2025 Women's Soccer Season Recap
LIMA, OH - UNOH women's soccer has consistently improved under the leadership of head coach Elisha Fry going from 14-6-3 (.674) in her first season to 14-4-4 (.727) in year two and 17-4-0 (.810) in her third this year earning National Tournament bids all three seasons. The Racers' conference record has seen the same level of improvement after going 8-2-1 (.773) and finishing third in 2023 to 10-1-0 and a conference championship in 2025. UNOH also swept through the WHAC Tournament to double up their titles for the fifth time in program history and first since 2019.
The 2025 Racers averaged 3.43 goals per game and 10.0 points per game, both the program's highest averages since 2016, with a +2.8 scoring margin, the best since 2019, outscoring conference opponents 55-7. The team tallied 72 goals with 13 different players netting multiple times and 66 total assists, the program's most since 2016. The campaign was highlighted by the program's best offensive performance of all-time against Defiance where they scored 18 goals and assisted 18 times for 54 total points, all program records. Three different Racers netted a hat trick in that match with three more scoring a brace.
Mathilda Berg Karlsson became the single-game leader in points with twelve as part of a 9-2 rout of Indiana Tech on October 22 where she scored four times and assisted four times. Karlsson has tallied 63 points in just two seasons with the program putting her fourth in program history. Senior Vivian Purmonen scored eight times in 2025 and will finish fifth all-time with 25 career goals. Goalkeeper Sophia Eisner moved into second place all-time in career wins (36) and shutouts (20) with eight more combined shutouts on her resume.
With their conference title, UNOH swept the offensive and defensive player of the year awards winning both for just the fifth time in program history. Six Racers landed All-WHAC First Team honors, the second most ever in a season and most since 2017, with two more earning second team awards and one swiping All-Newcomer honors.
Thirteen Racers earned mentions on the WHAC All-Academic Team with Allyson Barger earning the honor for a third time making her just the second player in program history to hit that mark. Barger was also named to the NAIA Scholar Athlete Team for a fourth time becoming the first player in program history to accomplish that feat. Two others earned their second Scholar Athlete honor with seven more making the list for the first time giving the team ten total in 2025 and marking the fourth straight season with at least nine mentions.
2025 UNOH Women's Soccer
WHAC Regular Season Champions
WHAC Tournament Champions
Overall Record: 17-4-0
Conference Record: 10-1-0
Season Result: NAIA National Championship First Round
National Rankings
Preseason: 24
Highest: 21
Final: 23
Key Wins
September 13: 2-0 vs. #18 Campbellsville
November 12: 1-0 vs. (RV) Aquinas
Top Team Performances
Biggest Win: October 1 vs. Defiance, 18-0 - Program Record
Points: 54 vs. Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Goals: 18 vs. Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Assists: 18 vs. Defiance (10/1) - Program Record
Shots: 54 vs. Defiance (10/1)
Shots on Goal: 33 vs. Defiance (10/1)
Saves: 4 @ Indiana Wesleyan, vs. St. Thomas, vs. The Master's
Top Individual Performances
Points: 12 - Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22) - Program Record
Goals: 4 - Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22) - Ties Program Record
Assists: 4 - Celia Catalan Keck vs. Cleary (9/24) & Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22)
Shots: 9 - Vivian Purmonen & Camila Rico vs. Defiance (10/1), Mathilda Berg Karlsson vs. Indiana Tech (10/22)
Shots on Goal: 7 - Camila Rico vs. Defiance (10/1)
Saves: 4 - Sophia Eisner @ Indiana Wesleyan (8/27) & vs. The Master's (11/20)
NAIA Awards
NAIA All-American: Mathilda Berg Karlsson (Third Team), Sophia Eisner (Third Team)
NAIA Offensive Player of the Week: Mathilda Berg Karlsson
United Soccer Coaches Honors
USC All-American: Sophia Eisner
USC All-North Region: Sophia Eisner, Judy McIntosh, Mathilda Berg Karlsson
Conference Awards
WHAC Offensive Player of the Year: Mathilda Berg Karlsson
WHAC Defensive Player of the Year: Judy McIntosh
WHAC First Team: Sophia Eisner, Vivian Purmonen, Mathilda Berg Karlsson, Risa Nishida, Judy McIntosh, Celia Catalan Keck
WHAC Second Team: Ella Beaton-Hill, Kristine Mehlbye
WHAC All-Newcomer Team: Camila Rico
WHAC Champions of Character Team: Ella Betschon
WHAC Offensive Player of the Week: Vivian Purmonen, Mathilda Berg Karlsson
WHAC Defensive Player of the Week: Sophia Eisner, Celia Catalan Keck
Academic Honors
NAIA Scholar Athletes: Allyson Barger, Rhiannon O'Looney, Sophia Eisner, Alivia Chambers, Celia Catalan Keck, Judy McIntosh, Kathryn Haas, Kristine Mehlbye, Silje Eikeland, Mathilda Berg Karlsson
WHAC Academic Team: Allyson Barger, Rhiannon O'Looney, Vivian Purmonen, Sophia Eisner, Celia Catalan Keck, Alivia Chambers, Silje Eikeland, Mathilda Berg Karlsson, Judy McIntosh, Kristine Mehlbye, Katie West, Ewelina Johansson Maahl