Usually a team with returning players is ideal, but not for the women’s tennis team. Women’s tennis is undergoing a transitional building phase with five returning senior players and one freshman. Head coach Wendy Zwissler is not expecting a championship from the women. Instead the team’s goal is to have fun, which may not be easy with a 1-7 record.
In the early afternoon, she was flying high after a 3-1 victory over the Chapman Panthers. Hours later she was greeted with the phone call she had been waiting for all her life—a call offering her soccer team a bid to the playoffs.
After 120 minutes, 59 shots on goal, and hardly enough daylight to see the ball, the University of La Verne women’s soccer team came off the field smiling Wednesday with a 3-1 victory over Redlands.
Kicking its way to the top with a total 48 shots, four goals and two assists in last Saturday’s game was enough for the ULV women’s soccer team to walk away with a win against the scoreless Redlands Bulldogs.