Bethany Hanson Helps RPI Soccer to Post-Season

2016 Oct 31

Bethany Hanson of Fullerton 92833 has helped the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) soccer team to a 13-4-1 record and a spot in the Liberty League Tournament.

Bethany, a Biomedical Engineering major, and her teammates were 5-3-0 in the conference and are the third seed in the four-team field. RPI faces Vassar College, the second seed, on Tuesday at 2:30pm in Poughkeepsie.

In their previous meeting with the Brewers (Oct. 8 in Troy), Vassar came away with a 2-1 overtime win. A Brewers' own goal opened the scoring in the 31st minute, before Vassar pulled even in the 59th minute and then won the game in the 91st minute.

Two of RPI's other losses were 1-0 defeats to the then-No. 1 teams in the country (at Williams on Sept. 18 and vs. William Smith on Oct. 1).

For individual season statistics for Bethany, please visit http://www.rpiathletics.com/cumestats.aspx?path=wsoc&year=2016?. To view her roster page profile, go to http://www.rpiathletics.com/roster.aspx?path=wsoc&.

For photographs of Bethany, or for more information, please contact Perry Laskaris, assistant sports information director, at laskap2@rpi.edu or (518) 276-8417.

RPI was the first seed in the 2012 tournament, but fell to Union, 1-0, at East Campus Stadium. The Engineers were the second seed in 2014, but were denied of a trip to the title game by St. Lawrence, which advanced on penalty kicks after playing to a 0-0 draw.

The winner of Tuesday's semifinal will advance to the Liberty League Championship Game on Saturday, with opponent, location and time TBD.

Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is America's oldest technological research university. For nearly two centuries, the Institute has been a driving force behind breakthroughs in engineering and science in virtually every arena-from transportation and infrastructure to business, medicine, outer space, and cyberspace.

As it approaches its bicentennial anniversary, the Institute continues to define The New Polytechnic, a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and research that uses advanced technologies to enable fresh collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and regions, in order to answer the global challenges of our day.