Category: College Soccer Reporter

Anson Dorrance is regularly starting six freshmen, the most since the early days of the North Carolina program, but that hasn’t stopped the No. 2 Tar Heels from running off 16 straight wins. UNC was hit hurt by graduation, losing three national team players Lindsay Tarpley, Lori Chalupny and Kacey White, but Dorrance’s freshmen pushed […]

William & Mary’s Claire Zimmeck is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week after scoring seven of the Tribe’s eight goals, including all three game-winners in three conference victories. The sophomore forward from Fairfax, Va., recorded her second career hat trick in a 3-1 victory over James Madison, had both goals in a 2-0 […]

Twice defender Julian Valentin scored to give streaking Wake Forest 1-0 road wins over Soccer America Top 25 teams and earn Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week honors. The Lancaster, Pa., native notched the golden goal in the 103rd minute at Connecticut, heading in a free kick from senior Ryan Solle.  Three days later, […]

Duke, ranked No. 2 in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25, beat Alabama A&M for the first time in four meetings, downing the Bulldogs, 4-1, in a game played in a steady rain on Tuesday night. A&M is not the program it was in the early 1980s when it beat Duke three times, but it […]

Franklin Pierce, ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division II men’s poll, saw its 14-match unbeaten run to start the season come to an end with a 1-0 loss at St. Michael’s in Northeast-10 action. Glenn Sherman scored the match’s lone goal with a header off Sam Piotrowski ‘s corner kick. Freshman Jason Burnett […]

It was never going to be close: Navy, 15-0-0, going against Howard, 0-13-0, on Monday night in Annapolis, Md. The No. 17 Midshipmen, the only unbeaten and untied team in women’s soccer, put 10 goals past Howard in the first half before shutting down for the evening. The 10-0 win extended Navy’s winning streak to […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 19 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 15 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 14 Charlie Davies, Boston College, Jr. 14 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. 13 Steven Holloway, Monmouth, Sr. 13 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. 13 Jeffrey Gonsalves, Rhode Island, Sr. 12 Patrick Nyarko, Virginia Tech, Soph. 12 Riley O’Neill, Kentucky, […]

One Louisianan could follow another as Men’s Player of the Year. Last year it was Maryland’s Jason Garey from Gonzales, located between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. This year’s surprise frontrunner is Notre Dame’s Joseph Lapira from Lake Charles in Acadiana. Garey went into his senior year as a legitimate Player of the Year candidate. […]

It’s been a season of disappointment for the Connecticut women, but they held No. 1 Notre Dame to a 0-0 tie on Friday night, snapping the Irish’s 20-game regular-season winning streak. UConn (7-7-1 going into the game) is the first opponent to hold Notre Dame scoreless in almost two years. Canadian keeper Stephanie Labbe was […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Weekend Results) 1. Notre Dame (14-0-1) 1 10/13 Connecticut 0-0, OT, 10/15 Providence 5-0 2. North Carolina (16-1-0) 2 10/12 Boston College 3-1, 10/15 Virginia Tech 1-0 3. Florida State (11-1-2) 3 10/11 Stetson 2-1, 10/15 Miami, Fla., 2-0 4. UCLA (12-2-0) 6 10/15 USC 2-1, OT5. Portland (12-2-2) 4 10/13 […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK(Last week’s results) 1. SMU (13-0-2) 1 10/11 Tulsa 2-0, 10/14 UCF 2-2, OT 2. Duke (10-2-1) 4 10/11 Davidson 3-1, 10/15 N.C. State 4-1 3. Wake Forest (12-2-1) 5 10/11 Connecticut 1-0, OT, 10/13 North Carolina 1-0 4. Virginia (12-2-0) 6 10/11 Maryland 3-0 5. West Virginia (12-1-2) 8 10/11 American […]

Charlie Davies showed why he just might be the best player in college soccer, scoring Boston College’s first two goals and assisting on the third as the Eagles upset Maryland, 3-1, Friday night before 6,214 fans, the second-largest crowd ever at Ludwig Field. Davies, the ACC leader in goals and points entering the match, recorded […]

The NCAA announced its Division I Women’s Soccer 25th Anniversary Team, picked to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the NCAA’s sponsorship of women’s championships. North Carolina, winner of 16 of the first 24 NCAA women’s soccer championships, dominated the team with six players on the 11-player team. In addition, UNC coach Anson Dorrance was selected […]

For the second year in a row, Boston College defender Laura Georges is among 20 players nominated for the FIFA World Women’s Player of the Year award. Georges, who has split time between the Eagles and France’s women’s national team, is considered one of the best defenders in the world. The BC senior played for […]

Goals by Yael Averbuch and Heather O’Reilly in the final 10 minutes propelled No. 2 North Carolina past Boston College, 3-1, on Thursday night at Fetzer Field for its 15th win in a row. Carolina went ahead in the 10th minute, but the Eagles came back to tie the score 36 seconds later on freshman Gina […]

With an 11-week regular season, it’s rare to get a week off in college soccer, but that’s what has turned around Denver’s season. Since skipping the weekend of Sept. 22-23, the Pioneers have been on a roll, winning four MPSF games, all by shutouts, and moving into the Soccer America Men’s Top 25. The streak […]

Florida State won’t be returning to the Women’s College Cup if it continues to misfire. The No. 3 Seminoles have scored only five goals in their last five games, and they have scored as many as three goals only once, back on Sept. 3 against Loyola (Md.). FSU’s problems in front of the net continued […]

Virginia coach George Gelnovatch called his team’s ACC clash with No. 2 Maryland Wednesday night a must-win game, and the No. 6 Cavaliers responded with a 3-0 victory to end the Terrapins’ seven-game unbeaten streak. German Yannick Reyering showed why is one of the most dangerous targetmen in the country by scoring once and setting […]

The NCAA has released its mid-season RPI for NCAA Division I men’s teams. The RPI — Ratings Percentage Index — is the most important of the criteria it uses to determine the 48-team field for the NCAA Division I Men’s Tournament. The RPI is a mathematical formula designed to objectively compare results and strength of […]

East Tennessee State will add a men’s soccer program starting in 2008. ETSU, in its second year as a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference since moving from the Southern Conference, hopes to have a club program in place for the 2007 season. The construction of a new soccer complex is part of a $104 […]

There aren’t many ACC women’s soccer matches of scant importance, not when North Carolina and Florida State are locks to be highly ranked by the NCAA tournament selection committee and the other nine conference members are just hoping to get a bid. The Wake Forest-Duke tussle on Wednesday (8 p.m. ET, Fox Soccer Channel) in […]

For the second time this season, Notre Dame players swept Soccer America Player of the Week honors. Irish forward Joseph Lapira, the Men’s Player of the Week, ran his streak of games with two goals to five with a pair of goals in the wins over Michigan (2-0) and Georgetown (4-1). The Lake Charles, La., […]

Campbell handed No. 3 North Carolina its first non-conference loss in the regular season in more than two years with a 1-0 victory on Tuesday night. The Tar Heels dominated play, outshooting the Camels, 17-4, but they were done in by an own goal in the 75th minute. The own goal came on a corner […]

In the middle of his senior year, Jonathan McClain has suddenly found himself doing double duty for the University of Akron. One of the key defenders on the Zips’ soccer team, ranked No. 17 in the latest Soccer America Top 25, McClain has spent the last two weekends also kicking for the Akron football team. […]

Dowling is the only unbeaten and untied team in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division II Men’s Top 25. The Golden Lions improved to 13-0-0 and 6-0-0 in the East Coast Conference with a 6-0 win over Molloy. Morten Jensen, a 26-year-old graduate student from Norway, tallied a hat trick to up his total to 17 goals. […]