USD Women's Soccer 1999

1999 UNIVERSITY ot' SAN D1EG0 ToRERO WolltEN's SoccER

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"Participating as a Division I athlete requires an enormous amount of tune and dedication. Each day, our students face the difficult challenge of balancing their academic and athletic commitments. The purpose of our academic support program is to assist with the university's mission of developing well rounded students. Our program offers students a quiet environment where they can study, seek academic advice, learn about different campus services and receive tutoring." - Mike Matoso, Coordinator of Athletic Academic Support

US[) Academic Support Mike Matoso enters hi s first year as Coordinator of Athletic Academic Support at the University of San Diego . The USO Athletic Academic Support Program is designed to assist and motivate student-athletes in their journey and progress towards their academic goals, and ultimately graduation. The primary objective is to improve the student-athletes ' study skills, support them in their academic work , and encourage scholastic achievement. It is essential that student-athletes recei ve the necessary aca– demic assistance to continue normal progress toward a degree while participating in athletics. USD student-athletes receive assistance through advising, progress reports, academic tutors, campus learn– ing centers, such as the Logic, Math, and Writing Centers, and the Accelerated Study Program. The Accelerated Study Program provides a monitored , quiet area open only to the student-athletes to ensure quality study time. These services are available to all USO student-athletes. During the 1998-1999 campaign, USD student– athletes earned 32 all-conference academic team selections, while two received GTE All-Academic District VIII Team accolades. Susie Erpelding, a member of the women's basketball team, earned GTE First Team Academic All– America Honors - the first in program history. The University of San Diego athletic depa11ment recognizes the need for all athletes of all sports to engage in a comprehensive strength and conditioning program. The USO strength and conditioning program has been designed to develop functional strength, speed, power and endurance. The development of these physical attributes is ineffective if the athletes are not able to carry them over to the playing field. Adhering to a properly designed program of strength training, conditioning and nutrition can enable our men and women to The heart of the strength and conditioning program is the USO Sports Center weight room. It is open exclusively to student-athletes at specific times each day. The weight room contains 5,000 square feet of Olympic platforms, free-weights, selectorized machines, dumbbells and cardiovascular equipment. USO student-athletes receive intensive instruction on proper weight training technique; speed, power and agility development; and spo11-specific conditioning. Their strength and conditioning programs are specific to the nature of their sport or position. Each athlete is individually monitored throughout their program to ensure the greatest chance of athletic progress. become the best possible athletes they can be, while simultaneously reducing the incidence of injury.

To•·e•·o Acade1nic Achievement

wee Scholar-Athletes

1996 1996

Michelle Kallas Sarah Lanser Danielle Lopez

1992 1992 1993

Kelly Arthur Katie Artz

1992-94 1992-93 1993-94

Corrie Bergeron Michelle Bush Mindy Campbell Karmyn Clark Sarah Coleman Monica Costello Tonya Gonser Amy Goaziou Amy Gutowski Suzanne Harker

Aly Parker

1995-96 1992-94

Amanda Stack Molly Sullivan 1992-93 Denise Timmermans 1992-93 Marisela Velasquez 1996 Aimee Wagstaff 1996 Allison Worden 1996 wee All-Academic Jenny Jongejan 1997 Mindy Campbell 1992-93 Danielle Lopez 1993-94

1993 1994 1996 1992 1996 1996 1992 1994

Joylwanaga

1994-97

Jenny Jongejan

Torero Strength and Conditioning

"I look forward to training all USD student-athletess and hope to establish a sense of pride and commitment to the strength and conditioning program. I plan to utilize the latest research in this field to fully cultivate the athletic potential of our athletes."

- Steve Brown, USD Strength and Conditioning Coach

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40 Yards

Bench Press

Power Clean Sarah Lanser

1996

4.37

1998

Michelle Bush

Stephanie Lappen 115

1997

155

20 Shuttle

Vertical Jumu

Push Jerk

1996

4.37

1996

Michele Kennedy

Aimee Wagstaff 21 "

1997

161

Sarah Lanser Back Sguat Sarah Lanser

Bar Dius

1998

13

Claire Currie

1997

205