team has four players representing the university with the San Antonio Athenians Soccer Club this summer. Rachel Dziuba, Madison Herrera, Tess Pitcher and Jaylin Seto will be playing for the Athenians in three matches over the next month.

The club will face the San Antonio Runners on June 24 and finish up play with a match against Luxoria on July 1. The squad fell to ATX Blues 1-0 on June 2 in the season opener. OLLU’s Interim Head Coach Max Cruz is on the Athenians staff as an assistant coach. The group is an elite women’s soccer team that develops players and showcases local talent. They compete in the United Women’s Soccer (UWS) League and host home games and international friendlies at Soccer Central. The UWS is a second-division pro-am women’s soccer league.

Cruz commented, “Coaching with the Athenians team has been a great experience in terms of professional development and educational purposes. Seeing our OLLU players compete at this level is not only beneficial to the program but to our players. It is providing our players a professional environment along with competition level that is challenging them. Dziuba, Herrera, Pitcher and Seto are putting OLLU on the map, and I am proud of how they have been p