Category: College Soccer Reporter

One of the surprises of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament is Virginia, which moved into the Sweet 16 with 2-0 wins over No. 9 West Virginia and No. 19 Wake Forest. If the Cavs beat No. 18 Texas A&M Friday night in College Station, they will return to the quarterfinals for the second year […]

Northwestern has come a long way. When Coach Tim Lenahan took over in 2001, he inherited a program that went winless in 2000, and it was not until the final game of his opening season that he got his first victory. Five years later, the Wildcats are in the Sweet 16. Northwestern upset 11th seed […]

The NCAA Division II men’s tournament continues Thursday with the semifinals at the 2006 DII Championship Festival in Pensacola, Fla. The final four will have a decidedly foreign flavor: Ft. Lewis is led by Englishman John Cunliffe, considered one of the top strikers in the college game at any level. Cunliffe enters the semifinals with […]

SMU, the top-ranked team in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 for most of the regular season, fell in the second round of the NCAA Division I Tournament on Wednesday night when it lost at home to UC Santa Barbara, 3-1. Also knocked out were North Carolina, the preseason No. 1, and West Virginia, which […]

Results Second Round Nov. 15 California 3 (Wilson 2, Ayala-Hil 32, 63) New Mexico 1 (Danaher 83). Duke 2 (Videira 27, Grella 47) Brown 0. Indiana 1 (Ackley 20) Northern Illinois 0. Lehigh 1 (Gazda 84) Rhode Island 1 (Tumicz 18) (OT). (Lehigh wins 5-4 on penalties.) Maryland 2 (Hall 26, Zusi 57) St. John’s […]

Opening as the No. 20 seed in the 20-team finals, defending champion Lindsey Wilson began the title defense of its NAIA men’s title with a 3-1 win over Judson Wednesday in Daytona Beach, Fla. The Blue Raiders had to play on the opening day for the first time since the NAIA expanded to a 20-team […]

Wednesday, Nov. 15 No. 1 Duke (16-3-1) vs. Brown (11-4-3) No. 16 Lehigh (15-1-2) vs. Rhode Island (12-5-5) No. 9 Clemson (12-4-2) vs. Gardner-Webb (9-7-4) No. 8 UCLA (10-5-4) vs. Harvard (14-4-0) No. 5 Maryland (15-4-1) vs.  St. John’s (14-5-2) No. 12 Notre Dame (13-5-2) vs. UIC (13-2-5) No. 13 California (12-5-1) vs. New Mexico […]

The NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament moves into full swing Wednesday with second-round action. The top 16 seeds make their first appearance in this year’s tournament after receiving first-round byes. There are several intriguing matchups. MARYLAND-ST. JOHN’S. This is the big one. Two seasoned NCAA Tournament teams meet for the fourth straight year in the […]

Monroe Community College is seeking its third straight national title in the NJCAA Division I women’s championship that begins Thursday in Albany, Ga. The Tribunes, this year’s top seeds, feature Northern Ireland international Roisin Havelin and Aveann Douglas and Ayana Russell, who are on Trinidad & Tobago’s roster for the Women’s Gold Cup that starts […]

Top-ranked Georgia Perimeter looks to defend its NJCAA Division I men’s title at the national finals that kick off Thursday in Tyler, Texas. The Jaguars (21-0-1) are led by a pair of freshmen from the Miami area, Martin Nunez and Heber Hernandez, who ranked No. 2 and No. 4 nationally among JC scores and have […]

Another Division I men’s soccer program has been dropped. The University of Central Arkansas has announced the elimination of the men’s intercollegiate soccer program, which played its first season of Division I ball in 2006. The move stems from UCA’s failure to find a D1 soccer conference in which to play. Athletic Director John Thompson […]

Ever wished your school could appeal its non-selection to the Big Dance? That’s what NAIA school Oklahoma Christian University did — and it won. It was successful in its appeal of the selection process for the 2006 NAIA women’s championships and was granted a berth in the national tournament after first being overlooked in favor […]

Texas, one of four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament, earned a shootout victory over Connecticut Monday afternoon in a game delayed 24 hours because of inclement weather and moved from UConn’s Morrone Field to Yousef Al-Marzook Field on the campus of the University of Hartford. The Longhorns edged UConn, 3-1, […]

North Carolina forward Heather O’Reilly and Nebraska midfielder Brittany Timko have been named to the women’s short list for the Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy for the third straight year. Both Notre Dame selections — midfielder Jen Buczkowski and Kerri Hanks — are repeat semifinalists. North Carolina (Yael Averbuch and O’Reilly) and Portland (Stephanie Lopez […]

Michael Videira of No. 1 Duke leads the 15 players named as semifinalists for the 2006 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy. Videira and Notre Dame Greg Dalby are the only repeats from last year’s short list. Notre Dame (Joseph Lapira and Dalby), SMU (Bruno Guarda and Jay Needham), Maryland (Maurice Edu and Stephen King) are […]

USC pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament when it beat No. 1 seed Santa Clara, 1-0, in the first round on Friday night before a stunned crowd at Buck Shaw Stadium. After 11 straight years of reaching the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, fate finally caught […]

For the second time in three years, Richland College of Dallas swept the NJCAA Division II men’s and women’s titles. The Thunderducks won the men’s final with a 3-1 win over host Herkimer County on MVP Alberto’s Rodriguez‘s hat trick, and the women’s championship with a 1-0 victory over Brookdale on Karina Davila‘s goal in […]

Upstate New York schools Nazareth and Medaille played a 20-round shootout before Nazareth prevailed in the second round of the NCAA Division III Men’s Tournament on Saturday. Nazareth had leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but the host Mavericks answered each time, the second time on Ryan Mangino‘s Division III-leading 34th goal of the season. Regulation […]

NCAA DIVISION 2 MEN. Defending champion Ft. Lewis moved into this weekend’s final four in Pensacola, Fla., with a 5-2 victory over 2004 champion Seattle. John Cunliffe, who scored his 27th goal of the season, Kieran Hall and Nick Kirchhof led the Skyhawks with a goal and an assist apiece. Also moving into the final […]

Washington’s Kevin Forrest, the Pac-10 Player of the Year, and Brown’s Andrew Daniels were the scoring stars of the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament, leading their teams to victory with hat tricks. Soccer America’s NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament Scoreboard Forrest scored three goals — the first two 75 seconds part […]

Defending women’s champion Portland led a group of six unseeded teams into the NCAA Division I women’s sweet 16. Soccer America’s NCAA Division I Women’s Tournament Scoreboard Rachael Rapinoe, twin sister of injured star Megan Rapinoe, scored the winning goal in a 2-1 win victory over BYU on Thursday, and scored two more goals in […]

Betty Ann Kempf-Townsley, the only women’s coach Seton Hall has ever had, quit on Thursday. Kempf-Townsley amassed a 143-202-26 record over her 13 years as the head coach at Seton Hall. The Pirates’ bestknown player is English star Pirate Kelly Smith. Peter Broadley has quit as the High Point men’s coach less than a week […]

The NCAA Division III Women’s Tournament continues this weekend with action at eight regional sites. Here’s a look at the top five teams in the final NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division III rankings of the regular season. Soccer America’s NCAA D3 Women’s Tournament Scoreboard 1. TRINITY (TEXAS). Last year, Messiah won the D3 men’s and women’s titles. […]

Everyone knows about Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. Less well known outside the area is Hurricane Ivan, which hit on Sept. 16, 2004. The West Florida men’s soccer team remembers it well. The hurricane wiped out their season and those of women’s soccer and volleyball. While they were disappointed, the Argonauts […]

U.S. international Megan Rapinoe is out for the year with a knee injury, but her twin sister, Rachael, has stepped into her spot in the Portland attack and helped the defending NCAA Division I women’s champions. Rachael Rapinoe scored the winning goal for the Pilots in their 2-1 win over BYU Thursday in the opening […]