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The Maneater

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The Maneater

The Student Newspaper of the University of Missouri

The Maneater

Missouri sees offensive improvement after early season struggles

Missouri sees offensive improvement after early season struggles

Tyler Kraft October 14, 2015

Two weeks ago, the Missouri soccer team was in dire straits. The team had just come off being shut out in two straight games and were heading to Lexington, Kentucky to face the for a Southeastern Conference...

Rachel Hignett diversifies Mizzou soccer as the lone international player

Rachel Hignett diversifies Mizzou soccer as the lone international player

Tyler Kraft October 7, 2015

The first time Missouri coach Bryan Blitz saw junior midfielder Rachel Hignett, she was dominating the player that Blitz was supposed to be recruiting. At the time, Blitz was looking into recruiting an...

Missouri soccer comes from behind to top Ole Miss 2-1

Tyler Kraft October 2, 2015

In what turned out to be the coldest game of the season so far, Missouri soccer needed a little while to warm up for their Friday night match against Mississippi at Audrey J. Walton Stadium. In what turned...

Savannah Trujillo takes over role as Tigers’ leading scorer

Tyler Kraft September 29, 2015

At a glance, sophomore forward Savannah Trujillo does not look like the player who would be leading Missouri in scoring halfway through the 2015 season. Trujillo is listed on the roster at 5-foot-3-inches...

Missouri offense finds rhythm in upset over No. 22 Kentucky

Tyler Kraft September 26, 2015

The Missouri soccer team must have been tired of hearing about their scoring woes when they walked into Lexington, Kentucky, to play the Kentucky Wildcats on Friday night. Coming into the game, the Tigers...

Missouri holds out hope that scoring will improve

Missouri holds out hope that scoring will improve

Tyler Kraft September 23, 2015

Goals have been a hard commodity to come by this season for Missouri. In the opening nine games of their 2015 campaign, the Tigers have only scored eight goals. In five of their games, the Tigers have...

Frustration mounting for Tiger offense

Frustration mounting for Tiger offense

Daniel Witt September 23, 2015

Much is to be said of Mizzou’s football team and their struggling offense, which lollygagged to a 9-6 victory Saturday against Connecticut at home. But not far from Faurot Field is the stadium of a...

Freshman goalkeeper Kelsey Dossey provides solid starts for Missouri

Freshman goalkeeper Kelsey Dossey provides solid starts for Missouri

Tyler Kraft September 16, 2015

When Kelsey Dossey first heard of Mizzou, she had no idea what it was. Dossey was on her way to becoming an All-American goalkeeper for Avon High School when a friend came up and introduced the possibility...

Tigers lose heartbreaker to Nebraska

Tyler Kraft September 15, 2015

Missouri’s out-of-conference play ended in heartbreak on Sunday at Audrey J. Walton Soccer Stadium. The Tigers fell to the University of Nebraska 1-0 on a goal that came three minutes before the final...

Mizzou soccer upsets No. 9 Auburn

Daniel Witt September 12, 2015

The Missouri women’s soccer offense was well aware that their foe, undefeated Auburn, hadn’t allowed a goal coming into their matchup Friday night. But when sophomore forward Savannah Trujillo found...

Andrew Paul to play a key role in Tiger’s long term success

Andrew Paul to play a key role in Tiger’s long term success

Tyler Kraft September 1, 2015

Andrew Paul had one goal in mind when he accepted the role of associate coordinator of strength and conditioning for Missouri: He wanted to learn the players’ names. “My first goal was to learn their...

Tigers on the prowl for new leading scorer

Tigers on the prowl for new leading scorer

Daniel Witt August 26, 2015

Of the 37 goals scored by Missouri last season, nearly a quarter were scored by one player: Taylor Grant. Grant, one of the most storied players in Mizzou women's soccer history, scored 18 career goals...