Indiana University Athletics
IU Hosts First Home Tournament
3/24/2006 12:00:00 AM | Women's Water Polo
March 24, 2006
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - The No. 19 Indiana women's water polo team will host the Fluid Five Challenge on March 25-26. It will mark the first of two home events for the recently crowned Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Western Division regular season champions at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center. The event will also be the final home regular season competition for seniors Courtney Livak, Bridget McKeon, Clare Meadows, Janis Pardy and Katie Parrish. The Hoosiers will be joined in the event by No. 15 Michigan, Wagner, Marist and Carthage.
IU will play the Wolverines for the third time this season and second time in as many weeks in the final game of day one. The two rivals will square off at 7:30 p.m. On March 26, the Hoosiers will face Wagner at 9 a.m. and Marist at 11 a.m.
Scouting No. 16 Michigan
The No. 16 Wolverines enter the Fluid Five Challenge with a 20-9 overall record and have won five of their last six matches.
The Wolverines are led by Shana Welch, who has notched a team-leading 48 goals on the season. The Maize and Blue have five other players with 20 or more goals. The group includes Carrie Frost (21), Mary Chatigny (26), Julie Hyrne (24), Michelle Keeley (20) and Megan Hausmann (26). Sharayah Hernandez and Welch lead Michigan with 17 assists.
Sally Stone and Kristen Davis have both seen significant action in net for the Wolverines. Stone has appeared in 15 matches with 52 saves and a goals against average of 8.21. Davis has played in 22 matches with 110 blocks and a GAA of 6.05.
IU is 8-28-2 all-time against Michigan. The two teams have split two games this season. The Maize and Blue claimed the first game of the year, 11-7, at the Michigan Kickoff Tournament. Indiana clinched the CWPA Western Division regular season title by shutting out Michigan in the second half on its way to a 6-4 victory on March 17.
Scouting Carthage
The Carthage Lady Red's are in their first season as a varsity sport and own a 1-8 overall record. The Lady Red's went 1-4 at the Penn State-Behrend, March 17-19. Carthage notched its first win over Utica, 8-5. The Lady Red's went 0-4 at the season opening Marist Tournament, March 4-5.
Scouting Marist
Marist enters the Fluid Five Challenge with 9-7 mark on the season. The meeting between the Hoosiers and Red Foxes at the Fluid Five will be their first ever.
At the Bucknell Invitational, the Red Foxes defeated then-No. 16 Hartwick, 8-7. The Hoosiers and Red Foxes have four common opponents in Princeton, Bucknell, Slippery Rock and Penn State-Behrend. The Hoosiers are 3-1 against the quartet, while the Red Foxes are 2-2. Indiana defeated Bucknell (12-9), Slippery Rock (11-3) and Penn State-Behrend (13-4), while falling to Princeton (9-8) in sudden victory. Marist knocked off Slippery Rock (11-4) and Penn State-Behrend (15-1), while dropping matches to Bucknell (11-7) and Princeton (12-2).
Marist is led by head coach Andrew Silva, who is in his second season at the helm. He led the Red Foxes to a 13-20 record in his opening season.
Katelin McCahill leads Marist with 31 goals on the year, while Kari Weston ranks second with 24. Caitlin Hopkins rounds out the double-digit scorers with 11. McCahill also leads the team in kickouts drawn with 26, while Weston leads with 18 assists and 26 steals.
Scouting Wagner
The Seahawks are 13-8 entering the weekend, including wins in three of their last four matches. The meeting between IU and Wagner on March 26 will be the first.
The Hoosiers and Seahawks have six common opponents on the season. Indiana is 6-0 against the group of Colorado State (6-1), Slippery Rock (11-3), Penn State-Behrend (13-4), Cal State Northridge (10-9), Bucknell (12-9) and Cal Baptist (13-7). The Seahawks are 3-3 against the group with wins over Colorado State (14-13) in overtime, Slippery Rock (17-4) and Penn State-Behrend (15-0). The trio of losses came at the hands of Cal State Northridge (13-11) in overtime, Cal Baptist (12-11) in overtime and Bucknell (13-8).
Billy Hoelck earned her second straight MAAC offensive player of week honor on March 21. She finished with 13 goals in five matches as the Seahawks went 3-2 on a West Coast swing.
Hoelck is the team leader in goals with 51 on the season, while Stacey Travous has 37 and Sara Kramer notched 31. Anne Wolkenhauer leads the Seahawks in assists with 16, while goalkeeper Katie Hauck tops the team in steals with 22 and saves with 80.
Back-to-Back CWPA Western Division Titles
By virtue of its 6-4 victory in Ann Arbor, Mich., on March 17, IU garnered its second straight CWPA regular season Western Division title. The win completed a perfect 7-0 run for IU through the CWPA Western Division. This season prior to the Michigan, IU defeated Grove City (10-3), Slippery Rock (11-3), Washington & Jefferson (12-2), Gannon (15-5), Mercyhurst (14-6) and Penn State-Behrend (13-4). Indiana also claimed the regular season title in 2005 with a 7-6 victory over Michigan in sudden victory.
Regular Season CWPA Western Division Streak
Indiana completed its second straight regular season of the CWPA Western Division. The Hoosiers went 7-0 in the division following a 6-4 win over then-No. 15 Michigan on March 17. Indiana has won 19 straight CWPA Conference matches dating back to 2004 season. IU closed the 2004 Western Division regular season with five consecutive victories before winning the regular crown each of the last two seasons with sterling 7-0 marks.
Pardy Continues to Spell Michigan
Senior Janis Pardy has been a terror on rival Michigan over her three seasons with the Hoosiers. In nine games over her IU career against Michigan, Pardy has notched 13 goals, including a pair of important game winners each of the last two seasons.
In the March 17 match against then-No. 15 Michigan that decided the CWPA regular season Western Division champion, the Calgary, Alberta, Canada native notched a pair of goals, including the eventual game-winner in the third period. It marked the second straight season that Pardy doomed the Wolverines in the decisive regular season affair. In the 2005 contest, with 54 seconds remaining in the first sudden victory period, Pardy lobbed a shot into the Michigan goal to give the Hoosiers' a 7-6 victory and the program's first regular season division title.
Knocking off the Ranked
After struggling against ranked opponents this season through the opening three tournaments, the Hoosiers cracked the code in Michigan last week. Indiana not only knocked of then-No. 15 Michigan, 6-4, to claim the CWPA regular season Western Division title, but IU defeated then-No. 17 Cal State-Northridge, 10-9, a day later in the Wolverine Invitational. The wins were the first of the 2006 season for the Hoosiers against ranked opponents. Previously IU was 0-7 against ranked foes. A season ago, the Hoosiers claimed 10 victories over ranked foes, including five over top-10 competition.
Hoosiers on a Hot Streak
Prior to a 12-5 defeat at the hands of then-No. 7 San Diego State on March 18, Indiana had won nine straight matches. The streak tied for the second longest in school history. The record is 11 held by the 2000 squad from April 2-16. Both the 1999 and 2003 teams each had nine-match winning streaks as well. In 2003, the Hoosiers won nine consecutive from Feb. 9-March 8, while the 1999 team won nine straight from March 28-April 10.
Even with the loss to SDSU on March 18, the Hoosiers have won 10 of their last 11 matches to move its record from 4-7 to 14-8. IU started the streak with a victory over Harvard to close out the Princeton Invitational. After winning the CWPA Western Division regular season title with seven straight victories, Indiana wrapped up the streak with a 10-9 win over then-No. 17 Cal State-Northridge.
Looking for Similar Results
At the Fluid Five Challenge a season ago, the Hoosiers went a perfect 3-0 over the two-day event. On the opening day of the event, IU defeated Colorado State, 11-4, before upending then-No. 14 UC-Davis, 4-3. Junior Kristin Zernicke led the way against UC-Davis with a pair of goals. The Hoosiers capped the tournament with a 14-9 payback win over then-No. 10 San Jose State. Senior Janis Pardy scored a career-high four goals in the win. IU had dropped a 7-6 match to SJSU earlier in the season at the UCSB Gaucho Invitational when the Hoosiers were ranked sixth nationally.
