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Women’s Soccer: FAU ties UAB at home in record-breaking game

The Owls tied the Blazers 1-1, even with Simonardottir’s record-breaking 16-second goal

Panna Bartha preparing for the ITF 15K Fall Tournament.

Gasner Delvarin, Jr.

Megan Bruinsma, Contributing Writer

September 29, 2023

On Thursday night, the Florida Atlantic University (5-4-3) women’s soccer team tied with the University of Alabama at Birmingham Blazers (4-3-4) 1-1.

This game was the first the two teams played against each other since their ascents from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference.

In the first 16 seconds of the game, Icelandic sophomore forward Elin Simonardottir started out aggressive, scoring for the Owls at record-breaking speed.