Gators Picked #1 In SEC. The University of Florida soccer program was picked by the league coaches to defend its Southeastern Conference team title in 2007. Florida earned nine first-place votes, while Georgia, Kentucky and Vanderbilt each received one vote. The Gators claimed their seventh SEC title in 2006 with a 7-1-3 league record. In […]
2007 Carolina Challenge Cup Set
2007 Carolina Challenge Cup Set. CHARLESTON, SC — The Charleston Battery will host the fourth annual Carolina Challenge Cup March 24 – 31 at Blackbaud Stadium, Daniel Island. Current Major League Soccer champs the Houston Dynamo return for a second straight visit as does Red Bull New York, this season under the leadership of former […]
Samford Women Favored In OVC
Samford Women Favored In OVC. Samford has been picked to win the 2007 Ohio Valley Conference women’s soccer crown as voted on by the league’s head soccer coaches and sports information directors. The Bulldogs, who won their fourth straight regular-season title in 2006, received 12 of the 20 first-place votes and 155 points. Morehead State […]
Battery To Host MLS Teams
Battery To Host MLS Teams. The Charleston Battery pre-season camp is underway as the 2007 squad prepares for the 2007 Carolina Challenge Cup and then the USL First Division season. The Carolina Challenge Cup gets underway on March 24; the Battery’s tournament opener is versus Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls at 8:15 PM. […]
Clarke Hired To Coach Mariners
Clarke Hired To Coach Mariners. The Virginia Beach Mariners are pleased to announce Colin Clarke as their new head coach. The former USL First Division coach returns after six years with FC Dallas of Major League Soccer as assistant and head coach. Clarke managed FC Dallas for the past three years. He was appointed interim […]
SAC Preseason Poll Topped By Lincoln Memorial
SAC Preseason Poll Topped By Lincoln Memorial. Lincoln Memorial University, which advanced to the NCAA Division II men’s soccer semifinals last season, is the favorite to win the 2007 South Atlantic Conference championship in a vote of the league coaches. Lincoln Memorial, a second-year SAC member, received five first-place votes and 61 total points. The […]
ETSU Picks Calabrese To Coach Men’s Team
ETSU Picks Calabrese To Coach Men’s Team. Scott Calabrese, former assistant coach at Clemson University, has been named the first men’s head soccer coach at East Tennessee State University. For it’s first season, the ETSU men will have no scholarships, but in 2008 it will become a scholarship program and will compete in the Atlantic […]
Seminoles Come Up One Win Short
Seminoles Come Up One Win Short. Florida State players and coaches celebrated winning their first game in a NCAA Division I College Cup semifinal on Friday afternoon . The 3-2 win over Notre Dame was a relief, of sorts, since the Seminoles had previously been 0-4 in College Cup appearances. A year ago it had […]
Tampa Captures D-2 National Title
Tampa Captures D-2 National Title. Tampa University has had a women’s soccer team for 10 years, and now the school has a national championship. The Spartans captured the 2007 NCAA Division II title the hard way, beating five-time national champion Franklin Pierce College in a penalty kick shootout. It prevented a sweep of national titles […]
Lincoln Memorial Drops D-2 Title Game
Lincoln Memorial Drops D-2 Title Game. Less than two minutes to go! That little more than a television commercial break. That is what was left in regulation in the NCAA Division II men’s national championship game when Franklin Pierce’s David Clifton, the #2 goalscorer in the nation, slipped a shot over the head of Lincoln […]