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IU’s Timmy Mehl stands on the field during overtime of the Hoosiers’ NCAA Tournament loss against Virginia Tech at Bill Armstrong Stadium last season. Mehl has become a dynamic player for the Hoosiers in 2017.

Two-way player Timmy Mehl has become a multifaceted defender Josh Eastern jeastern@umail.iu.edu | @JoshEastern

IU Coach Todd Yeagley labeled it as the game that put IU junior defender Timmy Mehl on the map.

IU senior defender Grant Lillard was unable to play against the Maryland Terrapins in 2016. Lillard picked up a red card in the previous match against the Stanford Cardinal. Yeagley needed someone to fill the void Lillard left.

Mehl happened to be that next man up, even though he had only played in six previous matches at that point.

Against the No. 5 team in the country was his time to step up.

“That was his moment to show that all the things we’ve been seeing in training could translate to the game,” Yeagley said. “In a big game — I thought he was very good in that game.

That gave us the confidence to bring him into the lineup as the year went on.”

From there, Mehl started to get more time on the pitch. He played as a substitute in various other matches, but moved into the starting

lineup Oct. 21, 2016 in a 0-0 draw at Wisconsin.

Mehl replaced a captain in former IU defender Derek Creviston. But credit Mehl — he had an opportunity and ran with it.

Mehl was forced into his first start because of Lillard’s absence. He got to play with him at the end of last season and now into 2017. Yeagley said he has liked how the backline has played with the new addition at right back of sophomore Jordan Kleyn. Mehl and Lillard are forming a formidable test for any attack that comes their way, and Mehl had nothing but praise for his center back counterpart.

“Grant is a very good player,” Mehl said. “He carries himself very well, and he can lead our team very well. I learned a lot in the defensive back position, and going forward, he’s a great player to play with.”

The Terrapins are a team that Yeagley says are one of a few programs that can reload each and every year.

They can bring guys in and use them right away, or develop them and use them when their time comes. Mehl

falls into a bit of the latter of that argument at IU. He redshirted his first year, played six matches in his freshman year and played in 17 matches a season ago with 10 starts.

Now, Mehl is a junior with plenty of starts under his belt.

“With the two of them together, it’s really nice,” Yeagley said. “Timmy’s been playing well and that game we’ll remember as Timmy’s game that stamped him on the map for us.”

Mehl can lock down on defense with the best of them. But there is another part of his game that might set him apart from the rest of the pack.

When the Hoosiers line up for a free kick, you could see a few different players standing over it. It could be the left foot of junior midfielder Trevor Swartz, or it could be the right foot of Mehl.

In the 5-1 win on Sept. 1 over the San Francisco Dons, the right-footer got a chance for a set piece. It was set 25 yards out just a bit left of the center of the goal. Mehl stepped up and buried it. A curler right over the wall and off the hand of the goalkeeper.

“I like to score, and they put me on free kicks finally,” Mehl said. “It’s an op-

The Hoosiers huddle up before a game against Maryland at Bill Armstong Stadium last season.

portunity to score a goal, so I got to do my best.”

That’s one facet.

Another came in the 3-0 win over the South Florida Bulls on Sept. 3. IU junior Andrew Gutman went streaking down the left flank and called for the ball. Mehl recognized it with the ball at his feet about 60 yards away. He let it rip and landed it in stride right on Gutman’s left foot. Gutman called it a “60yard ping.”

There’s another facet.

And of course his day job is being a defender. There are some traits of Mehl’s game that Yeagley says can be next level and continued by saying it can open teams up with how dynamic of a player he can be.

“Timmy has always been one of the better guys that can strike a ball on our team,” Yeagley said. “Partly with him, his first two years much of his evaluation was done on the offensive side, and he’s turned that to where he knows that defensively he needs to be really good and accountable in all areas. I just like that he’s able to switch his gears and know defensively is where he needs to be most accountable.”

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FIELD HOCKEY

Senior forward Maddie Latino runs after the ball against Ball State at the IU Field Hockey Complex on Sunday. Latino scored the game-winning goal in IU’s 2-1 victory over Ball State.

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The IU field hockey team has started out its first 10 games this season with a 5-5 record. While IU sits at .500, the Hoosiers have had a multitude of tough matchups.

So far this season, IU has played ranked teams such as No. 9 Louisville, No. 3 Delaware, No. 15 Wake Forest, No. 9 Maryland, No. 23 Rutgers and No. 25 Monmouth.

Six out of their 10 games have been against teams ranked in the top 25.

Coach Amanda Janney has said multiple times that to become a better pro-

gram she enjoys the challenges of ranked opponents.

Senior goalkeeper Katie Johnson said she is ready to play against the competition in the Big Ten Conference.

“We are really excited to play Big Ten teams,” she said. “We had a lot of nonconference games with teams we haven’t seen a lot of before, and with the Big Ten, we are really familiar with everyone. It’s a lot of physical play, and I think we have a lot of girls, especially in our center-mids with Kelsey (Giese) and Ciara (Giouard), who can take on those big roles and just be a spark for us” The Hoosiers have started out Big Ten

play against Maryland and Rutgers, and they fell to both by a combined score of 5-1.

Sophomore forward Sam Scire said she was looking forward to the upcoming games.

“I know looking ahead, we have both Michigans here, which is pretty exciting to have a back-to-back Big Ten weekend in our home field,” Scire said. “Going on the road to Iowa will be pretty cool, as well.

The Big Ten is one of the top field hockey conferences to play at, one of the top levels that’s offered in America is pretty cool.

The Big Ten is known to be a very aggressive conference, but it really has helped

me to know the game.”

Despite the disappointing start to the season in Big Ten play, the Hoosiers still have six more Big Ten games to play and are looking to make a statement in the second half of the season.

“It is really important for us to try and finish in the top four of the Big Ten and get the opportunity to host the first-round games,” Janney said. “We are playing better hockey every weekend. I think it is not really showing on the scoreboard or in the results columns. A 5-5 record isn’t great, but we are only losing to ranked teams and beating the teams we are supposed to be beating.”

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Football sets offensive tone Hoosiers take improved offense into second top-five matchup of season

By Jake Thomer | @jakethethomer | jjthomer@imail.iu.edu

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Top Freshman running back Morgan Ellison runs the ball against Georgia Southern at Memorial Stadium on Saturday. IU defeated the Eagles, 52-17, to move to 2-1 on the season.

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Middle Sophomore running back Devonte Williams breaks away from the Eagles defense to score a 42-yard touchdown. The Hoosiers won, 52-17.

Bottom J-Shun Harris II returns a punt by the Eagles for a 70-yard touchdown. IU defeated Georgia Southern, 52-17, on Saturday.

ffensive Coordinator Mike DeBord has seen each game this season as its own story.

In a loss to then-No. 2 Ohio State, IU (2-1) and DeBord went pass heavy as senior quarterback Richard Lagow set a school record with 65 pass attempts. In a road win at Virginia, DeBord balanced the run and pass games, and the Hoosiers finally established their ground game with 282 total rushing yards during Saturday's drubbing of Georgia Southern.

“We’re doing different things every week,” DeBord said. “We don’t just say here’s our offense definitively. We game plan every week for what we feel like is best against that defense.”

If IU’s game at No. 4 Penn State (4-0) this weekend is a new story waiting to be written, the premise appears to closely mirror a David-andGoliath situation.

The Nittany Lions have dominated their way to four straight wins by allowing just 33 points all season. IU Coach Tom Allen said he couldn’t think of a better duo in the country right now than Penn State’s senior quarterback Trace McSorley and junior running back Saquon Barkley.

The Hoosiers have played elite competition already this season, and they are confident they’ve learned from it.

“When you play Ohio State, it's week one, and you have a lot of things that you think are a certain way, but you're not really sure,” Allen said. “We're a football team now that has a much better understanding of who we are and where our strengths lie.”

In one game or another, nearly every positional unit has gotten a chance to shine this season for IU. Lagow and freshman quarterback Peyton Ramsey have shown the passing game can be successful, with 802 yards, seven touchdowns and three interceptions between the two this season.

The wideouts, led by junior Simmie Cobbs, have looked equally strong on the receiving end of Lagow and Ramsey’s throws.

Freshman running back Morgan Ellison’s 186 rushing yards against Georgia Southern appeared to answer the final question for IU’s offense after the Hoosier running backs struggled through two games to start the year.

Against Penn State, it will likely take a complete performance for the Hoosiers to pull off an upset and beat the Nittany Lions for the first time since 2013. But DeBord is confident that with each passing week, his team has become increasingly more comfortable with its versatility and the new schemes he introduced when he took over the offense this past offseason.

“Whenever you bring a new system in, your players continue to learn that system,” DeBord said. “I think they’ve got a great grasp of that right now, whereas three or four weeks ago, they were still in the learning process.”

Allen and his defense will be tasked with stopping McSorley (1,037 passing yards and 12 touchdowns) and Barkley (874 yards from scrimmage, six touchdowns), but the Hoosiers could be missing a few key players.

Senior defensive lineman Nate Hoff, sophomore husky Marcelino Ball and sophomore cornerback A’Shon Riggins were all injured against Georgia Southern, and Allen said their statuses are in the air for this weekend. In addition, senior cornerback Rashard Fant missed Saturday’s game and remains questionable for the Penn State matchup.

Regardless of who suits up on defense this weekend, Allen will be looking for his team to replicate the complete performance IU delivered in a 3417 win over Virginia in its only road game so far this season.

DeBord says each game is a different story, but Allen would love for that one in particular to repeat itself.

“We've gone on the road, and we've played well, and we're now expecting to on the road again and play well again,” Allen said. “We have that first road trip under our belt, and we are ready to go attack it again.”

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CROSS-COUNTRY

Veatch looking to be cross-country leader in 2017

By Murphy Wheeler jonmwhee@umail.iu.edu @murph_wheelerIU

Winning the IU Open on Sept. 2 gave sophomore Ben Veatch a sensation he hadn’t felt since his days at Carmel High School. After spending his freshman cross-country season at IU in the shadows of now-graduated stars Jason Crist and Matthew Schwartzer, he took advantage of the opportunity to earn his first collegiate victory right away.

Now he just wants more.

“I want to win the individual Big Ten title and be an All-American,” Veatch said.

“I don’t really focus on that because I know as long as I focus on what we’re doing as a team those individual accolades will come.”

This season is full of things Veatch hasn’t experienced since high school.

With Crist and Schwartzer gone, he’s the leader of the pack for his team once again.

With that distinction comes great expectations, not just from the coaches, but from himself as well.

Big things have been expected of Veatch since his freshman year. He was unanimously voted Big Ten Freshman of the Year in crosscountry and earned secondteam All-Big Ten honors after an eighth-place finish in the conference meet. However, Coach Ron Helmer has seen Veatch’s potential since he recruited him out of high school.

“Ben was running at a pretty elite level in high school so I expected him to come in and help us right away,” Helmer said. “He competed at a really high level last year and he didn’t disappoint.”

Though Veatch’s freshman year had its share of triumphs, it was also a year spent as an apprentice under last year’s seniors to get him

ready for the position he is in now. A year running alongside Crist and Schwartzer, who both qualified for the NCAA Championships in 2016, helped Veatch realize what he has to do to sustain his spot as one of the top competitors in the Big Ten. “I wish they had more eligibility. I would have loved to run with them for a couple more years,” Veatch said.

“Coming into last year I had a lot to learn on how to run in a pack and how to relax during races. They showed me how to do all that and so many more little things that I never thought about before as a runner.”

Even with the success and experience from last year, Helmer wants more from Veatch. He is looking to tap into even more potential that opponents have yet to see.

Improvement from Helmer’s top runners could prove to be monumental for his young team this year, and it starts with training.

“Ben had never trained at this high of a level,” Helmer said. “That’s been the biggest change for him. A year ago, he might have been running 45 to 50 miles a week. He’s now up to 70 a week.”

It’s the team aspect that drives Veatch to get better.

Not only was it a first-place finish for Veatch, it was an eye-opening victory for a young IU team which defeated multiple Big Ten opponents and swept the top-four individual spots.

“The goal is always the same and that’s to win a Big Ten title,” Veatch said. “We have a very young, talented team. We’re looking to do big things and defend our home course at the Big Ten Championship. We’re really excited about it being in Bloomington this year and getting the chance to show everybody what being a Hoosier really means.”

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Sophomore Ben Veatch practices Tuesday afternoon outside Gladstein Fieldhouse. Veatch won the IU Open on Sept. 2 with a time of 24:54.4.

Meets to watch Big Ten Championships, Oct. 29, Bloomington, Indiana It is a momentous year in the Big Ten Championships for the Hoosiers as the event will be hosted at their home course of the IU Championship CrossCountry Course.

There are currently four ranked teams on the men’s side (Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan State and Illinois) and seven ranked teams on the women’s side (Michigan, Penn State, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan State and Ohio State.)

For the men’s team, sophomore Ben Veatch will be looking to build off of his Big Ten Freshman of the Year campaign in which he finished eighth at the championships. The men’s team finished third in the Big Ten last year while the women’s team finished eighth.

Great Lakes Regional Championships, Nov. 10, Terre Haute, Indiana How well the men’s and women’s teams finish in their Regional Championships will go a long way in securing an NCAA berth at the end of the year.

According to the most recent coaches poll, the men’s team is currently ranked second in the region just behind Wisconsin and the women’s team is ranked third behind Michigan and Notre Dame.

Last season, the men’s team finished third behind stellar performances from the now-graduated Jason Crist and Matthew Schwartzer, while the women’s team finished ninth behind a third-place individual finish from Katherine Receveur who will return looking for more this season.

NCAA Championships, Nov. 18, Louisville, Kentucky Neither the men’s team nor the women’s team qualified as a team last year for the NCAA Championships, but IU did have three individual qualifiers that competed.

Crist and Schwartzer, the two qualifiers on the men’s side,have both graduated but Receveur returns for the women’s team after finishing 11th in last year’s race and earning All-American honors.

Her finish in last year’s race was the best finish by an IU runner since 1989.

Both teams look like they have a good shot of qualifying this year as they both continue to climb up the national rankings in recent polls. The women punched in at a program-high No. 14 and the men at No. 27 for Sept. 26.

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FOOTBALL

Fred Glass’ football vision comes to life Cameron Drummond cpdrummo@iu.edu | @cdrummond97

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Top IU Athletics Director Fred Glass meets with the news media Aug. 21 at Memorial Stadium. Glass talked about the progress of the new IU Excellence Center in the stadium’s south end zone.

Bottom The Excellence Academy is under construction and will still be under construction during the 2017 football season. The construction will be visible during games, and IU Athletics Director Fred Glass said he likes to show the progress of the project.

As the IU Excellence Academy rises from a construction site in the South end zone of Memorial Stadium, IU Athletic Director Fred Glass cannot help but talk.

Wearing an IU-branded hard hat and standing just in front of the South end zone on the Memorial Stadium turf, Glass talks about the numerous amenities the new facility will have.

Rehabilitation pools, a wellness clinic, a nutrition center and a career counseling center are all a part of Glass' vision.

"It's important that Indiana University has a football program worthy of our brand of being excellent," Glass said. "More importantly, have a football program worthy of having the respect of Indiana University and our fans."

The renovations at Memorial Stadium during the past year have included not only the IU Excellence Academy project, but also the installation of a new scoreboard above the north end zone.

Measuring 20 feet by 68 feet and coming at a cost of $500,000, the scoreboard is a significant upgrade from what the stadium had as recently as last season - a scoreboard that only displayed the score of each team and the time remaining in the game.

Scheduled to be completed in 2018, the South end zone will also house a brandnew scoreboard.

The upgrades come at a

time when IU football is receiving national attention, an opportunity Glass is hoping to capitalize on.

"Whether it's fair or not, it disproportionately reflects on your institution," Glass said. "So, we're going to continue to do everything we can to support the resurgence of IU football."

While two football head coaching changes have occurred during Glass' time as Athletic Director, his presence has also brought stability to the program.

Consecutive bowl game appearances in 2015 and 2016, 12 NFL Draft picks and five Old Oaken Bucket victories against Purdue have been achieved under Glass' watch.

The Memorial Stadium project isn't the first time an IU Athletics facility has been remodeled with Glass in charge.

Recent years have seen Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall undergo a $45 million facelift, while a new $17 million volleyball and wrestling arena is under construction next to Cook Hall.

Glass has said IU has fallen behind when it came to its athletic facilities, and he said he hoped to close that gap during his time as the athletic director.

"We get a lot of pro scouts and coaches and others from other teams that say, 'You're the best-kept secret in college football,'" Glass said. "I look forward to when we are not the best-kept secret in college football. I think everything is in place for us to break through."

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Junior defender Timmy Mehl kicks the ball against Michigan on Sept. 13 at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Mehl and the Hoosiers have been stout defensively this season.

Thou shalt not score Stout defense gives men’s soccer championship aspirations

By Josh Eastern jeastern@umail.iu.edu | @JoshEastern

Since “The Godfather” Jerry Yeagley started the IU men’s soccer program in 1973, the Hoosiers have seen 40 All-Americans take to the pitch in cream and crimson.

Of those 40 players, 11 have been defenders. It may seem like a smaller number at just over 25 percent, but winning eight national championships doesn’t happen without stout defense.

It may not have necessarily been the identity of every IU team in the past. However in 2017, led by another All-American in senior defender Grant Lillard, the Hoosier defense is the heart of the team.

“I think team defensively, it’s always a strength,” IU Coach Todd Yeagley said. “We work on it. Our shape is good. We make it predictable for the players around us. Our principles are excellent, and we have really good defenders in back half of the field.”

This season, the backline could be one of the best in the country. The Hoosiers return three starters from a season ago in junior Andrew Gutman at left back and junior center back Timmy Mehl, along with Lillard.

A season ago, IU still featured one of the best backlines in the country as it allowed just 16 goals in 21 games while posting 11 clean sheets.

They were a tough group to break down.

Before this season, the only hole was at right back vacated by Billy McConnell due to graduation. McConnell was a player who consistently gave the Hoosiers good minutes on the pitch throughout his four years in Bloomington. The guy to step up has been sophomore Jordan Kleyn. He seamlessly slotted in from the beginning of the season and the backline hasn’t missed a beat.

However, Kleyn was injured in the Michigan game, but shouldn’t be out an extended period of time. He redshirted last season after starting as an attacking player.

“At first it was a little nerve-racking because you have Grant Lillard, preseason All-American, and Gutman being second All-Big Ten last year and then Timmy getting big-

Of the 40 Hoosiers who were All-Americans,

11 were defenders. time minutes last year,” Kleyn said.

“Knowing that I have those guys around me gives me confidence to do my role well and knowing that I have them to communicate and knowing that if I do make a mistake, I can count on them to recover, help me out.”

A player who experienced a similar role to Kleyn was Mehl a season ago. He was the new guy last year to step into the squad, and he’s been able to help Kleyn along the way.

It’s a group that has been able to build chemistry over the course of the season. That’s an important thing for a defense.

“If they’re locked in and focused like they are 99 percent of the time, I’m very confident,” Yeagley said.

“That’s why we’ve only given up a few goals. More importantly, we’ve given up few chances.”

Teams have mostly been ineffective at putting shots on goal against the Hoosiers this season. Against, then-No. 3 Maryland, IU did not allow a shot on goal. They went nearly 207 minutes of game time and three matches, from the South Florida match to the Michigan match, without allowing a shot on goal.

To start the season, the Hoosiers went 211 minutes without allowing a goal. They finally cracked in the 21st minute of the 5-1 win over San Fran-

cisco. This defense could be on a historic pace, but Yeagley isn’t necessarily looking at the balls that cross the white line.

“I think goals can come and you can’t always look at the number because there might a glory goal or an ugly goal, it happens, it’s part of the game,” Yeagley said. “To me it’s the chances given up and the goals itself, if you look at those two separately, but then together, I think we are doing well.”

Since last season, the leadership of the backline on the field has come from Lillard. He is the All-American and the true leader of the group. Off the field last year, it may have been former defender Derek Creviston, but the torch has been passed to Lillard. He was named a captain this season for the Hoosiers and said he has hoped to become the captain of the squad since his freshman year.

Now as a senior, Lillard has the opportunity to lead this defense.

Leading the defense could mean carrying the team to its best finish since the 2012 season.

The NCAA Tournament Round of 16 is the farthest IU has gone since 2012.

That quest for a ninth title seems within reach in 2017. It’s the last call for Lillard to take the Hoosiers to where they want to go. His goals for

the season were pretty cut and dry when asked before the first match in August.

“I want to win a Big Ten regular season championship, I want to win a Big Ten Tournament championship and I want to win a national championship,” Lillard said.

He continued by saying he is putting a bit more pressure on himself this season being his last to lead the defense.

“I take pride in that every single year,” Lillard said. “This year is going to be nice, we’re much more dynamic team going forward. We have a lot of guys that play different roles that we haven’t had in the past, so I’m hoping for a good year this year.”

Alongside Lillard on the left is Gutman. The junior was named to the All-Big Ten second team in 2016 and has made strides in many facets coming into 2017. His final ball in the final third has improved, his shot on goal has been special to watch, and he fits the system IU wants to play to a tee. As a full back, he gets up the flanks and into attacking positions, causing havoc for defenders.

Through Sept. 22, Gutman has three goals, which is tied for the team lead. In 2016, he had just one goal on over 40 shots. It’s been a change in mindset for Gutman, but also a lot of hard work honing in on some skills that would make him a more dangerous player. People are noticing.

“I think this summer I really worked on keeping the ball on frame and just working hard,” Gutman said.

“Last year I created a lot of offense, but it wasn’t smart offense. It was just using my pace. This year I feel like I’m a lot smarter with the ball, I’m sharing the ball better.”

A reason why the defense has been as successful as they have is partly due to the experience this group has. Gutman, Lillard and Mehl have all played in big matches for the IU defense. However, after last season, both goalkeepers Christian Lomeli and Colin Webb graduated.

There was some uncertainty as to who would be the goalkeeper this year, but that was quickly solved.

IU freshman goalkeeper Trey Muse was a late signee to the IU freshman class. He signed during the SEE DEFENSE, PAGE 11

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COLUMN

FOOTBALL

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Junior quarterback Richard Lagow attempts a pass during IU’s game against Rutgers in November 2016.

Lagow's job could be up for grabs this fall, with several contenders eager to take the starting quarterback position.

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Redshirt sophomore quarterback Peyton Ramsey runs the ball during the 2017 IU spring game. Ramsey came off the bench to lead the IU offense in a 34-17 win at Virginia in the second week of the 2017 season.

QB controversy Coach Tom Allen will have to pick between a freshman and a senior

T

he IU offense has an identity problem.

Heading into Big Ten conference play, IU will continue to play two quarterbacks. Both senior Richard Lagow and redshirt freshman Peyton Ramsey should see snaps at quarterback in conference games.

That’s fine, for now.

Having two quarterbacks play significant snaps for the entire season is an untenable situation moving forward.

Quarterback is not a position where you want to have a rotation. It’s the most important position on the field because the quarterback has complete control of the offense. That is hard to do when you have to worry about being removed from the game and replaced with another quarterback.

However, it can work in selected spurts.

“It’s kind of a 1-2 punch,” Ramsey said. “Defenses, they have to prepare for different things from both of us. It is beneficial that we both have different styles of play.”

Lagow and Ramsey are completely opposite quarterbacks. Lagow is a traditional dropback passer who struggles to be consistently accurate. He was pulled in the middle of the Virginia game in favor of Ramsey, who sparked the Hoosier offense.

His biggest weaknesses are Ramsey’s strengths.

Ramsey is the running threat that IU desperately needs from the quarterback position.

IU’s rushing attack struggled mightily in the Ohio State game, running for

just 17 yards.

Per Football Study Hall, IU has the 122nd-ranked rushing success rate in the country, prior to playing Georgia Southern. While that is heavily weighed down by the Ohio State game, IU does have a rushing problem that Ramsey could help rectify.

IU Coach Tom Allen had high praise for Ramsey.

“I think he's just kind of taking off where he left the game and brought that into the game against Virginia and played well,” Allen said.

“But I've seen him do it a lot in practice.”

Ramsey has the talent and the moxie to be a starting quarterback for IU sometime in his career.

Lagow is still the starting quarterback for IU. It’s been

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his job to lose, and all offseason, we have heard how improved and confident he is.

In the coming weeks, he needs to show that his growth is real, especially with Ramsey waiting in the wings. The two quarterbacks are different enough that it still makes sense to integrate them both into the offense.

Ramsey is the wild card.

His running ability is a potential game changer for IU and can be a boost to the offense all season long.

Lagow and Ramsey have the potential to lead IU to success this season.

IU just has to pick one to win.

CROSS-COUNTRY

IU cross-country picks up two victories at IU Open

By Murphy Wheeler jonmwhee@indiana.edu @murph_wheelerIU

Spectators saw a lot of red jerseys at the IU Championship Cross-Country Course for the IU Open on Sept. 2.

Along with IU’s cream and crimson, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Miami (Ohio) all displayed different shades of red during the meet.

IU's opponents also saw a sea of red as the Hoosiers and Coach Ron Helmer utilized a pack mentality during the race. Staying in groups and working together ended up being a successful strategy for both the men's and women's teams, as each team ran away with big season-opening victories.

“I thought everybody did a great job of executing what we asked them to do,” Helmer said. “When you work together, you make each other better. To have the team you want to have, you have to make each other better, and it’s good to do that in the first race of year.”

In the men’s 8K, IU dominated by having its runners stick together in a group early on. The Hoosiers finished with the top four individuals and a team score of 21. Minnesota and Miami were the next closest with 50 and 60 points.

Sophomore Ben Veatch

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IU women’s cross-country team members round a corner of the 5K course at the IU Open in September. Both the men's and women's teams won the season-opening IU Open.

led the way and won the meet with a time of 24:54.4, while sophomore Kyle Mau, junior Kyle Burks and freshman Cooper Williams rounded out the top four. Junior Joe Murphy finished up the scoring with an 11th place finish.

“This was a much different race than last year," Williams said. "We had some really good schools from the Big Ten show up so I was coming in expecting it to be a much faster race, and it definitely was. I don’t know if I came in expecting us to get

the top four spots, but it was a nice surprise.”

Helmer was impressed with the men’s team as well.

With a longer race that develops slower than the women’s contest, it was even more important to stick to his group strategy.

“I always say the men’s race is kind of a thing of art,” Helmer said. “Sometimes the women’s race will go by with a blur, so it’s kind of a beautiful thing to watch people work together and work their way up like we did today.”

In the women's 5K, although the Hoosiers were a bit more spread out compared to their male counterparts, they were still able to hold on to a victory. IU finished with 40 points, holding off Minnesota with 51 and Ohio State with 62.

Juniors Maggie Allen and Brenna Calder were the standouts for the Hoosiers with second and third-place finishes.

Allen ran a time of 17:40.9 and was just edged out by Wisconsin’s Amy Davis, who

ran a time of 17:39.9, for the top individual spot. Sophomore Lexa Barrott finished eighth, junior Haley Harris finished ninth and sophomore Kelsey Harris ended up 18th to complete the scoring for IU. “Before the race, Coach Helmer told us this is our home course, and we should know that it’s one where if we let a pack get ahead of us late, it will come back to hurt us,” Barrott said. “Through the first 2K, we were just kind of sitting back and waiting. By

the end, we were all able to close hard and catch most of the girls that were ahead of us.”

For Helmer, the women’s race exemplified how well each team executed its strategies during the first race of the year.

“I thought they executed really well," Helmer said. "We wanted to be conservative early on and run in groups as much as we could, and they did a really nice job of working together. They all timed out when they raced to the end, and they actually executed much better than I even expected for the first time out this year.”

IU was also short-handed for the meet, as junior Katherine Receveur and sophomore Bryce Millar both sat out the meet for training purposes.

Although Helmer said the two wins were nice, Helmer still stressed the real importance of the race, which was training for later meets in the season against Big Ten opposition.

“We realize some teams are coming back from camp and didn’t run their best runners,” Helmer said. “What we’re going to get excited about is the way our kids executed and the times they ran.

I think we have the potential to be a really solid team that can mix it up with great teams.”

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VOLLEYBALL

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Sophomore Kendall Beerman dives to return the ball as teammates Meaghan Koors and Bayli Lebo move forward to support her. IU won its game against Florida Gulf Coast on Saturday.

IU volleyball seeks success in Big Ten play Dylan Wallace dswallac@umail.iu.edu | @Dwall_1

The Big Ten Conference is known to be an elite conference in many NCAA sports.

But for volleyball, the Big Ten is a whole new level of talent. There are six teams currently ranked in the American Volleyball Coaches Association top 25 poll, and three other teams are knocking on the door to join that group.

The Big Ten has the Nos. 1, 2, 5, 13, 14 and 20 team in the nation, while IU is unranked.

That’s why IU has started the conference season 0-2, with two three-set losses to Illinois and Maryland, two of the three teams receiving votes for the top 25.

Last year, the Hoosiers went 6-14 in conference play for the third-straight season.

IU hasn’t had more than six wins in conference play since 2010.

The road this year, like in years past, isn’t going to get easier.

But this is one of the more talented teams IU has had in the last couple of years. The Hoosiers are young and deep.

IU’s roster contains 11 underclassmen out of 16 total players, with only one senior on the team.

“We love volleyball and we have a lot of passion for it,” sophomore setter Victoria Brisack said. “We are motivated and in practice we get better every single day, which I don’t think all teams can say.”

The team motto this year is “release

the venom,” based on the ideology of baby snakes and their lack of maturity.

It is believed that when a baby snake strikes, it can’t control how much venom it releases onto its prey. Therefore due to IU’s youth, the team just wants to go out there and wreak havoc on its opponents.

“We are simplifying things, that’s the training method we’ve found to work for a young team,” IU Coach Sherry Dunbar-Kruzan said. “The more we simplify things, the way better they process it and maintain it.”

Like most things, there are positives and negatives about having a young team.

“They’ve never played any of these teams before, so they don’t know how good any of them are,” Dunbar-Kruzan said. “I’d rather have them just look at

it as another opponent and step on the court and release that venom and just go for it.”

That’s a good mentality to have, especially when going up against the powerhouse teams that the Big Ten has to offer.

Key matchups to look forward to for the Hoosiers are Sept. 27 and 30, when they play No. 20 Purdue, first in West Lafayette, Indiana, and then in Bloomington.

Oct. 21, IU will play No. 2 Penn State at home, and Nov. 11 the Hoosiers will take on the No. 1 team in the country, Minnesota, at home.

The youth and depth of the Hoosiers will look to take the Big Ten Conference by storm this year and obtain a winning conference record, something the team hasn’t done since 1999.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

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Freshman goalie Bethany Kopel graduated high school early to join the Hoosiers for the 2017 season. Kopel has started in every game so far this season.

Freshman women’s soccer goalie on a mission Phillip Steinmetz psteinme@umail.iu.edu @PhillipHoosier

Freshman Bethany Kopel has been on a mission since she was 8 years old.

She was forced to be the starting goalkeeper for her youth soccer team because no one else knew how to catch a ball.

Even though it was 10 years ago, she still gets excited talking about it. It was the first time she played goalkeeper, and from there, she picked up the position full-time at age 12.

“I prefer playing defense,” Kopel said. “But every time that I was put on the field when I was younger, they’d throw me at forward because I’m not that great at defending people.

But for some reason I’m actually good at shooting, too.”

It’s rare to see freshmen start for their varsity high school team, but Kopel was granted the opportunity to start at goalkeeper for Novi High School in Novi, Michigan, from day one.

She didn’t waste her opportunity, as she posted a record of 14-4-2 and recorded nine career shutouts for her career as a Wildcat.

According to the NCAA website, only 2.4 percent of high school girls soccer players will participate at the Division I level.

Kopel made sure that she was a part of that percentage when she signed with IU on Oct. 18, 2016, as the first signee of the Hoosiers’ 2017

recruiting class.

With her letter of intent came a sacrifice. Kopel decided to enroll early in the spring at IU to begin working to earn a starting position.

She was forced to miss normal senior-year high school traditions like prom, but as a result she had more time to adjust to college life before her first soccer season as a Hoosier.

“Bethany has been huge for us, but a lot of it is to her credit,” IU Coach Amy Berbary said. “She came here early. She made a sacrifice to graduate early. She took this past summer and used every moment to get herself prepared for a chance to win the starting spot and credit to her that she did.”

Coming into the spring, Kopel knew she had to compete for her spot and prove her worth, but she was confident that if she worked hard enough, she would earn a starting position.

On Aug. 18, Kopel was given the nod to be the goalkeeper against Cal Poly in her first collegiate match, and she earned the win as IU defeated the Mustangs, 3-1.

“I was surprised that I was starting at first, but I knew that I just needed to focus for the game,” Kopel said. “I already played a couple games through the spring, so I knew that it wasn’t going to be much of a difference.”

After the first game, IU knew it had its goalkeeper of

the future. Sergio Gonzalez, associate head coach and goalkeeper coach, said he has already begun to recognize how special Kopel is.

Calmness and preparation gave her opportunities to succeed early on, he said.

“If games are tight or if teams are putting us under a lot of pressure, she remains calm and is able to organize the players in front of her, which I think gives them a sense of calmness, and I think it just helps the team from top to bottom,” Gonzalez said.

Kopel has been quick to make a name for herself as one of two freshman starting goalkeepers in the Big Ten. She currently sits at third in the conference with 51 saves and is tied for sixth in the Big Ten in total shutouts with four.

Her first career shutout couldn’t have come at a better time. In her first trip back to her home state of Michigan as a Hoosier, she recorded three saves to help secure a 4-0 victory at Western Michigan.

Kopel went on to record three more shutouts in five games, which included a shutout of then-No. 23 Southern Methodist University and IU’s first conference game against Michigan State.

“She’s playing like you’d never know that she was a freshman back there,” Berbary said. “She has the confidence, she has such a presence and such a good

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Games to watch IU women’s soccer has already played a difficult nonconference schedule that featured five road games and a ranked win against Southern Methodist University. Through three games of Big Ten Conference play, the Hoosiers are currently tied for eighth in the conference with defending Big Ten champion Minnesota.

The top eight Big Ten teams advance to play in the Big Ten Tournament on Oct. 29.

1 p.m., Oct. 1, Bill Armstrong Stadium, IU vs. Illinois This match will end a three-game homestand for the Hoosiers. Illinois allows an average of two goals per game, so it could be used for a momentum boost for IU heading into tougher opponents. If IU wants to make the Big Ten Tournament, it will have to take care of business at home against Illinois.

opponent and could be the highest ranked team the Hoosiers play all season.

Wisconsin already has a top-three win under its belt against Virginia. Wisconsin only averages 1.60 goals per game, with most of them coming in the second half.

Sophomore forward Dani Rhodes leads the team with six goals. The Badgers have only lost one home game, but if IU can get on the board early, the Hoosier defense could help pull an upset victory.

5 p.m., Oct. 21, Bill Armstrong Stadium, IU vs. Rutgers IU’s senior night will come against Rutgers, a team the Hoosiers came from 2-0 down against to draw 2-2 last season. Rutgers has yet to lose a game in 2017 and has 10 different goal scorers. The defensive play of the Scarlet Knights has been the key to their success. They’ve yet to allow a goal all season and should pose a stern matchup for the IU offense.

2 p.m., Oct. 8, Dan McClimon Memorial Track/ Soccer Complex, IU at Wisconsin The Badgers are a top-10

12 p.m., Oct. 15, Bill Armstrong Stadium, IU vs. Nebraska Nebraska isn’t a ranked opponent, but it is receiving votes in the latest United Soccer Coaches Poll, and beating Nebraska would be a quality win for the Hoosiers at home. They’ve only allowed six goals this season and are led by senior midfielder Haley Hanson and sophomore forward Elyse Huber. When the Cornhuskers come to Bill Armstrong Stadium, it’ll be their fourth game on the road in a six-game span.

7 p.m., Oct. 25, Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium, IU at Ohio State Ohio State is receiving votes in the United Soccer Coaches Poll and is led by two senior forwards, Sammy Edwards and Eleanor Gabriel.

IU won’t be given any easy opportunities as the most goals the Buckeyes have allowed this season is two.

Ohio State will be coming off a three-game road stretch looking for a home victory to finish the season. IU’s hopes for a Big Ten Tournament bid could very well be determined by this game.

voice, and our backline has confidence, really our whole team has confidence in her.

I really can’t say enough about her, and she continues to get better every week.”

Kopel will have her hands full going forward with the remaining Big Ten

schedule with the likes of Rutgers, Wisconsin and Nebraska all coming up.

If IU hopes to fight for one of the eight spots in the Big Ten Tournament, Kopel will play a major part in it.

“I think it’s in her hands,” Berbary said. “She has all

the resources at her fingertips, and as she continues to work, she says that she’s on a mission and that she’s taking everyone with her. She said that at the beginning of the year, and I think that she’s really embraced that statement.”

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» DEFENSE

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 summer and seemed like a bit of an afterthought in the preseason.

IU sophomore Sean Caulfield and freshman Jacob Gruber were the only keepers who got time during the three preseason matches.

Caulfield also impressed during the spring season. Then, almost out of nowhere, Muse was named as the starter for game one against Cal Poly.

Muse has come in and hasn’t given Yeagley a reason to take him out. The freshman has spent some time with the U.S. U-18 Men’s National Team along with playing with the Seattle Sounders Academy. Yeagley has said Muse has good maturity about him and that is helping the rest of the defensive unit.

“It was a tough decision, and that’s a good thing,” Yeagley said. “I thought Trey’s game management was really good, he has a good feel for that. I think being in the professional environment that he was in, in regards to watching and seeing Seattle and training in that environment, has pushed him.”

The saying is, “defense wins championships.” With the backline IU puts on the pitch, it should come as no surprise they are right in the thick of things when it comes to NCAA favorites.

The Hoosiers will be tested throughout October and into the postseason.

Yeagley says they make it hard for teams to get good opportunities, and they take pride in that. If the defense plays like they have of late, led by Lillard, the Hoosiers could find themselves in Philadelphia come time for the College Cup in December.

“It starts in the front, we have great team defending,” Lillard said. “Everyone has good principles, we know what we’re doing defensively, we have a lot of experienced guys from the backline, midfield and we work well together. We compliment each other well with our strengths.”

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MEN’S SOCCER

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Austin Panchot, Trevor Swartz and A.J. Palazzolo celebrate a Hoosier win against Northwestern during the 2016 season. Swartz, a junior midfielder, is expected to assume an expanded role with the Hoosiers in 2017.

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his season when IU takes the field, there will be a new No. 10 on the T roster and a new No. 10 on the field.

IU freshman forward Justin Rennicks is the new No. 10 on the roster. But on the field, that No. 10 position will be played by a guy who knows the former No. 10, in both facets, very well.

The former No. 10 is midfielder Tanner Thompson, who now plays for the Indy Eleven of the North American Soccer League. Taking Thompson’s now-vacant position on the field will be IU junior midfielder Trevor Swartz.

“I actually grew up with Tanner since I was about 9 years old, so there’s no pressure,” Swartz said on taking over for Thompson. “He’s been really supportive when I talk to him. He’s been helping me watch game film and stuff like that.”

Both Swartz and Thompson are California kids. Swartz hails from Cameron Park, California, while Thompson is from Loom-

is, California. Google Maps puts it at about a 37-minute drive between the two cities, but that depends on California traffic.

Thompson left the Hoosiers after graduating this past year. He accounted for eight goals and three assists a season ago and was the heart and soul of IU’s attack in the midfield. He pulled the strings and guided the Hoosiers' offensive attack.

The Indy Eleven midfielder said Swartz was someone he recommended IU Coach Todd Yeagley recruit out of high school.

Now that Swartz takes over the position Thompson vacates, it seems like the advice was well taken.

“He is very versatile and can play anywhere on the field,” Thompson said via Twitter message. “He has found a good spot at the 10 role, and I think he'll be successful in leading the attack from that position.”

Yeagley made no qualms about it. He said it’s a big role that Swartz is taking over.

“Tanner’s been our go-to player and our attacking quarterback,” Yeagley said.

“The nice thing about Trevor is he’s always

been tactically one of our better players.

He’s been a great understudy for Tanner and he’s played a lot of roles. Because of that, he has a good feel for a lot of our attacking movement.”

Swartz comes off a sophomore season in which he was second on the team in goal scoring, with five goals, and tied with Thompson with three assists. Though, with Thompson playing in the center of the pitch, Swartz was pushed to the No. 8 role.

For Swartz, transitioning to the No. 10 role will bring on a bit more responsibility. Yeagley talked about Swartz being a good leader on the team even though he isn’t one of the three captains. He has the chance to be a big playmaker for the Hoosiers this season. Yeagley also mentioned he’ll be a bit closer to goal this year, which could spike his goal total.

“It’s definitely been a good transition coming from playing the eight last year to the 10 role,” Swartz said. “It’s definitely been smooth and I’m still learning a little bit, but I have a good grasp for it.”

Even with Thompson gone from IU,

the two midfielders still talk, and there’s a good chance they’ll talk again very soon.

In California, only a few miles separated them. The same holds true today, with Thompson up the road from Bloomington in Indianapolis.

Thompson said he is confident in the ability Swartz brings to the Hoosiers with the enhanced role on the pitch.

“He has a good concept of the defensive roles of that position as well, so it's shaping up well for him,” Thompson said. “Expect him to be on the stat sheet more this year after working really hard to come off a disappointing injury to end last season" The Hoosiers will be looking to Swartz to pull the strings this year in the midfield.

He’ll have playmakers around him to help ease the burden on himself, but according to Yeagley, Swartz should be able to take on whatever they throw his way.

“Anything we give Trevor he can accommodate and do so,” Yeagley said. “He’s a different type of player than Tanner, but effective in different ways. We’re excited to see what he can do for the group.”

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