Southeast Womens Soccer

After spending a year in Cape Girardeau, the one thing that has pleasantly surprised me about this place is how many athletes currently competing at Southeast Missouri State who have aspirations for a career in journalism. Chandler Davis plays on the SEMO women’s basketball team and recently covered the football team as a reporter for the student newspaper, the Southeast Arrow. ...

The Semo Women’s Soccer team played their last regular-season game on Sunday at Houck Stadium which resulted in a 0-0 draw with the UT Martin Skyhawks. This result gives the Redhawks the seventh seed in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament. The Redhawks and Skyhawks were neck-and-neck in the OVC standings all season and the match showed why. Both teams were equal or close to it in every category, with SEMO having two more saves and Martin having two more shots on goal...

The SEMO women’s soccer team was defeated 1-0 by the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles on Sunday at Houck Stadium. The Ohio Valley Conference-leading Golden Eagles handed the Redhawks their third conference loss, pushing SEMO down to sixth in the OVC. The first half of the game was a deadlock with the teams being nearly identical in every statistical category with the exception of corner kick, which the Golden Eagles had three to Southeast’s zero. ...

The SEMO women’s soccer team fought for a 1-1 draw against the University of Arkansas at Little Rock on Thursday at Houck Stadium. This result brings the Redhawks to 6-3-3 overall and 2-1-2 in Ohio Valley Conference play and into a tie with Morehead State for second place in the standings...

The SEMO women’s soccer team fell to fellow Ohio Valley Conference member Eastern Illinois by a score of 0-2 on Sunday at Houck Stadium. With the loss, the Redhawks are now 4-3-1 overall and 0-1-1 in the OVC after drawing with Western Illinois last week...

Redhawks freshman forward and midfielder Emily Baker has wasted little time contributing to the SEMO offense. Baker has scored a team-leading three goals in five games, all of which she has started. The most recent goal scored came against Murray State University in the game on Sept. 10...

The SEMO women’s soccer team defeated the Cougars of Columbia College 1-0 on Thursday at Houck Stadium. Local athlete and senior midfielder Emma Brune (Saxony Lutheran High School) put the game away with a header in the 70th minute, coincidentally on her 22nd birthday...

Among Southeast Missouri State's 13 athletic programs, over almost 120 years, only one program has had a head coach from the beginning to the present day. Heather Nelson was hired to both create and coach the SEMO women's soccer program in 1999 and has been here for 25 years and counting...

The SEMO women’s soccer team clashed with the Purple Aces of Evansville on Thursday in a defensive battle ending in a 0-0 draw. This is the third different result in as many games for the Redhawks who have begun the season 1-1-1. The first half of the game was all Evansville as the Aces had more shots and shots on goal while fouling less than the Redhawks. SEMO head coach Heather Nelson said the Aces came in with a solid offensive game plan...

The Redhawks women’s soccer team defeated the Grambling State Tigers 4-1 on Sunday at Houck Stadium. This game was the first time SEMO got to play a game in the new Houck facility and they started off hot with a big win. The first half of the match was a neck-and-neck battle with both teams getting multiple shots on goal. Both teams had a goal erased from the board due to an offside call before SEMO managed to strike first in the 39th minute with a goal by sophomore forward Cayla Koerner...

As the regular season fast approaches, with a date with the University of Missouri on Thursday, SEMO soccer finished their exhibition games on Monday. The Redhawks tied with 1-1 the Tritons from the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) at the Jackson High School soccer field...

The 2023 Semoball Awards completed a goal for Jackson soccer player, Justi Nelson. Ever since her freshman year, the Jackson standout dreamed of winning the Semoball Award. “I remember just wanting to win it ever since my freshman year,” Nelson said. “It really pushed me to get to that goal.”...

At any given Cape Catfish game, you can find the architect of success for the franchise standing atop the hill glancing over a baseball diamond that he has carried in his heart since he was a boy.

Southeast Missouri State announced their cross-country schedule recently, with their lone home meet taking place at the Osage Centre on September 1. On the whole, cross country represents a small piece of the athletic pie, but it is an opportunity to see local athletes run at the college level after thriving in high school...

There rarely is a shortage of negativity in the daily news cycles, and intercollegiate athletics is never immune to such.

The Southeast Missouri State soccer program added another local talent on Friday with Notre Dame’s Kristin Anderson signing her letter of intent to play college soccer at SEMO. Anderson said playing at the next level is something she’s always dreamed of...