Category: College Soccer Reporter

Notre Dame and Virginia, ranked No. 6 and No. 7 in the Soccer America Preseason Women’s Top 25, traveled to Traverse City, Mich., for an exhibition last night. Jill Krivacek and Susan Pinnick each had a goal and an assist in leading the Irish past the Cavs, 3-0. Both teams were playing minus several key […]

Defending champion Ft. Lewis is No. 1 in the NSCAA/adidas preseason rankings of NCAA Division II schools. The Skyhawks are led by Englishman John Cunliffe, who has scored 46 goals and 46 asists in three seasons at Ft. Lewis and shared the PDL scoring lead in 2006 playing for Boulder. Messiah is No. 1 in […]

Soccer is rare among college sports in that preseason games are often treated as seriously as regular-season or postseason games. A crowd of 1,772 showed up at UNCG Soccer Stadium on Wednesday night to watch No. 15 Duke beat the No. 12 UNC Greensboro, 3-0. Mike Grella, who spent the summer with the New York […]

Here’s a look at the top 10 teams: 1. NORTH CAROLINA. (ACC) Elmar Bolowich’s Tar Heels have all the tools. They have a game-breaker in Englishman Ben Hunter (13 goals in his first season of NCAA ball). They have goalkeeping in Justin Hughes (13 shutouts in 25 career starts). They have experience in seven seniors […]

North Carolina is Soccer America’s pick to win the 2006 NCAA Division I title, which will be decided at the Men’s College Cup Dec. 1-3 in St. Louis. First, the Heels will have to get out of the ACC, which has four teams ranked in the top six and seven teams ranked in the top […]

Robbie Rogers, a 2005 second-team Soccer America All-Freshman pick, signed a multi-year contract with Dutch Eredivisie club Heerenveen and will not return to defending national champion Maryland. “This was a once in a lifetime opportunity that came suddenly,” Rogers continued. “The past seven days have been the toughest of my life in terms of making […]

Here’s a look at the top 10 teams: 1. UCLA (Pac-10) The third time should be a charm for Jillian Ellis‘ Bruins. They fell to Notre Dame, 2-1, in the 2004 Women’s Cup final and were blown out by Portland, 4-0, in the 2005 final. This year Ellis has the talent to finally capture the […]

UCLA, which has played in national championship games in three of the last six seasons, is Soccer America’s pick to win the 2006 NCAA Women’s Division I title, which will be decided at the Women’s College Cup Dec. 1-3 in Cary, N.C. Soccer America Preseason Women’s Top 25 TEAM (2005 RECORD) 1 UCLA (22-2-2) 2 […]

VCU, which returns eight starters from its 13-5-5 squad that went unbeaten in CAA women’s regular-season play, has been picked to finish first again in 2006, according to the vote of the conference’s 12 coaches. Defending CAA champion Hofstra was picked second, while James Madison ranked third, followed by perennial power William & Mary, Delaware, […]

For the fifth year in a row, UC Santa Barbara is the preseason pick to win the Big West Conference men’s crown. UCSB returns seven starters from last year’s squad that advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. Among the returnees are two-time All-American and 2005 Big West Defensive Player of the Year […]

The U.S. women’s under-20 national team departed for Russia on Saturday for the Under-20 Women’s Championship, beginning Aug. 17. The U.S. team consists of college underclassmen, who will miss the first two weekends of the college season, which opens Friday, Aug. 25. The U-20 tournament runs through Sept. 4. The following are the U.S. players […]

Dr. John Squires, a driving force behind the creation of an NCAA soccer championship, died recently in Florida at the age of 94. Squires coached soccer, swimming and tennis at the University of Connecticut. He was the UConn men’s soccer coach from 1937-41 and 1946-68, and the Huskies’ 1948 team was declared national champion by […]

Returning collegians figure prominently on the 2006 All-Premier Development League team. Nine of the 11 players on the all-league team will play college ball. GOALKEEPERS Eric Reed (Southern California Seahorses/UCLA). Helped guide the Seahorses to the regular-season division title for the first time with a 1.10 GAA in his second year with the team. DEFENDERS […]

Two-time defending conference champion San Francisco is the pick to win the WCC men’s title. The Dons bring back seven starters, including the team’s top four goal scorers from the 2005 campaign. Senior Aaron Chandler, the 2004 WCC Player of the Year, returns in the attack and will be joined in the starting lineup by […]

Portland, the defending NCAA Division I women’s champion, is favored to win the 2006 West Coast Conference regular-season title. The Pilots, who return eight starters from last year’s championship squad, received five first-place votes in voting by conference coaches. Santa Clara, which welcomes back 10 starters from last season’s team that advanced to the NCAA […]

North Carolina is the pick to win both the ACC men’s and women’s championships. With 10 returning starters and one of the nation’s top recruiting classes, the Carolina men were picked ahead of Virginia and defending national champion Maryland in the vote of conference coaches. Eight of the nine ACC men’s teams advanced to the […]

Defending champion Fresno State is picked to win the WAC women’s crown. The Bulldogs return nine starters, including the 2005 WAC Defensive Player of the Year, Rochelle Jagdeo, and two other first-team all-conference picks — forward Cortney Sobrero and goalkeeper Angie Larsen. Hawaii, the 2005 regular-season champion, has been selected by the coaches to finish […]

Old Dominion, which was ranked No. 7 in the final Soccer America rankings of the 2005 regular season, is the pick to win the CAA men’s championship. The Monarchs return eight starters from last season’s 15-4-2 squad that reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament for the fourth consecutive year. Back for ODU are […]

Only 16 days before the start of the college season, Marlon LeBlanc was named the men’s head coach at West Virginia. Practice had already begun at Penn State, where he was an assistant, when he was hired to replace ousted Mountaineer coach Mike Seabolt. “I’ve got about six month’s of work to do in two […]

New Zealand international Steven Old has left St. John’s after two seasons to play for the Newcastle Jets of Australia’s A-League.   Newcastle coach Nick Theodorakopoulos signed the 20-year-old defender without a tryout. The 6-foot-3 Old, who was a first-team all-Big East pick in 2005, stood out for the All Whites on their European tour […]

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Klose is brimming with confidence, by far the most vital element in a scorer’s psyche. With him as a pointman, the more mobile Lucas Podolski can check back and roam underneath to latch onto balls played by Ballack and Bastian Schweinsteiger and Bernd Schneider, who is one of several role players neatly slotted into the […]

The players believe. The coach believes. And maybe now, most of the nation believes. Germany swayed many Germans who doubt their team can win the World Cup by easing past Ecuador, 3-0, to finish atop Group A on Monday. As they streamed out of the Olympiastadion, site of the final July 9, fans bubbled with […]