America is obsessed with rankings. From NCAA football and basketball to top high school recruits across the sporting spectrum, the American sports fan has no shortage of statistics and ratings in every professional and college sport. Unfortunately, team rankings have leached into youth sports as well, where any benefit they bring is far outweighed by […]
Archives for October 2013
Count Tech Among ‘Big Girl’ Teams
The Nationally Ranked Hokies Jazmine Reeves knows the pecking order in women’s college soccer. For years, Atlantic Coast Conference programs like North Carolina, Florida State, Duke, Virginia, and Wake Forest have been regulars in the national title discussion. When it came to Virginia Tech’s place on the national stage, Reeves realized even before she arrived […]
Cavs 17-0 And Still Have Things To Work On!
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 […]
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 […]
MLS’ ‘Unlikely’ US Open Cup Champion
Are you old enough to remember the old saying about blind squirrels finding acorns? Well, D.C. United isn’t called the “blind squirrels”, but they did find an acorn of such when they captured their third U.S. Open Cup in league history. The storied Major League Soccer franchise D.C. United seized the moment at the 100th […]
Are Champions Born Or Are They Made?
Sports Medicine Corner If you have even the remotest interest in sport sciences, I’ve got a new book for you. David Epstein, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, presents some pretty complex topics in the very readable “The Sports Gene” where he explores the concepts behind whether there is a genetic predisposition for sport (nature) […]
U.S. Men Hand Panama A Heartbreaker, Mexico A Lifeline
Jurgen Klinsmann took a roster full of non-starters and did what was the most difficult thing to do. Win a CONCACAF World Cup qualifier on the road against a team that was motivated by the opportunity to qualify for the first time in history. It almost didn’t happen. What was most difficult for 90 minutes […]
Rollins Tars Still Ranked #2 Nationally
One of two remaining unbeaten and untied teams remaining in the country, the Rollins College Tars (11-0-0, 3-0-0) held on to the #2 spot in the latest NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division II poll. For Complete Story, Click Here
Jones and Spring Sweep SSC POW Awards
WINTER PARK, Fla. – Rollins’ Emma Jones and Mary Spring have been selected Sunshine State Conference Women’s Soccer Players of the Week presented by VALIC. Jones was named the Offensive Player of the Week after scoring the game-winning goal in the 21st minute on the road at Lynn, before setting up her teammate just 14 seconds later for […]
Strawser nets first career goal to lift Texas Soccer over Kansas, 1-0
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Sophomore Aaron Strawser found the back of the Kansas goal in the 86th minute to power Texas Soccer to a 1-0 victory at Jayhawk Soccer Complex. Strawser dribbled the ball into space on the right side in Texas’ attacking third and sent a shot toward the goal that sailed over the hands […]