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What an amazing experience having Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly on LR’s campus tonight. Thank you for inspiring so many young girls around the world. #gobears #miahamm #kristinelilly #teamfirst 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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The appreciation we have for Coach Higgins is off the charts. Gary leads by example through what he does for the program on and off the field, behind the scenes and and as a public figure. We are so thankful for you, you are so deserving of this award. #WhatACoach #CoachOfTheYear
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Congratulations to head coach Gary Higgins on his 50th career win tonight! We appreciate everything you do for the team and program!! #Comeonthebears 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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Our 2023 NCAA Tournament run comes to an end. The amount of grit, determination, and resilience this team showed throughout the season was unmatched.
Thank you, Bear Nation, for your unconditional support this season ❤️🖤🐻⚽️ #gobears
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MAJOR NEWS! We are so proud of Aqsa Mushtaq for signing a professional contract with SSC Napoli in Serie A! We could not be more excited for her and cannot wait to follow her professional career in Italy. How do you say Go Bears in Italian? #gobears #bearsinthepros 🐻⚽️🎉🇮🇹
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What a season to be grateful for. We want to thank all of our amazing players, staff, fans, parents, and alumni for all of your support throughout this incredible season. Bear Nation, we cannot wait to see you all back at Moretz next fall #gobears
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After a remarkable season, we finish Top-10 in the country and come in at #8 in the final United Soccer Coaches Division II National Rankings ⚽️🐻❤️ #gobears
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👍🏼‘s up and big 😁’s all around as we begin traveling down to Melbourne, FL for the Third Round of the NCAA Tournament!
Catch us in action on the campus of Florida Tech this upcoming Friday at 3pm vs Catawba ⚔️⚽️🐻 #gobears
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LR 🤝 ❤️ Hickory
Hickory, North Carolina - home of @LRbears @lenoirrhyne tops the list for the 2nd year in a row as 🇺🇸 most affordable metro and ranks 25th among the country’s best places to live, according to the latest report released by @usnews @CityofHickory
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🚨 ID CAMP 🚨
Sunday April 23rd - DWSoccer.com
Final call for 2023’s
Let’s go for 2024’s
Ready for June 15th 2025’s
Get on our radar 2026’s
#ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕖 #𝕋𝕖𝕒𝕞 #ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖
#IDCamp #collegerecruiting #collegesoccer
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Congratulations to our senior’s. We thank you for all of the time, dedication, and hard work you have put into this program on and off the field. You all are appreciated and have certainly left some big shoes to fill! Let’s finish strong! #onceabearalwaysabear #seniorbears 🐻⚽️
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We are excited to announce the signing of Ria Acton to our program for 2019! Ria is from , Leicester, England. #GoBears🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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VICTORY IS SWEET!
Your bears are in the Sweet 16!!!
Two goals from Kara Gavaghan lift Lenoir-Rhyne over the Royals.
#GOBEARS | #KEEPDANCING
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Happy Birthday to our Strength and Conditioning Coach Ryan “Juice Man” Mullins! We appreciate everything you do for the team! 🐻🏋🏼♂️ #BirthdayBear #bringthejuice @CoachMully11
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Had an awesome afternoon with the players and their families kicking off our preseason in the new Bears Club Pavilion! #GoBears 🐻⚽️
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Not the result we wanted yesterday but what an accomplishment to take home a conference championship this season. We still have a lot to prove and fight for! #WeGoAgain #GoBears
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Construction has started on our new Soccer Grandstand! Our players would like to thank everyone who has helped make this happen. 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️ #gobears #grandstand #leadthecharge @LRUMSOC @BearsSports
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Locker Room Update ⚽️🐻🤩😍🏆
Quick message from Coach Higgins at the end. We do not own rights to audio used in this video.
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Day 2 in the books! We toured the beautiful Tossa De Mar and then went into Barcelona for the Barca match vs. Arsenal at Camp Nou!! (the home team got the 2-1 victory!) #GoBears 🐻⚽️🇪🇸#BearsinBarcelona #WeAreLR
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Congrats to @lmuwsoc1 on winning the @SAC_Athletics Tournament Championship. Good luck in the NCAA tournament.
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🎉Huge shout out to this alumni bear! @abbiebrown5 will be playing with her hometown club, Leeds United. We are so proud of you, Abbie! #gobears #weareLR 🧸⚽️
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2020 summed up in a picture...... courtesy of our 1st team All American Christina Shimshock! 🤣🤷🏻♀️🐻⚽️
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Great practice ✅ lake day ✅ team hike ✅.... Good luck to any team coming up against this group of Bears! You are going to need it! 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️#hungrybears #ethos #gobears
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Proud of all the hard work the girls have put in to get us to this point! 💪🏼🐻⚽️ #GoBears!
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Through all the ups and downs of college soccer, we will continue to work hard and have a smile on our face. 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️ #gobears #welovethisgame
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THE BEARS ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!
After a hard fought and intense match the bears edge a strong Queens opponent in OT. Neve Duston gets the game-winner and claimed the MVP of the tournament honor.
More pictures to come... heading back to Hickory with a trophy!! 🐻⚽️🎉🏆
#gobears
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Congratulations again to an amazing class. Your hard work, time and dedication, you have poured into this program on and off the field is unmatched. We cannot express enough how proud we are of you all! But we are not finished yet! #WeGoAgain #Onceabearalwaysabear 🐻⚽️
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Happy Birthday to Junior Stephanie Figueiredo!! #BirthdayBear 🎂🎉🎁🎈
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Female athlete of the year, Aqsa Mushtaq!! Bears Choice Awards: When the reigning player of the year and current female athlete of the year is in Italy playing professionally, we get creative to present her with this amazing accolade. We are so proud of you Aqsa! 🐻⚽️🎉
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❓❓❓𝘿𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬❓❓❓
@lruwsoc are undefeated in @SAC_Athletics regular season play over the last two seasons - resulting in back to back regular season championships.
#consistency
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Happy Birthday to the Coach of the Year Gary Higgins! We appreciate everything you do for the program and the team! 🎂🎉🎁 #BirthdayBear
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A huge thank you to those pictured and to those who are not pictured who contributed so much to our success this season! The parents, the other teams, the donors and sponsors we thank you and appreciate your support. We are prepared to come back even stronger next year! #GoBears
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We are excited to announce the signing of Grayson Cameron to our program for 2020! Grayson is originally from Hickory, NC! #GoBears!!🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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Just a couple of All-Americans at the @unitedsoccercoaches convention and banquet! Congratulations to seniors Aqsa and Tina we couldn’t be more proud! #GoBears #AllAmerican
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𝐈𝐂𝐘𝐌𝐈: Ava Hartman put in a 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘳 to give us a late draw at Lee 🔥
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#GOBEARS | #BetweenTheBricks
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BEARS WIN!!!
SAC CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY!! Freshman, @karagavaghan does it again off a cross from @sfigz10 in OT!!!!!!! You can’t write stuff this good! Let’s goooooo
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THAT’S A WRAP!
@sfigz10 brings home the female breakthrough player of the year award & @ria_acton receives the female athlete of the year award at this year’s Bears Choice Awards! What a night!
#gobears
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Everyone sees when you lift trophies, but what they don’t see are the many people who daily prepare our facilities and set us up for success @JustinHay_LRU does so much for every team and we couldn’t do it with out him! Congrats to you & your fam on the newest baby bear addition
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NCAA Round 1 ☑️
NCAA Round 2 ☑️
Scorin’ goals and takin’ names. See you soon, Round 3😎🫡🐻⚽️ #gobears
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ALL-TIME WINS LEADER
You pour passion, dedication, commitment, and humor that radiates through you each day into this team. The foundation you have built in this program is a strong one and the legacy keeps growing.
Thank you for all you do, Coach! Well deserved!
#gobears
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This Spring semester, despite the unforeseen circumstances, the girls have earned a cumulative team GPA of 3.64!! What a year...Conference Champions and now one of the highest GPAs in program history! Such a driven bunch, well done ladies, we are so proud! #CompetitiveExcellence
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Watching @LRUWBB get a BIG win over Wingate. Congrats ladies! Let’s go @LRU_Basketball, make it a Bulldog sweep!! #gobears #bearssupportingbears 🐻⚽️🐻🏀
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We were not aware at the time, but Spanish National Team players: Cristina Baudet, Alexia Putellas, and Jenni Hermoso were spectators at or last friendly game on Thursday!! 🐻⚽️🇪🇸
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Congrats!
These bears are wonderful people inside and out and we could not be more proud of all they have accomplished during their time on this campus. Wherever they go beyond Lenoir-Rhyne, they will shine and make it a better place to be.
Not in pic : @emmaloovisaolsson
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We would like to welcome Anna Keightley to our program for 2018. Anna is from Harrisburg, NC.
Go Bears! 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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The coaching staff had a productive recruiting trip in Disney this past weekend! #GoFutureBears
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𝗪𝗘'𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗡‼️
Your Bears earn the Number 2 seed and will face Lander in the first round of the NCAA playoffs at home on Friday at 3:00 p.m.
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#GOBEARS | #BetweenTheBricks
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✔️Play our last friendly match against a top, professional women’s team @CE_Seagull at an incredible venue. #BearsinBarcelona
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Amazing experience having the @TeamFirstSA on LR's campus this weekend. 🐻⚽️ #teamfirst #gobears #soccerlegends @KristineLilly @TVench15 @MiaHamm @BearsSports
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A hard fought @NCAA 2nd round game vs @CSUCougarsWSOC unfortunately concluded our 2022 season. Congratulations to @CSUCougarsWSOC and Coach Entlich for progressing. We left it all on the field and went toe to toe with a very strong team.
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🐻✈️⚽️🧳Quick hibernation in flight before our business trip. We kickoff at Florida Tech tomorrow night at 7pm!
#restisimportant | #GOBEARS | #BearsinFlorida
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If you have reached out either personally or via social media, we have been encouraged. If you have traveled or seen us play in person, we have fed off of the energy you brought. There was a legacy before this team and we are so proud to have taken it farther this year
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This Fall semester, the girls have earned a cumulative team GPA of 3.57! Such a driven bunch, well done ladies! #GoBears #CompetitiveExcellence 🤓🐻
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Great performance from the girls today! Good start to the Spring season! 3-1 win against ETSU. #gobears #leadthecharge 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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Grateful for all of the players and staff and all of the hard work they put in everyday in their pursuit to become champions on and off the field! #gratitude #happythanksgiving #gobears
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A massive thank you to our new team mentor, life and leadership coach, Chuck Myers for equipping our girls with everything they need to be successful on and off the field. So thankful to have you as part of our team!🐻⚽️
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Our lady bears are killin it! What an honor!! Huge congratulations to Seniors Christina and Aqsa on their All-American awards. #GOBEARS 🇺🇸⚽️🐻
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Locker room update! Construction has begun and the old lockers have been moved out of the locker room! 🤯 We are all so excited and cannot wait to see the finished product.
Thanks to all those who made this possible!
#GOBEARS 🐻⚽️
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It does not matter what others believe you can do. It only matters what you believe you can do. When many people come together with the same vision, they can sustain the storms and empower and each other which will carry them farther than they can go on their own.
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Congratulations to recent graduate and standout player Abbie Brown for signing her first professional contract to Valadares Gaia F.C in Portugal! We wish you the best and will be following your career! #GOBEARS #BearsInThePros
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Our studious bears finished the fall semester with a 3.55 team GPA! Working hard on the field and in the classroom! ✏️📚🤓#studentathlete #smartbears #HappyHolidays
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“It’s okay to not be okay”
Today we play to bring awareness to Mental Health and Suicide Prevention.
5:00pm vs Anderson
#mentalhealth
#mentalhealthawareness
#suicideprevention
#suicidepreventionmonth
#athletementalhealth
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Happy Holidays from our LR women’s soccer family to yours! We wish you all peace and blessings as we head into the new year!❤️🐻 #gobears
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We would like to welcome Georgia Roberts-Powell to our program for 2018. Georgia is from Wales in the U.K. Go Bears! 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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🐻⚽️ One of these nurses doubles as a women’s soccer player! Lenoir-Rhyne Senior Nursing students at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic today❣️
#Bearscare #gobears
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Today is the day! First round of the NCAA tournament. Let’s pack the plex! #GoBears #ncaatournament
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For the first time in program history your lady bears are 6-0!! A lot of work still to be done but proud of the strong start #HearUsRoar #GoBears 🐻⚽️
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We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving with their family and friends. We are thankful to be involved in this great game. #gobears #recruitingseason 🐻⚽️🐻⚽️
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Our @LRBearsAD Kim Pate giving the girls great advice and motivation heading into the season! #gobears
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