Then & Now: Women’s Soccer
7/19/2022 10:00:00 AM | Women's Soccer
Suzy Weil (’89) talks with grad student Cammie Dopke
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Title IX, this is the first entry in a GWsports.com series connecting distinguished alumnae with current members of the Buff and Blue to discuss what’s changed and what hasn’t across their program’s history.
A forward recruited out of Miami, Suzy Weil arrived in Foggy Bottom to join GW women’s soccer in 1985, five years after the program became the first varsity squad in the D.C. area.
The Buff and Blue went 3-11-1 in Weil’s debut season before embarking on a history-making rise under Head Coach Adrian Glover.
They doubled the program’s previous best with 12 wins in 1986 and then cracked the Northeast Region poll for the first time in a 15-6-1 campaign in 1987.
During Weil’s senior fall, they went 14-4-4 and established a new high-water mark in the regional rankings by finishing tied for fifth.
Along the way, Weil was also a member of the Buff and Blue badminton squad, a run highlighted by a runner-up team finish at the National Collegiate Championship in 1987.
Those experiences helped Weil hone skills that would prove useful well beyond the soccer field and badminton court.
After earning her degree in Political Communication, she went to law school and embarked on a trailblazing two-decade career in the U.S. Army. Today, she serves as a District Counsel with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers based in Memphis.
Weil recently joined Cammie Dopke, a graduate student defender on the current squad from Arcadia, Calif., to share memories from her days representing the Buff and Blue and the lessons that still resonate.