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Coach leads by example

By Michael Hughes michhugh@indiana.edu @MichaelHughes94

Brian Maisonneuve wasn’t finished. That much he knew for certain.

It was 1999, and the Columbus Crew player was going to need five ankle surgeries because of injuries he had sustained throughout his career.

It was a career in which he was named a two-time All-American and Hermann trophy award winner while playing for Maisonneuve Indiana.

The Michigan native and current IU associate head coach was then allocated to the Columbus Crew, where he had the opportunity to play with IU teammate and friend Todd Yeagley.

It was a career in which the midfielder competed in the 1996 Olympics, where he was the leading scorer for the United States with two goals.

He turned that performance into a spot on the 1998 United States World Cup team, where he played in all three games and started in two.

“It’s the classic case of a good honest Midwest kid who went through all the channels and made it big,” Yeagley said. “He did it by working hard and doing all the small things it takes to make it.”

Throughout his career, Maisonneuve, or Maiz, as his friends call him, had dealt with injuries.

Particularly ankle injuries.

Perhaps it was his style of play, never afraid of going to ground in order to win the ball from the opponent. But he had always recovered.

After the World Cup, he didn’t recover.

Assuming the pain would eventually go away, he continued playing. After the 1999 MLS season, the pain became insufferable and he was forced to succumb.

Doctors told him his goal should

be walking without a limp after the surgeries and that his career was over.

Maisonneuve had other ideas.

It was not easy. He had to sit out the 2000 season and watch his Crew miss the MLS playoffs for the first time in club history.

Not only did Maisonneuve return to soccer in 2001, he returned in top form. He started all of the Crew’s 22 games in 2001, the only Crew player to even play in all 22. In those 22 games Maisonneuve scored a careerhigh six goals and recorded a careerhigh 16 points.

Maisonneuve finally called it quits after 2004 and ended a nine-year MLS career, all spent in Columbus.

The only player to play for one team longer was Cobi Jones of the Los Angeles Galaxy.

“When it was time to retire, my body was done,” Maisonneuve said.

“To train at that level every single day, I just couldn’t do it anymore because my body was breaking down.”

Despite all that success, despite being a three-time MLS All Star, one thing eluded Maisonneuve in his MLS career — a MLS Cup. *** During his time playing under IU Coach Jerry Yeagley, there were few awards Maisonneuve failed to garner.

In addition to being a two-time All-American and winning college soccer’s equivalent to the Heisman, Maisonneuve also won Big Ten Player of the Year twice and led Indiana to back-to-back Big Ten Championships.

He finished his IU career with 44 goals and 22 assists for a total of 110 points. During his four-year career IU went 73-15-7.

Those 44 goals rank 10th all-time in IU history, and his 110 points rank 11th.

Maisonneuve never won a College Cup, however.

“The relationships I built with

my team were amazing, and we did some good things,” Maisonneuve said. “But to walk away not having a ring with the group that we had for so many years was tough.”

Maisonneuve did not arrive in Bloomington as a star. That was his friend and current IU Coach Todd Yeagley.

Yeagley scored a team-leading 12 goals and notched 11 assists totaling a team-leading 35 points his freshman season. That performance won him Big Ten Freshman of the Year and the honor of second team All-American.

Maisonneuve scored five goals with two assists during his freshman campaign. Those statistics are not indicative of his final three seasons.

In 1992 Maisonneuve would score a team-leading 12 goals with three assists totaling 27 points, also a team high. Maisonneuve would lead the team in points each of his final three years in Bloomington.

Still, in 1994 when Maisonneuve was named the top collegiate soccer player, he missed the largest award.

He managed to reach the College Cup Final for the first time in his career, but his IU team lost 1-0 against Virginia. *** Nearly two decades after that title game loss, Maisonneuve’s quest ended.

After assistant coaching stints in Bradenton, Fla., with the U17 and U20 National Teams for four years and a two-year stretch with Louisville, Ky., Maisonneuve received a phone call.

The phone call came from Yeagley, who in 2010 had just accepted an offer to become IU’s new head coach after one year at Wisconsin. Yeagley knew he needed to stage a homecoming for an old friend.

“When Todd took the job, he called me up and said, ‘Why don’t

you come back home?’” Maisonneuve said.

Maisonneuve came home and prospered. In their first season coaching together they won the Big Ten Tournament.

That year as well as 2011 IU advanced to the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

Another member of the 1994 team that lost in the finals was Ernie Yarborough. Yarborough was with Yeagley at Wisconsin and when Yeagley returned home, so did Yarborough.

Finally in 2012 the trio finished the job they had started.

“To come back to win it with Todd and Ernie, two of my teammates from ’91-’94, it was special,” Maisonneuve said. “Really special.”

Maisonneuve has not stopped playing. During practices Maisonneuve inserts himself in drills and scrimmages to get a better understanding of how his players play.

“He just makes the game so much easier, just shows you how simple the game can be if you calm down,” IU senior Dylan Lax said.

“Over my five years playing with Maisonneuve he’s allowed me to become a better soccer player.”

IU senior Patrick Doody calls Maisonneuve their best player and wishes he could still suit up for the Hoosiers.

Maisonneuve said being on the field allows him to gain a better understanding of how players play.

“You see things a little different when you’re on the field,” Maisonneuve said. “Sometimes from the sidelines you can see certain things, but ... it’s just different when you’re playing with them.”

Maisonneuve also makes himself readily available for any questions players may have about the international or professional game.

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TOP MATCHUPS IU at Ohio State 2 p.m., Oct. 12, Columbus, Ohio When IU and Ohio State played last season, the Hoosiers won one of their only two conference games in the season, recording a 2-0 shutout. The Buckeyes will be looking for revenge in Columbus.

IU at Wisconsin 8 p.m., Nov. 1, Madison, Wisc.

Of all the conference games IU played last season, none was more high-scoring than its game against Wisconsin. IU lost 4-3 in Madison, Wisc. Will there be offensive fireworks again?

IU vs. Michigan State 6 p.m., Nov. 5, Bloomington It’ll be senior night for the IU men’s soccer team. Four seniors will be honored, including defender Patrick Doody.

The Hoosiers play the Spartans after three consecutive road games. videogame over a decade old, FIFA: Road to World Cup ‘98.

“They said, ‘Coach, your rating isn’t very good and you’ve got a beard and it didn’t look anything like you,’” Maisonneuve said. “I’ve never seen it but my wife wants to get it for my son, which would be pretty comical.”

Playing at practice also allows him to continue playing the game he loves. A privilege nearly taken away from him more than a decade ago.

“My injury was crazy,” Maisonneuve said. “It made me retire five years before I really wanted to, and it kept me out of a lot of good years of really good soccer. But I look back at it and it was probably the situation in which I probably grew the most in life. It just made me see things in different perspectives.”

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Midfielder Bujouves emerges as offensive leader

By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu @Sam_Beishuizen

Entering the season, it was uncertain who might be responsible for leading the IU women’s soccer team’s offense.

Lost to graduation were IU’s two leading goal scorers from 2013, Lisa Nouanesengsy and Rebecca Candler. Junior midfielder Kayleigh Steigerwalt, who was the team’s third-leading scorer last year, was lost to injury before the season even began.

IU Coach Amy Berbary said before the season that someone would need to step up and account for scoring.

Cue junior midfielder Jessie Bujouves.

Bujouves already has five goals through nine games this season. Two of those goals were game-winners.

After a bit of uncertainty about where the goals would be coming from, the Ontario, Canada, native has taken the call.

“She’s definitely stepped up,” senior forward Jordan Woolums said. “I don’t think you can say we were surprised with how well she’s playing, but it’s a good surprise. We knew we were going to get something out of her, but we’re getting a lot out of her, which is exciting.”

Bujouves spent the past summer playing midfielder for the Ottawa Fury club team in Canada.

The Fury play is part of the United Soccer Leagues W-League, the second tier of women’s soccer in the United States and Canada.

Bujouves had the experience of playing alongside the likes of some of Canada’s best players such as Canadian national team member Kadeisha Buchanan.

She said being able to play alongside the professionalquality competition made her a tougher player.

“Even on days that I wasn’t playing, I knew I was going to get tested,” Bujouves said. “Playing with them helped me grow a ton, just being around the team.”

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Junior midfielder Jessie Bujouves dribbles the ball past an opponent during IU’s game against Indiana State on Aug. 22 at Bill Armstrong Stadium.

Berbary said that growth as a player wasn’t solely on the field but in the weight room.

She said Bujouves put emphasis on returning fit and that she returned to camp as strong as Berbary’s seen her.

“After playing with a highlevel Canadian team, she came back a lot stronger,” she said. “She really put her work in the weight room and brought a physicality to her game.”

The other thing working for Bujouves this year has been a welcomed position change.

Last year she played mostly holding midfielder and couldn’t always push the offense with the ball. She said she knew her roll and tried to make the best of the

situations she had.

This year, Berbary gave Bujouves a bit more freedom up top to play closer to the net. She’s taken advantage of that with her team-high five scores and already has a team-high 24 shots, 14 of which have been on goal.

“We put her more on the offensive side of the ball, and she’s done well with it,” Berbary said. “Having her use the freedom to do what she’s good at has helped her. She’s good one v. one. She’s got a knack for getting around the ball and takes advantage.”

Woolums said Bujouves has always been a technical player but that her technicality improved even more so during the summer.

With only seven games left in the regular season to get into the top eight and into

“Even on days that I wasn’t playing, I knew I was going to get tested. Playing with them helped me grow a ton, just being around the team and playing all summer.”

Jessie Bujouves, junior midfielder

the Big Ten Tournament, Bujouves is going to be relied on more to get the offense going.

To Berbary, what Bujouves has been able to do already might be just the beginning.

“We’re excited for what she’s done so far,” Berbary said. “We just need to hope she continues to improve for us.”

TOP MATCHUPS IU at Nebraska 1 p.m. Oct. 19, Lincoln, Neb IU looks to avenge itself after losing to Nebraska twice last season, including in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament. The Huskers outscored IU 6-2 last season.

IU at Purdue 7 p.m. Oct. 25, West Lafayette The Hoosiers will look to retain the Golden Boot traveling trophy once again this season after winning it the previous two seasons. The Boilermakers have a 10-2-2 advantage in the IU-Purdue regular-season series. IU won for the first time at the Boiler Soccer Complex last season and will look to do the same this season.

IU vs. Michigan State 7 p.m. Oct. 31, Bloomington IU’s Big Ten Tournament hopes may be reliant upon its Halloween performance against the Spartans.

Through six games, IU has only three points in Big Ten play.

Only the top eight teams of the Big Ten’s 14 will advance to the Big Ten Tournament, making this game — and the possible three points it holds — potentially a must-win game.

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Carrying the load Hoosier rushers look to change offensive tendencies

By Sam Beishuizen sbeishui@indiana.edu @Sam_Beishuizen

Football has evolved throughout the decades.

Teams are becoming increasingly more pass-oriented. The conventional wisdom of running to set up the pass has been replaced in some offenses by pass-first mindsets based around the quarterback, so much so that quarterbacks have captured 12 of the last 14 Heisman Trophies.

Even six of the last seven quarterbacks to win the Heisman have been dual-threat quarterbacks capable of taking control of the run game.

So when IU decided heading into 2014 that it would put more emphasis on the conventional run game, IU running backs Coach Deland McCullough happily obliged.

“In our room, we always felt like we could do more,” McCullough said. “Being team guys, we’re gonna do what the team needs to do. In this case, if the need is for us to take on a bigger load as running backs, we’ll gladly do that.”

Led by IU Coach Kevin Wilson, the Hoosier offense has been characterized by its high-tempo aerial attack. It’s what opponents have come to expect out of a coach who was responsible for developing 2008 Heisman-winning passer Sam Bradford while coaching at Oklahoma.

Last season, true running backs accounted for 2,059 yards and 19 touchdowns on 317 carries.

This year, in just three games, the Hoosiers’ running backs have accounted for 1,057 yards and 11

touchdowns on 168 carries.

At that pace, IU is well on its way to reaching 3,000 yards on the ground and well past the 19 touchdowns it scored with rushers last season.

Led by junior running back Tevin Coleman, IU has become one of the Big Ten’s strongest rushing teams.

After missing the final three games of last season with injury, Coleman said he returned this season healthier than he’s been.

He was blunt about wanting to become IU’s first 1,000-yard rusher since Levron Williams in 2001.

Throughout the offseason and in the early weeks of the season, IU’s No. 1 back has been in the conversation with Big Ten foes Ameer Abdullah at Nebraska and Melvin Gordon at Wisconsin for the best back in the conference.

Before IU beat Missouri, Coleman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that it was hard to be recognized as a runner at IU, but Wilson said he felt like he was baited into saying that by a reporter.

Coleman didn’t have a comment for the situation, but senior rusher D’Angelo Roberts did. He said Coleman doesn’t need recognition to know where he stands.

“If (the Big Ten) doesn’t want to nominate my little brother with his performances, we can just shock the world with our performance at the end of the season,” Roberts said.

Roberts has combined with freshmen Devine Redding and Myles Graham to compliment Coleman and add variety to the ground attack.

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care of the football,” Wilson said of his rushers. “Tevin’s a special player.

D’Angelo’s a veteran and you don’t see Myles much, but he’s not far behind what you saw from Devine, so it’s kind of a committee.”

Roberts has mostly been a second-option during his time at IU. He consistently served as a rotation player behind Coleman and Stephen Houston but adds a hard-working, experienced rusher to complement the raw talent of Coleman.

Redding came to Bloomington early to work with the team and has caught up to speed quickly enough to get into the rotation as a freshman.

Wilson has said he has been impressed with his ability to transition into the college game so quickly.

Coleman and Roberts both admitted they weren’t expecting to get their names called as often as they have been, but as long as it continues to work, IU will feed them the ball.

McCullough said the running backs have a special bond with one another that’s more like a family than a group of teammates. That’s why Roberts calls Coleman his little brother.

McCullough said it’s that bond and commitment to one another that makes his running backs some of the best in the nation.

“I’ll take the group of guys I have over anybody in the country,” McCullough said. “We’ve got some real good players in our room from No. 1 to No. 8. You’ve got some guys.

“They come in competitive, love each other, love this team and they want to come out and show what they can do.”

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TOP MATCHUPS Oct. 18 vs. Michigan State Last meeting Oct. 12, 2013 (Spartans won 42-28) 2013 record (13-1, 8-0 Big Ten) Big Ten projection 2nd Offense Spartan quarterback Connor Cook has completed 69.2 percent of his pages this season, throwing for nine touchdowns and two interceptions. Six of those touchdowns have been thrown to receiver Tony Lippett, who is averaging 19.1 yards per catch. Running back Jeremy Langford has 340 yards on the ground through four games for the reigning Big Ten Champions.

Defense In four games this season, the Spartan defense has allowed just more than 20 points per game. Excluding a loss to Oregon where the Ducks scored 46 points, the defense is averaging 11.7 points allowed.

Darien Harris leads the team with 15 tackles.

Nov. 1 at Michigan Last meeting Oct. 19, 2013 (Wolverines won 63-47) 2013 record (7-6, 3-5 Big Ten) Big Ten projection 6th Offense Last season, the Wolverines opened their season on a five-game win streak where they were averaging nearly 40 points per game. This year, through five games, they are 2-3 and scoring 22 points per game. Senior quarterback Devin Gardner has thrown five touchdown passes to six interceptions. Running back Derrick Green and wideout Devin Funchess have three scores apiece.

Defense Linebackers Jake Ryan and Joe Bolden have combined for 79 tackles this season. Ryan has had 11- and 13-tackle games and is averaging 8.2 tackles per game.

Nov. 29 vs. Purdue Last meeting Nov. 30, 2013 (Hoosiers won 56-36) 2013 record (1-11, 0-8 Big Ten) Big Ten projection 14th Offense The Boilermakers are scoring 23.8 points per game, their highest point total coming in a 43-34 season-opening win against Western Michigan. Senior running back Raheem Mostert leads the rushing attack for Purdue. He has 293 yards on the ground and one touchdown this season.

Sophomore quarterback Danny Etling has passed for 800 yards and six touchdowns while being picked off five times.

Defense A defense that allowed 38 points per game in a 1-11 season in 2013 is allowing 27.8 this year. That ranks 80th in the country. Safety Landon Feichter leads the Boilermaker defense with 8.8 tackles per game and one interception this season.

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In the seemingly never-ending game of musical chairs that is conference realignment in NCAA Division I athletics, the music stopped July 1 for the Big Ten Conference.

Two schools — the University of Maryland and Rutgers University — entered the fray of the Big Ten, bringing the conference to a total of 14 universities.

“I do believe that together that we’re a conference that now lives in two areas of the country,” Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said at the University of Maryland’s introductory press conference Nov. 19, 2012. “One Midwestern, one mid-Atlantic and that we together have an opportunity to have an impact.”

IU Athletic Director Fred Glass said some traditionalists wished the Big Ten would’ve remained a 10-team conference.

However, in reality, if you’re going to be successful, you have to evolve, he said.

As the conference expands to the East Coast, IU’s athletic programs will have a larger recruiting base and face tougher competition, and the University’s athletic department will make more money than ever before.

“I’m pretty excited about it — just the fact that we have more of a reach — and we’re sort of claiming the East Coast as Big Ten territory, and I’m fine with it,” IU Swimming Coach Ray Looze said.

IU Baseball Coach Chris Lemonis said Maryland and Rutgers strengthen the structure of the Big Ten, which can potentially help keep top Midwest recruits in the region.

He wants them to stay in the conference, which he considers to be one of the best in the country.

“It’s amazing sometimes you’re selling all your competitors, saying ‘Hey man, this is where you need to play,’” Lemonis said. “You’re going to play in Newark, you’re going to play in D.C., you have some neat trips as a studentathlete.”

Arguably the most tangible sign of the expanded talent base is in college basketball recruiting, which is dissected online by recruiting analysts.

The IU men’s basketball program has had its share of recruiting successes from the Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia area.

IU Coach Tom Crean brought former Hoosiers Maurice Creek and Victor Oladipo, as well as current IU players Troy Williams, Stanford Robinson and Robert Johnson to Bloomington from that region.

As the Big Ten grows more formidable through the addition of strong programs, such as Maryland’s preseason No. 1 field hockey team, the conference’s overall strength and the postseason prospects of its teams will improve.

“Our conference, as you’ve seen over the last couple of years, has evolved with getting more teams into the NCAA Tournament, which is the ultimate goal,” IU Women’s Soccer Coach Amy Berbary said. “And adding (Maryland and Rutgers) is just going to make that continue to rise.”

In the same vein, IU baseball may have a better chance to extend its season into the NCAA Tournament after playing tougher competition in the regular season.

Fresh off of a Super Regional appearance in June, Maryland and 15-time NCAA Tournament participant Rutgers will strengthen the overall conference, Lemonis said.

As the Big Ten has grown, so have its revenues.

The growth has been roughly $30.9 million per school this year, according to one future projections document obtained by the Lafayette Journal and Courier last spring through an open records request from Purdue.

Glass called the Big Ten the most well-resourced conference in the country thanks to the Big Ten Network, owned by Fox. While each university receives the same amount of money from the conference, it means more to some schools than others based on the size of their athletic department budgets.

With a $75 million athletic department budget, IU’s roughly $30 million share of Big Ten revenue is probably more important to the University than it is for Ohio State or Michigan, which boast budgets of more than $135 million, Glass said.

“It really makes it possible for us smaller markets, if you will, or less-resourced universities to compete, which is good for us,” he said. “I think it’s ultimately good for the conference as a whole.”

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IU serve styles differ from player to player, gym to gym TOP MATCHUPS

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In volleyball, every play is dependent upon your team.

Nothing is a truly individual action. Everything is determined by your teammates. Every kill, set and dig is based upon what your fellow players did before you.

Except one thing.

The serve.

“You have complete control over the game,” IU Coach Sherry Dunbar-Kruzan said. “It’s the only time where you can do anything you want.”

On the IU volleyball team, each player has a serve that is unique to them. There are several different kinds of serves. Everything from the standing float to the jump serve is used to thwart an opponent. Two examples of serves the IU volleyball team uses are the jump float and the jump serve.

When a player comes into the IU program, Dunbar-Kruzan said she doesn’t change the player’s serve unless it’s not working.

The serve is specific to the individual. Some things work for some players that don’t work for everybody.

Sophomore setter Megan Tallman uses the jump float, while her teammate, sophomore outside hitter Taylor Lebo, uses a jump serve.

“Hers is really flashy,” Tallman said about Lebo’s serve. “Mine gets the job done.”

The jump float is when the player jumps only slightly and attempts to hit a knuckleball of a serve.

It doesn’t travel at a high velocity but rather wobbles and swerves through the air.

The desired outcome of the jump float is to throw the defender off.

A sudden swerve at the end can deter an opponent from hitting the ball just as she wants to.

That last-second swerve alters the pass from the

IU vs. Purdue 7 p.m. Oct. 11, Bloomington In a schedule quirk, the two teams play back-toback matches, two in four days. After traveling to West Lafayette for a Wednesday night showdown, the rivalry comes to Bloomington four days later.

IU vs. Penn State 7 p.m. Oct. 18, Bloomington The Nittany Lions are one of the top teams in the country.

Penn State is the defending national champion for women’s volleyball and has won five of the last seven NCAA titles overall. IU is 1-46 all-time against Penn State.

defender to the setter and in the process messes up the opposing team’s offense.

When Tallman throws the ball up and goes to hit it with her hand, she doesn’t follow through.

She stops moving her hand when it hits the ball, making it float.

“It’s just like a pop,” she said, describing the moment when her hand hits the ball.

The jump serve, on the other hand, has one purpose: get over the net as fast as possible.

Lebo flips the ball up as high as the ceilings of University Gym allow her, jumps and brings her right hand up over her head like a hammer, impacting the ball at the height of her jump in a full swinging arm motion.

When the serve goes right, the ball goes over the net and then the backspin makes the ball dive downward at about 50 miles per

hour.

While the jump float simply tries to disrupt the opponent’s offense, the jump serve is trying to create offense on its own.

“When I serve, I’m trying to get an ace,” Lebo said.

One factor that goes into how a player will approach a serve for the match is what arena they’re playing in.

Depending on the stadium, the ball can either travel farther or shorter.

That’s why, before each game, teams practice serving so they can see how a ball will travel in the stadium.

Tallman said that, especially in bigger arenas, when she hits the ball it goes farther.

“I’m not entirely sure why,” Tallman said. “I can’t really explain to you what happens.”

Dunbar-Kruzan has a theory on why balls float more or less in certain gyms.

IU vs. Minnesota 7 p.m. Oct. 29, Bloomington IU’s game against the Golden Gophers serves as the team’s midway point for the Big Ten regular season. IU Coach Sherry Dunbar-Kruzan said one of the goals of her team is to go .500 in the conference.

Will IU be 5-5 heading into its showdown against the always-strong Gophers?

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Top Sophomore Megan Tallman serves during the Hoosiers’ game against Southeast Missouri State University on Sept. 6 at Assembly Hall.

Bottom Members of IU’s volleyball team huddle before its game against Butler on Sept. 20 at Assembly Hall.

It has to do with the humidity in the gym, she said.

When it’s humid in the gym, it makes the ball heavy, meaning for Tallman and her jump float, the ball wobbles more.

In other gyms, it just feels

like the ball flies farther.

“It definitely takes off on you sometimes,” DunbarKruzan said. “You’re like, ‘Oh, I barely touched that ball and it took off.’”

Gyms aren’t the only thing that determine how a

serve will differ from arena to arena.

The actual balls teams use react differently to different serves.

Nike balls float more, while Adidas balls, which is what IU uses, are more bottom heavy.

When Tallman or Lebo attempt their serves, it’s like nothing else for anyone on the team.

Each quirk in the delivery, or the foot approach, or the hitting motion is special to each player.

“It’s like the baseball player having his own music when he comes up to bat,” she said. “It’s an individual thing.”

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FIELD HOCKEY

Hoosiers eye improvement, aim for NCAA tournament

By Dan Matney cdmatney@indiana.edu

The last time the IU field hockey team appeared in the NCAA tournament was during the 2009 season.

The Hoosiers are hoping to end the five-year dry spell and make it back to the postseason, this time making it further than the team did five years ago.

“This year we have one big focus of making it to the NCAA tournament,” senior midfielder Corrine Karch said. “Last year we didn’t really have one big goal. It has become about us taking steps to get to that goal.”

Senior goalkeeper Maggie Olson said that after spending so much time with the program, she wants to do something special before she departs.

“I want to have the best finish that this program has ever seen,” Olson said. “I want to make it to the NCAA tournament and make this team proud. I’ve given five years to this program, and I want to go out in the best possible way.”

After setting the team’s big-picture goal during the offseason, IU Coach Amy Robertson said the team completely changed its outlook.

“We had to break everything down in order to realize what it is going to take to get there,” Robertson said.

“Regional wins are important and finishing in the top, our region and in the Big Ten are sights we have our eyes on.”

The road to glory won’t be easy for the Hoosiers.

Robertson was forced to replace four key starters — Hannah Boyer, Danielle McNally, Emily Bowker and Mariella Grote — going into the new season.

Robertson said she believes that a fully healthy team will not only help replace those starters, but could actually make the

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Senior midfielder Caitlin Bearish protects the ball in IU’s game against UC Davis on Sept. 6 at the Field Hockey Complex.

team better as a whole.

“We had three good players on the bench last year from injuries in Amanda Bennison, Nicole Volgraf and Brigitta Haller,” she said. “They didn’t play for us last year. We have had a lot of good fortune with our health and we are remaining injury-free, which is huge.

We have a lot more veteran experience than we thought we would.”

It also helps that the team has its leading scorer from last season, senior forward

Audra Heilman, back for one more season.

Heilman scored 32 total points for the Hoosiers last season, including 10 goals.

As of Sept. 20, Heilman leads the team and Big Ten in total points with 22 and also averages the most points per game at 3.67.

The Hoosiers first 6-0 record through six games gives them the best start in the program’s history and the best since 2009, when they won four games to open up the season.

Karch said the hot start doesn’t come as a surprise to the team.

“I knew we could do this well this quickly and it is pretty cool,” Karch said. “The fact that we did it doesn’t shock me. I think this team is really special.”

Although Olson is happy with the start, there are still much bigger things on her, and the team’s, minds.

“The best start in program history is awesome,” she said.

“We’re just after the best finish in IU field hockey history.”

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CROSS-COUNTRY

Men seek to defend Big Ten Title, women look to grow TOP MATCHUPS

By Tori Ziege vziege@indiana.edu | @ToriZiege

At the start of the 2013 Big Ten Championship race, no one was looking at the IU men’s cross-country team.

Coach Ron Helmer knew it, but he said he wasn’t discouraged.

Instead, he designed an entire game plan around it.

“We felt like Michigan was worried about Wisconsin and Wisconsin was worried about Michigan, so we became bystanders watching the race play out in front of us,” Helmer said. “We allowed them to take their shots at one another. Then, at the end of the race, we delivered one of our own. They never saw us coming.”

By the end of the Big Ten Championship, everyone was looking at freshman Jason Crist.

He was the first of four Hoosiers in the top 10 to cross the finish line as he led the team to victory.

It was the first time IU cross-country had won the conference championship in 23 years.

“You take great pride when people execute a race plan,” said Helmer, the 2013 Big Ten Coach of the Year.

“You also take personal pride if the race plan happened to be the right one — and it was. We’d been trying to win a championship for a long time. It was a matter of feeling good about a job well done.”

This season, all eyes will be on the Hoosiers as they try to defend their title.

The team will revisit the scene of their championship win today in West Lafayette at the Indiana Intercollegiate Meet, a statewide competition for schools divisions one through three.

Then, following a trip to Seattle, Wash., in October, the Hoosiers will travel to perennial cross-country powerhouse Wisconsin, who had previously won the Big

Big Ten Championships at Iowa City, Iowa 11:45 a.m. Nov. 2, Iowa City, Iowa The Hoosiers men will look to defend their 2013 Big Ten Championship while the women will look to improve upon their sixth-place showing from last season.

Hoosier Invitational 3:20 p.m. Nov. 7, Bloomington IU will look to pick up right where it left off from the Indiana Open in its second of two home meets of the year.

No team score is taken at the event, but individuals who will not compete at the NCAA Regional meet typically compete.

NCAA championships Noon Nov. 22, Terre Haute IU won’t have to travel far to compete in this year’s NCAA Championships. For a second consecutive year, the meet will be in Terre Haute, Ind. The IU men finished eighth last year while the women finished 26th.

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The men's cross country team runs the opening stretch of the IU cross country course Sept. 7, 2013, during the IU Open Meet. Both the men's and women's teams opened their season with the IU Open, where both teams finished first.

Ten Championship 14 years running.

And you can bet, Helmer said, that the Badgers will be gunning for IU. “It’s probably easier to win (a Big Ten Championship) when no one expects you to win it,” Helmer said.

“I think we’re better, but I’ve said before that whether we win or not has a lot to do with how good the competition is.”

Despite Wisconsin’s reputation, the odds will favor the Cream and Crimson this year.

The team returns all but one of its top-seven runners, redshirt senior Robby

Nierman, from the 2013 season.

In the offseason, IU saw junior Rory Hunter heat up on the track when he won the Big Ten 1500-meter championship.

He continued that elite performance all the way to the national meet, where he placed ninth overall in the 1500-meter run.

Now a senior, Hunter will join other redshirt senior Evan Esselink in leading the team.

“Rory was probably the most successful overall on the track last spring,” Helmer said. “I’ll look to him along with Evan, a fifth-year guy

who ran first for us toward the end of last year, to take charge.”

The seniority Hunter and Esselink bring to the men is lacking on the women’s side.

Due to an early season injury to redshirt senior Kelsey Duerksen, the top group is composed almost entirely of freshmen and sophomores.

But rather than weaken the team’s bond, similarities in age serve to strengthen it, sophomore Chanli Mundy said.

“We’re all very young, so this year is an adventure for us,” Mundy said. “We have a really good bond since we’re all around the same grade.

It helps us work together in practice really well because we are all leading.”

The Hoosiers’ youth will be tested this season. The women’s half of the conference is dominated by nationally ranked opponents, including No. 1 Michigan and No. 2 Michigan State.

IU placed sixth in the women’s Big Ten Championship race in 2013, and, as Helmer put it, the women “could be a lot better and still finish sixth.”

But if the women stay on par with the 2013 season, they will stand to make history once again alongside the men’s team.

Both squads qualified for the national meet for the first time since 2004, finishing eighth in the men’s race and 26th in the women’s race, the team’s highest collective finish in more than 10 years.

And when it comes to this year’s national stage, the men have even higher aspirations.

“Anything less than making the podium at the national meet is going to be a disappointment for us,” Crist said.

But in one aspect, Crist said, the game plan at Nationals is very similar to the men’s 2013 Big Ten Championship winning strategy.

“We keep an eye on those top teams like Oregon, Stanford and Colorado — and they’re good,” he said. “But it’s the same deal as the Big Ten last year: They’re not looking at us, but we’re looking at them.”

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