EAST LANSING – Every 15 minutes. That’s how often Michigan State’s women’s soccer assistant coaches Gabe Romo and Megan Link hit refresh on the transfer portal screen last fall.
A lot went into MSU becoming Big Ten champions so quickly — the outright title clinched Thursday night with a 1-0 win at 17th-ranked Ohio State, the program’s first ever official conference championship, just 16 months after head coach Jeff Hosler took the reins.
The origins of this rapid rise and the story of this season are all over the Spartans’ roster — transfers, freshmen, determined holdovers — a team that realized just how good it could be somewhere between early practices and a late-September win at then-No.