Category: College Soccer Reporter

Notre Dame stars Kerri Hanks and Joseph Lapira swept the 2006 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy as the top college players. This marks the first time since the MAC began awarding both a men’s and women’s award in 1991 that players from the same school have won the award in the same year. Hanks, the […]

MEN’S COLLEGE CUP Final Dec. 3 in St. Louis UC Santa Barbara 2 UCLA 1. Goals: Perera (Rosenlund) 3, Avila (Perera, Byrne) 61; Leopoldo (Beltran) 79. UC Santa Barbara — Reynish, Iro, G.Curry, Tennelle, J.Curry, Rosenlund, Frimpong, Pontius, Avila, Byrne, Perera. Subs: Walker, Nunez, Patterson, Kaveny, Proctor. UCLA — Reed, Rusin, Zaher, Alvarado, McClung, Stephens, […]

U.S. international Heather O’Reilly went out as she began her college career with a national championship, leading North Carolina to its 18th NCAA women’s championship Sunday afternoon with a 2-1 victory over top-ranked and previously unbeaten Notre Dame at SAS Soccer Park in Cary, N.C. North Carolina-Notre Dame Video Highlights North Carolina-UCLA Video Highlights Notre […]

UC Santa Barbara defied history to beat UCLA, 2-1, in the final of the Men’s College Cup Sunday and win its first NCAA Division I men’s championship. UCSB-UCLA Video Highlights UCLA-Virginia Video Highlights UCSB-Wake Forest Video Highlights The Gauchos’ victory over UCLA was their first since 1982 and only the second in 33 meetings. UCLA […]

Notre Dame stars Kerri Hanks and Joseph Lapira swept the 2006 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy as the top college players. This marks the first time since the MAC began awarding both a men’s and women’s award in 1991 that players from the same school have won the award in the same year. Hanks and […]

UC reigned over the ACC in an East-West battle in the semifinals of the Men’s College Cup on Saturday in St. Louis. UCLA, looking for its 100th NCAA sports championship, stunned Virginia with a four-goal blitz in the last 26 minutes to down the Cavaliers, 4-0, in the first semifinals. UC Santa Barbara outlasted Wake […]

Dec. 2 in St. Louis UCLA 4 Virginia 0. Goals: Estrada (Nakazawa) 64, Estrada 66, Myers (Leopoldo) 84, Stephens 88. UCLA — Reed, Rusin, Zaher, Folk, McClung, Stephens, Barlow, Zizzo, Leopoldo, Nakazawa, Estrada. Subs: Alvarado, Myers, Jaramillo, Suits. Virginia — Burke, Poole, Soumare, Short, Williams, Murphy, Holder, Colaluca, Villanueva, Cristman, Reyering. Subs: Barlow, Hinkle, LaBauex. […]

NCAA Division I NSCAA/adidas All-America First Team Pos., Name, Cl., School, Hometown G, Jillian Loyden, Jr., Villanova, Vineland, N.J. D, Ali Krieger *, Sr., Penn State, Dumfries, Va. D , Kasey Moore, So., Texas, Mission Viejo, Calif. D, Kelly Rowland, Sr., Florida State, Wallingford, Pa. M, Yael Averbuch, So., North Carolina, Upper Montclair, N.J. M, […]

NCAA Division I NSCAA/adidas All-America First Team Pos., Name, Cl., School, Hometown G, Nick Noble, Sr., West Virginia, Damascus, Md. D, Andrew Boyens *, Sr., New Mexico, Dunedin, New Zealand D, Julius James *, Jr., Connecticut, Maloney Gardens, Trinidad D, Jay Needham, Sr., SMU, Fort Worth, Texas D, John O’Reilly, Sr., Lehigh, Arlington, Mass. M, […]

The Washington Post‘s Steven Goff recounts the long journey of Virginia freshman Bakary Soumare from his native Mali to Charlottesville, with stops in Paris and New York, where he was rescued from a “desperate situation” and taken in my a wealthy family living on the East Side.

Due to the winter weather system that moved through the St. Louis area Thursday night, Friday’s Men’s College Cup semifinal games were postponed until Saturday. The first game, featuring Virginia and UCLA, was scheduled to be played at noon (ET)/11 am (CT) Saturday and televised live on ESPN2. Wake Forest and UC Santa Barbara meet […]

Dec. 1 in Cary, N.C. North Carolina 2 UCLA 0. Goals: Nogueira (Averbuch) 84, O’Reilly (Averbuch, Eveland) 86. North Carolina — Rodenbough, Gayle, Ariel Harris, Eveland, Hawkins, Averbuch, Washington, Heath, Engen, O’Reilly, Guess. Subs: Gilbert, Ashlyn Harris, Brooks, Nogueira, Moore, Moraca, Smith. UCLA — Henderson, Davis, Hardy, Calvert, Wilmoth, Lindstrom, Larsen, M.Zerboni, DiMartino, Adams, Cheney. […]

North Carolina will play Notre Dame for the NCAA Division I women’s title for the fourth time when they meet Sunday in the 2006 Women’s College Cup final. North Carolina-UCLA Video Highlights Notre Dame-Florida State Video Highlights Top-ranked Notre Dame edged Florida State after scoring twice in the 10 last minutes of the first half. […]

Tom Timmerman of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch uncovers a diamond in Sal Zizzo, who hoped to go in the Major League Baseball draft until an injury between his junior and senior years of high school sidetracked him. While the attention of most Wake Forest supporters will be on quarterback Riley Skinner and the Demon Deacon […]

Rarely has a NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament game put together such as assemblance of talent as Friday’s Men’s College Cup semifinal between Virginia and UCLA, two of the giants of the modern college game. They feature some of the most intriguing young players in the college game. For Virginia, there’s the giant Malian-born center […]

MLS announced the initial list of 58 college seniors who will participate in the 2007 adidas MLS Player Combine Jan. 5-8 at Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The coaching staffs and general managers from all 13 MLS teams will be in attendance to scout talent for the 2007 MLS SuperDraft will be held on […]

After previewing the North Carolina-UCLA and Notre Dame-Florida State games in Friday’s Women’s College Cup semifinals, Soccer America turns to the Men’s College Cup with Friday’s Wake Forest-UC Santa Barbara game in St. Louis. The Demon Deacons are making their College Cup debut two years after UCSB make its first appearance in the final four. […]

Michigan and San Diego State won the men’s and women’s Championship divisions, respectively, at the NIRSA National Soccer Sport Club Championships held in Tempe, Ariz., Nov. 16-18. NIRSA Tournament Awards After opening with a 3-0 loss to North Carolina, the Wolverines swept their next five games — all by shutouts — to capture the men’s […]

(APPEARANCES IN 25 YEARS) 23 North Carolina 10 Santa Clara 8 Notre Dame 8 Portland 7 Connecticut 6 Massachusetts 5 UCLA 5 Colorado College 4 George Mason 3 Florida State 3 California 3 Penn State 2 Florida, UCF, N.C. State, Wisconsin 1 Duke, Hartford, Missouri-St. Louis, Princeton, SMU, Stanford, Virginia

MEN’S COLLEGE CUP Schedule Semifinals Dec. 1 in St. Louis Virginia (17-3-1) vs. UCLA (13-5-4) 5 pm CT/6 pm ET (TV: ESPN2, live; ESPNU, delay, Dec. 2, 2 am ET) Wake Forest (18-3-3) vs. UC Santa Barbara (16-7-0), 7:30 pm CT/8:30 pm ET (TV: ESPNU, delay, Dec. 2, 12 am ET; ESPN2, delay, Dec. 2, […]

Soccer America continues its preview of this week’s Men’s and Women’s College Cup semifinals. After yesterday’s look at the North Carolina-UCLA game, we preview the second women’s semifinal game on Friday in Cary, N.C., between top-ranked Notre Dame and Florida State. The Irish combine experience on defense with an explosive attack led by the nation’s […]

North Carolina’s Yael Averbuch, Notre Dame’s Kerri Hanks and North Carolina’s Heather O’Reilly are the three finalists for the for the 2006 Women’s MAC Hermann Trophy. The men’s and women’s winners will be announced at the same time Dec. 2 in St. Louis. The three women’s finalists are scheduled to be in Cary, N.C., for […]

Boston College’s Charlie Davies, Notre Dame’s Joseph Lapira and SMU’s Jay Needham are the three finalists for the 2006 Men’s MAC Hermann Trophy. MAC Hermann Trophy winners (1967-2005) The winner will be announced at a press conference at the Busch Center on the campus of Saint Louis University on Saturday, Dec. 2, between the NCAA […]

MEN’S COLLEGE CUP Schedule Final Dec. 3 in St. Louis UCLA (14-5-4) vs. UC Santa Barbara (16-7-1), 2 pm CT/3 pm ET (TV: ESPN2, live) WOMEN’S COLLEGE CUP Schedule Final Dec. 3 in Cary, N.C. North Carolina (26-1-0) vs. Notre Dame (25-0-1), 12:30 pm ET (TV: ESPN2, live)

The countdown to the College Cups begins. The men’s and women’s finals will this year take place on the same weekend. Each day this week, Soccer America will preview one of the matchups. We begin with the opening women’s semifinal game on Friday in Cary, N.C., between UCLA and North Carolina. Both are No. 1 […]