Georgia College Upsets National Ranked Saints. The undefeated start to the 2012 season ended for North Georgia College and State University, with a 3-2 upset to the Georgia College Saints. The victory was powered by the first hat trick for Georgia College soccer. Sophomore Ashley Veilleux (Monroe, GA) scored a pair of goals in the […]
Silverbacks Finish The 2012 Season With Strong Run
Silverbacks Finish The 2012 Season With Strong Run. Atlanta Silverbacks will remember 2012 as the season when Eric Wynalda came to town as the team’s head coach, at least for a few games. It will be remembered as another season when the team finished near the bottom of the NASL standings and out of the […]
Georgia Soccer
Georgia Soccer. After spending the last three seasons developing his game at Ispwich, U.S. U-20 goalkeeper Cody Cropper (Athens, GA) is ready for the challenge of a Premier League club after joining Southampton. Cropper, 19, signed a two-year contract with a club option for an additional year with newly promoted Southampton last month after a […]
U.S. Men Salvage World Cup Qualifier Split With Jamaica
Lose On Road, Win In Columbus Crew Stadium For four days, the U.S. Men’s National Team faced the unthinkable. Another loss in the CONCACAF semifinal round of World Cup 2014 qualifying, and the Americans might not get through to the next round. They would be eliminated! That had been setup by a 2-1 road loss […]
Pia Sundhage Talks About Winning Olympic Gold
Pia Sundhage Talks About Winning Olympic Gold. U.S. WNT head coach Pia Sundhage spoke with ussoccer.com about her experience during the journey to gold in London 2012 Olympics. Sundhage explains some of the difficult decisions she had to make as well as how she feels she helped the team simply “enjoy the moment.” Sundhage announced […]
An Appropriate Gift To Pia
An Appropriate Gift To Pia. The U.S. women’s national team presented outgoing U.S. coach Pia Sundhage with the gift of a brand new Taylor guitar, which the “Singing Swede” quickly put to good use with a locker room chorus of Elvis Pressley’s “Jail House Rock.” All of the players from the 2012 Olympic team signed […]
Regional Odds & End Briefs From The Southeast USA
Soccer In Arkansas The Arkansas Razorbacks tied Duke 2-2 in the NCAA Sweet 16 before falling in penalty kicks (5-3). It was the Razorbacks’ first shootout this season. The Razorbacks advanced to the third round of the NCAAs for the first time in the 28-year program history, advancing with wins over Oklahoma State (2-1) and […]
Alabama Soccer
Auburn’s Casie Ramsier (Dallas, TX) was named Southeastern Con- ference Freshman of the week after scoring both goals in 1-1 confer- ence draws against Tennessee and Missouri that kept the Tigers in the race to make the SEC Tournament. She now has team-leading seven goals on the season. Earlier, Tigers’ junior goalkeeper Alicen Wright (Chino […]
Regional Odds & End Briefs From The Southeast USA
Soccer In Arkansas Senior Evan Palmer found the back of the net for the fifth time of the season in the 88th minute to lift the University of Arkansas soccer team (11-5, 4-4) over Tennessee (7-6-3, 2-4-2), 2-1, at Razorback Field. Trailing 1-0, sophomore Ashleigh Ellenwood scored the equalizer in the 28th minute of the […]
S.C. Soccer
Carley Victor, a Texas native and former standout player at Southern Methodist University, has been named the new girls soccer coach at Riverside HS. She replaces Terry Archenhold, who stepped down after 17 seasons and 374 victories- the most ever for a girls soccer coach in South Carolina. Victor spent the past two seasons coaching […]