Category: College Soccer Reporter

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 […]

Wake Forest assistant Bobby Muuss has been hired to fill the men’s head coaching vacancy at Denver following Chad Ashton‘s decision to leave Denver to become an assistant at D.C. United. Muuss worked closely the last three years with Demon Deacon goalie Brian Edwards, who set school records with 13 shutouts last season and 31 […]

Boston College senior Laura Georges will play for the FIFA Women’s World Stars in an exhibition game against China on April 22 in Wuhan, China. BC’s French star was one of 18 international women’s stars to be named to the team to play in the showcase event surrounding festivities involved in the final draw of […]

Wednesday was National Letter of Intent Day, a huge media event in the world of college football, but few men’s and women’s soccer programs even bothered to make announcements. Of the teams to advance to the final 16 in 2006 NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament, only California released its incoming class. Forward Davis Paul of […]

MEN’S COACHING MOVES COLLEGE … OLD COACH … NEW COACH CHARLOTTE John Tart… Jeremy Gunn (Ft. Lewis coach) DENVER Chad Ashton (D.C. United assistant) … Dave Thomas-interim (Denver assistant) HIGH POINT Peter Broadley … Dustin Fonder (Elon assistant) HOWARD Keith Tucker … TBA IPFW Terry Stefankiewicz … Mike Harper (IPFW assistant) MAINE Travers Evans … […]

While Tambi and Erwin are switching from men’s to women’s programs, Wulf Koch is going the other direction. Koch was named the new men’s coach at NAIA powerhouse Auburn-Montgomery after spending three seasons overseeing the women’s program, which had a 48-19-3 record. Before taking over the Senators’ women’s team, Koch coached men’s teams for 12 […]

Colin Carmichael will take over as head coach of the Oklahoma State women’s program with fellow co-coach Karen Hancock assuming the role of assistant coach. “This was completely my decision,” said Hancock. “I’m a single mother and the job responsibilities of a head coach take up a lot of time. At this juncture, I think […]

In a surprise move, Paula Wilkins, who has the second-highest winning percentage in the nation among active NCAA women’s coaches, left Penn State to take over the women’s program at Big Ten rival Wisconsin. Wilkins compiled a 119-19-11 in six seasons as Penn State’s head coach, leading the Nittany Lions to six straight Big Ten […]

Feb. 7 is the National Letter of Intent Day for men’s and women’s soccer. That’s the day players can formalize agreements with colleges to play in their programs, though most of the top prospects made up their minds about their college plans a long time ago. Among the top men’s prospects is 2006 NSCAA/adidas Youth […]

The NSCAA’s College Game of the Week will return to Fox Soccer Channel in 2007. The men’s game of the week will be on eight successive Friday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET, beginning Sept. 14, while the women’s game of the week will be aired on Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET for eight weeks […]

In the last College Soccer Reporter, it was reported Bob Winch was out as the University of Central Florida’s men’s coach. That move happened in 2004, and Winch has since worked as the women’s assistant at Auburn and is now the women’s head coach at The Citadel. The Big 10, not Big West, had four […]

Chad Ashton is leaving Denver after 10 years as the men’s coach to take a position as assistant coach with MLS’s D.C. United. Ashton’s career record was 85-85-14, all as head coach of the Pioneers. He was the 2004 MPSF Coach of the Year and 2006 MPSF Co-Coach of the Year after guiding his team […]

Keith Tucker is out after 26 years as the men’s head coach at Howard University, one of the great names in the history of men’s college soccer. Tucker’s current contract will not be renewed for the 2007 season after the Bison went 3-13-1 overall and 0-6-0 in the Atlantic Soccer Conference last fall. Tucker’s overall […]

Expansion team Carolina took Sola Abolaji of the University of Buffalo with the No. 1 pick in the USL First Division’s 2007 College Draft. California, the league’s other new team in 2007, picked UCLA goalie Eric Reed with the No. 2 pick. Among the players taken were former PDL star Freddy Moojen, the Brazilian who […]

NCAA Division I semifinal Virginia topped the NCAA’s final Division I men’s RPI rankings — the Ratings Percentage Index used as an aid in selecting and seeding of the teams for the NCAA Tournament and taking into account a team’s winning percentage, its strength of schedule and its opponents’ strength of schedule. ACC teams claimed […]

NCAA Division I women’s champion North Carolina and runner-up Notre Dame also finished 1-2 in the NCAA’s final Division I women’s RPI rankings — the Ratings Percentage Index used as an aid in selecting and seeding of the teams for the NCAA Tournament and taking into account a team’s winning percentage, its strength of schedule […]

Ohio Wesleyan men’s coach Jay Martin received the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Honor Award at the NSCAA’s Awards Banquet held on Friday in conjunction with the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis, Ind. In his 30 years as coach of the Battling Bishops, Martin has led his teams to seven NCAA semifinals, a pair of […]

East Tennessee State introduced Clemson assistant Scott Calabrese as the head coach of its new men’s program. “It is truly an honor to be named the first head men’s soccer coach in the history of ETSU,” Calabrese said. “The vision of the university, the athletic department and the community shows a deep commitment to the […]

Bob Winch is out as University of Central Florida’s men’s coach after 12 seasons. “He has worked hard to build the program to its current point,” UCF director of athletics Steve Orsini said, “but we believe it’s time for a change in leadership to continue the growth of the program as it moves into Conference […]

North Carolina’s Anson Dorrance won his five NSCAA/adidas National Coach of the Year award when he claimed the NCAA Division I women’s award at the annual NSCAA Awards Banquet, held Friday evening in conjunction with the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis, Ind. Dorrance, whose freshman-dominated Tar Heels won the 2006 NCAA Division I women’s title, moved […]

ACC players were taken with the first six picks in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft, confirming the conference’s reputation as the nation’s top men’s soccer conference. 2007 MLS SuperDraft Picks Four of the six players were underclassmen signed to Generation adidas contracts, beginning with Maryland’s Maurice Edu, the No. 1 pick taken by Toronto FC. Turning […]

U.S. women’s national team head coach and technical director Greg Ryan has named Jillian Ellis as the new U.S. under-20 women’s national team head coach. Ellis, previously the U-21 women’s coach, will be charged with leading the team that will attempt to qualify for the 2008 FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile. Ellis has […]

Heather O’Reilly, the 2006 Soccer America Women’s College Player of the Year, heads the 20-player U.S. women’s national team roster for the 2007 Four Nations Tournament Jan. 26-30 in Guangzhou, China, against Germany, England and China. U.S. Four Nations Roster Ryan named three uncapped players, all college freshmen, to the roster: 2006 ACC Offensive Player […]

Two collegians — Javier Gonzalez of St. Francis (N.Y.) and Juan Guerra of FIU — were selected to play for Venezuela at the South American Youth Championship, which began on Saturday in Paraguay. Neither player played in Venezuela’s opening game, a 1-0 victory over Uruguay. Both are veterans of the Venezuela national youth team program. […]

Four ACC stars — Chris Seitz and Maurice Edu from Maryland and Nico Colaluca and Bakary Soumare from Virginia — head MLS’s Generation adidas signings who should go early in Friday’s MLS SuperDraft. According to Soccer America Senior Editor Ridge Mahoney, they are among eight players signed by MLS to Generation adidas contracts. The two […]