Gopher Sports: News & Notes

Catch up on all the latest news from Gopher Athletics from the past week.

TENNIS
Friday-Sunday | at San Diego State Invite

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
Friday | at Joe Piane Invite | 9:30AM
Friday | at Eau Claire Invite | 3PM

SOFTBALL
Friday | vs. St. Cloud State | Exhibition | 6PM

#13 VOLLEYBALL (5-5, 1-1)
Friday | vs. Michigan | 6PM | B1G+
Saturday | vs. #15 Penn State | 8PM | BTN

SWIMMING & DIVING
Friday | Alumni/Intrasquad Meet | 6:30PM

Ashley Steenvoorden, Kierra Smith, Todd Smolinski and Michael Richards will be inducted into Aquatics Hall of Fame

FOOTBALL (2-2, 1-1)
Saturday | vs. Louisiana | 11AM | BTN

BTN Tailgate will be set up outside 3M Arena at Mariucci for its 9AM broadcast
Darius Taylor won his third straight B1G Freshman of the Week

MEN'S & WOMEN'S GOLF
Monday-Tuesday | at Blessings Collegiate Invite | Fayetteville, Ark. | GOLF Channel

Men's and Women's 54-hole mixed event with daily coverage on the GOLF Channel at 3:30PM
The Women are ranked 37th in the country by Golfweek

RECENT RESULTS

MEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
9th of 18 teams at Griak Invitational | Recap & Highlights

WOMEN'S CROSS COUNTRY
7th of 17 teams at Griak Invitational | Recap & Highlights

FOOTBALL
L, 34-37 at Northwestern | Recap & Highlights

MEN'S GOLF
10th of 15 teams at Windon Memorial | Recap

WOMEN'S HOCKEY
W, 6-0 vs. Durham West (Exhibition) | Recap

VOLLEYBALL
W, 3-2 at Iowa | Recap & Highlights
L, 0-3 at #2 Nebraska | Recap & Highlights

SOCCER
L, 1-3 at Michigan State | Recap
T, 0-0 at Iowa | Recap

Homecoming.umn.edu: The Homecoming parade on Friday will close University Avenue from 6:30-8:30PM which will affect Volleyball traffic.

GopherSports.com: Coach Cook, Melani Shaffmaster and Kylie Murr met the media ahead of this weekend's two home matches.

GopherSports.com: Coach Fleck met the media on Monday to preview Saturday's Homecoming game against Louisiana.

Fox9.com: Watch a replay of last night's The P.J. Fleck Show on Fox 9.

@GopherFootball: Former Gophers shared messages of support ahead of Saturday's game.

Schedule News:

GopherSports.com: Prior to last week's Griak Invite, Coach Hopkins was a guest on the Golden Gopher Podcast.

GopherSports.com: University alum Dan Dornfeld has worked all 37 Griak Invitationals.

WCCORadio.com: Mark Coyle appeared on WCCO last week with Vineeta Sawkar.

GopherSports.com: Men's Hockey was tabbed as preseason Big Ten favorites as six earned individual honors. The Gophers are ranked No. 3 nationally in the first USCHO poll.

GopherSports.com: Peyton Hemp, Madeline Wethington, Abbey Murphy and Ella Huber will serve as Women's Hockey captains for the 2023-24 season.

GopherSports.com: Women's Hockey visited Inver Grove Heights as part of the Rink Roots program presented by PNC Bank.

GopherSports.com: Thirty-three former Gophers are participating in NHL training camps ahead of the 2023-24 season.

@GopherHockey: Logan Cooley made an instant impact in his first exhibition game with the Phoenix Coyotes.

@GopherWHockey: Taylor Heise appeared on NHL Tonight after being selected first overall in last week's Pro Women's Hockey League's draft.

WCCORadio.com: Former Gopher player and coach Natalie Darwitz is now the general manager of Minnesota's new pro Women's Hockey franchise.

GopherSports.com: The Big Ten Conference announced that the Minnesota-Michigan Football game on Saturday, October 7, will air on NBC at 6:30PM.

GopherSports.com: Soccer's "Alumni Spotlight" series continues with Maddie Gaffney.

GopherSports.com: Former Gopher point guard Al Nolen will provide color commentary on Men's Basketball radio broadcasts this season.

GopherSports.com: Coach Johnson met the media yesterday to preview the start of fall practice.

YouTube.com: Coach Plitzuweit was a guest on the Locked on Women's Basketball Podcast.

GopherSports.com: Women's Basketball held its Lil' Gophers Clinic this past weekend at the practice facility.

MSHSL.org: Former Gopher coach and administrator Dan O'Brien is now coaching with his son Casey at Holy Family High School.

@GopherFootball: Former Gopher Blake Cashman had six tackles, an interception and a fumble recovery in Houston's win at Jacksonville on Sunday

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