This year, the match would come with some...."extras". Tanya Zwick Rinebarger, a former Trinity Soccer Hall-of-Famer (is it me or have we been around a lot of Hall-of-Famers lately?!) would return to campus with husband, Trent, and her folks to celebrate her induction into the Trinity University Athletics Hall-of Fame.
Tanya would be joined by a number of her former teammates and their future tiger soccer players, as well as Nick Cowell, former Trinity Women's Soccer Coach, and current coach at St. Edward's. It was fantastic having everyone back to participate in this memorable event. Tanya is the first ever Trinity Soccer Player to enter the Hall-of-Fame.
Trinity player Ally Hunter, the current president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) spear-headed a campus fundraiser with the goal of generating $10,000 to present to a local organization, Texas WINGS. Owen Collie, the women's assistant coach was largely responsible for generating a large amount of money from supporting businesses through his mother (a breast cancer survivor, herself) and father. In the end, during the pre-match ceremony, Trinity University First Lady, Penelope Harley, several SAAC student-athletes and Athletics Director, Bob King, presented checks of $6000 and $12,000 to Susan G. Komen For the Cure and Texas WINGS, respectively. The fundraising went on throughout the weekend, and is expected to total approximately $20,000 on behalf of Trinity University. Well done Ally, to you and your peers!!
Time for Kick-off!!!
The first half of the match was less than inspiring, and really wasn't much to be said for it in either direction. Halftime required some adjustments and recognition of where we needed to adapt our game, and the girls responded...did they ever!!
Stephanie Segovia, our leading goal scorer for the 2011 campaign would bag the first goal of the second half, and the eventual game winner less than two minutes in. Seniors Kelly Watts and Abby Loar would combine for the assist. The lethal connection of
Stephanie and Abby would combine again only a few minutes later, only this time Abby would notch the goal to put Trinity up 2-0. Only three minutes later, Emily Jorgenswould tally her tenth goal of the campaign. The rhythm would settle for a quarter of an hour, but pick back up again in the 71st minute after Shelby Guenthardt would draw some contact in the box and be awarded a penalty, which she would take very well and stretch the lead to four.
To close out the game, Riah Risk would smack a ball that was too heavy for the keeper to handle, splitting her hands and crossing the line, and then less than a minute later, Michelle Lanier would play a great early ball in behind the Rhodes back line for Annie Kendzior to run on to, running the score to 6-0.Saturday on Alumni weekend always means a 10:00 AM alumni game followed by lunch with the current and former players at Bombay's. This Saturday would have a little more to it in that it would be followed by a reception for Tanya. It was great to see the current players getting to know a Trinity Soccer legend as they honored and respected her career.
Sunday would come with torrential downpours and flash flooding in the early hours. Millsaps had made their way down I-35 from Georgetown, and we were not about to allow the wet conditions to put us off our objective. We would get things going early scoring first in the eighth minute and nine more times up until the 89th minute.
Annie Kendzior got the game-winner and completed her hat trick in less than seven and a half minutes. Senior Kristina Chen 
would score in the 20th minute and the 86th minute. Stephanie Segovia scored her 14th, 15th and 16th goals of the season in a hat trick of her own. Riah Risk would have a repeat of her Friday night goal with a shot that overpowered the hands of the goalkeeper in the 49th minute. Shelby Guenthardt would also add to her season total with a goal in the 59th. Hannah Kuhl and Michelle Lanier would each register two assists on the day while seniors Abby Loar and Nikki Blavet would 
provide one apiece. Goalkeepers Katie Garrett, Devan Osegueda and Lauren Goldberg would all three combine for the win.
In all, it was a fantastic weekend. Six more points in conference, celebrating a Tiger legend, and a lot of experience and memories to fill in the gaps. We look forward to seeing the former players again soon, and look forward to another conference match on Friday. See you soon!
Here's a short video our friend, Keaton Davis, put together to commemorate Friday night's match and events...
-LK
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