Bulldogs Journey to Central Michigan to Open Common Season

The Butler girls’s soccer crew opens the 2025 common season on the highway. The Bulldogs will face Central Michigan on its campus in Mount Pleasant, Michigan.
 
The Chippewas are coming off a 2024 season through which it produced an general 5-8-5 file, additionally going 3-4-4 within the MAC. The facet picked up wins over Cincinnati, Bowling Green, Northern Illinois, and Purdue Fort Wayne however misplaced to No. 14 Texas, TCU, Kentucky, and Ball State. This would be the first assembly between the 2 packages.
 
Butler at Central Michigan
DATE/TIME:    Thursday, August 14 / 1PM
LOCATION:     Mount Pleasant, Mich. / CMU Soccer Complex
LIVE VIDEO:    Chippewas All-Access
LIVE STATS:   cmuchippewas.com / Sidearm
 
Bulldog Bits

• Three Bulldogs, Talia Sommer, Léa Larouche, and Gemma Gillespie, have been known as as much as compete on the worldwide stage in the course of the offseason.
• Sommer, from Tel Aviv, Israel, is a long-time member of the Israel nationwide crew. She appeared in all six UEFA Nations League contests this spring, scoring her facet’s solely objective within the match vs. Scotland.
• Larouche, from Quebec, Canada, tallied two targets and an help in 4 appearances for Canada on the CONCACAF U-20 Championship. She scored the one objective in Canada’s 1-0 win over the USA within the semifinal, serving to her facet to the general championship.
• Gillespie, a defender from Rolling Meadows, Illinois, made three appearances for the Puerto Rico U-20 nationwide crew on the CONCACAF U-20 Championship.
• The trio of Bulldogs now joins former Butler standouts Paige Monaghan (USA), Serina Kashimoto (Japan), Olivia Colosimo (Canada), Leonie Doege (Germany), and Aliya Diagne (Germany) in representing their respective nation whereas being lively members of the Butler girls’s soccer program.
• The Bulldogs have been chosen by BIG EAST coaches at No. 4 within the BIG EAST Preseason ballot. Georgetown obtained essentially the most factors, together with 10 first-place votes. Xavier was second with one first-place vote, adopted by UConn within the third spot.
• Two Bulldogs, Talia Sommer and Amelie Darey, have been chosen for the Preseason All-BIG EAST Team. Sommer was one in all solely two gamers within the convention to be a unanimous choice.
• Sommer has additionally been named to the United Soccer Coaches 2025 NCAA DI Women’s Midfielders to Watch List.
• Butler is changing 11 gamers from the 2024 roster with one switch (Chloe Brecht, from Pitt) together with eight freshmen.
• 2025 shall be Co-Head Coach Tari St. John‘s twentieth on the helm of the Butler girls’s soccer program. Co-Head Coach Rob Alman begins his 14th.