In 2013, Morgan Proffitt and Liz Bartels entered Marquette at the end of an era. Maegan Kelly, the team’s leading goal-scorer for the past three years, was entering her senior season. Three players with BIG EAST first team honors from the previous year graduated, including reigning conference defensive player of the year Ally Miller.
Four years later, with Proffitt and Bartels now graduated, Marquette women’s soccer faces the beginning of another era. Marquette must replace Proffitt who, like Miller in 2013, was the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year her senior year. In Proffitt and Bartels’ four seasons, Marquette won two BIG EAST regular season titles and appeared in the NCAA Tournament twice alongside other key seniors such as Molly Pfeiffer and Erin Holland.