Kansas Soccer Opens Spring Schedule This Weekend

March 25, 2009

LAWRENCE, Kan. –

The Kansas soccer team will play host to a pair of exhibition matches this weekend to open the spring schedule. The Jayhawks will meet Creighton on Saturday at 2 p.m., before facing the KU men’s club team at 10 a.m., Sunday at the Jayhawk Soccer Complex.

The Jayhawks will open with the Bluejays at 2 p.m., Saturday. KU and Creighton have met six times in the regular season, most recently in 2006. Last season, the Bluejays finished 12-6-1.

For the second year in a row, the Jayhawks will face the KU men’s club team in a spring exhibition match. Sunday’s contest is scheduled for 10 a.m.

Kansas will have 22 letterwinners from last year’s squad suiting up during the spring season, including All-Region selections Monica Dolinsky and Estelle Johnson as well as Freshman All-American, Emily Cressy.