Women's Soccer
MAKING A RUN FOR IT
A win over perennial power Penn State gave UW’s women’s soccer team a glimpse of its potential. Now the Badgers want to live up to it as they chase a Big Ten title.
By Karl Anderson
UW Athletic Communications
Losing two straight games is not the way head coach Paula Wilkins wanted the Wisconsin women’s soccer team to enter Big Ten play last Saturday.
Riding a five-game winning streak, the Badgers lost at No. 14 Milwaukee, 2-1, in overtime on Sept. 11. Then, on Sept. 14, Central Michigan came into the McClimon Soccer Complex and snapped UW’s nine-game home unbeaten streak with the game-winner in the 89th minute of a 2-1 contest.
In order to start a new streak, Wisconsin would have to get past No. 21 Penn State. History was against the Badgers, as the Nittany Lions owned a 13-2-4 record in the series.
