Roanoke’s Scott Allison Goes Out A Winner

The soccer season for almost every collegiate team ends with a loss. Only a handful of teams finish with a national championship.

Such was the case in 2012 with the Roanoke College Maroons. It was Scott Allison’s 27th and final season as head coach of the Roanoke men.

It ended with a 4-1 loss to Emory University in the first round of the NCAA playoffs.

Allison, a 1979 graduate of Roanoke, where he was a two-sport athlete, would have liked the season to last a little longer, but it was a memorable one. The Maroons won their ninth O…