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Great West Conference Women’s Soccer Preseason Poll Announced

The NJIT women's soccer team opens up on Friday (Aug. 17) at Saint Peter's at 4pm
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NEWARK, NJ—The NJIT women's soccer team was selected tied for fourth in the 2012 Great West Conference preseason poll voted on by head coaches around the league Director of Media Relations Jacque Cottrell announced Thursday.

NJIT and Howard each collected 16 points for a fourth-place tie with the Highlanders picking up one first-place vote.

Defending Great West champion Utah Valley enters the 2012 season as the favorite garnering five first-place votes and 34 points in the coaches' poll.  Utah Valley won the inaugural Great West championship in 2009 and captured the regular season and tournament title in 2011.

Houston Baptist, who was the Great West runner-up in 2009 and 2011 and claimed the title in 2010, in-between Utah Valley's crowns, was picked second in the poll with 30 points.

South Carolina State finished third with 21 points and Delaware State rounded out the poll with nine points.

The 2012 Great West Women's Soccer Champion will be determined by a single-round robin.  Utah Valley will host the 2012 tournament at Clyde Field in Orem, Utah.  First round action will be played on November 2, followed by a semifinal matches on November 3.  The Great West Conference champion will be crowned on November 5.

The NJIT women's soccer team will kick off the 2012 season visiting Saint Peter's on Friday, August 17 at 4pm at Joseph J. Jaroschak Field.  In the meeting between NJIT and Saint Peter's last season, the Highlanders came out on top 2-1 on September 23 at home on the game-winner by Megan Dellavalle in the 85th minute.

Second-year head coach Sergio Gonzalez, who returns 12 from last season, has brought in 12 players from six different states, plus Ontario, Canada.  Two players are from New York (one from Long Island and one from upstate near Buffalo) and one each from New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia and from the Midwest in Illinois and Missouri, plus five from Ontario. 


GWC 2012 Preseason Women's Soccer Poll

1. Utah Valley (5)                   34pts

2. Houston Baptist               30pts

3. South Carolina State       21pts

4. NJIT                                    16pts
    Howard                              16 pts

6. Delaware State                  9pts
       
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