Best College Sports Team: UTSA Women’s Soccer
by Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Current
By any reckoning, San Antonio is a professional-sports town. With no Division I football program and only modest successes in other sports, college athletics in SA usually get bumped to the back of the local sports section, and earn much less attention from nightly newscasts than high-school gridiron contests.
One positive development in 2006, however, came from the UTSA women’s soccer team. In only their first season, with 10 freshmen in their starting lineup, the Roadrunners were widely expected to occupy the basement of the Southland Conference. To everyone’s amazement, however, the inexperienced squad jelled quickly and posted a 5-1-2 regular-season conference record. That mark was good enough for second place in the SLC and earned a first-round bye in the league tournament. In addition, Roadrunners midfielder Chelsea Zimmerman won SLC Freshmen of the Year honors.
Given this auspicious debut against a formidable schedule, it’ll be intriguing to see what coach Steve Ballard and his team are able to achieve in 2007.
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