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Pensky Announces 2022 Spring Schedule
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee soccer head coach Brian Pensky has announced the program's exhibition schedule for the 2022 spring semester. The slate features five matches, including two at Regal Soccer Stadium, road trips to Racing Louisville (NWSL) and Indiana, and a neutral site matchup against Virginia Tech at ETSU.

Tennessee looks build off of a historic 2021 campaign in which the team captured an SEC East Divisional Championship, an SEC Tournament Championship, and advanced to the NCAA Round of 16. That squad went undefeated at Regal Stadium, opening the season with seven straight shutouts for a new single-season shutout record of 633:53 en route to a program-best record of 20-3-0 overall.
UT returns 10 starters from last season and has welcomed Layla Shell and Macaira Midgley, two members of UT's No. 6-ranked 2022 recruiting class, onto campus as mid-year enrollees.

The complete spring schedule can be viewed below. Times are listed in Eastern and subject to change.

2022 Tennessee Soccer Spring Schedule
Saturday, March 5 - at Racing Louisville (Louisville, Ky. // 2 p.m.)
Sunday, March 27 - at Indiana (Bloomington, Ind. // 12 p.m.)
Sunday, April 3 - vs. Chattanooga (Knoxville, Tenn. // 4 p.m.)
Saturday, April 9 - vs. Clemson (Knoxville, Tenn. // 1 p.m.)
Saturday, April 23 - vs. Virginia Tech (Johnson City, Tenn. // 2 p.m.)

Admission for all spring matches at Regal Soccer Stadium will be free of charge. Restrooms will be open at the facility, but attendees should be advised that concessions will not be available during these offseason contests.
 
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Pensky Announces 2022 Spring Schedule
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee soccer head coach Brian Pensky has announced the program's exhibition schedule for the 2022 spring semester. The slate features five matches, including two at Regal Soccer Stadium, road trips to Racing Louisville (NWSL) and Indiana, and a neutral site matchup against Virginia Tech at ETSU.

Tennessee looks build off of a historic 2021 campaign in which the team captured an SEC East Divisional Championship, an SEC Tournament Championship, and advanced to the NCAA Round of 16. That squad went undefeated at Regal Stadium, opening the season with seven straight shutouts for a new single-season shutout record of 633:53 en route to a program-best record of 20-3-0 overall.
UT returns 10 starters from last season and has welcomed Layla Shell and Macaira Midgley, two members of UT's No. 6-ranked 2022 recruiting class, onto campus as mid-year enrollees.

The complete spring schedule can be viewed below. Times are listed in Eastern and subject to change.

2022 Tennessee Soccer Spring Schedule
Saturday, March 5 - at Racing Louisville (Louisville, Ky. // 2 p.m.)
Sunday, March 27 - at Indiana (Bloomington, Ind. // 12 p.m.)
Sunday, April 3 - vs. Chattanooga (Knoxville, Tenn. // 4 p.m.)
Saturday, April 9 - vs. Clemson (Knoxville, Tenn. // 1 p.m.)
Saturday, April 23 - vs. Virginia Tech (Johnson City, Tenn. // 2 p.m.)

Admission for all spring matches at Regal Soccer Stadium will be free of charge. Restrooms will be open at the facility, but attendees should be advised that concessions will not be available during these offseason contests.
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That's quite an ambitious spring schedule--the most ambitious ever in Pensky's tenure. Racing Louisville is an NWSL team--though I suspect they'll play some of their developmental or backup players against the Vols, while Clemson and Va. Tech are two upper-mid-tier ACC programs. Clemson is always tough and Virginia Tech was good last year, and Indiana is going to be good, I think, as it is now coached by the former top assistant at Duke. I hope they play all the games; it's not uncommon for spring games to get cancelled for reasons unknown to fans. Three or four years ago UT played only 2 of its 5 spring games. Let's hope for better this year! There could be a lot of good collegiate teams this fall because, like we see with the Vols, a lot of teams will have veterans taking advantage of the extra Covid year allowed by the NCAA.
 
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That's quite an ambitious spring schedule--the most ambitious ever in Pensky's tenure. Racing Louisville is an NWSL team--though I suspect they'll play some of their developmental or backup players against the Vols, while Clemson and Va. Tech are two upper-mid-tier ACC programs. Clemson is always tough and Virginia Tech was good last year, and Indiana is going to be good, I think, as it is now coached by the former top assistant at Duke. I hope they play all the games; it's not uncommon for spring games to get cancelled for reasons unknown to fans. Three or four years ago UT played only 2 of its 5 spring games. Let's hope for better this year! There could be a lot of good collegiate teams this fall because, like we see with the Vols, a lot of teams will have veterans taking advantage of the extra Covid year allowed by the NCAA.
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Racing Louisville was one of the worse teams in the NWSL, but yes, I don’t imagine Racing Louisville will field a full starting 11 for the whole game.

I was excited when they first announced it and was going to attempt to go, but we already planned a trip that weekend.
 
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turbovol said:
That's quite an ambitious spring schedule--the most ambitious ever in Pensky's tenure. Racing Louisville is an NWSL team--though I suspect they'll play some of their developmental or backup players against the Vols, while Clemson and Va. Tech are two upper-mid-tier ACC programs. Clemson is always tough and Virginia Tech was good last year, and Indiana is going to be good, I think, as it is now coached by the former top assistant at Duke. I hope they play all the games; it's not uncommon for spring games to get cancelled for reasons unknown to fans. Three or four years ago UT played only 2 of its 5 spring games. Let's hope for better this year! There could be a lot of good collegiate teams this fall because, like we see with the Vols, a lot of teams will have veterans taking advantage of the extra Covid year allowed by the NCAA.
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Are the spring matches televised ?

Racing Louisville plays the defending champions right before they play UT.

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I'm pretty sure spring matches are not televised and I'm not sure we'll even get stats from the games. I don't recall seeing stat boxes
in the past, but hope I'm wrong. The coaches use spring games to take a look at new players, try returning players in different positions, maybe try
different formations, etc.---so a practice, development and experimentation period, more or less.
 
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VFL Carlyn Baldwin now plays for Torreense in Portugal.

CARLYN BALDWIN IS STRENGTHENING TORREENSE
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Carlyn Baldwin is confirmed reinforcement for Torreense's senior women's team. She is a versatile midfielder and can also play in defense, she is 25 years old and arrives as a free player, after having represented Sporting for four seasons. She previously represented the Young Boys of Switzerland and the Tennessee Volunteers of the United States of America, where she is from. In her curriculum, she has a title of National Champion, a Portuguese Cup and even a Supercup. She now arrives at the Pride of the West.
 
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VFL Carlyn Baldwin now plays for Torreense in Portugal.

CARLYN BALDWIN IS STRENGTHENING TORREENSE
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Carlyn Baldwin is confirmed reinforcement for Torreense's senior women's team. She is a versatile midfielder and can also play in defense, she is 25 years old and arrives as a free player, after having represented Sporting for four seasons. She previously represented the Young Boys of Switzerland and the Tennessee Volunteers of the United States of America, where she is from. In her curriculum, she has a title of National Champion, a Portuguese Cup and even a Supercup. She now arrives at the Pride of the West.
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Baldwin, a midfielder, was one of Pensky's first big signings. A northern Va. native, she was on the U.S. Under 20 National Team, as I recall--as was, later, Katie Cousins. (The new U20 National Team was just announced---and frankly Taylor Huff should be on it. There are some good mids on the team--but none better than her, IMO. There is a lot of traditional big-name-school bias in these selections). In any case, Baldwin, a midfielder was good as a freshman--but she badly injured an ankle in the SEC tournament and was never quite the same player, IMO. She tore ligaments in the ankle and had one if not two surgeries.

I think she struggled to be influential the next two years--but then she surprised by signing a pro contract with a Swiss team, and then after that signed with Sporting Lisbon in the Portugese league, where she's now been for maybe 4 or 5 years. I don't think the Portugese league is very good--one never hears of any good players signing with Portugese clubs--but it suits her skill/athletic level and it was a smart move by her, as she's been able to live in and enjoy Europe for several years.

Her father, by the way, is the majority owner of the Washington Spirit in the NWSL--although he's been under fire for a while for hiring a coach who apparently had a reputation for inappropriate behavior. The coach did a good job with the Spirit--but then more stuff come out about him and his conduct--I'm not sure if it was new stuff or old stuff--and he was suspended by the league and then sacked. Three male NWSL coaches--all vets--were recently sacked for inappropriate behavior in years past. Baldwin's minority partners have tried to buy him out and take over the Spirit, but I think he's still running the show, unless I've missed a recent development. The NWSL has always got issues, problems, of one kind or another. It's had a lot of growing pains. And, oh, the Spirit were league champs last year.
 
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Eager to see Simmonds play. Have seen some video of her playing for Richmond United and she's impressive--got size, is physical, but also athletic and has some ball skills. For a long time Top Drawer had her rated as a 2-star prosect (while her teammate Layla Shell, who is already enrolled at UT and training with the team, was a 4-star), which I found a bit odd. Top Drawer ratings shouldn't be taken too seriously, but then recently Simmonds was suddenly elevated to 4-stars--why, I don't know. In the end, the ratings don't matter of course.
 
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