⚽️Lady Vols Soccer Thread

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Tennessee12 said:
I wouldn’t call her a LVFL… she left when she knew it was gonna be hard because we graduated and lost a bunch….. transfers are fine if done for reasons legitimate… but leaving because you didn’t think we were gonna be good anymore is weak behavior IMO.
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She graduated from the University of Tennessee in 2023.
You don’t believe that qualifies as a LVFL?



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In before anyone tries to say Jenna Chatterton is not a LVFL.

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2 weeks left until graduation😭​

Ugh I miss my people already and I’m still here. But here’s to a new school🧡❤️

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News: Lady Vols in the Pros

LVFL Hannah Tillett has left Piteå IF DFF in Sweden.







Hopefully she comes back to the states to play.
Good luck on her next venture.



She is a great leader and goal scorer.
 
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Panthro said:
Just posted my interview with Luch Latino. Great info on what it’s like in the transfer portal:
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This may have been your best episode. I loved listening to Luch’s journey through the recruiting process and her experience in the transfer portal. I’m sending this to my niece who is a junior and making college visits now.
 
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Panthro said:
Thanks so much! I had a funny part that I had to take out.
As a former radio guy, I’ve always referred to headphones as “cans.”
When she first logged on, I said, “those are some nice cans you’ve got there.” Didn’t realize it until later that it could be taken as creepy. Luckily, she knew what I meant.
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No sweat. You’d fit in well in the Dugout! 😉🤙🏼
 
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Abby Batts will be playing for the Lady Vols this fall.

Check out this goal.
She had 3 of the 5 goals in the match.

 
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Copied from another message board.

I follow the SEC, to a degree. It's hard to generalize as teams of course have different styles--and there is a lot of variability in performance year on year. A team can be quite good one year and not so good the next two. Like everything in the SEC, the league is super-competitive, top to bottom. Some teams play pretty soccer, others, less so.

Arkansas has been the most consistently strong team for several years. They do not play pretty, possession soccer--quite the opposite. The coach recruits athletic players, and the hogs play very direct---get the ball down the field, get it into the box, a lot, and they score..a lot. I think they led the nation in shots and goals last year--and are usually up there in both categories. The coach is not much on possession soccer, at all, but his style has certainly worked. Here's something astounding: Arkansas has been to the final of the SEC soccer tournament in each of the last six--or it might even be seven years--and has lost every one of the championship games. I think it's seven straight SEC title-game losses. Hard to believe.

Another consistently solid team has been South Carolina. They play much differently from Arkansas--a very disciplined, defensive oriented philosophy. Never the most talented or exciting team, but well-coached by wife/husband pair, and they historically have won a lot of 1-0, 2-1 type games.

Mississippi State was good last year but that was a bit of an anomaly, IMO. MSU is seldom near the top of any sport in the SEC. I think they simply had some good midfielders last year and it all clicked in the way that it did for Alabama two or three years ago. MSU wasn't particularly noticeable, that I can remember, until last year. I'd have to go back and check their records. Auburn has usually been solid, sometimes good but seldom special--tough-minded coach, but I think she just retired.

Recruiting is variable--both out of the clubs and the portal--and that's why the teams can be up and down. Tennessee was very good Pensky's last year--but FSU snagged him and the Vols have fallen off under the new coach, but they might be a team to watch this year. Have recruited well and landed supposedly the No. 1 recruit in the land for '26--from California. I think she's getting some serious NIL money. One of Arkansas's best young forwards from last year transferred to Tennessee--not sure why.

Vandy has a British/Scottish coach and plays a very attractive brand of possession soccer. Nice team to watch. Always solid, sometimes good. Georgia was bad for several years but went out and spent the $$ to hire Southern Cal's coach and they've improved a lot and are now a tough team to beat.

Florida was the SEC's big dog for a long time--played a nice brand of possession soccer, but then maybe 8/9 years ago, it all started to go south for the gators. Maybe the coach, who'd been there since the program was started, burned out--not sure. But they've struggled for several years. However, at some point they will be back. Missouri has been bad, Ole Miss had a solid team for several years--not great, but respectably competitive--but they've fallen off. Kentucky was likewise solid for several years, foolishly sacked their coach, the successor was bad, the team was bad, they fired that coach, and now the new coach may be a good fit--too early to say--but the Cats were much improved last year. Texas A&M was very good for a long time but the coach is been there forever---25 years maybe--and they've struggled in recent years and I'm guessing he will either retire or be sacked soon if there is not improvement. LSU is usually athletic but hard to put a finger on. They've seldom been higher than mid-conference. The thing is, every team is quite athletic and competitive, and like most games in any conference, the margins are small. A lot of unpredictability.

I had wanted to post here every season about the league and its teams--and did so for one or two years--but the league is so big now, so many teams, that is virtually impossible to do anything but hit the high spots. I would say that, on the whole, the SEC has been on the come for a few years. Nobody in the league gets 6-9 top prospects every years like the country's elite programs (and we know who they are), and I don't think there's a coach in the league that's at the level of those same elite programs, but the league is pretty strong.



A lot of teams, as mentioned, are up and down. Alabama is that way. They landed a couple of very good senior/grad transfers that raised the level of that team a
 
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