Category: College Soccer Reporter

Jamaican youth international O’Brian White has all but wrapped up the NCAA Division I men’s scoring titles in points (45 and counting) and goals (19) and Connecticut teammate Mike Pezza leads the nation with 16 assists.

Santa Clara, which won its second straight WCC title after posting an undefeated 10-0-2 mark in league play, swept the conference yearly awards. Senior Peter Lowry captured WCC Player of the Year honors, while Cameron Rast was named WCC Coach of the Year for the second straight season and the third time in his career. Senior defender Jamil Roberts was named WCC Defensive Player of the Year, and newcomer Jalil Anibaba received Freshman of the Year accolades.

NCAA Division I Women’s Game Reports
Three of the four No. 1 regional seeds fell in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. Besides defending champion North Carolina, which lost to Notre Dame, Penn State fell to West Virginia, and Stanford was upset by Connecticut. Top-ranked UCLA is the only No. 1 seed still alive. The Bruins will face Portland, winner of 11 straight games, in the quarterfinals. For reports on all the Sweet 16 games …

North Carolina’s 3-2 defeat to Notre Dame was only its seventh loss in the 26 years of the NCAA Women’s Tournament but it marked the third time in the last four years that the Tar Heels had lost at home in the third round or quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament. The Tar Heels, winners of 18 championships, had never previously lost before the semifinals.

In consecutive games on the first weekend of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, Notre Dame scored back-to-back goals in 38 seconds and 75 seconds, but the Irish outdid themselves against North Carolina in Saturday’s third round. Notre Dame set an NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament record with goals 14 seconds apart in the 13th minute of its game at Chapel Hill and knocked off the defending champion Tar Heels, 3-2, to gain revenge for its loss in last year’s Women’s College Cup final.

Only four teams won on the road in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament: UIC (shootout win at Saint Louis), Vermont (shootout win at Dartmouth), Central Connecticut State (3-2 over Harvard) and Oakland (2-1 at Michigan State). For all the first-round results and goal scorers and second-round matchups …

After 29 years as men’s head coach at Duke, John Rennie‘s career came to an end Friday night when the Blue Devils fell, 1-0, at Louisville in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament.

[NCAA DIVISION III MEN] Middlebury won the NCAA Division III men’s title without scoring a goal in the final four played Friday and Saturday at Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.

[NCAA DIVISION III WOMEN] Wheaton (Ill.) completed a perfect season with a 1-0 win over Messiah Saturday to clinch its second straight NCAA Division III women’s championship.

Israeli Dori Arad, whose two goals gave Connecticut a 2-0 win over Notre Dame in the Big East Tournament final, is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week for games played Nov. 12-18.

The women’s regular season ended only 10 days ago, but there’s been an unprecedented wave of jobs open up at major programs. Alabama, Michigan and Oklahoma are just a few of the Division I women’s programs looking for new coaches. In order of longevity, here are the coaches who have resigned …

[CHAMPIONSHIP] Sven Simon scored one goal and set up another to lead top seeded Azusa Pacific to its first NAIA men’s national championship with a 2-0 win over Southern California rival Concordia on Tuesday night in Olathe, Kan.

[CHAMPIONSHIP] Fifth-seeded Martin Methodist captured the program’s second NAIA national title in three seasons with a 2-1 win over No. 3 Azusa Pacific Tuesday night at the Embry-Riddle Soccer Stadium in Daytona, Beach, Fla.

California’s Kevin Grimes was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year for the third year in a row. Player honors went to Washington senior Ely Allen and  California senior Andrew Jacobson, Co-Players of the Year, and Stanford’s Bobby Warshaw, Freshman of the Year

UCSB senior Andy Iro‘s selection as the Defensive of the Year for the third year in a row highlighted this year’s Big West individual honors. Tow other Gauchos captured honors: Chris Pontius (Offensive Player of the Year) and sophomore transfer Ciaran O’Brien (Midfielder of the Year). The other honors went to UC Riverside senior Charles Alamo (Goalkeeper of the Year), Cal Poly’s David Zamora (Freshman of the Year) and UC Davis head man Dwayne Shaffer (Coach of the Year).

Play begins in the 48-team NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament with 16 games Friday and Saturday. For the first- and second-round matchups …

Six of the eight top seeds are still alive in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, which moves into the round of 16, beginning Friday. For all the post-Thanksgiving schedules …

Boston College’s Sherron Manswell, a two-time Soccer America Player of the Year, and Chris Brown, are among the players named to this week’s Soccer America Men’s Team of the Week. For the complete Team of the Week for games played Nov. 12-18 …

Play begins in the 48-team NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament with 16 games Friday and Saturday. For the first- and second-round matchups …

How does a Boston College-Wake Forest rematch in the 2007 Men’s College Cup final sound? Or what about a UCSB-UConn final? Those are two of the possibilities if the 2007 NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament goes as we predict.

Six of the eight top seeds are still alive in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, which moves into the round of 16, beginning Friday. For all the results and schedules …

For the second straight year, Azusa Pacific’s women’s team will join the men’s team in the NAIA national finals. The Cougar women beat Lindsey Wilson, 2-1, to advance to Tuesday’s final against Martin Methodist in Daytona Beach, Fla. Lindsey Wilson had two players red carded at the end of the Blue Raiders’ semifinal. Shannon Walker scored both goals to give Martin Methodist a 2-0 win over No. 1 seed Lee in the other semifinal.