OREM, Utah-With Utah Valley women’s soccer having commenced fall season practices, head coach Chris Lemay has several stellar veterans he can count on to lead his Wolverines squad.
The season opener is an August 13 exhibition at Idaho State followed by the regular season opener August 17 at California.
To help his squad, Lemay can call upon a pair of redshirt seniors the NCAA granted sixth years of eligibility to in defender Sara Callister of Merced, Calif. and forward Alexis Peterson of Bountiful, Utah, a UNLV transfer.
Additionally, the Wolverines return 12 letterwinners and eight starters from last year’s WAC championship team including first-team All-WAC honoree Hannah Bruce and second-team All-WAC standout Breanna McCarter.
Defending WAC freshman of the year, sophomore Amber Tripp, also returns to the Wolverines’ squad.
The Wolverines have 10 newcomers on the squad, including BYU transfer Brianna Hatch, a redshirt junior out of Gilbert, Ariz.
Lemay has given his squad a solid non-conference slate as in addition to the road match at California, the Wolverines will also travel to Wyoming, San Diego, Cal Poly, Portland, Washington (at Portland, Ore.), Colorado and BYU.
Home matches in non-conference tilts include matchups with Weber State, UNLV and Oklahoma.
