Category: College Soccer Reporter

Former Columbus Crew coach Greg Andrulis has transformed George Mason, the hottest Division I men’s team in the country. With 1-0 wins over Delaware and Drexel last weekend, the Patriots ran their winning streak to nine games, the longest in the Division I ranks. After five years as a Crew assistant and five years as […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 17 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 14 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 13 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. 12 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 12 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. 12 Charlie Davies, Boston College, Jr. 12 Riley O’Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 11 Steven Holloway, Monmouth, Sr. 11 Jeffrey Gonsalves, Rhode Island, Sr. […]

Portland’s Megan Rapinoe, the 2005 Soccer America Freshman of the Year, will miss the remainder of the 2006 season with a torn ACL in her left knee. The injury came less than a week after she scored her first two goals for the U.S. women’s national team in a 10-0 win over Chinese Taipei in […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Weekend results) 1. SMU (12-0-1) 1 b. Kentucky 4-0 2. Maryland (10-1-1) 5 t. North Carolina 1-1 3. North Carolina (10-2-2) 3 t. Maryland 1-1 4. Duke (8-2-1) 6 b. Virginia 2-1 5. Wake Forest (10-2-1) 7 t. Boston College 2-2 6. Virginia (11-2-0) 4 l. Duke 1-2 7. Clemson (9-2-1) […]

Stephen King‘s equalizer midway through the second half gave No. 2 Maryland a 1-1 tie at No. 3 North Carolina in an ACC men’s showdown that attracted 3,581 fans, the third largest crowd in UNC history. Englishman Ben Hunter scored in the seventh minute to give the Tar Heels the lead. Maryland goalkeeper Chris Seitz […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) PREVIOUS RANK (Weekend Results) 1. Notre Dame (13-0-0) 1 b. Seton Hall 5-0 b. Rutgers 5-0 2. North Carolina (14-1-0) 2 b. Duke 3-0 3. Florida State (9-1-2) 3 t. Boston College 0-0 4. Portland (11-2-1) 4 b. Gonzaga 3-0 5. Santa Clara (11-2-0) 5 b. San Diego 2-0 6. UCLA (11-2-0) 6 […]

Kerri Hanks powered No. 1 Notre Dame to a pair of Big East wins over Seton Hall (5-0) and Rutgers (2-0). The Irish sophomore scored three goals and added an assist in the win over Seton Hall and set up Brittany Bock and Amanda Cinalli for goals in the win over Rutgers, which went into […]

It’s No. 2 vs. No. 3 as defending champion Maryland takes a six-game winning streak into its ACC men’s showdown at North Carolina Friday night in the Fox Soccer Channel’s NSCAA Match of the Week series (TV: live, 8 pm ET). The No. 2 Terrapins lost last year’s Hermann Trophy winner Jason Garey, who joined […]

Portland All-American Megan Rapinoe left defending NCAA Division I women’s champion Portland’s game against Washington State late in the first half Thursday with a left knee injury and did not return. Rapinoe, who began the week tied for fourth in the country with 10 goals, will have further tests taken to determine the severity of […]

North Carolina‘s freshmen came through again to lead the No. 3 Tar Heels to their 13th straight victory with a 2-0 victory at No. 12 Virginia in ACC women’s action on Thursday night. Whitney Engen and Ali Hawkins scored in a span of just over 10 minutes midway through the first half.  Engen took a […]

Five college freshmen and one college junior are among the 16 players called up for the U.S. under-20 men’s national team camp Oct. 8-12 in Sunrise, Fla. Coach Thomas Rongen called up goalies Brian Perk (UCLA), Joe Willis (Denver) and defenders Nick Cardenas (San Diego State), Amaechi Igwe (Santa Clara) and midfielder Stephen McCarthy (Santa […]

Eckerd knocked Lynn, No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Division II Men’s Top 25, from the unbeaten ranks with a 2-1 victory in St. Petersburg, Fla., on Wednesday night. The Fighting Knights dug themselves a big hole in the first half. Luke Sheekey‘s opening goal for Eckerd marked the first time Lynn trailed in 837 […]

Santa Clara, the only Soccer America Women’s Top 25 team in action on Wednesday, crushed neighboring San Jose State, 6-0. Lexi Orand led the No. 5 Broncos with two goals and one assist. Meagan Snell scored her team-high ninth goal and added two assists. Elsewhere, Rutgers (10-1-1) continued its best start in school history with […]

Northwestern’s hard-luck senior, Will Nicholas, was lost for the season with a torn ACL in his right knee in the Wildcats’ win over Loyola (Ill.) last week. It was the third ACL tear Nicholas has suffered in an addition to a broken leg that cut short his sophomore season in 2004. The former FC Delco […]

UC Santa Barbara and No. 11 UCLA, who meet Thursday in the first West Coast clash of the NSCAA Match of the Week series on Fox Soccer Channel (TV, live, 11 pm ET), have had their ups and downs in the 2006 men’s season. The Gauchos opened with a 5-0 win over nationally ranked Akron […]

Notre Dame forward Joseph Lapira registered his fourth straight two-goal match to lead the No. 10 Irish to a 2-0 win at Michigan on Wednesday evening. Lapira, who entered the match tied for the national lead in goals, now has 15 goals in 13 games. No. 9 Indiana got a pair of first-half goals from […]

Notre Dame freshman Michele Weissenhofer is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week after leading the No. 1 Irish their 10th and 11th straight wins of the season. Weissenhofer’s game-tying goal in the second half sparked a three-goal comeback in a 3-1 win over previously unbeaten West Virginia. She added the primary assist on […]

Maryland junior Maurice Edu‘s first two goals of the 2006 season earned him Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week honors. The goals could not have come at a more important time as they were the only goals in the No. 3 Terrapins’ 1-0 victories over Loyola (Md.) and Duke. The midfielder from Fontana, Calif., […]

The women’s rivalry between Princeton and Rutgers, steeped in their proximity and a history dating back to 1980, extends literally to the playing field. Princeton coach Julie Shackford notes that the playing surface at the Scarlet Knights’ home, Yurcak Field, may be one of the best in the country. “I tell our groundskeepers to take […]

No. 5 Clemson‘s slump continued as it lost to Wake Forest, 2-0, at home on Tuesday night, extending its winless streak to three games after it opened with eight straight wins, its best start in 28 years. Wells Thompson and Steve Curfman scored second-half goals to lead the No. 7 Demon Deacons. Thompson launched a […]

No. 1 Notre Dame limited previously unbeaten West Virginia to zero shots on goal, not shots, in the final 74 minutes of its 3-1 victory in Big East women’s action on Friday night. Oneonta State, which was reclassified from NCAA Division I to Division III for men’s soccer, beat Division III NY Tech, not Division […]

Unranked Midwestern State snapped NCAA Division II men’s defending champion Ft. Lewis‘ 33-game unbeaten streak with a 3-1 victory. The Mustangs opened up a 3-0 lead on goals by Brandon Swartzendruber, Sun Potter and Scott Leonard after 51 minutes. Ft. Lewis, ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas Top 25, had previously allowed only one goal […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 13 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 13 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 12 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 12 Riley O’Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 11 Charlie Davies, Boston College, Jr. 11 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. 10 Braden Fleak, Wright St., Fr. 10 Kevin Forrest, Washington, Jr. 10 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. […]

Incorrect rankings for this week’s Soccer America Men’s Top 25 appeared in Monday’s College Soccer Reporter. These are the correct rankings with changes to teams ranked No. 2 and No. 5. Maryland and Clemson were incorrectly switched. RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. SMU (11-0-1) 1 2. Maryland (10-1-0) 3 3. North Carolina (10-2-0) 5 4. […]

The rise of UC Irvine, the hottest men’s team on the West Coast, should be no surprise. Last year, Anteaters came within one game of winning their first Big West title, and they returned eight starters, including Brad Evans, a Soccer America Preseason All-American. The Anteaters moved up to No. 14 in this week’s Soccer […]