Category: College Soccer Reporter

Ten players earned selection as NSCAA/adidas National Players of the Year. They join Joseph Lapira and Kerri Hanks, the Notre Dame players who won the 2006 Hermann Trophies, presented to the top players in NCAA Division I competition. NCAA DiIVISION II Morten Jensen, Dowling The native of Tanager, Norway led Dowling with 10 game-winning goals, […]

Notre Dame’s Michele Weissenhofer, the 2006 Soccer America Freshman of the Year, is among 26 players called into the first U.S. under-21 women’s training camp of 2007. Weissenhofer, who scored 18 goals with 17 assists — second in the country behind teammate Kerri Hanks — as a freshman, earned her first U-21 callup. Five players […]

The NSCAA/adidas National Coaches of the Year will be announced Friday at the annual NSCAA Awards Banquet being held in conjunction with the NSCAA Convention in Indianapolis, Ind. The following are the NSCAA/adidas Regional Coaches of the Year: NCAA Division I Men Region Coach School Far West George Kuntz UC Irvine Great Lakes Steve Simmons […]

Seven collegians were part of Dale Mitchell‘s Canada U-20 squad that trained in Florida before Christmas. Mitchell’s squad included goalie David Monsalve (Mobile), defenders Adam Lang (Washington), Tosaint Ricketts (Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Masumi Turnbull (Kentucky), midfielder Mike D’Agostino (Kentucky) and forwards Alex Elliott (Portland) and Daniel Revivo (Winthrop). Mitchell’s team for this summer’s Under-20 World […]

Soccer America MVPs Chris Seitz (Maryland), Julian Valentin (Wake Forest) and Sal Zizzo (UCLA) were among 10 collegians called up by U.S. under-20 men’s national team coach Thomas Rongen to participate in the team’s final training camp Dec. 30-Jan. 6 at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., before this month’s CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Panama. Seitz […]

The holiday season saw several high-profile women’s coaches change jobs. Veteran coach John Cossaboon, who led SMU to conference titles in all four seasons with the Mustangs, left to become the assistant coach at Gonzaga. “I am interested in waking up every day to an environment that both excites and challenges me to apply the […]

Charlotte has named Ft. Lewis coach Jeremy Gunn as the 49ers new head men’s soccer coach. Gunn led the Skyhawks to three NCAA Division II championship games in his eight-year stint, including each of the last two years. Ft. Lewis won the 2005 championship and finished as the runner-up in 2006. Gunn was named Division […]

U.S. women’s national team coach Greg Ryan will bring 12 players who participated in the 2006 college season to the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., for a five-day training camp Jan. 11-15 to prepare for the team’s trip to Guangzhou, China, for the 2007 Four Nations Tournament Jan. 26-30 against Germany, England and host […]

JC Division I Men NJCAA D1 champion Jefferson of Missouri had a pair of Floridians — first-team freshman forward Claudio Dantas (Deerfield Beach) and second-team sophomore defender Stanley Mathurin (Delray Beach) — earn honors. JC Division I Women Sophomore midfielders Aline Pugliesi and Megan Bruso, both first-team selections, were among three players from NJCAA D1 […]

NCAA Division II Men Ft. Lewis star John Cunliffe picked up his third All-America award. Cunliffe was one of four Englishmen to earn first-team honors along with defender Leon Jackson (Lynn), midfielder Thomas Beattie (Limestone) and forward Nick Cooke (Lander). Six other Englishmen earned second- or third-team honors. NCAA Division II Women Kylee Hanavan of […]

Trinidad & Tobago coach Wim Rijsbergen called up seven collegians among 41 players picked to attend a training camp Dec. 18-22 in preparation for the 2007 CFU Digicel Cup T&T will host in January. Rijsbergen, the former Dutch World Cup star and New York Cosmos defender, recently held a four-day camp in Charleston, S.C., to […]

Goalkeeper Chris Seitz, a 2006 Soccer America Men’s MVP, and Maurice Edu, a 2006 first-team NSCAA All-America midfielder, will forego their remaining eligibility at Maryland to pursue pro opportunities. The 6-foot-4 Seitz, who is currently training with the U.S. U-20 national team, is considered one of the top goalie prospects to come along in recent […]

Soccer America Women’s Freshman of the Year Michele Weissenhofer (Notre Dame) Soccer America Women’s All-Freshmen FIRST TEAM G Kristin Arnold (Texas A&M) F Kiki Bosio (Santa Clara) F Lauren Cheney (UCLA) F Gina DiMartino (Boston College) F Michelle Enyeart (Portland) D Kristi Eveland (North Carolina) M Tobin Heath (North Carolina) F Nikki Marshall (Colorado) M […]

It was an exceptional crop of freshmen in women’s college soccer, featuring four players — North Carolina’s Tobin Heath and Casey Nogueira, UCLA’s Lauren Cheney and Stanford’s Kelley O’Hara — who missed the first two weeks of the 2006 season to represent the USA at the U-20 Women’s World Championship and returned to earn All-Freshman […]

Soccer America Men’s Freshman of the Year David Estrada (UCLA) Soccer America Men’s All-Freshmen FIRST TEAM F Andre Akpan (Harvard) D Nick Cardenas (San Diego State) F David Estrada (UCLA) M Michael Farfan (Cal State Fullerton) M Jeremy Hall (Maryland) G Sean Kelley (George Mason) M Stephen McCarthy (Santa Clara) F Kyle Nakazawa (UCLA) F […]

Before the 2006 season, UCLA’s incoming class was ranked as the nation’s best, but it wasn’t because of Soccer America Men’s Freshman of the Year David Estrada. In an incoming class that featured three U.S. U-17 residency standouts — Kyle Nakazawa, Michael Stephens and Bryan Perk — Estrada was an afterthought. He was a walk-on […]

Bob DiGrazia, who coached the University of California’s men’s team for 28 years (1953-80) and remains the Bears’ all-time winningest coach with a 202-133-39 record, died Dec. 11. A San Francisco native, DiGrazia played for Cal in 1948-50 and became the Bears’ first All-American in 1950. As coach, he guided the Bears to their first […]

Soccer America Women’s Player of the Year Heather O’Reilly (North Carolina) Soccer America Women’s MVPs M Yael Averbuch (North Carolina) D Marian Dalmy (Santa Clara) M Christina DiMartino (UCLA) F Kerri Hanks (Notre Dame) D Ali Krieger (Penn State) D Stephanie Lopez (Portland) G Jillian Loyden (Villanova) D Kasey Moore (Texas) F Heather O’Reilly (North […]

Heather O’Reilly‘s college career ended as it started – with a national championship. After starting as a freshman on one of the great North Carolina teams in history three years ago, she was the senior leader on a freshman-dominated team that won 27 straight games to claim the Tar Heels’ 18th national championship. O’Reilly didn’t […]

Soccer America Men’s Player of the Year Joseph Lapira (Notre Dame) Soccer America Men’s MVPs M Nico Colaluca (Virginia) F Charlie Davies (Boston College) D Andy Iro (UC Santa Barbara) F Joseph Lapira (Notre Dame) D Jay Needham (SMU) M David Roth (Northwestern) G Chris Seitz (Maryland) F Jarrod Smith (West Virginia) D Julian Valentin […]

For the second year in a row, the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Year is a Louisianan. Last year it was Maryland’s Jason Garey from Gonzales, located between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The 2006 recipient is Notre Dame junior Joseph Lapira, from Lake Charles in Acadiana. Nicknamed the “Ragin’ Cajun” by Irish coach […]

Cerritos College’s men and Santiago Canyon College’s women captured their first COA soccer championships, the fourth successive sweep of state junior college titles by Southern California schools. COA Final Four Results Santiago Canyon (25-1-1), from Orange, stunned three-time champion Cypress, 2-0, in the women’s final on second-half goals by Kathleen Benton and Megan Konishi. The […]

Thanks to the support of its student body, the University of Central Arkansas did an about-face and reinstituted its men’s soccer program a month after it decided to drop the program. The school’s Board of Trustees accepted a Student Government Association recommendation to raise athletic fees by 50 cents per credit hour. This increase is […]

April Heinrichs, who coached the USA to the women’s soccer gold medal at the 2004 Olympics, has quit her coach as women’s coach at UC Irvine after only one season to accept a position with the U.S. Olympic Committee. Heinrichs’ decision to take the Anteater job last season was a surprise, and she was unable […]

With the end of the 2006 college season, the College Soccer Reporter returns to its offseason weekly frequency. It returns next Wednesday, Dec. 13, with Soccer America’s Men’s and Women’s Players of the Year, MVPs and Coaches of the Year. On Wednesday, Dec. 20, Soccer America’s Freshmen of the Year and All-Freshmen teams will be […]