The U.S. U-21 women’s national team opened a three-game tour of Germany on Tuesday with a 4-1 win over FC Gutersloh of the German Second Division. Bill Irwin‘s Americans broke open the close game with three goals in the last 20 minutes by Natalie Capuano (Penn), Ali Krieger (Penn State) and Angie Woznuk (Portland). Natalie Budge (Portland) evened the score in the 19th minute after Gutersloh went ahead with a penalty three minutes earlier.
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Champion UCSB adds pair of Kiwi U-20 stars
Defending NCAA Division I men’s national champion UC Santa Barbara has signed Michael Boxall and Sam Jenkins, who are both expected to represent New Zealand at next month’s Under-20 World Cup. Boxall, a gifted center back that can also play in the midfield, was named Auckland City FC’s Young Player of the Year. Jenkins, who scored three goals in his first two games with the U-20s, plays for Hawke’s Bay United in the NZ Football Championship, New Zealand’s top domestic league. Boxall and Jenkins follow in the footsteps of former UCSB defender Tony Lochhead and forward Neil Jones, who both competed for New Zealand at the national level prior to their arrival in Santa Barbara.
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UCLA ranks No. 1 in women’s recruiting classes
UCLA has SoccerBuzz’s 2007 top women’s soccer recruiting class in its annual rankings, ahead of Florida State, North Carolina, Boston College and California. Lauren Barnes and Kylie Wright head the Bruins’ 10-player class. The last two years, UCLA’s recruiting class was No. 2 in the country.
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Buckeyes set records as Senn fund nearly reaches $100,000
Ohio State recently drew a record crowd and record sponsor support for its Sixth Annual Connor Senn Memorial Game. Approximately $23,000 was generated from corporate sponsors, patrons and the 2,053 fans who saw Crew midfielder Danny O’Rourke wear No. 22 with “SENN” on the back in honor of his seven-year club soccer teammate and former Buckeye who collapsed on the field during at game at Akron in 2001 and died later night from a congenital heart defect.
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Hartwick moves to Mid-American for men’s soccer
Hartwick will join the Mid-American Conference as an affiliate member in men’s soccer only, beginning with the 2007 season. The MAC needed to add another team to keep its automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. The NCAA mandates that at least six members of the league must sponsor the sport to receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. IPFW, which was an affiliate member of the MAC in 2005 and 2006, left after the 2006 season as all of its athletics programs joined the Summit League (former Mid-Continent).
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Prep star Angulo passes on college game for Europe
Perennial No. 1 national boys prep program St. Benedict’s has produced some of the nation’s top college players. After starring at the Newark, N.J., school, Tab Ramos (N.C. State), Claudio Reyna (Virginia) and Gregg Berhalter (North Carolina) all went on to have tremendous college careers and represent the USA at the World Cup. Now, the top Grey Bees are taking a different path — foregoing college soccer and MLS for the European pro soccer. Colombian-born forward Jose Angulo is considered one of the best forwards to ever play for the Grey Bees, and he has decided to pass on the college game — his first choice was Connecticut — to try his luck in Europe.
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Kremser is stepping down as FIU men’s coach
Karl Kremser is retiring after 27 years as the men’s head coach at Florida International University, which he helped build into a national power. He guided the Golden Panthers to NCAA Division II championships in 1982 and 1984, and three other FIU teams reached the national finals, including his 1996 team that played for the NCAA Division I crown against St. John’s. Long-time assistant Munga Eketebi, a former FIU star, is expected to replace Kremser.
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NCAA D1 Men & Women Coaching Changes
[MAKING A LIST] Vacancies still exist for the men’s soccer head coaching positions at Air Force and Howard, two prominent men’s programs, in addition to position that has opened up at FIU.
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Harvard adds Tracey Leone to women’s staff
Former U.S. international Tracey Leone, who led the USA to the 2002 Under-19 Women’s World Championship title, will work as an assistant at Harvard University alongside husband Ray Leone, the new Crimson women’s head coach
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Mexico’s U-20s beat Indiana and fall to Notre Dame
Mexico’s under-20 men’s national team split in two recent games against college powers. A Ryan Miller goal in the 79th minute gave Notre Dame a 1-0 win in front of 2,313 fans at a rainy Alumni Field. Goals from Javier Hernandez and Hector Moreno gave Mexico’s U-20s a 2-0 win over Indiana two days later, in front of nearly 6,000 fans.
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Cal women hire Texas Tech’s McGuire
California has hired Texas Tech women’s coach Neil McGuire as its new women’s coach, replacing Kevin Boyd, who resigned earlier this year and later took the women’s job at Arizona State.
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NCAA announces sanctions in West Virginia men’s investigation
The NCAA placed the West Virginia men’s soccer program on two-year probation and issued a public reprimand to the school for major rules violations by former men’s coach Mike Seabolt. In a lengthy report, the NCAA Division I Committee on Infractions outlined violations committed by Seabolt.
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Soccer teams recognized for academic success
As part of the NCAA’s broad Division I academic reform effort, the NCAA recognized teams that posted multi-year Academic Progress Rate (APR) scores in the top 10 percent of all squads in their respective sports. Programs honored included 2006 NCAA Division I men’s quarterfinalists Duke and Northwestern and women’s runner-up Notre Dame and quarterfinalist Portland.
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NCAA hands academic sanctions to two soccer programs
Division I soccer programs largely escaped the wrath of the NCAA, which handed out teams this week to programs that failed to meet academic standards. Only two soccer teams — San Jose State’s men and Texas Southern’s women — were subject to sanctions.
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1. Hoosiers host Mexican fiesta
One of the biggest rivalries Indiana, the seven-time men’s national champion, has developed is its spring season clash against Mexico. For the third straight spring, the Hoosiers host a Mexican national youth team in a friendly. This year’s friendly against the Tri U-20s takes place Sunday at Armstrong Stadium.
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2. MLS: College picks see action
Going into the fourth weekend of the MLS season, 15 collegians taken in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft and Supplemental Draft have already made their pro debuts.
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3. MESA STATE: New D2 men’s program adds Utah star
Josh Pittman, coach of the new Mesa State men’s program, has landed Andy Cornia, the 2007 Utah Gatorade Player of the Year, as part of his first recruiting class.
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5. COACHING CHANGES: NCAA D1 Men & Women
NCAA DIVISION I MEN COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH AIR FORCE Luis Sagastume … TBA CHARLOTTE John Tart… Jeremy Gunn (Ft. Lewis coach) DENVER Chad Ashton (D.C. United assistant) … Bobby Muuss (Wake Forest assistant) HIGH POINT Peter Broadley … Dustin Fonder (Elon assistant) HOWARD Keith Tucker … TBA IPFW Terry Stefankiewicz … […]
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3. HAMILTON MEMORIAL CLASSIC: Rutgers meets St. John’s
Big East rivals Rutgers and St. John’s will meet Saturday at Raritan High School in Hazlet, N.J. in the first annual Doug Hamilton Memorial Soccer Classic, honoring Doug Hamilton, the late Los Angeles Galaxy president and an important influence within the world of American soccer who passed away suddenly in March 2006 at the age […]
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2. TRANSFERS: SLU adds Barklage
St. Louis product Brandon Barklage will transfer to Saint Louis University after spending the previous two seasons at New Mexico. Barklage helped New Mexico to the NCAA Tournament the past two seasons and totaled 19 points (5 goals and 9 assists) in 42 games. Last season, the 5-foot-11 forward earned first-team Mountain Pacific Sports Federation […]
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4. U-21 WOMEN: Collegians head to Alabama
Kiki Bosio (Santa Clara) and Kelly O’Hara (Stanford), 2006 Soccer America All-Freshman first-team selections, are among the players selected to the U.S. Under-21 women’s national team roster for the 2007 Futbol Internacional Tournament, taking place April 22-28 at six venues throughout the state of Alabama. O’Hara and UCLA’s Danesha Adams, a 2005 Soccer America MVP […]
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1. Player of the Year Lapira to try out in Scotland
Notre Dame’s Joseph Lapira, the 2006 Soccer America Men’s Player of the Year and Hermann Trophy winner, will head to Scotland on the eve of 2007 college season for a tryout at Premier League club Aberdeen.
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6. COACHING CHANGES: NCAA D1 Men & Women
NCAA DIVISION I MEN COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH AIR FORCE Luis Sagastume … TBA CHARLOTTE John Tart… Jeremy Gunn (Ft. Lewis coach) DENVER Chad Ashton (D.C. United assistant) … Bobby Muuss (Wake Forest assistant) HIGH POINT Peter Broadley … Dustin Fonder (Elon assistant) HOWARD Keith Tucker … TBA IPFW Terry Stefankiewicz … […]
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4. EUROPEAN SIGNINGS: 2006 Collegians
PLAYER COLLEGE to CLUB Charlie Davies Boston College to Hammarby (Sweden) Ryan Guy San Diego to St. Patrick’s Athletic (Ireland) Tally Hall San Diego State to Esbjerg (Denmark) Pietari Holopainen Creighton to FC Haka (Finland) Simon Omekanda Penn State to IF Norrkoping (Sweden) Steve Purdy California to 1860 Munich II (Germany) Darryl Roberts Liberty to […]
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5. NEW ZEALAND: Oceania champ features four collegians
Four U.S. collegians were members of the New Zealand team that qualified for the 2007 Women’s World Cup by sweeping the Oceania qualifying tournament with wins over Tonga (6-1), Solomon Islands (8-0) and Papua New Guinea (7-0). Ali Riley, Stanford’s all-Pac 10 freshman selection, Hayley Moorwood, Tennessee Tech’s Hannah Bromley and Coastal Carolina’s Emily McColl […]