Category: College Soccer Reporter

Jonathan Villanueva was good enough to earn an extended tryout at famous Dutch club Ajax over the summer, but it took him 11 games to score his first collegiate goal for Virginia. The former Dallas Texans star picked an opportune time for his first goal as it gave the Cavs a 1-0 win over Clemson […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. Notre Dame (11-0-0) 1 2. North Carolina (12-1-0) 2 3. Florida State (8-1-1) 3 4. Portland (9-2-1) 4 5. Santa Clara (9-2-0) 5 6. UCLA (9-2-0) 6 7. West Virginia (9-1-2) 7 8. Texas A&M (8-3-1) 12 9. BYU (9-1-1) 14 10. California (7-1-2) 15 11. Villanova (11-0-2) 13 12. […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. SMU (11-0-1) 1 2. Clemson (8-1-1) 2 3. North Carolina (10-2-0) 5 4. Virginia (10-1-0) 6 5. Maryland (10-1-1) 3 6. Duke (7-2-1) 7 7. Wake Forest (9-2-0) 8 8. West Virginia (9-1-2) 10 9. Indiana (6-3-2) 14 10. Notre Dame (7-3-2) 15 11. UCLA (6-3-2) 17 12. Washington (8-2-0) […]

Notre Dame remained No. 1 in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 with a pair of wins in Big East games that drew almost 6,000 fans at Alumni Field. The Irish rallied from a goal down at halftime to beat previously unbeaten West Virginia, 3-1, before 3,056 fans on Friday night. The Irish got goals […]

No. 2 North Carolina won its 11th game in a row with a 2-0 win at Clemson thanks to first-half goals by freshman defender Ali Hawkins and sophomore midfielder Yael Averbuch. Sophomore Anna Rodenbough picked up her eighth solo shutout of the season in the Tar Heels’ 12 games. No. 3 Florida State‘s troubles with […]

Mid-Continent of Kentucky was the only NAIA Top 10 men’s team that remained unbeaten from the Sept. 20 rankings after Embry-Riddle’s pair of losses. Joe Zakowicz’s Cougars, ranked No. 9 this week, are 4-0-2. The only other unbeaten NAIA teams in this week’s Top 25 are Oklahoma’s Science & Arts at No. 7 and Fresno […]

No. 3 Maryland hosts No. 7 Duke Friday night in the NSCAA Match of the Week on Fox Soccer Channel (live, 8 pm ET). The match features two of the country’s top sophomore strikers. Maryland’s Graham Zusi, last week’s Soccer America Player of the Week, has tallied a point in each of the Terps’ last […]

Longtime North Carolina coach Anson Dorrance has called it the biggest change in women’s soccer in the last decade. Canadian players have played a growing role in the success of nationally ranked teams. In 2002 and 2005, Canada national team star Christine Sinclair led Portland to NCAA Division I titles. In 2004, Canadian Katie Thorlakson […]

No. 9 UIC, the sensation of the men’s college season, fell from the unbeaten ranks when it lost at Wisconsin, 1-0, on Thursday night. Eric Conklin scored the game’s only goal for the Badgers on a header off a free kick taken by Zack Lambo in the 19th minute. “Teams are up for us,” said […]

No. 10 West Virginia celebrated Coach Marlon LeBlanc’s return to Penn State, where he was an assistant for five years, with a 2-1 victory over the Nittany Lions on Wednesday night. New Zealander Paul Cunningham and Englishman Andrew Wright scored unassisted goals in the second half to erase Penn State’s 1-0 first-half lead and give […]

No. 12 Texas A&M won a battle of teams unbeaten in Big 12 play with a 3-1 win over No. 22 Oklahoma State before 3,636 fans at Aggie Soccer Stadium on Thursday night. Allison Martino dished out assists on all three goals. Suzette Devloo scored twice and Nicole Ketchum added an insurance goal in the […]

UCLA lost its leading scorer, sophomore forward Maxwell Griffin (5 goals, 1 assist), for the season with a torn ACL in his left knee, and transfer Tony Beltran will have a right ankle arthroscopy on Friday and will be out 6-8 weeks. The Bruins are already without former U-17 defender Brandon Owens (torn ACL suffered […]

Navy, which shares the No. 25 spot in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25, extended its winning streak to 11 games Tuesday night, defeating visiting Mount St. Mary’s, 5-0. Freshman forward Brittany White had a fantastic night for Carin Gabarra’s Midshipmen, scoring two goals — the first two goals of her collegiate career — and […]

Junior Maurice Edu headed home his first goal of the season to give No. 3 Maryland a 1-0 victory against Loyola (Md.) on Tuesday. The Terps held possession in the Loyola half of the field for almost the entire match and took 20 shots, but they could only manage Edu’s goal, which came in the […]

North Carolina’s Heather O’Reilly is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week for the two goals she scored to lead the Tar Heels past then-No. 1 Florida State, 2-1. The U.S. international opened the scoring with a 28-yard blast in the first half and followed that with the game-winner as she sent a bending […]

Sophomore Graham Zusi is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week after leading Maryland to a pair of wins. Zusi, a product of Longwood, Fla., was responsible for both game-winning goals in wins over Penn State and ranked Wake Forest. He scored the first goal in the 2-0 win over Penn State, then connected […]

Texas A&M will host the 2007 Women’s College Cup. It will be the second time the Aggies have been the host school for the women’s championship. They hosted the 2005 final four won by Portland. The dates for the 2007 finals are Dec. 7 and 9, 2007. The 2006 Women’s College Cup will be played […]

Few programs have the support that the BYU‘s women’s program has. The No. 14 Cougars drew a crowd of 3,606 at South Stadium on Monday night to watch them beat Arizona, 1-0. BYU is averaging 2,247 fans for five home dates. Sophomore Katie Fellows scored the winning goal in the 72nd minute on a header […]

Ft. Lewis, the defending NCAA Division II men’s champion, improved to 10-0-0 with a 1-0 win over Regis and a 2-0 victory over Metro State. English star John Cunliffe leads the Skyhawks with 14 goals and eight assists. Ft. Lewis has conceded only one goal in its 10 wins. — No. 10 Carson-Newman won a […]

MEN G PLAYER, SCHOOL, YEAR 12 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 11 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 11 Riley O’Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 10 Kevin Forrest, Washington, Jr. 10 Braden Fleak, Wright State, Fr. 9 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 8 Jarrod Smith, West Virginia, Sr. 8 Josh Trott, Holy Cross, Sr. 8 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. […]

When Coach John Trask took UIC to St. Louis for the Flames’ 2006 opening game, he reminded them of the surroundings. “Take a look at this stadium,” he told his players of Hermann Stadium, site of the 2006 Men’s College Cup. “You might be here in the final four.” Indeed, the Flames have emerged as […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. Notre Dame (9-0-0) 2 2. North Carolina (10-1-0) 4 3. Florida State (7-1-0) 1 4. Portland (7-2-1) 5 5. Santa Clara (8-2-0) 6 6. UCLA (7-2-0) 3 7. West Virginia (8-0-2) 7 8. Penn State (6-2-2) 8 9. Rice (8-0-1) 9 10. Texas (8-2-1) 11 11. Virgina (7-2-1) 16 12. […]

Notre Dame moved into the top spot in the Soccer America Women’s Top 25 with a 2-0 victory over previously unbeaten Louisville on Sunday. The Irish (9-0-0) got late goals from defenders Carrie Dew and Ashley Jones to subdue Louisville in the Big East match. Notre Dame’s game against Cincinnati on Friday had been called […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. SMU (10-0-1) 3 2. Clemson (8-0-1) 2 3. Maryland (8-1-1) 5 4. Washington (8-0-0) 7 5. North Carolina (8-2-0) 8 6. Virginia (8-1-0) 1 7. Duke (8-1-1) 4 8. Wake Forest (7-2-0) 6 9. UIC (7-0-2) 10 10. West Virginia (7-1-2) 12 11. South Florida (5-2-2) 17 12. Old Dominion […]

Washington is the only unbeaten and untied NCAA Division I men’s team after Virginia lost at North Carolina, 2-1, on Saturday and Clemson was tied by N.C. State, 0-0, on Sunday. The Huskies moved to 8-0-0 with a 3-1 win over visiting Oregon State. UW put the Beavers away early with three goals from Ely […]