Chelsea Stewart, who grew up in Colorado, was near the top of the list among Vanderbilt’s recruiting class for the fall of 2009. Her career in Nashville lasted 18 games. She will graduate from UCLA with a degree in economics and with a NCAA Division I championship memory. Stewart was a senior defender for the […]
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Lynchburg Hornets Won 22
Unbeaten In ODAC Since 2009 While the University of Virginia was running to a 24-win season, another Virginia women’s collegiate team was winning 22. A potent offense led by a junior named Dessi Dupuy fired the Lynchburg Hornets to 22 wins playing a couple of divisions below the Cavaliers. No other Lynchburg women’s team had […]
Diverse Group Slated For Virginia/DC HOF
Wade Barrett grew up playing soccer at the beach. That would be Virginia Beach. For college, he didn’t go far from home, traveling just down the road to Williamsburg. He played four years at the College of William & Mary for Al Albert. Staci Wilson graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School of Science and Technology […]
Scurry Is Set For Virginia Convention
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Briana Scurry, the U.S. WNT goalkeeper from 1994-2008, will be the featured speaker at the Awards Reception at the Virginia Youth Soccer Convention, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, in Richmond, VA. Scurry, with 173 interntional career appearances, was in goal for the U.S. in the dramatic championship shootout over China in the 1999 FIFA Women’s […]
Cavaliers Experienced The ‘Agony Of Defeat’
Season Near Perfection Ends In Semifinals By Jeff White VirginiaSports.com Three times as women’s soccer coach at the University of Virginia, Steve Swanson had experienced the pain of losing in the NCAA quarterfinals. He’s had other teams at UVa that were ousted in the Sweet Sixteen. “That’s hard,” Swanson said Monday after the recent College […]
Waldo In Unique Position
Jurgen Klinsmann once coached Germany’s MNT while commuting from California, and Eric Wynalda will do the same in 2014 for the Atlanta Silverbacks[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The Silverbacks will not hire a head coach to replace the fired Brian Haynes, and will rely on Wynalda, and a select staff of assistant coaches, during the 2014 NASL season. […]
Corner Kicks
Under-18 MNT Camp U.S. Coach Javier Perez called 24 up players for a week-long U.S. Under-18 men’s national team training camp at Lakewood Ranch, Fla., to prepare for the upcoming Copa del Atlantico Feb. 4-7 in the Canary Islands. The lone pro in camp is Sporting Kansas City’s Erik Palmer-Brown. Besides Palmer-Brown, four players — […]
Soccer Shorts
January 2014 Issue Happy New Year! We are happy to be back in Philadelphia and the NSCAA convention as we begin our 36th year of publishing Southern Soccer Scene. We are please to report that 2013 was an outstanding year for our publication as we expanded what we offer our readers with a new dynamic […]
What Soccer People Are Saying!
“It’s a lot of different things for me. I wanted to gete back to playing at the highest level. I wanted to get back into top form.” U.S. international Clint Dempsey talking about returning to Fulham and the EPL on loan for two months in January/February. (Soccer America) ••••••• “This is the opportunity of a […]
News From The NSCAA
Hermann Trophy Winners Virginia junior Morgan Brian and Maryland senior Patrick Mullins are the 2013 M.A.C. Hermann Trophy winners, symbolic of Division I National Player of the Year. For Mullins it marked the second consecutive year that he has received the Hermann Trophy. Morgan (St. Simons Island, GA) helped Virginia to the NCAA D-I Women’s […]