S.C. Soccer

The 2014 South Carolina High School Soccer Coaches Association Winter Clinic will be held January 24-25 in Columbia, SC. The featured clinician will be Mike Noonan, head men’s coach of the Clemson Tigers and a NSCAA staff member. Registration for the annual workshop can be made online at www.scsoccer.com…..USC Gamecocks’ junior goalkeeper Sabrina D’Angelo (Canada), has been named NSCAA Scholar All-America First Team. Tha[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]t gives her a “double” after having also been named NSCAA All-America First Team after posting one of the best seasons for a keeper in school history. D’Angelo has a 3.72 GPA in exercise science. She had 12 shutouts this fall and posted an impressive 0.59 goals against average. For the second time in three seasons, she was named SEC Defensive Player of the Year….Furman head men’s coach Doug Allison has been named the NSCAA South Region Coach of the Year and is a candidate for National Coach of the Year. It was the third regional COY honor for Allison, whose Paladins finished the 2013 season with an 11-5-2 record….College of Charleston senior goalkeeper Kees Heemskerk (Netherlands) has been selected as one of the 50 NCAA Division I seniors invited to showcase their talents at the 2014 MLS Player Combine, Jan. 10-14, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla…..Furman’s Stephanie DeVita (Simpsonville, SC) took part in a U.S. U-20 National Team training camp in late November in Carson, Ca. DeVita scored 15 goals, including seven game-winners and added nine assists in 23 matches last fall…..College of Charleston alum Ralph Lundy III has signed his first professional soccer contract and will play with Caledonia AIA of the Trinidad and Tobago Pro League…..Coastal Carolina senior MF Pedro Ribeiro has been named NSCAA All-America and selected for the 2014 MLS Player Combine in Ft. Lauderdale, prior to the MLS Superdraft on Jan. 16 in Philadelphia. Ribeiro is a native of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the city that hosted the USA’s historic 1-0 win over England in the 1950 World Cup.