[HIGH SCHOOL] Clinton High won a record ninth Mississippi state title with a 2-0 win over Gulfport in the Class 6A state championship game. Other Mississippiboys prep champions: Starkville, Bay and Sacred Heart. Goals by James Oliver and Markel Gladney in thefirst quarter of an hour was the difference for the Arrows. Starkville High School […]
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The case for high school soccer
By Mike Barr The U.S. Soccer Developmental Academy league will soon be telling its players to not play high school soccer or any other high school sports. Most parentsof these elite players will buy into the decision, much in the same way they believe it costs thousands of dollars to assure their child becomes a […]
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NSCAA High School Winter Boys Poll
[RANKINGS] Led by Stony Brook-bound attacker Martin Giordano and 6-foot-4 goalie ZachBiggs, who is headed to UCF, Weston (Fla.) Cypress Bay is No. 1 in the NSCAA High School Winter Boys Poll. For the top 10 rankings .. NSCAA HighSchool Winter Boys Poll 1 Cypress Bay (Weston, Fla.) 16-0-2 2 Coppell (Coppell, Texas) 10-0-0 3 […]
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Prep star without leg honored with inaugural Inspireum Soccer Award
[AWARDS] Christian Metzler, who earned second-team all-state honors as a goalkeeper at Pope John Paul the Great HighSchool in Dumfries, Va., despite being born without a fibular bone that left him with no lower right leg from the knee down, was named the winner of the inaugural Inspireum Soccer Awards and awarded a$7,500 scholarship. The […]
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Turner steps down at North Carolina prep power
[COACHING MOVES] Steve Turner, who led Durham Jordan High School to three North Carolina boys state titles, is steppingdown after 23 years as he is about to accept a faculty position at a new school. — Jordan won titles in 1990, 2001 and 2010 under Turner. The Falcons went 25-0-0 in 2010, outscoringtheir opponents 116-12. […]
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Host Eagles close in on unbeaten season
[MONTVERDE ACADEMY TOURNAMENT] Montverde Academy, known for its national basketball power, has produced quite a successful boys soccer team. The Eagles (22-0-2)won the inaugural 2012 Montverde Academy Soccer Tournament on Saturday night with a 3-1 win over Florida rival American Heritage-Delray. Teams from Mississippi and Arizona also competed … Charlie Anagho, Alex Anyaegbunam and Henrique […]
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Rennie and Jacobus inducted into Hall of Fame
[AWARDS] Former Duke men’s coach John Rennie and the late M. “Chick” Jacobus of Kingswood School in West Hartford, Conn., were inducted into the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Hall ofFame.
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2011 NSCAA High School Boys All-America Team
[AWARDS] Five seniors — Andrew Harris (Gilman School, Md.), Sanford Spivey(Santa Barbara, Calif.), Donovan Fraser (Half Hollow Hills West, N.Y.), Michael Gamble (McDonough, Md.) and Drew White (Camas, Wash.) — earned honors for the second consecutive year on the 2011 NSCAA High School Boys All-America Team. For the complete All-America Team…
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Tackling gay issues in sports
Interview by Mike Woitalla The hardships faced by gay teens inspired the coming-out of former University of North Carolina star David Testo after nearlya decade of pro soccer in MLS, the USL and NASL. We contacted longtime soccer coach and journalist Dan Woog, the author of five books on gay and lesbian issues, to comment […]
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Cosmos cash; U-17s on TV; High school rules; MLS teens
By Mike Woitalla The reincarnated New York Cosmos appear to be recommitting to their relationship with Queens club Blau-Weis Gottschee,which had filed a lawsuit against the Cosmos on Nov. 3 after not receiving a promised payment, reports Michael Lewis of The Cosmos, who last August pulled the plug on their Southern California-based CosmosAcademy West, have […]