Dec. 6, 2006
This season, Litzau led the Panthers to both the Horizon League regular season and tournament titles and their sixth NCAA Tournament berth. UWM won 24 matches, including a school-record 15-match winning streak.
She also helped coach her players to a long list of individual accolades, with Cheryl Hegemann earning Horizon League Player of the Year honors while teammates Sarah Moore, Melissa David and Leanne Felsing joined her on the all-league team. Hegemann was also named an academic All-American, the first in program history.
The numbers in the 14-year tenure of Litzau in
And, the Panthers have won 115 of their last 128 home matches and have seen only two league teams (Loyola and UW-Green Bay) beat them at the Klotsche Center since 1996.
Litzau has been named the Horizon League Coach of the Year seven times, including this season, while leading the Panthers to eight Horizon League regular season titles. Her 131 Horizon League victories are by far the most of any active league coach. In 14 seasons in
By being named the regional coach of the year, Litzau will now be one of eight coaches on the ballot for Tachikara/
This is the second regional honor for Litzau, who was named the district coach of the year by the
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