Women’s soccer has set the bar high for themselves. The squad was crowned the Conference USA champions after winning the tournament in Charlotte last season, then went on to compete in their first NCAA tournament under head coach John Cullen. Though the group was knocked out in the first round by Duke, it left the girls with a hunger to return to the tournament in the 2017 season.
“To get there was an achievement and we were proud of that, but the consensus right there, within an hour of the game finishing, was that we wanted to be back there again.