On a cold November night in South Bend, Indiana, snowflakes fell slowly over Notre Dame’s campus as the Loyola men’s soccer team’s best season in program history came to an end.
Last season, the Ramblers saw 14 wins, a single-season record, and the team’s first win in the NCAA tournament against cross-town rival University of Illinois at Chicago. Loyola was ranked as high as No. 11 nationally before its season came to an end with a 1-0 loss to Notre Dame in the second round on Nov. 20.
Following their loss to Notre Dame, the team immediately started looking ahead to the 2017 season.