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Development

Developing Champions In Life

• When you break down the TCU women’s soccer program there are five keys that the program represents: life development, player development, a family environment, a total team effort and TCU’s commitment toward excellence.

Life Development

• In 2009 alone, TCU was once again honored as one of the premier academic programs in the nation. For the fourth-consecutive season the women’s soccer program was recognized by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America with the NSCAA Team Academic Award.
• The Frogs headlined TCU’s 2009-10 Academic All-MWC honorees with 13 women’s soccer player selections, marking the top group among TCU’s five fall athletic squads.
• Senior Lizzy Karoly and junior Jackie Torda were honored by the NSCAA as members of the honorable mention NSCAA Division I Scholar All-South Region team. Karoly also earned second-team CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District honors. The former senior’s selection to the All-District VI Team marked the second-consecutive season in which she has earned Academic All-District accolades.
• In 2008, the Frogs also placed 16 student-athletes on the Fall 2008 Academic All-Mountain West Conference Team, which marked the top group amongst TCU’s five fall athletics squads. The Frogs also placed four players on the CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District Women’s Soccer Team, including Lizzy Karoly, who earned first-team honors.

Player Development

• On the field the past two seasons, the women’s soccer program in Fort Worth has had banner years. The Horned Frogs were ranked in every national poll at one point during the 2008 season, including a program-high RPI ranking of No. 24.
• In 2009, TCU reached as high as No. 26 in the national polls, while also ranking No. 4 in the Pacific Region, which was the highest ranking in the region in program history. TCU competed in post-season competition as well for a third-consecutive season.
• Overall, the program went 14-4-2 in 2008, which were the most victories ever in a season, rewrote the record book in nearly every category and competed in post-season competition for the third time under Abdalla.
• In 2010, TCU senior Kaylie Garcia was selected to play for the Mexican National Team, marking the first player in TCU history to ever play for a national team in a match. She played against the United States National team this past spring.

Family Environment/Community Service

• The women’s soccer program preaches a family environment that is a total team effort. This past spring the TCU women’s soccer team raised $7,000 all on their own for Cook Children’s Hospital.
• Awarded the 2010 TCU Hal Harbuck Community Service Award, given annually to the TCU program who demonstrates going above and beyond the call of duty in the field of community service award.
• Cook Children’s Hospital – 2008-10
  The event was held for youth soccer players and kindergarten through eighth-grade students, with all proceeds going directly to Cook Children’s Hospital. The soccer clinics hosted over 149 participants from local youth teams around the Metroplex.
• The clinic was organized, marketed and planned completely by the women’s soccer program. The goal was to raise $2,500, but the team raised a grand total of $7,167. All proceeds went directly to Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth.