Category: College Soccer Reporter

West Virginia’s starting lineup includes Zimbabwean Gift Maworere, though the school lists his hometown as Alexandria, Va., where spent the last three years at Episcopal High School.

Several streaking teams are poised to move into the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 for the first time this season with the right results over the weekend. Here’s a look at the standouts who have contributed to their recent surges: GORDON KLJESTAN (Seton Hall). Younger brother Sacha turned pro and starts for MLS’s Chivas USA. […]

UNC Greensboro and Coastal Carolina, the defending Southern and Big South men’s champions, respectively, are both headed in the same direction — the wrong direction. UNCG and Coastal Carolina, which meet in Friday’s NSCAA College Match of the Week on Fox Soccer Channel (live, 8 pm ET), are both 0-2-1 in their last three games. […]

U.S. international Heather O’Reilly showed why she’s the best striker in college soccer as she scored a pair of goals to power No. 4 North Carolina to a 2-1 victory over top-ranked Florida State Thursday night before a crowd of 2,181 in Chapel Hill, N.C. O’Reilly scored the opening goal of the ACC showdown on a brilliant […]

Just how big a role do foreign players play at men’s programs? Through the years, many foreigners have starred in the college ranks. Nigerian Andy Atuegbu (San Francisco, 1974-77) and Honduran Armando Betancourt (Indiana, 1979-81) were the dominant players of their generation. In the last decade, foreign players had a major role in the success […]

Defending men’s champion Maryland continues to impress. The No. 5 Terrapins earned their third shutout in a row by defeating Penn State, 2-0, on Wednesday night before 2,323 fans at Ludwig Field. Maryland got goals from sophomore Graham Zusi and freshman Jason Herrick — the team-leading fifth goal of the season for both players. Both […]

North Carolina will be out for revenge Thursday night when the Tar Heels host top-ranked Florida State in an ACC women’s match televised live on Fox Soccer Channel (8 pm ET). In 2005, the Tar Heels had assembled one of the best teams in their storied history, but the Seminoles upset them on penalty kicks […]

Due to an editing error, the Player of the Week whose brother starred at UCLA and now plays for MLS’s Chicago Fire was misidentified. Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week Maxwell Griffin is Leonard Griffin‘s younger brother.

Junior midfielder Nico Colaluca’s second goal of the evening 152 seconds into overtime gave Virginia, ranked No. 1 in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25, a 2-1 win over No. 8 and previously unbeaten West Virginia Tuesday night in front of 2,171 fans at Klockner Stadium. Colaluca knocked in Yannick Reyering’s flick header from just […]

UMass is back! The Minutewomen pulled off one of their biggest victories in recent years when they upset No. 12 Connecticut, 2-1, on Tuesday night in Amherst. The victory was their first over UConn in 12 games and improved their 2006 record to 6-1-0. Massachusetts and Connecticut were among the first women’s collegiate powerhouses. UMass […]

UCLA sophomore Maxwell Griffin, who led the Bruins to big victories over a pair of Top 10 teams last weekend, is the Soccer America Men’s Player of the Week. In a 2-1 victory over then-No. 9 Santa Clara on Friday, Griffin broke a scoreless tie with a goal in the 67th minute, and just 19 […]

Boston University senior Lauren Erwin is the Soccer America Women’s Player of the Week. Erwin, a forward from Orange, Conn., scored her first two goals of the season, both game-winning goals, last week. She scored the only goal in the 1-0 victory over Fairfield on Wednesday, then scored the goal that gave the Terriers a […]

MEN G Player, School, Year 12 Tommy Krizanovic, Jacksonville, Sr. 10 Kevin Forrest, Washington, Jr. 10 Riley O’Neill, Kentucky, Sr. 8 Joshua Okoampa, Wis.-Green Bay, Sr. 7 Braden Fleak, Wright State, Fr. 7 Mike Grella, Duke, Soph. 7 Saidi Isaac, Winthrop, Jr. 7 Frederico Moojen, Clemson, Sr. 7 Joseph Lapira, Notre Dame, Jr. 7 Brad […]

Carin Gabarra, winner of the Golden Ball as the best player at the inaugural Women’s World Cup in 1991, is one of the great players in the history of women’s soccer. Less well known is her success as a college coach. It isn’t easy to attract top players to the Naval Academy, what with its […]

For a team that didn’t have a coach until hours before the start of preseason practice, the West Virginia men’s team isn’t doing too badly. The Mountaineers are 6-0-2 and ranked 12th in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 going into Tuesday’s game at No. 1 Virginia. In the aftermath of the ouster of Mike […]

The much-traveled Robbie C’debaca scored the first and last goal in leading Trinity (Texas), ranked No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas NCAA Men’s Division III Top 25, to its fifth straight win of the season with a 4-1 win over Southwestern. C’debaca, one of four Albuquerque, N.M., products on the Tigers’ roster, spent time in Dutch […]

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

Boston University pulled off the biggest upset of the 2006 women’s season when it beat Santa Clara, 1-0, Friday night at the Stanford Nike Classic. Sophomore Marisha Schumacher-Hodge fed senior Lauren Erwin, who scored with a blast from 15 yards for the game’s only goal in the 63rd minute. Senior goalie Stephanie Dreyer made five […]

RANK/TEAM (RECORD) LAST WEEK 1. Virginia (7-0-0) 2 2. Clemson (7-0-0) 3 3. SMU (7-0-1) 1 4. Duke (7-0-1) 4 5. Maryland (6-1-0) 6 6. Wake Forest (6-1-0) 7 7. Washington (7-0-0) 10 8. North Carolina (6-2-0) 5 9. UCLA (4-2-1) 16 10. UIC (6-0-2) 11 11. Akron (6-1-0) 12 12. West Virginia (6-0-2) 14 […]

Virginia moved into the top spot in the Soccer America Men’s Top 25 with a 3-2 victory over Boston College in overtime on Friday. Junior midfielder Jeremy Barlow delivered his second game-winning goal of the season six minutes into overtime to the delight of a season-high 3,839 fans at Klockner Stadium. The Cavaliers won their […]

Southern Maine goalie Chris Willard‘s job this fall is to stop balls lobbed at his goal. In the offseason, he dodged mortar shells lobbed at him in Iraq. Willard’s quickness paid off last Saturday for Southern Maine, a NCAA Division III school, when he stopped a late penalty kick to preserve the Huskies’ 1-0 victory […]

Three U.S. college players — Natalya Manyan of D1 Oral Roberts and Omalyn Davis and Yolanda Hamilton of NAIA power Lindsey Wilson — spent last week helping Jamaica’s Reggae Girls qualify for this fall’s Women’s Gold Cup, which will serve as qualifying for the 2007 Women’s World Cup in China. Alicia Wilson, who is in […]

Several unranked women’s teams take unbeaten and untied records into the fourth weekend of play. Navy (6-0-0) will get a stern test from George Mason Friday night before closing out the weekend with a second home game against Columbia on Sunday afternoon. Freshman forward Cassie Barbaresi has been a big factor in Navy’s 6-0-0 start. Last […]

Another big crowd is expected at Historic Riggs Field Friday when No. 2 Clemson hosts No. 5 North Carolina in a key ACC men’s match. Last Friday night, the Tigers beat defending champion Maryland, 2-1, before 6,821 fans, the second largest crowd in Riggs Field history. The Clemson-UNC game, the 48th in their series, is being […]

College sports cable network CSTV has 20 men’s and women’s soccer games left on its fall programming schedule. Most regular-season games are aired on weeknights — broadcasts of games played the previous weekend. Coverage also includes live or same-day coverage of five conference tournament finals. Men’s Coverage: Fri, Sept. 15 Indiana at Saint Louis (Live) […]