ST. LOUIS – The Drake University women's soccer team has been tabbed the top team by the 2016 Missouri Valley Conference preseason coaches' poll. The defending regular-season champions earned 44 points in the poll, including three first place votes.
Last season, Drake student-athletes earned the league's top three individual awards, and all three find themselves on this year's preseason first-team unit. Senior Rebecca Rodgers was the 2015 MVC Player of the Year, and she's joined by fellow seniors Sarah Grace Nicholson -- the 2015 MVC Defensive Player of the Year -- and Brooke Dennis -- the 2015 MVC Goalkeeper of the Year -- on the 15-player 2016 MVC preseason unit.