Chicago State Women's Soccer Play to Scoreless Draw with Bellarmine

Box Score The Chicago State women's soccer team battled to a 0-0 draw with Bellarmine Sunday afternoon at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy High School in Chicago. The Cougars had a slight 4-3 advantage in shots on goal while Bellarmine managed a 7-6 shot advantage. CSU keeper Alexa Seiler earned the shutout with three saves to push her season total to 29 while CSU earned their first tie of the year and sit at 1-6-1 overall as they near the midpoint of the season. Bellarmine leaves Chicago with a record of 0-3-4.

Bellarmine had a couple quality scoring chances in the first half, hitting the back of the net on a shot which was nullified by an offside call and later rattling a shot off the post. CSU's Daliisha Spence attempted the game's first shot on goal less than a minute into the match while Delaney Kenney attempted led Chicago State with two shots, one on goal.

Next up for CSU will be a trip to Kansas City, Missouri to face the University of Missouri Kansas City on Saturday, September 16 at 7 p.m. 

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Chicago State University Athletics is comprised of 15 intercollegiate teams involving over 150 student-athletes that compete in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and volleyball. CSU held memberships in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and NCAA Division II before transitioningm to NCAA Division I in 1994. Melvin Bland was the first CSU student-athlete to gain NAIA All-American status in 1974 as a wrestler. Fred Evans became the first black swimmer ever to win a national championship in 1975. In 1991, the Chicago State women's tennis team became the first all-black college team to amass an unbeaten season at the NCAA level. CSU's women's basketball team earned a spot in the 2011 Women's Basketball Invitational and CSU's men's basketball team won the 2013 Great West Conference Tournament title, also making an appearance in the CollegeInside.com Postseason Tournament (CIT). The Men's Outdoor Track & Field 4x100-Meter Relay team were 2019 Honorable Mention All-Americans and WAC Champions. Their feat marked the first time the Chicago State's men's track & field program was represented at the national meet. Chicago State volleyball recorded a historic season in 2021, with Yanlis Feliz becoming CSU's first volleyball All-American and head coach Tony Trifonov earning selection as WAC Coach of the Year. During that same season, three different CSU teams earned victories over Big Ten opponents with men's soccer beating Northwestern, women's basketball upending Wisconsin and volleyball, which established a school record 17 wins and hosted a post-season volleyball tournament for the first time in program history, swept Indiana in Bloomington.

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