Soccer in Alabama

The Ohio University Women’s Soccer Team has a new addition to its staff, as former professional goalkeeper Allison Whitworth will be joining the Bobcats as an assistant coach. Whitworth, a Birmingham, Ala., native and 2007 graduate of Auburn, spent the last two seasons serving as an assistant coach/goalkeeper coach at Middle Tennessee State University…..Amy Berbary, […]

The Vestavia Hills boys soccer team is 15-0 and #1 in Alabama just past the midpoint of their 2013 regular season. They jumped from #22 to fifth in the Elite Soccer Report national spring prep poll. Being undefeated and nationally ranked is nothing new for the Rebels. But a hard lesson learned by past teams, […]

New Women’s Head Coach For BSC Benji Walton is no longer the women’s head coach at Birmingham Southern College. The announcement came not from BSC, but rather by Indiana University where he joins the coaching staff of Amy Berbary, as a Hoosiers assistant coach. BSC did mention his leaving the Panthers in an announcement that […]

University of South Alabama women’s head soccer coach Graham Winkworth has added Keyton Wheelock to his staff as an assistant coach. Wheelock joins USA from Tusculum College in Tennessee, where she served as an assistant coach since 2008…..The 2013 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Alabama Youth Soccer Association is set for February 23 at […]

How’s the old saying go about the apple not falling far from the tree. That was sorta what Reed Matte did after a stellar prep career at John Carroll High School when he decided to stay home in Birmingham for his college career. His father, Frank, played at the University of Alabama Birmingham from 1983-84, […]

Brown, Okai Selected In MLS SuperDraft For two years Deshorn Brown and Stephen Okai were a formidable one-two scoring punch for the University of Mobile’s men’s soccer team. That combo was broken when Brown transferred to the University of Central Florida for the 2013 season. Their names became linked once again during the Major League […]

Alabama Soccer. Tom Condone has been named the Executive Director of Alabama Soccer. He comes to Alabama from Tennessee, where he was the Executive Director of Tennessee Soccer. Previously, he was the head coach at Spring Hill College, Rutgers University-Newark and Tennessee Wesleyan College, and was named the 2001 NAIA Men’s Region XII Coach of […]

Getman Championed Championships at Region Park HOOVER, Ala. — Mike Getman gets it. As the de facto ambassador for Division I men’s soccer in this part of the country, the University of Alabama at Birmingham coach couldn’t help but smile. His work was done. He and a crowd of 9,242 had just watched Indiana University […]

Will The College Cup Return To Hoover?. No sooner had the 2012 NCAA Men’s College Cup semifinals been played, than the question of the day at Regions Park became “will the NCAA return the College Cup to Hoover in the future?” Organizers would like to host the NCAA Division I finals forever. Make Regions Park […]