With the signing of eight-year veteran striker Joseph Ngwenya, the Richmond Kickers continued to add Major League Soccer experience for the 2003 season. The striker from Zimbabwe, has 131 combined appearances for the Los Angeles Galaxy, Houston Dynamo, Columbus Crew and D.C. United. He scored 24 goals in MLS, including one in the Dynamo’s 2-1 […]
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‘C’ Coaching Course Offered In August
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] The National “C” License course will be offered August 8-11 & 15-18 in Fredericksburg, Va. Gordon Miller is the lead instructor. The National “C” License course is designed to introduce concepts that are targeted toward coaching players ages 11-16. The key contact for this course is Jackie Burket. Jackie@vysa.com. Course fee is $810. […]
ODP Players On R-III Tours
From Lee Smith’s perspective “the talent pool that attended the event was very high” as he spoke about the U.S. Training Event in March. [show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] “We had players from all over the state and it was great to see the players working together with tactical awareness, vision and speed even though they all play […]
Kickers Sign Joseph Ngwenya
Scores In His Richmond Debut The Richmond Kickers continued to rebuild their 2013 roster with the addition of Zimbabwean international Joseph Ngwenya, and that move produced an immediate payoff early in his first USL PRO game. Ngwenya, a eight-year Major League Soccer veteran, opened the scoring in the Kickers’ 4-1 win over defending USL PRO […]
Lee Reloads Roster For Transition To NCAA
Lee University begins its transition from NAIA to NCAA next fall, and Lady Flames women’s head coach has signed his first NCAA Division II recruiting class. Four players from Colorado, Ohio, Tennessee and Illinois will join a program that won four consecutive NAIA national championship.[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Kinsey Cichowitz (Buena Vista, Colo.), Haley Gribler (Springboro, Ohio, […]
Goulet Scouts For Academy Prospects
American With German Coaching Experience It really wasn’t a tryout. More of an evaluation. But call it a training session. It was actually all of those. It took place on March 20 at Lipscomb University. Attending were 29 of the best teenage boys soccer players in Tennessee, in the birth years from 1999-2000, all recommended […]
Regional Odds & End Briefs From The Southeast USA
Soccer In Arkansas Arkansas State University head women’s coach Tafazwa Ziyenge has added California native Indra Garcia to his Red Wolves recruiting class. Garcia spent the previous two seasons at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, Cal., where she became the first women’s soccer player in school history to be named NSCAA first-team All-America. She […]
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 noon, and the second in the evening from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Reservations for seating are requested by April […]
N.C. Girls Prep Top Ten
N.C. Girls Prep Top Ten NCHSA Class 4A Girls 1. Green Hope (18-0-0), 2. Lake Norman (16-0-0), 3. Hough (13-1-0), 4. Millbrook (15-1-1), 5. Myers Park (12-1-1), 6. South Meck (13-2-0), 7. East Forsyth (11-1-1), 6. Grimsley (9-1-2), 9. Leesville Road (13-2-1), 10. AC Reynolds (16-1-2) NCHSA Class 3A Girls 1. Wilson Hunt (15-1-0), 2. […]
Virginia Soccer
The Richmond Kickers have signed former FC Richmond goalkeeper Ryan Taylor and former Michigan Bucs midfielder Nate Robinson. Taylor, a Midlothian, VA, native, played collegiate soccer at Radford University, where he posted a 0.99 goals allowed average….James Madison freshman Bjarki Oalsteinsson (Iceland) was named Virginia men’s soccer Rookie of the Year by the Virginia Sports […]