All of the five 2013 Florida State High School Athletic Association’s boys state championships were won by shutouts in regulation. Cypress Bay (Weston) took the Class 5A title with a 1-0 win over West Orange (Winter Garden). Daniel Gutierrez scored the game’s only goal in the 26th minute off an assist from Breno Ertty. With […]
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While NY Dithers…..Orlando Moves Towards MLS
MLS Prepares For 18th Season Major League Soccer is holding at 19 franchises, with eyes to putting Team #20 in Flushing, NY, in the borough of Queens. That has been the plan for several years. A second team, along with the New Jersey based New York Red Bulls, in the New York media market. In […]
Cobras Making W-League Plans With Local Signees
South Carolina native, Alex Ramsey, currently attending Louisiana State University, is coming home to join the Carolina Elite Cobras along with Rose Hull, Alejandra Chirino, and Sarah Jacobs. Hull, the teammate of recently signed Furman standout Stephanie DeVita, ended her 2012 season as the SoCon Defensive Player of the Year, while Ramsey, a standout at […]
Cousins The Youngest On U.S. Under-20 Team
Lynchburg’s Katie Cousins, a 1996 Virginia ODP player, was selected to the U.S. Under-20 Women’s National Team’s trip to the 12 Nations Tournament in La Manga, Spain, in early March. Cousins, is a 16-year-old who plays club soccer for the Richmond Kickers U17 Girls Elite Team. She played the second half in the USA’s 1-1 […]
U.S. U-15 BNT Camp
U.S. under-15 BNT coach Tony Lepore called up 32 players (1998 age group) for an eight-day training camp at the Home Depot Center. Included is Joe Gallardo Jr., who was previously a member of Nomads SC before moving to Monterrey in Mexico, and Joshua Perez, who recently trained at AC Milan.
Gold Cup Games coming to Southeast
Randy Waldrum whose 14 seasons as head women’s soccer coach at the University of Notre Dame have featured a pair of NCAA Championships and three other NCAA runner-up finishes, has signed a multi-year contract extension to continue as the Irish head coach. Waldrum is also currently the U.S. Under-23 Women’s National Team head coach…..Three-time Olympic […]
Dream Lives On With the National Women’s
This Spring If there are no challenges, one is asked, how great will be the accomplishments? The National Women’s Soccer League will begin play on April 13 with eight teams. No doubt all eight have already had to make adjustments to rosters that began with players allocated from the national teams of the United States, […]
Appalachian State Is Expected To Join Sun Belt Conference
Earlier this year there was speculation that Appalachian State University would leave the Southern Conference and join the College of Charleston in a move to the Colonial Athletic Association. That isn’t going to happen, but reports out of Boone say that ASU will in fact leave the SoCon, and will accept an invitation to join […]
Northern Virginia Royals Without A Coach
The USL Premier Development League regular season doesn’t begin until mid-May, but the Northern Virginia Royals are still looking for a coach for 2013! Richie Burke’s two-year stint with the Royals came to an end last fall when he accepted a coaching spot at Livingston FC in Scotland. Prior to that, the position was held […]
Free Concussion Seminar Offered
The Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center will hold two free seminars on Sports Concussion Education, on Tuesday, April 30, on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville TN, Two sessions will be held, one in the morning from 10:00-12:00 a.m., and the second in the evening from 5:30-7:30 p.m. These sessions are open to parents, coaches […]