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Thursday, August 16, 2007

Elizabethtown College Women’s Soccer Team Ranked 20th in D3kicks.com Preseason Poll

ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. --- The Elizabethtown College women’s soccer team is ranked 20th in the D3kicks.com Preseason Top 25 Poll, released earlier this week.

The Blue Jays received 140 points in the survey, which is voted upon by a panel of 23 coaches and sports information directors from across the country along with the co-creators of the site. Elizabethtown was ranked 18 th in the final poll of the 2006 season.

Elizabethtown finished with a 14-5-3 record and won the Commonwealth Conference postseason championship in 2006, the school’s first conference title since 1999. The Blue Jays also advanced to the third round of the NCAA Division III tournament for the first time since 1997.

Head coach Barry Dohner, who begins his 14 th season on the Blue Jay bench with 172 victories, is the two-time reigning Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year as well as last year’s Middle Atlantic Region Coach of the Year.

Defending national champion Wheaton College (Illinois) received 23 of the 25 first-place votes to capture the top spot in the poll, following by The College of New Jersey, Messiah College, Hardin-Simmons University and Virginia Wesleyan University.

The Blue Jays open their 2007 season on Saturday, Sept. 1 by hosting Roger Williams University at 4:00 p.m. as part of the Blue Jay Classic.