Seventeen straight wins to open the 2013 season! The Virginia Cavaliers, ranked #1 in the nation, are the last unbeaten, untied women’s collegiate soccer team in the United States. Those 17 consecutive wins are a new school record for Virginia, which opened the 1990 season with 16 straight. They set the new mark with a […]
Soccer in Virginia
Calvary FC Stadium Delayed
The Chantilly Youth Assocition and four individuals have been named in a suite filed by Soccer Performance International[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]. The Northern Virginia-based company, which supplies coaches and trainers to a number of area youth soccer clubs, has alleged that they attempted to “destroy’ the company’s business and reputation. The suit was biled in the Circuit […]
Kickers Are Stunned In Semifinals
Enjoyed A 22-Game Unbeaten Streak What a season the Richmond Kickers had in 2013! They opened the USL PRO season with 22 consecutive games without a loss. No team in the league had ever done that. It was an exciting run put together by a team comprised of a core of veteran players and a […]
Concussions End Spiders Star’s Soccer Career
Becca Wann began her senior season with great anticipation, but her last year of intercollegiate soccer at the University of Richmond lasted little over one game. The Richmond Spiders suffered a huge loss this month when one of their best goal scorers has had her soccer career ended as a result of a concussion. Wann, […]
Calvary FC Stadium Delayed
There is good news and there is bad news from the Virginia Calvary FC. The good news first! The team is still set to take the field for the first time next year when the spring half of the 2014 North American Soccer League season gets underway. And now the bad news. The team will […]
Down To Most Important Games
Kickers’ Unbeaten Streak Ends At 24 “The Streak” had to end sometimes. Perhaps it was fitting that it ended in Charleston, SC, against the rival Battery. For 24 consecutive games the Richmond Kickers did not lose. The greatest start in USL PRO history, and club history as well. It came to an end with a […]
Four New Coaches Take Over ODAC Programs
New coaches often mean changes in athletic programs, and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference will see four new head soccer coaches this fall. Robert Richardson, Chris Mills and Ryan Pflugrad will assume the reins of three men’s programs, while Michael Shenigo is the new women’s head coach at Guilford College. Richardson is the new Emory […]
Calvary FC Making Plans For 2014 Debut
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Ground was broken earlier this summer for a new soccer/baseball facility in Ashburn, and the Virginia Calvary FC are making plans to take the field for the first time in 2014 as a member of the North American Soccer League. The new team is based in Loudoun County, 30 miles west of Washington, […]
Virginia Soccer
Katie Gebhard has joined the coaching staff at Randolph-Macon College as assistant women’s soccer coach. The Wyckoff, NJ, native comes to Ashland from Stevens Institute of Technology where she served as an assistant last year. She played for four years at Lynchburg College, contributing to ODAC titles in 2008, 2010 and 2011 as well as […]
Kickers Finally Move Up Top
Unbeaten Streak Currently At 20 For most of the season the Richmond Kickers have been chasing the Orlando City Lions for first place in the USL PRO league. Orlando City got off to a fast start, but has struggled of late. Meanwhile, the Kickers kept kicking, and continued not to lose games. In fact, 22 […]