Charlotte Catholic senior Jane Cline, according to the national high school website MaxPreps, led the nation in goals scored this past season with 75, third best in N.C. history. She finished her high school career with 181…….Alexis Degler, a senior midfielder at Green Hope High School, has been named the North Carolina Soccer Coaches Association […]
Soccer in North Carolina
RailHawks On Verge 1st Half Win
Hosting NASL Championship Hangs In Balance With two games remaining in the first half of the 2013 NASL split season, the Carolina RailHawks are a win away from winning the spring half of the season and earning the right to host the season-ending Soccer Bowl in November. That game comes at home on June 29 […]
Jersey Boy Comes Home To Misenheimer After 40 Years
Rutgers University is located in Piscataway, New Jersey. That’s a long way from Misenheimer, N.C. It’s a trip Bob Reasso recently made when he took the dual positions of director of Athletics and men’s head soccer coach at Pfeiffer University. Officially, he is Vice President for Athletics. Reasso, a 1973 graduate from Pfeiiffer, completed a […]
RailHawks To Host Mexico’s Puebla FC
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Two-time Mexican Premier Division Champion, Puebla FC, will come to the Triangle to face the Carolina RailHawks on Saturday, July 6, at WakeMed Soccer Park. Puebla FC is expected to bring a strong roster as they prepare for the start of the 2013 Apertura season. They are coached by former Mexico national coach […]
N.C. Soccer
The Carolina RailHawks opened the 2013 NASL season in the newly renovated WakeMed Soccer Park stadium, which has added 3,000 permanent seats, bringing seating capacity to near 10,000. Half of those went into the north end zone and the other half to upper-level stands on the east side of the stadium. The town of Cary […]
Jury Awards $8.3 In NCYSA Suit
Two ODP Boys Died In 2004 Accident In France A jury has found the North Carolina Youth Soccer Association negligent in the death of two young soccer players in a 2004 bus accident in France. The jury awarded about $8.3 million in compensatory damages to be divided between the parents of Onslow County’s Matt Helms […]
Unbeaten Eagles Will Host Sounders FC In Open Cup
The USL PRO Charlotte Eagles kept their 2013 unbeaten streak alive with a 3-0 victory over Sounders FC U-23s in the second round of U.S. Open Cup play. The win sets up a “home” third round game with the Chicago Fire on May 29. That home game will be played at Winthrop University in Rock […]
RailHawks Win To Host Los Angeles Galaxy In Open Cup
The PDL Carolina Dynamo played the NASL Carolina RailHawks close for the first half, but wilted in the second. The RailHawks’ 3-1 victory advanced them to the third round of the 2013 U.S. Open Cup and gave them a home game against MLS champion Los Angeles Galaxy on Wednesday, May 29. A year ago the […]
N.C. Soccer
Bria Dixon, a senior forward at Cary High School has been selected as the girls NSCAA/TopDrawerSoccer.com High School Player of the Week (March 13)…..Freshman Cassie Pecht (Mechanicsburg, PA) received both the Most Valuable Player and Newcomer of the Year awards at the Duke women’s annual team banquet. Redshirt junior Kim DeCesare (Massapequa Park, NY), who […]
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 […]