Cards Hit the Road for Indiana

The fifth-ranked University of Louisville field hockey team will hit the road for a midweek matchup at Indiana Tuesday at 12 p.m.

GAME INFORMATION
Date: Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023, 12:00 p.m. (ET)
No. 5 Louisville at Indiana
Location/Venue: Bloomington, Ind./Deborah Tobias Field
Television: Big Ten Plus | Game Links: Live Scoring |BIG+ Watch

NOTE CARDS
• UofL stands at No. 5 in the Penn Monto/NFHCA coaches poll released on Oct. 3. This marks the second straight week at No. 5 at the fifth consecutive top-five ranking for the Cards who have stood in the top 10 throughout the season.
• Louisville enters Tuesday with a 11-1 record and on a five-game winning streak. Four of the last five wins have been shutouts.
• At 11-1 on the season, Louisville is off to its best start in program history.
• The Cards have scored 23 goals on the season with 11 different players contributing to the total. Aimee Plumb and Emilia Kaczmarczyk lead the way with five goals apiece.
• Merlijn van der Vegt carries a 0.65 goals against average which leads the ACC and stands fourth in the nation. Their 0.778 save percentage is good for second on the league and 15th in the nation.

Head Coach Justine Sowry
Justine Sowry is in her 13th season at the helm. During her time at Louisville, she has guided the Cardinals to a 176-80 record, eight NCAA tournament appearances reaching the quarterfinals twice and advancing to the semifinals for the first time in program history in the 2020-21 season. She earned ACC Coach of the Year honors in 2021.
• Under Sowry's tutelage, Louisville has tallied three conference titles, including back-to-back ACC regular season crowns (2020, 2021) as well as a pair of runner-up finishes in the ACC Championships.

CARDS AGAINST THE FIELD
Indiana
Series Record: Louisville leads 17-7
• The Cards have won the last nine meetings.
Last Meeting: Sept. 10, 2023 - Louisville won 2-0 at Trager Stadium.
Scouting the Hoosiers: Indiana enters Tuesday's matchup with a 5-7 overall record following a 1-0 win over Bellarmine on Sunday.
• The Hoosiers are led offensively by Sarah Charley who has tallied four goals and three assists for 11 points.
• Arabella Loveridge and Shannon McNally have shared time in the cage and combined for a 2.78 goals against average and two shutouts.

UP NEXT
The Cardinals gear up for a pair of games against top-five opponents starting with an ACC road contest at No. 4 Duke on Friday. Louisville will then return to Trager Stadium to take on No. 3 Iowa on Sunday.

UP LAST
Rylie Wollerton, Emilia Kaczmarczyk and Jane Ramsay scored as Louisville tallied 11 corners and a season-high 22 shots on goal while the Cardinals' defense did not allow the Chippewas to record a shot in the contest in Louisville's fifth shutout of the season. CMU got a valiant effort by goalkeeper Katie Maxim who recorded 17 saves in the contest.

CARDS FIFTH IN NFHCA COACHES POLL
UofL stands at No. 5 in the Penn Monto/NFHCA poll released on Oct. 3, marking the second straight week at No. 5 and the fifth consecutive top-5 showing. The Cardinals have been ranked inside the top 10 throughout the entire season.
• The Cards had been ranked among the top 10 for 45 of the last 47 ranking periods spanning back to 2019 when they appeared at No. 8 on Sept. 10.
• Louisville has now spent 112 consecutive weeks in the top 20 in the nation dating back to the 2013 season.

Tough Slate
The Cardinals' 2023 schedule features eight opponents currently ranked among the top 20 in the NFHCA rankings including six top-10 teams.
• Louisville's slate also includes 2022 national champion North Carolina, runner-up Northwestern and semifinalist Iowa.
• Three of the Cardinals' 11 wins have come against teams ranked in the Oct. 3 edition top 10 including No. 2 Northwestern, No. 7 Ohio State and No. 8 Virginia.

CARDS FOURTH IN NCAA RPI
Louisville stands fourth in the NCAA RPI released on Oct. 9.
• The Cardinals' schedule also features six teams listed in the top 10 RPI which is listed below:
1) Duke
2) Northwestern
3) North Carolina
4) Louisville
5) Liberty
6) Rutgers
7) Virginia
8) Iowa
9) Harvard
10) Boston College

STINGY DEFENSE
Louisville's defense is among the toughest in the nation, standing first in the ACC and second in the nation with a 0.65 goals against average.
• The Cardinals have produced five shutouts in 12 games this season - including four a streak of four consecutive clean sheets, placing sixth nationally in shutouts per game.
• Goalkeeper Merlijn van der Vegt's 0.65 goals against average also leads the ACC and stands fourth in the NCAA.

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Players Mentioned

Emilia Kaczmarczyk

Aimee Plumb

Jane Ramsay

Merlijn van der Vegt

Rylie Wollerton

University of Louisville Athletics