Reagan Raabe, Lauryn Anglim and Sadie Waite were all named Big Ten Preseason Players to Watch, the conference announced on Monday. 

Raabe, a midfielder and forward, makes her return in 2025 after being injured during both the 2023 and 2024 seasons. She was a member of the All-Big Ten third team in 2021 and 2022. The graduate student has started 43 games in her career and amassed 10 goals and eight assists for a total of 28 points. She has also recorded 81 shots. Raabe scored the Huskers’ only goal of exhibition play, as she netted the ball at minute 67:00 against Colorado State. 

Defender Anglim has been consistently in the NU lineup during her three years with the Huskers, starting 61 games. She has scored three goals in her career and tallied 14 assists. Anglim was named to the Big Ten All-Freshman Team in 2022. 

A U20 World Cup Team Canada Member in 2024, Waite has started 50 games for the Big Red and played in 55. She has logged 20 points with seven goals and six assists. Waite has taken 67 shots for NU, including 22 on goal. 

The Big Ten Conference also released its soccer preseason poll, and NU was tabbed No. 12. 

Big Ten Women’s Soccer Preseason Poll
1. USC
2. UCLA
3. Penn State
4. Michigan State
5. Ohio State
6. Iowa
7. Wisconsin
8. Rutgers
9. Washington
10. Minnesota
11. Purdue
12. Nebraska
13. Michigan
14. Northwestern
15. Illinois
16. Oregon
17. Indiana
18. Maryland

Bozan Named to All-Star Five for Croatia

Nebraska women's basketball sophomore-to-be Petra Bozan averaged 13.3 points and 6.4 rebounds over seven games to earn a spot on the All-Star Five at the FIBA Eurobasket Division B Championships in Miskolc, Hungary, Aug. 2-10.

Bozan, a 6-3 forward from Split, Croatia, added one assist and one block per game to help Croatia to a third-place finish and earn a promotion to Division A in Europe. In seven tournament games, Bozan totaled 93 points, 45 rebounds, seven assists and seven blocks while hitting 52.7 percent of her shots from the floor. 

Her best individual effort came with 20 points and eight rebounds in just 17 minutes of work in an 87-73 win over Greece early in the tournament. She added 17 points, seven rebounds and two assists in a crucial 70-61 win over Slovakia midway through the event, before following with 17 points, nine rebounds and two more assists in a 72-62 loss to the hosts from Hungary the next time out. Against the Hungarians, Bozan drained all three of her three-point attempts.

Bozan produced double-figure points in each of her first five games for Croatia, and closed the tournament with eight points, six rebounds and two blocks in an 82-78 victory over Bulgaria in the third-place game.

As a freshman for the Huskers in 2024-25, Bozan averaged 5.3 points and 2.8 rebounds while playing in all 33 games behind three-time first-team All-Big Ten center Alexis Markowski. She helped Nebraska to the NCAA Tournament by averaging 7.3 points on 10-of-14 shooting in three games at the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis.

Earlier in her international career, Bozan earned a spot on the All-Star Five at the 2023 FIBA U18 European Division B Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. She played for the Croatian U18 team in both 2023 and 2024, after playing for the Croatian U16 national team in 2022.

Husker Legend Secures PWBA Pepsi Open Title, Becomes Eligible for Hall of Fame

Gates, New York - Former Nebraska bowler Shannon Pluhowsky became Hall of Fame-eligible as she defeated Liz Johnson, 226-175, at the 2025 PWBA Pepsi Open held at ABC Gates Bowl on Saturday evening. 

Pluhowsky qualified as the No. 4 seed and took down Anna Andersson in the round of 16. Pluhowsky moved on to face Shayna Ng and swept the match, 3-0. Pluhowsky ended her title run with a win against Lindsay (Baker) Boomershine, another Husker bowling great, before she went on to defeat Johnson in the final match. 

The PWBA Tour Championship rounds out the PWBA tour season, running from August 10-12. The Tour Championship field will be filled with the winners from this season, and those in the top-24 in points.