Coach Shelley Smith’s USC team is ranked #22 in the NSCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Poll after a 8-1-1 start. The lone loss was a 2-0 setback against the Georgia Bulldogs in Athens, GA. The tie was a 0-0 draw at Boston University in the fourth game of the season. From now on, what is […]
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Conference Carolinas
[show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Erskine has taken an early lead in the Conference Carolinas men’s soccer race with a pair of wins. Belmont Abbey and Pfeiffer, both 2-0, are the early leaders in the conference women’s soccer standings. Belmont Abbey is 6-1 overall. [/show_to][hide_from accesslevel=’Subscriber’] Your subscription has expired please Subscribe to Southern Soccer Scene to view […]
A Thorny Trip The The NWSL Title
Another Championship For Cindy Year after year, talented players of music move to Memphis to launch their careers in Music City. After her junior year at Germantown High School, Cindy Parlow left Memphis, TN, for Chapel Hill, NC, to follow her dream. Memphis had been home for her as she grew up and fell in […]
Sanderson Proving To Be A Freshman Sharpshooter
It hasn’t taken Valerie Sanderson long to make a statement at the collegiate level playing for the Memphis Tigers. The Canadian freshman from Quebec became the first player in American Athletic Conference history to repeat as Offensive Player of the Week, after leading Memphis to a pair of wins over Florida Gulf Coast and Florida […]
Concussions Law Supports Trainers
Tennessee became the 45th state to have a youth concussion law when Gov. Bill Haslam signed the legislation in mid-April of this year. The law contains all three provisions of the National Football League’s model legislation. Parents must sign a conncussion information form before their child can participate in sports; any [show_disconnected][show_to accesslevel=’Subscriber’]student-athlete suspected of […]
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 […]
‘Hampden-Sydney Seeking To Regain ‘Their Edge’
The preseason and non-conference games are history for another year. The conference portion of collegiate soccer schedules are now underway all over the country. For the Division I power conferences, being competitive within a conference also means being competitive at a national level. Not so much different for the top teams in Division III, which […]
From Uruguay To U.S. To Spain And Everywhere In Between
First U.S. Star To Come Home To Play In Major League Soccer Charlie Stillitano stood across from Tab Ramos and was taken aback. The guy he was about to introduce as the N.Y./N.J. MetroStars’ (and Major League Soccer’s) first player was no longer the scrawny teenager he remembered from St. Benedict’s Prep. “What struck me […]