The season ended last weekend for the women's soccer team with a nonconference loss to UC Santa Cruz on Sunday. However, the Leopards managed to fight for a win over Whittier the day before.
For 90 minutes, the University of La Verne women's soccer team battled the University of Redlands to a 4-4 end-of-regulation tie on the heated Ben Hines Field Saturday.
Late in the second half, Amber Jung from Claremont-M-S and La Verne freshman defender Nancy Santana battle for possession of the ball, as senior defender Alicia Raygoza runs behind them.
With a squad of seven freshmen, five sophomores, and one junior and senior, one would think that the University of La Verne women's soccer team would be looking ahead a couple of years before they would expect to win a conference title.
Athletically skilled, intelligent, confident, caring and devoted are all understatements of La Verne's soccer star, junior Angel Mejico, who simply seems to be a page right out of the book of "What it takes to be a role model."