Brian Shriver Returns Home To The Sunshine State At the conclusion of the 2013 North American Soccer League season Brian Shriver said he was excited to enter free agency. He was coming off a season in which he scored 15 goals for the Carolina RailHawks and led the league in scoring. His contract with the […]
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Central Florida Knights Roll Despite A Coaching Change
Amanda Cromwell left the University of Central Florida last April after 14 seasons to become the head coach of the UCLA Bruins. In her first season in Loa Angeles, her Bruins won the national championship. For 11 of those 14 seasons, UCF advanced to NCAA postseason play. Cromwell didn’t leave a cupboard bare of talent […]
Dramatic Rally Highlights ‘Canes Season
The Miami Hurricanes won nine soccer games last fall. The dramatic finish of win #9 was the highlight of the season. Clemson held a 1-0 lead on Senior Night at Cobb Stadium in Coral Gables with about four minutes left to play[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. Then the heroics began for the Hurricanes. Senior Blake Stockton (Lindwood, NJ) […]
Silverbacks Back To Local Owners
Atlanta In Market For A New Coach The Atlanta Silverbacks will begin 2014 with local owners, part old and part new. Traffic Sports is out and a new ownership group consisting of longtime chairman Boris Jerkunica, longtime vice chairman John Latham and Henry and John Hardin. The Hardin brothers are local businessmen who run SCI […]
Campbell Answered When Opportunity Called
Jane Campbell didn’t expect to be the starting goalkeeper last fall as a freshman at Stanford. The Cardinal was expecting that job to be owned by senior Emily Oliver, one of the top goalkeepers in collegiate soccer. But Oliver’s senior season lasted just three games. Her career was over after the third game, when she […]
There Are Way Too Many Non-Competitive Games
By Randy Vogt I hate to be a Grinch during this Christmas season but there’s a problem with a good minority of college and high school games, at least the ones that I have been officiating. Earlier this year, I wrote about Preventing Lopsided Scores in which I partly took leagues and tournaments to task for grouping […]
Montgomery Leads ‘Dogs To Best Season
Jade Montgomery didn’t far to travel when she graduated from Monroe’s Piedmont High School and enrolled at Wingate University, also in Monroe. She was a goalscorer in high school and for three seasons has been a goalscorer for the Bulldogs. Only a junior, the two-time SAC Player of the Year led the Bulldogs to a […]
Stengel Selected For U.S. Under-20 WNT Camp
Before becoming the head women’s coach at N.C. State Tim Santoro was the assistant women’s coach at Wake Forest. There he coached Katie Stengel, who would set all of WFU’s scoring records before her Demon Deacon playing days were over. As the Wolfpack coach he is now coaching another Stengel, Jackie, Katie’s younger sister. Don’t […]
49ers Return To Conference USA And Win Tournament Title
Knocked Off Reigning Champion Tulsa Golden Hurricane Tyler Gibson’s penalty kick in the 88th minute was the game’s only goal and gave the Charlotte 49ers their first Conference USA men’s tournment chmpionship in their first year back in the league. It was good for a 1-0 win over reigning tournament champion Tulsa. “It’s amazing and […]
N.C. Well Represented At U-20 Camp
A pair of Academy club players and four players in N.C. university programs were among the 36 players invited by U.S. Under-20 MNT head coach Tab Ramos for a 10-day training camp in Lakewood Ranch, Fla[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The camp runs from Jan. 3-12. This is the team’s second camp of the new cycle and first […]