N.C. Soccer. In her first game back with Wake Forest after winning the FIFA U-20 World Cup, Katie Stengel picked up right where she left off last year, scoring the game-winning goal in a 1-0 win at Miami and in the process tying the Demon Deacons’ career goal-scoring record. Playing in only the first game […]
Issues
UVa’s Ari Dimas Is Ruled Ineligible
UVa’s Ari Dimas Is Ruled Ineligible. Chesapeake’s Ari Dimas enrolled at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2008 as just another first-year student, without any plan to play intercollegiate soccer for the Cavaliers. But the game pulled the Indian River HS graduate to the university’s men’s club soccer team, where he excelled. The […]
Rowdies Have A Shot At Title In NASL Final
Rowdies Have A Shot At Title In NASL Final. With 12 victories and seven draws in 27 games this season, the Tampa Bay Rowdies are hoping for win #13 in the final game of the regular season against the Carolina RailHawks in Cary, NC. Lucky #13 would happen on the RailHawks home field. The Rowdies […]
Terps Top Tar Heels
Terps Top Tar Heels. Sixth-ranked North Carolina was upset 2-1 by the Maryland Terrapins in their ACC openers before a crowd of 1,500 fans at Ludwig Field in College Park, MD. The win was the third in a row for Maryland over the Tar Heels. It is the first time UNC has ever lost three […]
Soccer Notes
FC Kansas City goalkeeper Nicole Barnhart, 31, has been named the NWSL Goalkeeper of the Year, finishing ahead of Western New York’s Adrianna Franch and Portland’s Karina LeBlanc, who tied for second in the voting. Barnhart’s FC Kansas City teammate Becky Sauerbrunn was voted 2013 NWSL Defender of the Year. Sky Blue FC’s Christie Rampone […]
S.C. Soccer
Coastal Carolina junior forward Kacey Kelley (Ashburn, Va.) has been named the Big South Conference Attacking Player of the Week, while Liberty defender Maddie Boone was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Week. Kelley had three goals and an assist in helping Coastal to a pair of wins over Campbell and UNC Asheville. Boone, […]
Tennessee Soccer
Earle Davidson, the only men’s soccer head coach in the NCAA era for the Belmont Bruins’ has resigned his position. He has directed the Belmont program since 1997, but was 6-10-2 overall this fall….. Steve Springthorpe, former women’s head soccer coach at N.C. State University, has accepted the head coaching position at Tennessee Tech University. […]
Kinney Happy To Be Back On The Field
Kinney Happy To Be Back On The Field. MLS Reserve Games can sometimes have special storylines: fans get a look at an Academy player they’ve heard about, said Academy player scores to help his team win a game or a player comes back from a long injury recovery to assist on the team’s game-winning goal. […]
Pia’s Last Day On The Job
Pia’s Last Day On The Job. Pia Sundhage had three games to say her good-byes as U.S. WNT head coach after the team returned from London with Olympic gold medals. All three turned out to be wins, closing out her five-year record as the U.S. coach at 91-6-10. It began in an 8-0 rout of […]
U.S. Escapes With World Cup Qualifier Win
U.S. Escapes With World Cup Qualifier Win. It has been a number of years since the U.S. Men’s National Team faced a must-win situation in the semifinal round of regional World Cup qualifying. But that was exactly the case on Sept. 11 when Jamaica came into Columbus Crew Stadium after beating the Americans, 2-1, four […]