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lexi
DORAN
NUMBER POSITION HEIGHT YEAR MAJOR
12 BACK 5-8 GR MBA
HAWKS TIDBIT: Making starts in 17 of 19 matches in 2019, Lexi Doran has been named to the America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll in each of her four seasons
2021
SCHEDULE DAY DATE OPPONENT KICKOFF+/RESULT THUR. 8/19 AT DELAWARE STATE W, 5-0 SAT.
8/21
ST. FRANCIS BROOKLYN
7 PM
THUR. 8/26
AT TEXAS TECH
7 PM
WED.
9/1
MERRIMACK
6 PM
SUN.
9/5
AT LAFAYETTE
1 PM
THUR. 9/9
AT FAIRFIELD
6 PM
SUN.
9/12
SIENA
1 PM
SUN.
9/17
NEW HAMPSHIRE*
1 PM
SUN.
9/26
AT UMBC*
2 PM
THUR. 9/30
UALBANY*
5 PM
SUN.
10/3
AT BINGHAMTON*
3 PM
SUN.
10/10
VERMONT*
12 PM
THUR. 10/14
AT UMASS LOWELL*
6 PM
SUN.
10/17
STONY BROOK*
1 PM
SUN.
10/24
AT MAINE*
1 PM
THUR. 10/28
NJIT*
5 PM
SUN.
AMERICA EAST QUARTERFINAL^
TBD
THUR. 11/4
AMERICA EAST SEMIFINAL^
TBD
SUN.
AMERICA EAST CHAMPIONSHIP^
TBD
10/31 11/7
RED - HOME GAMES (AL-MARZOOK FIELD) + ALL TIMES EASTERN AND ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE * AMERICA EAST CONFERENCE OPPONENT | ^ PLAYED AT HIGHEST SEED OF EACH MATCH
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TODAY’S MATCH
Hartford makes its home debut Saturday when it hosts St. Francis Brooklyn for the first-ever meeting between the two teams.
LAST TIME OUT
Five different players found the back of the net Thursday as Hartford opened the 2021 campaign with a 5-0 win at Delaware State. After taking a 1-0 lead into the break on a goal from redshirt-senior Andrea Carina Costa Garcia, the Hawks scored four times within an eight-minute stretch in the second half to seal the victory.
INSIDE THE SERIES
Hartford and St. Francis Brooklyn meet for the first time in both programs’ Division I histories.
SCOUTING THE OPPONENT
Senior Barbara Zagony scored the golden goal in the 60th minute as St. Francis Brooklyn opened the
2021 campaign with a 1-0 win at St. Peter’s Thursday. Junior Klil Keshwar, who registered 43 saves in 10 appearances as a freshman in 2019, made one save against the Peacocks to earn her first career shutout. The Terriers are one of the NCAA’s newest women’s soccer programs, as they held their inaugural season in 2019.
MY OH MAIA
Maia Perez, a graduate student from Kentwood, Mich., has put together an impressive career in goal for the Hawks. She has played 4,505 consecutive minutes between the posts and is currently ranked 10th in program history shutouts (13) and seventh in both saves (207) and wins (25).
HOME SWEET HOME
Hartford is 24-7-5 in home openers, which includes an 8-3-5 mark under head coach John Natale. In 2019, the Hawks went 5-2-2 in matches played on Al-Marzook Field.
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WELCOME ABOARD
Several newcomers made the most of their Hartford debuts at Delaware State on Thursday. Twelve of the 15 points, and four of the Hawks’ five goals, were produced by newcomers. Garcia, who made her firstever Hartford appearance after transferring from Fairleigh Dickinson, collected one goal and an assist in the victory, while sophomores May Cervone, Imani Jenkins and Kelly Severini each found the back of the net in their collegiate debuts.
NEXT ON TAP
Hartford heads west of the Mississippi River for the first time since 2009 when it takes on Texas Tech on Aug. 26. The first-ever meeting between the Hawks and Red Raiders is set for 7 p.m.
T AL E O F T H E T A P E
1-0-0
RECORD
1-0-0
W1
STREAK
W2
5
GOALS
1
GOALS/GAME
1.00
.227
SHOTS %
.143
15-22
SOG-ATT
2-7
SOG %
.286
5.0
.682 5
ASSISTS
0
6
CORNER KICKS
1
0-0
PK: GOALS-ATT
0-0
0.00
GAA
0.00
0
SAVES
1
.000
SAVE %
1.000
AMERICA EAST S T A ND INGS
Hartford Maine New Hampshire UMass Lowell UMBC UAlbany Vermont Binghamton Stony Brook NJIT
OVERALL AE W-L-T PCT W-L-T PTS 1-0-0 1.000 1-0-0 1.000 1-0-0 1.000 1-0-0 1.000 1-0-0 1.000 0-0-0 .000 0-0-0 .000 0-1-0 .000 0-1-0 .000 0-1-0 .000
0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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(1-0-0 OVERALL, 0-0-0 AMERICA EAST)
# Name
Yr. Pos. Ht.
1
Maia Perez
Gr.
GK
5-10
Hometown/Last School
2
Saige Bingman
Gr.
M
5-8
Cheshire, Conn./Fordham Univ.
3
Doireann Fahey
Jr.
B
5-7
Kildare, Ireland/Scoil Bhride Lackagh
4
Tristan McFarlane
Fr.
M
5-8
Ottawa, Ontario/Brookfield
5
Julia Atlee
Sr.
B
5-9
Sacramento, Calif./Folsom Lake College
6
Christina Stone
So.
M
5-2
Glastonbury, Conn./Loomis Chaffee
7
Makaela Montgomery-Williams
Jr.
B
5-5
Mississauga, Ontario/Our Lady of Mount Carmel
8
Victoria Jedrychowski Jr.
M
5-7
Farmington, Conn./Farmington
9
Andrea Carina Costa Garcia
R-Sr. M
5-2
Aurora, Ontario/Cardinal Carter Catholic
Kentwood, Mich./East Kentwood
10 Ishani Sharma
Jr.
M
5-5
Brampton, Ontario/Castlebrooke Secondary
11 Imani Jenkins
So.
F
5-7
Middletown, Conn./Middletown
12 Lexi Doran
Gr.
B
5-8
Hebron, Conn./RHAM
13 Jordyn Ferraro
So.
F
5-4
Manalapan, N.J./Academy of Law & Public Safety
14 May Cervone
So.
F
5-7
Milford, Conn./Hamden Hall Country Day
15 Juliana Chiarella
Fr.
B
5-3
Hampden, Mass./Minnechaug Regional
16 Izzy Lachcik
Sr.
B/M
5-7
Vermont, Conn./Loomis Chaffee
17 Victoria Foster
So.
B
5-9
Mississauga, Ontario/St. Martin Secondary
18 Kelly Severini
So.
M
5-6
Union, N.J./Union
19 Chloe Layne
So.
F
5-6
Wrentham, Mass./King Philip
21 Taylor Brown
Sr.
M
5-3
Natick, Mass./Natick
22 Elise Engquist
So.
B
5-6
Gilroy, Calif/Christopher
23 Olivia Mullings
Fr.
F
5-4
Newington, Conn./Newington
25 Emily Howard
Fr.
F
5-10
28 Kristen Spendal
Fr.
GK
5-5
Dumont, N.J./Dumont
30 Abby McCarthy
Fr.
GK
5-7
Torrington, Conn./Torrington
Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional
HEAD COACH JOHN NATALE - 18th Season - Eastern Connecticut ’97
ASSISTANT COACHES TODD SADLER - Third Season - Hartford ’99 GEORGE KOSTELIS - First Season - Hartford ’93 ALEX WRONA - Second Season - Bryant ’18
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ST. FRANCIS BROOKLYN TERRIERS (1-0-0 OVERALL, 0-0-0 NORTHEAST CONFERENCE)
# Name
0 00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
Yr. Pos. Ht.
Abby Scruton Fr. Elizabeth Lewis Jr. Klil Keshwar Jr. Mackenzie Dewey Fr. Maggie Motolese Jr. Alina Graf Fr. Alessia-Giorgia Iannizzi Fr. Isabelle Gollette Jr. McKayla Palhof Jr. Trystan Cotterell Jr. Lauren Schultz R-Jr. Sarah DeWitt Sr. Hailey Russell Jr. Oormi Sivapatham Jr. Hannah Russell Jr. Kendra Rust Fr. Jamie-Lyn Shimamoto Jr. Sevi Mitsopolous So. Brianna Van Giesen Sr. Anastasia Martinez So. Breanna Gleissner Jr. Maya Madjercic Jr. Ashtyn Van Horn Jr. Mia Rose Daly Sr. Jasmine Miller Jr. Barbara Zagonyi Sr. Isabella Radovini Fr. Sofia Iaderosa Fr. Avery Gonzalez So. Julia Towell Fr. Sage Bernstein So. Serena Arevalo Gauthier Fr. Olivia Gaillard Fr. Payton O’Donnell Fr.
GK GK GK B M B M B M B F F F B B M F B B M M F F B B M F F F M GK GK F B
Hometown/Last School
5-6 Glenwood Springs, Colo./Glenwood Springs 5-4 Forney, Texas/North Forney 6-2 Arima, Trinidad and Tobago/Bishop Anstey 5-10 Ridgefield, Wash./Ridgefield 5-2 New Tripoli, Pa./Northwestern Lehigh 5-6 Achern, Germany/Handelslehranstalt Buhl 5-2 Bolton, Ontario/LSU Eunice 5-3 Whittier, Calif./La Mirada 5-4 Loudon, N.H./Merrimack Valley 5-7 Whitby, Ontario/Donald A. Wilson 5-8 Wheeling, W.Va/Memphis 5-8 Annapolis, Md./LIU Brooklyn 5-1 Riverside, N.J./Riverside/Rider 5-5 Staten Island, N.Y./Notre Dame Academy 5-6 Riverside, N.J./Riverside 5-7 Rosemount, Minn./Link12 Lakeville 5-6 Honolulu, Hawaii/Punahou 5-6 Lake Forest Park, Wash./Shorecrest 5-4 Santa Rosa, Calif./Loyola Marymount 5-4 Dallas, Texas/Nimitz 5-5 Southbury, Conn./Pomperaug Regional Stony Creek, Ontario/Cardinal Newman Catholic 5-8 5-5 Dallas, Texas/Woodrow Wilson 5-6 Haiku, Hawaii/LIU 5-3 Elmhurst, N.Y./Christ the King 5-7 Biatorbagy, Hungary/Veres Palne Gimnazium 5-5 Mississauga, Ontario/St. Aloysius Gonzaga 5-6 Ottawa, Ontario/John McCrae Secondary 5-2 Claremont, Calif./Claremont 5-3 Toms River, NJ/Toms River South 5-6 Long Beach, N.Y./Long Beach 5-6 Bayville, N.J./Central Regional High School 5-5 Haymarket, Va./St. Paul VI Catholic 5-5 Stratham, N.H./Exeter
HEAD COACH JUSTINE LOMBARDI - Third Season - Quinnipiac ’09
ASSISTANT COACHES JACOB CINI - Second Season - Cal State Fullerton ’18 SARA ROSENBLUM - First Season - Columbia ’11
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HARTFORD HAWKS
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maia PEREZ
2
saige BINGMAN
3
doireann FAHEY
5
julia ATLEE
6
christina STONE
7
makaela MONTGOMERY-
9
andrea carina
ishani
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GR | GOALKEEPER
SR | BACK
COSTA GARCIA R-SR | MIDFIELDER
jordyn
13 FERRARO
SO | FORWARD
GR | MIDFIELDER
SO | MIDFIELDER
10 SHARMA
JR | MIDFIELDER
may
14 CERVONE
SO | FORWARD
JR | BACK
WILLIAMS
JR | FORWARD
imani
SO | FORWARD
juliana
15 CHIARELLA
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FR | BACK
4
tristan
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victoria
McFARLANE
FR | MIDFIELDER
JEDRYCHOWSKI JR | MIDFIELDER
lexi
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GR | BACK
izzy
16 LACHCIK
SR | BACK/MIDFIELDER
HARTFORD HAWKS
victoria
kelly
17 FOSTER
SO | BACK
18 SEVERINI
SO | MIDFIELDER
elise
23 MULLINGS
SO | BACK
FR | FORWARD
kristen
28 SPENDAL
FR | GOALKEEPER
HEAD COACH 18th Season
TODD SADLER ASSISTANT COACH Third Season
taylor
SO | FORWARD
olivia
22 ENGQUIST
JOHN NATALE
chloe
19 LAYNE
21 BROWN
SR | MIDFIELDER
emily
25 HOWARD
FR | FORWARD
abby
30 McCARTHY
FR | GOALKEEPER
GEORGE KOSTELIS ASSISTANT COACH First Season
ALEX WRONA VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT COACH Second Season
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2021 T EA MTeam S T A Statistics T I S T I CS(as of Aug 20, 2021) Hartford Overall All games
OVERALL: 1-0-0
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Overall: 1-0-0 Conf: 0-0-0 Home: 0-0-0 Away: 1-0-0 Neut: 0-0-0
AMERICA EAST: 0-0-0
HOME: 0-0-0
TEAM STATISTICS SHOT STATISTICS Goals-Shot attempts Goals scored per game Shot pct. Shots/Game Assists CORNER KICKS PENALTY KICKS PENALTIES Yellow cards Red cards ATTENDANCE Total Dates/Avg Per Date Neutral Site #/Avg Goals by Period Hartford Opponents
1st 2nd Total
Shots by Period Hartford Opponents
1st 2nd Total
Saves by Period Hartford Opponents
1st 2nd Total
1 0
8 1
0 5
4 0
14 0
0 5
5 0
22 1
AWAY: 1-0-0
HARTFORD
OPP
5-22 5.00 .227 22.0 5 6 0-0
0-1 0.00 .000 1.0 0 4 0-0
0 0
1 0
0 0/0 0/0
25 1/25
Corners by Period Hartford Opponents
1st 2nd Total
Fouls by Period Hartford Opponents
1st 2nd Total
0 10
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1 4
5 3
1 1
6 4
2 5
wn o r B r Taylo
Hartford Overall Individual Statistics (as of All games
Overall: 1-0-0 Conf: 0-0-0 Home: 0-0-0 Away: 1-0
## 9 18 14 11 21 2 19 6 10 17 4 25 23 22 15 12 8 7 5 3
# 1
Player
2021 I N D I VI DUAL S T A T I S T ICS
Andrea Garcia Kelly Severini May Cervone Imani Jenkins Taylor Brown Saige Bingman Chloe Layne Christina Stone Ishani Sharma Victoria Foster Tristan McFarlane Emily Howard Olivia Mullings Elise Engquist Juliana Chiarella Alexis Doran Victoria Jedrychowsk Makaela Mongomery-Wi Julia Atlee Doireann Fahey Total Opponents
Goalie
Maia Perez Total Opponents
gp-gs
g
a
pts
sh
sh% gwg pk-att
1-1 1-1 1-0 1-1 1-0 1-1 1-1 1-1 1-0 1-1 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-1 1 1
1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
1 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 0
3 3 3 2 1 1 3 0 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 1
.333 .333 .333 .500
gp-gs
1-1 1 1
1.000
.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .227 .000
Goal Average min ga gaavg
90:00 90:00 90:00
0 0 5
0.00 0.00 5.00
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0
Saves saves
0 0 10
pct
w
.000 .000 .667
1 1 0
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john
NATALE The winningest coach in Hartford women’s soccer history with 147 career victories, John Natale enters his 18th season as head coach of the Hawks in 2021. A five-time America East Coach of the Year, Natale has piloted the Hawks to an NCAA Championship appearance, an America East Championship and five America East Regular-Season Championships during his impressive career at Hartford. Natale’s track record of success extends well beyond the collegiate level to the international level. Away from the Hawks’ campus in West Hartford, he has been actively involved in a pair of FIFA Women’s World Cups and two of the past three Olympic games in London, England (2012) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2016). Natale, who became the program’s fifth head coach in 2004, has established himself as one of the elite coaches in the America East, and in the Northeast region. Leading Hartford to at least a share of the America East Regular-Season Championship in four of his past five years, Hartford’s dominance in the America East and in the region has been unmatched as of late under Natale. Although the team trained and played one exhibition match, the COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the Hawks for the 2020-21 campaign, as it forced the cancellation of what was an unconventional spring slate. The Hawks advanced to the title match of the America East Tournament for the fourth time in six seasons in 2019, but came one victory shy of qualifying for the NCAA Tournament after falling, 2-1, at top-seeded Stony Brook. Hartford finished the campaign with a 10-7-2 record, marking the ninth time under Natale’s watch that the program closed out a season with at least 10 wins. History was also made under Natale in 2019 when Sierra Stone (’20) became the program’s first-ever two-time America East Midfielder of the Year. Having previously earned the honor in 2017, she was also the first America East player since 2005 to win a Positional Player of the Year award one season after receiving Rookie of the Year distinction (2016). In addition, Stone’s three major awards are tied with Jessica Reifer for the most in program history. In addition to taking home four America East Regular-Season Championships since 2014, Natale and the Hawks have been on the doorstep of reaching the
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JOHN NATALE’S CAREER HIGHLIGHTS AE COACH OF THE YEAR 2006, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015 NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES 2006 AE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS 2006 AE REGULAR-SEASON CHAMPIONSHIPS 2006, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018 AE TOURNAMENT FINALIST 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019 3 NSCAA ALL-AMERICANS
22 AE MAJOR AWARD WINNERS 124 AE ALLCONFERENCE HONOREES
NCAA Tournament in five of the past 10 seasons, as they have advanced to the finals America East Tournament in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2019. Winning 100 matches since the 2011 campaign, Natale has fostered a trio of All-Americans (Caitlin Alves — 2011; Erin Quinlan — 2011; Amelia Pereira — 2012) and 16 major award winners from the America East over that 10-year stretch. Hartford’s dominance under Natale has not just been a recent trend, though. The highlight of Natale’s career came in 2006, when he led the Hawks to their 10th America East Championship and an appearance in the NCAA Tournament. Entering the NCAA Tournament play as one of the hottest teams in the nation with an unbeaten streak of 10 matches, the Hawks fell to 12th-ranked Rutgers in the opening round. Hartford — which posted an undefeated slate during conference play en route to claiming the both the 2006 America East Regular-Season and Championship Titles — knocked off a pair of nationally-ranked opponents that season. In addition, four of the six major conference postseason awards were handed out to Hartford, including Natale and his staff earning the first of five America East Coaching Staff of the Year distinctions. Away from West Hartford, the 2011 Women’s World Cup Games marked Natale’s first appearance on the international stage. A member of the USA Women’s Soccer National Team’s coaching staff as a scout for head coach Pia Sundhage, Team USA fell in a dramatic penalty kick shootout to Japan that season. One year later, Natale rejoined Sundhage’s staff as a Video Analysis Coach for the Olympic games, where he helped Team USA to its fourth Olympic gold medal after it knocked off Japan in the title match. Most recently, Natale reunited with Sundhage for the 2016 Olympic games, this time joining Sweden’s National Team’s coaching staff as an advanced scout. He previously fulfilled the same role on Sundhage’s staff for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada.
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Before beginning his collegiate head coaching career with the Hawks in 2004, Natale was an assistant coach for the Boston Breakers in 2003 and the Philadelphia Charge the previous two years. In those roles, he was involved in all aspects of coaching, including practice planning, player skill development, scouting and player analysis. Both franchises reached the playoffs each year of Natale’s tenure in the WUSA. Natale also had the opportunity to gain valuable experience under the guidance of two of WUSA’s more successful head coaches – Boston’s Sundhage (200203 WUSA Coach of the Year) and Philadelphia’s Mark Krikorian (2001-02 WUSA Coach of the Year). Currently the women’s soccer head coach at Florida State, Krikorian is a former Hartford women’s soccer head coach (1996-2000). During the summer of 2006, Natale coached the Western Lady Pioneers of the W-League, one of the most highly-regarded women’s leagues in the world. The team finished with an 11-3-1 record and advanced to the semifinals of the Eastern Conference playoffs for the first time in team history. Natale – who coached three all-league selections, including the U19 Player of the Year and the league’s scoring champion – was named W-League Coach of the Year. Natale excelled as a player at Eastern Connecticut State University, where he was a captain and participant in the All-New England Senior Bowl. A native of Wethersfield, Conn., he graduated from ECSU in 1997 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education. Natale also played professionally for the Western Mass Pioneers of the USL. Natale’s accomplishments have been recognized across the region, as he was one of six inductees in the Connecticut Soccer Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015.
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