Women's soccer

[SFspidur]

First sport to kick off the year with real games...hosting VMI tomorrow. The Keydets are picked to finish last in the SoCon, though they did beat Davidson in their opener last year.

The Spiders have been picked 12th in the A-10 as they continue to underwhelm heading into Denton's third season in charge. The Spiders started out strong last year at 2–0–1 but struggled most of the rest of the way.

Would really like to see some more progress this year with a few years under his belt now. He certainly had decent success at Davidson, so are we giving him the support he needs to replicate that here? Not writing his tenure off yet, but I was definitely hoping for a quicker turnaround.

Season Preview: Spiders Kick Off Thursday vs VMI, Slotted 12th in A-10 Preseason Poll - University of Richmond Athletics

RICHMOND, Va. – The University of Richmond women's soccer team opens the 2025 regular season Thursday, Aug. 14, hosting VMI at 5 p.m. on President's Field at...

richmondspiders.com

 

[Spider17]

Freshman Emma Newman scored a hat trick in the first 15 minutes of her first ever collegiate game. Our recruiting seems to have gotten a lot better. Hopefully we can carry this forward the rest of the season.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956119411825221840

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956108672775360917

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956106803185373364

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956105841439879669

 

[Spider17]

Spiders win 5-0. Emma Newman with 4 goals and an assist in her collegiate debut. Got to start the fundraising for her NIL deal now.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956144925189529661

https://twitter.com/x/status/1956130991682060331

 

[32counter]

Emma Newnan is far and away the offensive weapon which UR has been sorely missing for many years.She’s A-10 POY quality as only a Frosh and likely an All American candidate.UNC,BC and ND vultures will be hovering overhead in November.

 

[Spider17]

 

[Spider17]

Spiders lose 1-0 at home to Coastal Carolina. Interestingly it was senior night for us. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before where senior night is this early in the season as the 2nd game.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1957180329363476511

 

[URFan1]

Agreed, odd situation.

 

[SFspidur]

They’ve typically done it for an early non-conference game under Denton. Not sure why.

 

[32counter]

Newman’s cross was on the money

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958638885707141494

 

[Spider17]

Spiders end up beating Wofford 1-0

https://twitter.com/x/status/1959719073027330555

https://twitter.com/x/status/1959684718259208414

 

[32counter]

ECU blanks host VCU 4-0

 

[Spider17]

Update so far on season. We have a 3-6-3 (win-loss-ties for those unfamiliar with soccer) record overall. We are 0-4 in A10 being out scored 7 goals to 0 in conference play. Not good.

 

[carolinaspider]

Soccer has struggled offensively for many years. When we come up against quality teams,
we struggle to possess the ball. This may show that our midfield and frontline are not highly skilled
or we cannot play quickly and string 3-5 passes together or we lack athletic quickness or all of the
above.

 

[SFspidur]

Spiders finally get an A-10 win in their season finale, defeating the hapless Bonnies, 2–1.

Another very disappointing season after an encouraging start.

 

[SFspidur]

Picked up a center mid out of NJ for 2027. Looks like she's garnering some good reviews from recruiting services and has been moving up the rankings.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984202419207610700

 

[Wood Hall]

I watched several games on ESPN+. We need help, appear to be slow and do not really have a viable scoring threat.

 

[SFspidur]

Newman scored four goals in the opener and then two the rest of the season. Of course, we only scored 15 as a team all season.

The games were close as we didn't get blown out much, but yeah, not enough scoring punch.