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Krausert to Compete for UW-Whitewater Women's Soccer in 2016

2016 Aug 31

Carina Krausert, a native of Delafield, WI, and graduate of Catholic Memorial High School, will play for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's soccer team during the 2016 season.

Krausert, a senior at UW-Whitewater, is majoring in chemistry.

The Warhawks begin play this Thursday at Capital (Ohio).

See below for a complete season preview of the 2016 Warhawk women's soccer team.

Coming off its best season in school history, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater women's soccer team, a quarterfinalist in last year's NCAA DIII Championship, will look to an experienced core of returners as it seek its sixth Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in seven years and sixth consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance.

The 2015 squad finished 20-5, the most wins in school history, and advanced to the fourth round of the NCAA tournament, the deepest run in school history. The Warhawks lost 1-0 to the eventual runner-up Washington-St. Louis, a team on this year's regular season schedule. Last year, UW-Whitewater also captured its third WIAC Tournament title in the last four seasons.

The Warhawks return 10 of 11 starters from a year ago and will be led by their three senior captains - Carly Pottle (St. Charles, Ill./St. Charles East), Brianna Reid (Oak Creek, Wis./Oak Creek) and Carina Krausert (Delafield, Wis./Catholic Memorial).

Pottle, a midfielder for the past three seasons, has moved to the forward spot, where fifth-year Head Coach Ryan Quamme thinks he can utilize her ability to score. That, coupled with the team's depth at the midfield position, allows the senior to attempt to add to her 27 career goals and 14 assists. Pottle earned First Team All-WIAC honors for the second time in a row last season and was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of American All-North Region Third Team.

Krausert made the jump from forward to the backline last season, and was an immediate presence there for the Warhawks. She and the Warhawk defense held opponents to an average of less than one goal per game. For her efforts, Krausert was named First Team All-WIAC and Second Team NSCAA All-North Region.

Reid returns to the frontline where she will look to attack both the opposition and the UW-Whitewater record books. Reid is just eight goals shy of tying the school record for career goals (55 held by All-American Emily Gerber who played from 2008-11). She is also 27 points away from Gerber's career record of 133. The 5-foot-9 striker has averaged just over 15 goals per season during her three-year career.

Beyond the three senior captains the Warhawks boast a four-player junior class, all with significant playing experience, and an 11-player sophomore class, including seven who played in all 25 games a year ago. The Warhawks also add Marquette transfer Emily Mouille (Waunakee, Wis./Waunakee), who Quamme believes can make and immediate impact, to the sophomore mix.

Quamme also mentioned that transfers Kaci Schonert (Racine, Wis./Horlick), Alyssa Lennon (Oshkosh, Wis./Oshkosh West), Devon Polk (Racine, Wis./St. Catherine's) and freshman Jen Wendling (Kenosha, Wis./Kenosha Tremper) will be in competition for minutes right away.

"This team is even deeper than last season," said Quamme, a three-time WIAC Coach of the Year. "We are bigger, faster and stronger across the board."

With four goalkeepers on the roster, competition is stiff, yet spirited as Quamme expects contributions from several of his net minders. Erin Doody (New Lenox, Ill./Lincoln Way Central) is back for her sophomore campaign after starting all 25 games last season. Freshmen Sara Klimisch (Pleasant Prairie, Wis./Indian Trail High School and Academy) and Nina Yonan (Skokie, Ill./Niles North) are also on the head coach's radar.

With a plethora of NCAA experienced players on the roster, and a sprinkling of new faces, the team has adopted a motto of #FINISH for the 2016 season.

"This doesn't mean just finishing around the net, this means finish the play, the sprint, the game, the day," Quamme said. "It's an all-inclusive message."

The Warhawks kick off the 2016 season with a trip to Ohio, where they will face a pair of familiar opponents. First up is Capital University on Thursday. Capital knocked the Warhawks out of the 2013 NCAA Tournament, and the two teams haven't faced each other since.

Next, the Warhawks will travel over to Wittenberg University on Saturday. UW-Whitewater ended the Tigers' season in 2012 with a 4-0 win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Non-conference home games against Concordia (Wis.), Brooklyn (N.Y.) College, Carthage and Luther (Iowa) are followed by a trip to Illinois Wesleyan for the "W" Challenge, where the Warhawks will face Washington-St. Louis, the No. 2 team in the country according to the NSCAA preseason poll, on Sept. 17 in Bloomington, Ill. The Warhawks will face a tough challenge the following day, playing either eighth-ranked Illinois Wesleyan or DePauw (Ind.).

UW-Whitewater will play three more non-conference games before beginning their conference schedule on Oct. 1, when they host UW-Stout. The Warhawks are slated to finish first in the WIAC based on a preseason poll of the league's coaches and athletic communications personnel, but Quamme expects tough competition again this season, especially from UW-La Crosse and UW-Oshkosh, who split last year's conference regular season title.

UW-La Crosse snapped UW-Whitewater's 33-game regular season WIAC win streak last season with a 1-0 overtime win at Fiskum Field in Whitewater. The Warhawks returned the favor, topping the Eagles 1-0 in double-overtime in the semifinal match of the WIAC postseason tournament. This season, the teams won't play each other until the second-to-last regular season game on Oct. 22.

Wherever the 2016 schedule takes them, Quamme and the experienced Warhawks look to focus on the #FINISH in everything that they do.