Rachel McKee became the first Retriever to be named to an America East all-conference team since 2005.

Junior forward Rachel McKee received her first postseason All-Conference when the America East’s nine head coaches decided to put her on the All-Conference Second Team after scoring seven goals and leading the Retrievers with 14 points.

McKee recorded the most points by a Retriever since 2005 and ranked fifth in the conference with 0.88 per game. She also tied for third in the conference with 0.44 goals per game. Her 3.06 shots per game rank second in the league.

Coming into this year McKee has one goal in each of her previous two seasons but showed great offensive potential, it was mostly the bad luck of hitting the cross bar or having the goalkeeper making great saves that prevented her from scoring more. This year she settled down and finished her shots. Five of McKee’s career-high seven goals came in conference play, which was tied for the second most in the league.

McKee, UMBC’s leading active scorer with 19 points in three seasons, is the first Retriever to earn all-conference honors since Jessica Young (first team) and Catie Bukowski (second team) in 2005.

The UMBC women's soccer team went only 7-58-3 under Alyssa Radu.

After a 0-14-3 season UMBC director of athletics Dr. Charles Brown announced head women’s soccer coach Alyssa Radu’s contract will not be renewed.

Radu joined UMBC before the 2008 season but guided the Retriever to only seven victories in her four years, totaling a 7-58-5 record. The team never made the six-team America East tournament in her tenure and never finished above eighth place in the nine-team conference. The team never improved their record from the previous season under Radu.

Radu’s first year at UMBC after spending four seasons at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), the women’s soccer team went from having four wins in 2007 to a 3-16-0 record, scoring only 10 goals and allowing 51. The second year the team scored four more goals but still allowed 51 goals in the season as their record dropped to 2-14-1. In 2010 their record stayed the same but saw significant defensive improvement, allowing only 27 goals, but this season the team allowed 41 goals, only scored 10, and went 17 games without a victory.

UMBC officials have announced they will begin a national search for a replacement immediately.

Kelsi Morris was one of five seniors honored before her final collegiate home game.

Junior forward Rachel McKee scored her seventh goal of the season while sophomore Lauren Kadet made nine saves on an emotional senior day for the women’s soccer team but it was still not enough to get their first victory of the season as they tied New Hampshire, 1-1.

In the 23rd minute Sarah Purdum played the ball up the field to McKee, who hit a rocket shot inside the right post with the Wildcats goalkeeper out of position to take an early advantage. It was Purdum’s first career assists.

The Retrievers played a very sound first half, allowing New Hampshire to take only three shots on goal, but they got caught in the 62nd minute when Stephanie Gilkenson controlled a free kick and blasted it over Kadet’s head from 30 yards out in the middle of the field.

UMBC had their fair share of chances in the second half but were unable to capitalize on any of them.

The game was the last at UMBC Soccer Park for seniors LeAnne Edgar, Megan McDonald, Kelsi Morris, Brooke Piper, and Mo Van Vlerah.

The women’s team has one final chance to earn a victory this year when they travel to Binghamton on Sunday.

The women’s soccer team was outshot 31-4 by the Terriers and lost the cornerkick battle 7-1. UMBC just struggled to possess the ball for any stretch of time and managed only two shots on goal in the game, one from Jessy Brown and another from Sarah Kopytko.

UMBC held the Terriers off for the first 14 minutes but then Madison Clemens collected a cross from Tiya Gallegos from the right side and put it in the top of the goal, opening the flood gates for Boston U. Six minutes later Gallegos sent another ball across the field and this time Kylie Strom flicked it past sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Kadet.

The Retriever defense started to settle down a bit after going down 2-0 and held the Terriers in check for the better part of 15 minutes but at 34:02 Jessica Luscinski kicked in from the top right corner of the box and at 41:53 Megan McGoldrick hit a long shot into the right side of the goal from the left side of the field, taking a 4-0 lead over the Retrievers.

After allowing four goals in the half Kadet, who had eight saves in the first 45 minutes, was taken out of the game in favor of senior Mo Van Vlerah but things didn’t fair any better for her as she allowed four more goals and saved just one shot.

Five minutes into the second half Gallegos headed in a ball off a short cross to take a 5-0 lead over the Retrievers before horrible luck struck and UMBC went down 6-0 by an own goal. With the ball out on the right side of the field Van Vlerah ran out to scoop it up but the Terrier midfielder got to it first and sent it into the middle of the field with an open net. Sarah Purdum went to slide for the ball to prevent a Terrier player from slipping it in but she mistimed the slide and kicked it into the goal in the 61st minute.

Boston scored two more goals in the 72nd and 76th minutes as they dropped the Retrievers to 0-13-2 and 0-5-1 in conference play with only two games left on the schedule.

Amazingly, UMBC is not mathematically eliminated from the America East tournament. If UMBC beats both New Hampshire and Binghamton and have other results go in their favor, they could sneak into the tournament as the sixth-seed.

The UMBC women’s soccer team fell to 0-4-1 against America East opponents after a 1-0 loss at home against Albany, which improved to 3-2-0 in conference play.

The Retrievers recorded five shots on goal in the game, three of which game in the first half. In the 28th minute Melissa Hummel took a chance at the goal but Albany keeper Jacky Ubert came up with the save.

In the 41st minute Albany’s Rebecca Lee scored on a penalty kick to give the Great Danes the 1-0 lead. UMBC nearly tied the game one minute later when Rachel McKee rebounded Amy Savage’s blocked shot only a few yards away from the goal but her attempt was blocked as well.

McKee had another blocked shot in the 71st minute and she had another attempt get saved 10 minute later, just moments after Paige Preston’s shot was saved.

Late in the first half Sady Tobin gave Maine a 1-0 lead when she headed in a corner kick taken by Lisa Bijman but McKee struck right back 14 second later to tie the game going into halftime.

Coming out of the break the two teams were locked into a defensive battle but with 16 minutes left Tobin hit a perfectly places ball into to the top of the car corner from 35 yards out.

Lauren Kadet made six saves in the game while her counterpart, Megan Price-Liebenzeder, made four stops.

The women’s soccer team has five chances left on their schedule to get a victory in this season.

Rachel McKee recorded the first multi-goal game of her career.

Junior forward Rachel McKee recorded two goals for the first multi-goal game of her career but the women’s soccer team had to settle for a 2-2 draw with Vermont at UMBC Soccer Park on Sunday.

In the 14th minute Jess Berst had a direct free kick blocks at the top of the box but Ellie Mills came up with the rebound, got past two defenders, and scored off the right post to put the Retrievers in an early whole.

Then McKee struck for her first goal. Only six minutes later McKee beat a defender on the left side after taking a cross from Sarah Kopytko and got the tying goal into the net.

Defense dominated for the next 20 minutes but with only a few minute left before the break McKee scored off a direct kick from 28 yards out after the ball bounced over a diving goalkeeper, giving UMBC a 2-1 lead.

Coming out of the break it was a defensive battle but in the 77th minute Vermont’s Alexandra Dezenzo picked up a deflected shot and curled it inside the near post to tie the game, 2-2.

UMBC was outshot 12-4 in the second half but outshot Vermont 4-2 in overtime. Both Lauren Kadet and her counterpart Sarah Leiby ended the game with two saves each.

The UMBC women’s soccer team started off on a hot note when in the 14th minute Rachel McKee scored an unassisted goal from 25 yards on the right side into the upper left corner.

The Retrievers carried that lead for the next 12 minute, then, off a corner kick, Regan Bosnyak scored into the upper left corner from outside the box. Then disaster struck for the Retrievers. Just 37 seconds later Stony Brook midfielder Sa’sha Kershaw dribbled down the right side of the field and attempted a cross into the penalty area but it bounced off a UMBC defender for an own goal, giving Stony Brook a lead that UMBC could not come back from.

Coming with a 2-1 lead over the Retrievers, Bosynak doubled Stony Brook’s lead with Shannon Grogan got her the ball in the box for a counter strike in the 63rd minute. Then, in the 86th minute Eliza Mendoza got the ball dead-center in front of the goal and booted it past Lauren Kadet.

Kadet made seven saves in a losing effort.

Stephanie Smith had two shots on goal in the game.

The UMBC women’s soccer team was simply outmatched in their conference opener as they lost to the Hartford Hawks, 3-1.

Hartford, which remains undefeated on the season with an 8-0-2 record, out shot the winless Retrievers, who fell to 0-9-1, 26-10 topped them in corner kicks, 9-1.

Sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Kadet tied her career high with 11 saves in the game while junior Rachel McKee led UMBC with three shots. Paige Preston, Amy Savage, and Stephanie Smith all had two on goal. Hartford keeper Erin Quinlan finished the game with seven saves.

In the 16th minute Mary Beth Hamilton collected a ball in the midfield and lofted it into the top right of the goal from 25 yards out. McKee had a chance to score in the 29th minute but Quinlan came up with a save to send UMBC into the half trailing.

After the break UMBC played an even game for 15 minutes but at 60:19 Amelia Pereira dodged a defender after a serried of passes to double the Hawks’ score. Nearly 10 minutes later Alves scored again after she collected her own rebound off a shot that hit the cross bar and put it into the top left of the goal.

In the game sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Kadet recorded her second career shutout with a seven-save effort in 110 minutes.

Going into the game Navy was ranked 10th in the Mid-Atlantic region but were forced to play down a payer for the final 52 minutes of the game after Hannah Legler was dealt a red card.

The Mids dominated possession in the first half and outshot UMBC, 7-5, but the Retrievers were able to get better control of the ball in the second half, despite the 10-3 shot advantage for Navy.

UMBC’s best opportunity to score came in the 101st minute when Amy Savage’s shot bounced off Navy keeper Elizabeth Hoerner after a diving stop but the ball rolled out of bounds. Sarah Purdum got possession of the ball on the ensuing corner but her shot was also saved.

Junior forward Rachel McKee took a game-high four shots.2