Category: College Soccer Reporter

Kevin Boyd has stepped down as the women’s coach at the University of California after 10 seasons to attend to new family priorities Since assuming the head coaching duties at Cal in 1997, Boyd compiled a 124-63-20 record and eight NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2005, he was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year and led […]

Kerri Hanks, Michele Weissenhofer, Amanda Cinalli and Brittany Bock, who combined for 63 goals and 50 assists for NCAA Division I runner-up Notre Dame in 2006, will head the U.S. under-21 women’s national team that travels to England on Friday for games against three English clubs. U.S. coach Bill Irwin is bringing 18 players for […]

Greg Paynter, the associate head women’s coach at James Madison and a member of the JMU coaching staff for the last eight years, is leaving the Dukes to become the head women’s coach at CAA rival Towson. Paynter succeeds Leslie Wray, who resigned in December after seven seasons as the Tigers head coach.

Two more collegians have bypassed MLS and signed with European clubs. Penn State’s Simon Omekanda, picked by Chicago in the fourth round of the 2007 SuperDraft, signed with Swedish club IF Norrkoping. The two-time All-Big Ten First Team was born in Morocco and spent time in Belgium before moving to Rochester Hills, Mich., where he […]

Long-time college coach and former U.S. international Dieter Ficken is returning to college coaching one year after leaving Columbia University. Ficken was named the head men’s coach at Division II C.W. Post. He had spent 27 years at Columbia, compiling a 252-139-53 record and leading the Lions to the final four twice. He had previously […]

Pizza Hut Park will become the third MLS soccer-specific stadium to host the NCAA Division I men’s championship. The NCAA has approved SMU — the only NCAA Division I men’s program in Texas — as the host of the 2008 Men’s College Cup in partnership with FC Dallas at Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Dec. […]

Kentucky product Omar Persad, who was named to Jamaica’s squad for last week’s CONCACAF U-20 Qualifying Tournament,  played for Southern California club Arsenal FC, not Louisville club Javanon, in the 2006 McGuire Cup. Before attending San Diego State, Persad played for the JYSA United club in Louisville.

NCAA DIVISION I MEN COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH 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 … Mike Harper (IPFW assistant) MAINE Travers […]

The Adus sure start young. Freddy Adu signed with MLS at 14. Fro Adu, his younger brother, is off to college at 16. Fro has signed a letter of intent to play for George Mason, where he will play for former Columbus Crew coach Greg Andrulis. Adu, whose full name is Fredua Akoto Adu (as […]

Ciaran O’Brien, who earned second-team Soccer America All-Freshman honors in 2006, is transferring from San Diego to 2006 NCAA Division I national champion UC Santa Barbara. O’Brien was the most widely recruited transfer player in the nation following a very successful freshman campaign with the Toreros. He was third on the squad with six goals […]

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville’s Board of Trustees has approved a move for the school to apply for reclassification to NCAA Division I for all sports in the SIUE program. SIU-E currently participates at the NCAA Division II level but for many years was a D1 power in men’s soccer. The Cougars won the 1979 NCAA Division […]

Linda Hamilton, a starter on the 1991 U.S. women’s world championship team, has been named the head women’s coach at NCAA Division I school North Florida. Hamilton, who serves on U.S. Soccer’s Board of Directors, spent last fall as an assistant women’s coach at Hofstra  and previously was head coach at Old Dominion in 1994, […]

NCAA DIVISION I MEN COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH 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 … Mike Harper (IPFW assistant) MAINE Travers […]

Omar Persad of San Diego State and Joel Senior of Howard, both products of the U.S. youth system, are representing Jamaica at the CONCACAF Under-20 World Cup Qualifying Tournament being played in Culiacan, Mexico. The American-born Persad, a sophomore with the Aztecs, starred on Kentucky club Javanon’s 2006 McGuire Cup championship team and played on […]

Eric Frimpong, a starter on UC Santa Barbara’s 2006 NCAA Division I championship team, was arrested last Saturday for investigation of rape and was released after $100,000 bail was posted. The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office reported detectives developed probable cause to arrest Frimpong for rape following an investigation of a reported rape of a UCSB […]

Soccer Buzz, the web site devoted to women’s college soccer, announced its Top 12 Recruits, the top U.S.-based players entering college next fall. The No. 1 recruit is Hannah Cerrone, who will attend Boston College. She is the 2006 NSCAA/adidas High School Girls Player of the Year out of Ketcham High School in Wappingers Falls, […]

Paula Wilkins‘ decision to leave Penn State for Wisconsin was a surprise. First of all, the Nittany Lions are a perennial national contender, expected to again challenge for a Women’s College Cup berth in 2007. Secondly, she is a native Pennsylvanian, having grown up in Middletown.  “My decision was based primarily on things in my […]

The coaching musical chairs that began when Dean Duerst stepped down as Wisconsin women’s coach continued as Ray Leone has left Arizona State to become the head women’s coach at Harvard. Leone, 24th among active head coaches in NCAA Division I history with 192 victories, succeeds Erica Walsh, who left the Crimson after less than […]

Tim Hankinson is returning to the college ranks where he began his career. The globetrotting coach, who most recently served as the head coach of Guatemala’s U-17 national team program, has been named the men’s head coach at Division II power Ft. Lewis. Hankinson served as head coach of Alabama A&M during its heyday as […]

Tiffany Roberts played on the U.S. team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic women’s soccer competition in Athens, Ga., and captured the 1999 Women’s World Cup championship. Her husband, Tim Sahaydak, was one of the first players to enter MLS’s Project-40 program. Roberts and Sahaydak, who met while attending the University of […]

Only seven months after being named Harvard women’s coach, Erica Walsh is on the move again. Walsh has been named the women’s head coach at Big Ten powerhouse Penn State following the decision of Paula Wilkins to take the vacant Wisconsin job. “Becoming the head coach at Penn State is an extremely exciting opportunity for […]

Soccer America Women’s MVPs Christina DiMartino (UCLA), Ali Krieger (Penn State) and Kasey Moore (Texas) and Freshman of the Year Michele Weissenhofer (Notre Dame) are among the 24 players U.S. under-21 women’s national team coach Bill Irwin will bring to a training camp at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., running Feb. 17-23. The […]

Liberty’s Darryl Roberts is the latest collegian to head to Europe, signing an 18-month contract with Dutch club Sparta Rotterdam. Roberts, the all-time leading scorer in Liberty history (94 career points), recently played for Trinidad & Tobago at the 2007 Digicel Caribbean Cup. The Trincity, Trinidad native was a Soccer America All-Freshman selection in 2002 […]

Washington coach Dean Wurzberger landed Ellis McLoughlin, one of the top forward prospects on the U.S. U-17 national team, for the 2008 season. McLoughlin will join UW in January 2008 due to his academic schedule and his possible participation in the Under-17 World Cup Aug.18-Sept. 9 in South Korea. He is currently in the Under-17 […]

Soccer America first-team All-Freshman picks Kristin Arnold (Texas A&M), Gina DiMartino (Boston College) and Nikki Marshall (Colorado) and second-team selections Emily Beans (Colorado College), Kelly Eagan (Villanova) and Becky Edwards (Florida State) headline the players called into new U.S. under-20 women’s national team coach Jillian Ellis‘ first training camp of the new cycle, running Feb. […]