Carla Mendez | Staff Writer In their first Conference USA matchup of the year, the FIU women’s soccer team took a 3-1 victory over the UTEP Miners on Sunday, Sep. 17, 2023 at the FIU Soccer Stadium in Miami, Florida. Prior to this match, the Panthers had a scoreless night offensively and took a 1-0 […]
Written by Daniel Torres/Staff Writer Two former Panthers are playing on soccer’s biggest stage, in the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Thaisa Moreno, Brazil’s midfielder, played with the Panthers from 2009 to 2010. On Sunday, June, 9th her team played Jamaica, whose Ashleigh Shim joined the Panthers just a year after Moreno left. Moreno, who […]
“Every single game is a game that you have to battle,” said women’s soccer Head Coach Thomas Chestnutt. That’s the tone of the locker room after the first weekend of Conference-USA matches for the Panthers. Chestnutt’s team began their conference schedule with Old Dominion University and Charlotte University with a respective win and a loss. […]
Who is Ashleigh Shim? Who is the 5-foot-4 Jamaican star who scurries around any soccer field at a pace unlike her adversary? On the surface, she’s the type of player who can lay down amongst thousands of rain drops during pregame warmups and make her own version of a snow angel. She dances, she smiles, […]
The women’s soccer head coach knows the competition will be on a higher level this year, with every game holding its own weight of importance. A mindset coaches have adopted have been to start playing their best soccer come conference play and not before that. The Panthers are 5-4 after their non-conference run, which is […]
The air was heavy with humidity and nothing but a hot breeze to encapsulate the crowd of 187 on Sept. 21, when the Panthers welcomed No. 23 Long Beach State University, a west coast team out of the Big West Conference. West coasts teams have been known to cause problems with their size and quick […]
When a winless team comes to town, immediately people think, “Oh, this is gonna be easy.” Nothing came easy on Sept. 12 against Oregon State University. The physicality peaked for 90 minutes. Head Official Andres Pfeffervon issued five yellow cards and a penalty kick, which was awarded to the University—all the makings of a tug-of-war […]
As each Panther walked onto the field, there wasn’t much dancing compared to the warmups before the FGCU match on Sept. 3. Instead, there was a look of fire in each pair of eyes. Smiles were shone every now and again, but the mission for Friday, Sept. 5 was clear-cut: Win at all costs and […]
The air was rich Tuesday morning with sharp passes, clean tackles and a no-nonsense attitude. Florida Gulf Coast University is in the crosshairs of each Panther and, although the Eagles of FGCU have traditionally had success against FIU (5-1 all-time), the script is ready to be rewritten. “What I learned [in California] is that we’re […]
Fresh off of a 3-0 victory against University of North Florida on Aug. 24, the Panthers look to boast a 2-1 record after Friday night’s match against Santa Clara University in California. FIU has zero history with the Broncos which invites lots of surprises from both teams. If anyone holds a bit of higher ground […]
18-5. No, that’s not the score of Sunday’s victory in Jacksonville, FL, over the University of North Florida. That’s the shot total for each team. A game that would make the musical duo of LMFAO very proud. FIU had 18 shots compared to UNF’s five, due in large part to Scarlet Montoya, redshirt junior midfielder. […]
