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#1
Men's soccer / Fall Schedules
June 08, 2022, 08:19:57 PM
Messiah posted their schedule, and it's a bear:

https://gomessiah.com/sports/mens-soccer/schedule

Not many cupcakes. That's good. The boys return most starters and will (we hope) heal up over the summer. They finished the tournament last fall without their indisputably best player (Luke Groothoff, who is returning for a final season) and several other starters were either out or playing with more than trivial injuries.
#2
Men's soccer / Big Dance
November 11, 2019, 02:34:57 PM
Suggest that we start a new thread for the tournament.
#3
Women's soccer / Falcon wins natonal title
May 28, 2019, 09:03:50 AM
Congratulations to Esther Seeland, FY Falcon defender from State College, PA. She won the national title at 800 meters this weekend in a brilliant 2:05. You can watch the whole race, starting at about 2:36:30, here:

https://www.ncaa.com/video/trackfield-outdoor-women/2019-05-25/diii-outdoor-track-field-day-three-full-replay

Last year, Esther won the HS girls 800 in the state meet. She declined multiple D1 track scholarships, including (so I am told) at least one full ride, in order to play soccer and run at Messiah. This year and last year, PA is perhaps the top state nationally for girls from 800 to XC.

(At about 51 minutes, you can also watch Falcon SR Ben Schott come from behind and win the steeplechase decisively.)
#4
Men's soccer / Spring games
May 05, 2019, 08:16:12 PM
Any news on spring games?

The Falcons lost 2-1 to D1 Loyola of MD, then defeated the alumni 2-0 the next weekend. All 3 goals were scored by Luke Groothoff, who mostly played CB last fall owing to big needs on that end of the field. In the fall, I anticipate him being somewhere up front--and leading the team in goals, barring any major injury. Word on the street is that the Falcons are bringing in some talented defenders, allowing LG to move forward where his particular skill set will be more naturally used. However, IMO the biggest holes are at the 6/8 positions, left open by the graduations of Samuel Ruiz Plaza and Justin Brautigam. I won't be surprised if it takes a little while to sort this out in the fall...

Two of the 3 goals are on facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/MessiahMensSoccer/videos/1948105955299031/

https://www.facebook.com/MessiahMensSoccer/videos/2415490028680381/



#5
Men's soccer / Messiah vs Tufts--next weekend
March 02, 2019, 08:01:56 PM
Just thought I'd give a shoutout to the Messiah women's basketball team, who won both of their NCAA games this weekend. They advance to play Tufts in Roanoke. Both teams are in the top 7 on D3 hoops. Tufts, 27-2, has won their last 8. Messiah dropped the opening game to York College and has run the table since then. I don't know anything else about the Jumbos. Messiah is a senior-heavy team led by 6'2" center Aleisha Rohrer: https://gomessiah.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=6624, who averages 15 Pts, 13 RBs, and has blocked 55 shots. Diminutive guard Maci Thornton scores 18 ppg, with 38% from behind the arc and 80% from the line. FT shooting is probably their greatest strength. If they have the lead late, they keep it.
#6
Men's soccer / The Big Dance
November 05, 2018, 03:06:33 PM
A separate thread seems useful, so here it is...

No need to "quote" this first post--just start us out, someone...
#7
I ran across this interesting piece in Atlantic today:

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/10/college-sports-benefits-white-students/573688/

NESCAC and Ivy League schools are implicated. Here are a few provocative quotes. Each paragraph below is an unedited quote from the piece; in other words, the passages "marked as quotes" (thus) are quoted within the article itself.

(1) All applicants to Harvard are ranked on a scale of one to six based on their academic qualifications, and athletes who scored a four were accepted at a rate of about 70 percent. Yet the admit rate for nonathletes with the same score was 0.076 percent—nearly 1,000 times lower.

(2) Put another way, college sports at elite schools are a quiet sort of affirmative action for affluent white kids, and play a big role in keeping these institutions so stubbornly white and affluent. What makes this all the more perplexing, says John Thelin, a historian of higher education at the University of Kentucky, is that "no other nation has the equivalent of American college sports." It's a particular quirk of the American higher-education system that ultimately has major ramifications for who gets in—and who doesn't—to selective colleges. [My comment: in context, this isn't referring to soccer, but to certain other sports.]

(3) [In context, this one applies to D3 schools and Ivies.] Over the summer, coaches compile lists of the athletes they want, which they then share with the admissions office. "Most of the recruiting happens in the early rounds. Once coaches have their list, they would rather wrap up the whole process early rather than wait until the spring," Hernandez said. That the recruited athletes are chosen early on is seemingly mundane, but it warps the process in favor of wealthier kids who can send in early-decision applications to selective schools without fretting about the size of the financial-aid package they'll receive.

(4) The processes that funnel rich white athletes to selective colleges aren't going anywhere in the short term, but in a possible future in which colleges can no longer consider race in admissions, there could be renewed public pressure for these schools to clear the musty cobwebs of the admissions process that undermine their self-proclaimed ethos as America's engines of social mobility.

That's enough tidbits. If anyone wants to talk about any of these points, I suggest simply identifying the point by my numbering rather than quoting this lengthy post, in order to make the thread easier to follow. I gather that "tips" given by NESCAC soccer coaches are the very type of thing pertinent to this article, and there may be similar practices elsewhere. Absolutely it happens at the Ivies, too--as this article (and others I've seen over the years) spells out.
#8
Men's soccer / The Big Dance
November 06, 2017, 02:05:01 PM
Somebody needed to start a thread on the tournament & bracketology, so here it is...