athletics

The women’s soccer team won the WUSTL Classic over the weekend with victories over DePauw University 3-2 and and Rhodes College 1-0. The shutout against Rhodes was the third shutout of the season for coach Jim Conlon’s team. Updates also included on football, volleyball and men’s soccer.

The football team posted a 28-10 win at Knox College in its 2011 season opener Sept. 3 at the Knosher Bowl in Galesburg, Ill. Updates included in volleyball, women’s and men’s soccer and cross country.

Both the men’s and women’s swimming teams earned 2010-11 Team Scholar All-America honors from by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA). Updates include preseason polls in women’s soccer, men’s soccer and football, as well as the addition of former Olympian Lori Chalupny to the Bears’ coaching staff.

WUSTL women’s basketball coach Nancy Fahey, who has guided the Bears for 25 seasons and won five national titles, has been chosen for induction into Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Besides Fahey, the Hall of Fame Class of 2012 includes players Nikki McCray, Pam McGee, Inge Nissen, and Dawn Staley, and contributor Robin Roberts. Fahey is the first NCAA Division III player or coach to be chosen for such an honor.

Rising senior Liz Phillips of the women’s track & field team was named a Capital One First-Team Academic All-American June 23. She is the first WUSTL women’s track & field student athlete to garner academic All-America honors since Morgen Leonard-Fleckman received first-team accolades in 2008. Other WUSTL sports updates will be added throughout the month of July, 2011.

WUSTL finished third in the 2010-11 Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Division III standings. The third-place finish is the second-highest in school history and the Bears’ ninth-straight top 10 appearance. Points are awarded based on each institution’s finish in up to 18 sports — nine women’s and nine men’s. Other updates include honors for the women’s track team members Liz Phillips and Taryn Surtees; and the announcement of the freshman football class of 2015.

Junior Dan Davis captured the 110-meter hurdle national championship May 28 to highlight the final day of competition for the men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams at the 2011 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. Other updates: Claire Voris named academic all-American and men’s tennis finishes third in national tournament.

Sports updates for the week of May 16, 2011.

Sports updates for the week of May 9, 2011.

Sports updates for the week of May 2, 2011.