INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC) has released the 2025 preseason poll prior to the start of the women's soccer season. The Malone University women's soccer team was voted to place seventh in the conference after they reached the G-MAC Quarterfinal Round one year ago.
 
Ashland University received all 11 available votes for first place in the league and accumulated 133 points. Northwood University (115 points) and the University of Findlay (112 points) were second and third and Cedarville University nabbed the 12th and final first-place vote and 110 total points. Walsh University (88 points) and Ohio Dominican University (78 points) were fifth and sixth in the poll and Malone seventh at 75 points.
 
The Pioneers were above .500 last season at 9-8-1 overall and finished 7-7 in conference play. Nine wins is tied for the most in a season in the program's NCAA DII era. Bailey Shattell is on the doorstep of becoming the second-winningest coach in Malone women's soccer history and enters 2025 with 22 career victories as head coach.
 
The team's leading point scorer from 2024 Brynn Mowrer is entering her senior year. She tallied 11 points (four goals, three assists) last season despite missing a few matches due to injury. Junior Alyssa Schofield and sophomore Morgan Kandel return at the forward position as well after they netted two goals apiece last season.
 
In the midfield, Camryn Emerling started all 18 matches last year and brings much needed experience as a senior. Defensively, sophomore Raegan Radel and senior Hannah Hubbard each appeared in 17 matches for Malone. Amelia Henderhan started in 16 matches and made a team-high 97 saves. The Pioneers as a team had five shutouts, which is tied for the most in the program's NCAA DII era. The defense also posted an .808 save percentage (25 goals allowed, 105 saves), the second-best mark since 2012.
 
Mowrer, Emerling and Hubbard make up the program's senior class, with Henderhan, Schofield, Sydney Farinacci, Gracie Ashton and Abby Blaz making up the junior class. There are four sophomores and twelve freshmen who look to be contributors early in their tenure as a collegiate student-athlete.
 
Davis & Elkins College is the team's first match of 2025 with a 5:00 P.M. kick-off on September 4. That contest will be contested at home on King Field and is the first game showcased on FloCollege.