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WTAMU Soccer Announces 2006 Signing Class

Lady Buffs Add Four Players; Buffs Ink Five



Sophomore-to-be forward Elisabeth Markussen will have a fellow player from Denmark on the roster with her, as WTAMU soccer announced its 2006 signing class. {Photo by www.sportcliks.com}

Feb. 19, 2006

West Texas A&M University head soccer coach Butch Lauffer has released the list of signees for the 2006-07 men's and women's programs.

The women's team has three signees from Texas, and one from overseas.

Lisha Jungman is a goalkeeper from San Antonio, Texas. She played for Reagan High School and also for the Austin Capitals club team. Kendal Kitchens, a forward/midfielder, is from Lubbock Coronado High School and played along fellow signee Kayla Sisco, a midfielder from Amarillo High, with the High Plains Drifters club.

Kristine Pederson is the final addition to the program, a forward/midfielder hailing from Vejle, Denmark, joining contrywoman sophomore-to-be forward Elisabeth Markussen on the Lady Buffs' roster.

The men's team has three commitments from the High Plains Drifters soccer club: Brad Williamson, a midfielder from Amarillo High School, Joshua Craddock, a goalkeeper from Randall High School, and Andrew Schaap, a defender from Clovis High School in Clovis N.M. Aaron Thornton, a midfielder from Pearl High School located in Pearl, Miss. and for Jackson Futbol Club also signed with the Buffs.

Two signees come to WTAMU from overseas: Jakob Fynbo Bruun Densen, a midfielder from Horsens, Denmark, and Dan Bulley, a forward from Exeter, England.

The WTAMU women's team ended its season with a 10-6-1 mark. For the first time in five years WTAMU did not play in the Lone Star Conference Tournament Championship game, as the second-seeded Lady Buffs were knocked off in the semifinals.

The Lady Buffs also had their string of consecutive appearances in the NCAA-II Tournament snapped at four years in a row, as they advanced to the Regional semifinals in 2003 for the first time in school history.

The WTAMU men finished the season with an 11-8 overall and 10-4 Southwest Soccer Conference record on the season. The Buffs began the year with a 7-1 mark, winning their first five games of the season, and climbing as high as No. 11 in the NSCAA/adidas Top 25 National Poll, before losing seven of their final 11 matches of the season.

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