MONDAY CARDINAL COUPLE
(Staff Columnist Sandy Walker appears a daily earlier than normal this week, due to some creative scheduling to fit Cardinal Women's Basketball and her column today focuses on several of the team's schedules as well.)
Today’s Focus Is On Many Small But Important Laundry Loads.
Now that I am back from my travels to New Orleans and back I find that I had so much laundry that it has taken awhile to sort through it all which includes a picture of the Cardinal Faithful at the top of the column. LIC4!
BASKETBALL
Formula for a Louisville Win at Providence
University of Connecticut ahead
Be sure to check the site tomorrow for Quentin and Paul’s planned in depth pre-game report regarding Tuesday’s away game at Hartford against UConn. It is reported to be available on the CBS Sports Network at 9 PM.
Bearcats to visit the KFC YUM! Center
Bearcats to visit the KFC YUM! Center
We have to wait until this Friday to again see the basketball women in person. They will be playing Cincinnati at the home beginning at 7:00. The fans have been great with almost 10,000 at last mid-week week’s game against Rutgers but it is time for us to step it up. This week the holidays are behind us and the game is not on a weekday night so this is the time for Louisville to challenge Tennessee for the #1 school for fan attendance.
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GOLF
UCF CHALLENGE
Women’s Golf is gearing up for a February 10-12 winter challenge located in Sorrento, FL. while later in the month they will strain themselves to spent time in Miami Lakes, FL so they can participate in the Sir Pizza Challenge. A trip to Hawaii follows in March. Congratulations to the team’s scheduler! I am sure their future recruits are taking note and just in case they are I found a woman’s golf recruiting form at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-golf/spec-rel/lou-w-golf-recruit-form.html.
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LACROSSE
(Editor's note)
Lacrosse is a sport that several of us here at CARDINAL COUPLE haved vowed to learn more about this season. Our current plans are to send Sandy to a lacrosse boot camp and have her go through the day-to-day practices and activities that the players in training participate in. We'll probably have Timmy the Intern and a EMS staffer or two accompany her. In our never-ending quest to provide you the best in Louisville womens' athletics, we feel this is a novel idea and ground breaking.
We just haven't told her about it yet...
http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-lacros/mtt/young_kellie00.htmlCoach.
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TRACK
Fortunately for the track team, indoor arenas not only exist but are scheduled for their January 25-26 participation in the IU Relays being held at Bloomington, Indiana and in the Rod McCravy Memorial being held at Lexington, KY. Without the indoor arenas, imagine the hurdlers in full snow bunny outfits where all of the hurdles are knocked over by their bunny feet shoes. Instead, they have posted three wins and the final day of the Kentucky Invitational, which was last Saturday. Details of the meet are available at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-track/recaps/011213aaa.html.
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TENNIS
Xavier and Morehead State arrive in Louisville for a match at the Bass-Rudd Tennis Center this Sunday, January 20 with Southern Illinois and Miami of Ohio following on Saturday the 26th. They keep a pretty busy schedule through February with the Big East Championships set for Mid-April. You can check out their complete schedule at http://www.gocards.com/sports/w-tennis/sched/lou-w-tennis-sched.html. They go into this season for “the first time in program history”, with two players ranked in the top 100 going into the dual match season. Those players are Junior Rebecca Shine and junior teammate Julia Fellerhoff ranked No. 84 by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA).*****************************************************************************************
SWIMMING AND DIVING
Our swim and diving team has only 4 events left before the Feb 27 Big East Championships at Indianapolis. They swept visiting BIG EAST rival Cincinnati Saturday afternoon at the Ralph Wright Natatorium. The Cardinal men won 184-100 and the Cardinal women won 188-104. All but 1 of the upcoming matches are away starting in Dallas but on the January 26th they will be in Lexington Kentucky before a final match against Indiana is held at the Ralph Wright Natatorium on February 1.
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SOFTBALLThe softball team scheduler seems to have split allegiances with that of the golf and Lacrosse teams folks. They open the season Feb 8th. in Las Vegas and will then spend time in Jacksonville, Florida for games on the 15th, 16 and 17th. The women will play Stony Brook, Bethune Cookman, Ohio State, Jacksonville, and again against Stony Brook. They next show a split decision of scheduling with games at Ulmer Stadium on February 22, 23 and 24 in the Cardinal Classic.
Feburary in Las Vegas, Jacksonville or Louisville can be hit or miss on the weather. Here's hoping for blue skies and sunny days for Sandy Pearsall's squad.
didyouknowthatPearsallistheonlyheadsoftballcoachinthehistoryoflouisvillesoftball?thecalifonianativeplayedcollegeballatoregonstaeandstillthrowsbattingpractice
Feburary in Las Vegas, Jacksonville or Louisville can be hit or miss on the weather. Here's hoping for blue skies and sunny days for Sandy Pearsall's squad.
didyouknowthatPearsallistheonlyheadsoftballcoachinthehistoryoflouisvillesoftball?thecalifonianativeplayedcollegeballatoregonstaeandstillthrowsbattingpractice
