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Gene's Blog: It's year 2, and the D-I transition continues
9/15/2022 2:24:00 PM | Athletics, Gene's Blog
Welcome to season two of Division I athletics for St. Thomas. Our fall season is well underway for eight teams: Volleyball, Football, M-W Soccer, M-W Cross Country and M-W Golf.
Look for our M-W Hockey, M-W Swim-Dive and Women's Tennis teams to make their 2022-23 debuts over the next 17 days.
Our Softball and Baseball squads are playing a few fall scrimmages, too.
Believe it or not, Women's Soccer is at the exact halfway point of its 11-week competitive schedule on the calendar and has less than six weeks left in its season.
None of the Tommie teams have opened conference play thus far. Here's when those competitions start:
Games to Watch
Keep your atlas handy: this semester alone, St. Thomas teams will compete in 20 different states, traveling as far away as New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, California, Montana, Idaho and Colorado.
St. Thomas has an especially interesting October 7-8 slate of games on its schedules. Four NCAA tournament teams from last season are playing Tommie teams on those days, three here on campus.
On Friday Oct. 7, at 4 p.m., Tommie Women's Soccer is home to face South Dakota State, a 17-win team of last season, while Women's Hockey plays at Wisconsin (6 p.m.), the 2021 NCAA champions and a 2022 nationals qualifier.
On Saturday Oct. 8, reigning Pioneer Football League champion Davidson plays at St. Thomas Football (1 p.m.); and reigning Summit League champ Denver is at Tommie Men's Soccer (noon).
Here are more than a dozen other intriguing Tommie games/events this fall and winter season:
Roster Makeup
Here's a birds-eye view of Tommie rosters for this school year:
Our more than 500 student-athletes competing this year include individuals from 31 states from coast-to-coast. Football's 110-player roster includes players from 18 different states.
The 2022-23 St. Thomas rosters are expected to have approximately 185 athletes from our Division III era who are juniors, seniors or grad students, with another 300-plus who joined our teams last year or this year.
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Look for our M-W Hockey, M-W Swim-Dive and Women's Tennis teams to make their 2022-23 debuts over the next 17 days.
Our Softball and Baseball squads are playing a few fall scrimmages, too.
Believe it or not, Women's Soccer is at the exact halfway point of its 11-week competitive schedule on the calendar and has less than six weeks left in its season.
None of the Tommie teams have opened conference play thus far. Here's when those competitions start:
- In the Pioneer Football League, St. Thomas starts an eight-game league slate on Oct. 1 at Marist
- In the Summit League, Tommie Volleyball opens its 18-game Summit League schedule at home on Sept. 22 against North Dakota State; Women's Soccer starts a nine-game league schedule at home on Sept. 23 against Kansas City; Men's Soccer starts conference play at home on Sept. 24 vs. Eastern Illinois
- In the WCHA, Women's Hockey plays two at Wisconsin on Oct. 7-8
- In the CCHA, Men's Hockey plays two on Oct. 28-29 at Ferris State
- M-W Cross Country teams run in the Summit championship meet on Sat. Oct. 29
Games to Watch
Keep your atlas handy: this semester alone, St. Thomas teams will compete in 20 different states, traveling as far away as New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, California, Montana, Idaho and Colorado.
St. Thomas has an especially interesting October 7-8 slate of games on its schedules. Four NCAA tournament teams from last season are playing Tommie teams on those days, three here on campus.
On Friday Oct. 7, at 4 p.m., Tommie Women's Soccer is home to face South Dakota State, a 17-win team of last season, while Women's Hockey plays at Wisconsin (6 p.m.), the 2021 NCAA champions and a 2022 nationals qualifier.
On Saturday Oct. 8, reigning Pioneer Football League champion Davidson plays at St. Thomas Football (1 p.m.); and reigning Summit League champ Denver is at Tommie Men's Soccer (noon).
Here are more than a dozen other intriguing Tommie games/events this fall and winter season:
- Women's Soccer: Sat. Sept. 17, Noon our time, St. Thomas at Wyoming
- Volleyball: Thur. Sept. 22, 7 p.m., North Dakota State at St. Thomas (home opener)
- Men's Soccer: Tue. Sept. 27, 4 p.m., Gonzaga at St. Thomas
- Men's Hockey: Sat. Oct. 1, 6 p.m., St. Cloud State at St. Thomas (STA rink)
- M-W Cross Country: Sat. Oct. 29, Summit League Championships, Grand Forks, N.D.
- Football: Sat. Oct. 29, noon, San Diego at St. Thomas
- Men's Hockey: Fri. Nov. 4, 7 p.m., Minnesota State at St. Thomas
- Women's Hockey: Nov. 5-6, 6 p.m./2 p.m./ Ohio State at St. Thomas
- Men's Basketball: Mon. Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., St. Thomas at Creighton
- Women's Basketball: Sun. Dec. 11, time TBA, St. Thomas at Wisconsin
- Men's Basketball: Wed. Dec. 21, time TBA/ North Dakota State at St. Thomas
- Women's Basketball: Thur. Dec. 29, time TBA, South Dakota at St. Thomas
- Women's Hockey: Fri. Feb. 17, 6 p.m./ Minnesota at St. Thomas
- M-W Swim-Dive: Feb. 22-23, Summit League Championships, U of M Aquatic Center, Minneapolis
- M-W Indoor Track and Field: Feb. 24-25, Summit League Indoor Championships, Vermillion, S.D.,
Roster Makeup
Here's a birds-eye view of Tommie rosters for this school year:
Our more than 500 student-athletes competing this year include individuals from 31 states from coast-to-coast. Football's 110-player roster includes players from 18 different states.
There are also a record 20 international students on Tommie rosters. Men's Soccer, Women's Hockey and Women's Tennis have four each, with three ready to help Men's Hockey. The athletes come from Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, India, China, Switzerland, Hungary, Haiti, Bosnia, France, the Netherlands and Egypt.
Approximately 60 percent of athletes on all Tommie teams in 2022-23 are Minnesota natives, down slightly from the D-III era.
As a point of reference, during the 2018-19 school year -- the last compete Division III season here before Covid interruptions -- St. Thomas' 700 student-athletes included 66 percent from Minnesota, and just six international students.The 2022-23 St. Thomas rosters are expected to have approximately 185 athletes from our Division III era who are juniors, seniors or grad students, with another 300-plus who joined our teams last year or this year.
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Gene's Blog is a sports column penned by Tommie sports information director Gene McGivern. Gene is starting his 29th season at St. Thomas and 35th overall working with Twin Cities college athletics teams. He blogs periodically on various topics regarding the Tommies and college sports.
If you have comments or questions, e-mail Gene at ejmcgivern@stthomas.edu
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