Western New England

Drops Brandeis, Union, Babson, Conn College, and Westfield State and adds Thomas, Wheaton (MA), plus Johnson & Wales (RI) as a conference opponent.  That's a dip in non-conference quality, but perhaps it will help them reduce wear-and-tear in prep for conference play.

Scranton

Opens with Messiah again this season, but drops Muhlenberg and Marywood and adds Kean and Rowan.  The big game might be the visit from SUNY Cortland on Sat., 9/20.  Last season, Scranton traveled up to Cortland and came back from a 2-0 deficit in the second half to tie the score in the 88th minute.  I'm sure Cortland will be eager to exact revenge on Scranton's home field.

Loras

Drops Wheaton (IL), NC Wesleyan, Gustavus Adolphus, and Wisconsin-Stevens Point and adds College of St. Scholastica, Kalamazoo, and Carthage.  In my mind (and I don't know if this would be shared by people at Loras), the big game will be at  Luther on Wed. 10/8, which will be the last time the two foes will play each other in an American Rivers Conference game as Luther departs next year for the Midwest Conference.

Stevenson

Stevenson is one of those programs where the team seemed like it could compete with anyone on their day, but those "on" days weren't consistent enough.  They finished 3-10-6, but only lost to Dickinson 1-0 (ranked #6 when they played) and Mary Washington 1-0 (ranked #1 when they played).  This year, they drop Allegheny, Salisbury, Neumann, Shenandoah, Kings, and Mary Washington and add Moravian, Roanoke, Goucher, Gallaudet, and Delaware Valley.

Quote from: Ron Boerger on July 11, 2025, 09:30:38 PMUnfortunately, it was confirmed today that Kellyanne Lytal did not survive last week's flooding. 

Here's an ESPN story about this tragedy

QuoteKellyanne was one of the girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp in Hunt, Texas. Officials have said 27 campers and counselors died in the floodwaters that rapidly swamped the campground.

"Our entire community grieves with the Lytal family, to whom we extend our deepest sympathies and unwavering support," Trinity University said on social media. "We know this loss will be felt across our campus and beyond."

Trinity is a Division III program in San Antonio, Texas. For many Texans, summer camps in the Hill Country are a rite of passage, and Wade Lytal, a 2009 graduate of Trinity who played offensive line for the Tigers, posted last Sunday that Kellyanne was missing from the camp, located about 85 miles away from their San Antonio home, after the storm. He included a video of her singing in her Christmas pageant.

KSAT-TV in San Antonio reported that Trinity head coach Jerheme Urban, along with several players, had been among the searchers in the flood-ravaged areas.

[Cross-posted from the 2025 Schedules thread]

Johnson & Wales (Charlotte)

Johnson & Wales Charlotte was in its DIII exploratory year in 2024-2025 and was announced earlier this year as the 7th member of the Coast-to-Coast conference. I think they applied for provisional membership in February and are on pace to become a full member of DIII in 2028-2029.  They are, however, immediately eligible to compete in the C2C conference.  Their Athletics Dept staff is still getting up to speed on what that means, though, as they have identified 4 games (home-and-away series with Warren Wilson and Regent) as "C2C" games, even though there are no regular season games in the C2C.  Nevertheless, I admire their eagerness to claim membership.  Last year, they played some DIII schools and did pretty well, beating Greensboro and Methodist, tying NC Wesleyan, and losing to Pfeiffer.  This year, they drop NC Wesleyan, Pfeiffer, and Greensboro and, in addition to opening at Methodist and playing Regent and Warren Wilson twice, they add Bridgewater, Eastern Mennonite, Southern Virginia, Guilford, William Peace, and Piedmont.  Seems like there be plenty of D3 opponents for J&WC going forward, between the USA South and the ODAC, plus the other mid-Atlantic C2C schools.  That might allow them to decline to play DI Davidson, who they lost to 8-0 last year and are again scheduled to play this season.  I can understand accepting an opportunity to play local-ish D1 programs like Duke or UNC just for the experience even though they know they will be thrashed, but, with all due respect for @PaulNewman, who I believe went to Davidson, the experience of playing at Davidson's modest field and using their tiny locker rooms isn't going to be better than most DIII programs and will be worse than some.  Moreover, the "crowd" Davidson is going to get for a Wednesday game against J&W Charlotte probably isn't going to feel like a DI atmosphere, if such a thing exists across-the-board.  It does, however, provide a local game that their parents can easily attend, so from that perspective I get it.

Johnson & Wales (Charlotte)

Johnson & Wales Charlotte was in its DIII exploratory year in 2024-2025 and was announced earlier this year as the 7th member of the Coast-to-Coast conference. I think they applied for provisional membership in February and are on pace to become a full member of DIII in 2028-2029.  They are, however, immediately eligible to compete in the C2C conference.  Their Athletics Dept staff is still getting up to speed on what that means, though, as they have identified 4 games (home-and-away series with Warren Wilson and Regent) as "C2C" games, even though there are no regular season games in the C2C.  Nevertheless, I admire their eagerness to claim membership.  Last year, they played some DIII schools and did pretty well, beating Greensboro and Methodist, tying NC Wesleyan, and losing to Pfeiffer.  This year, they drop NC Wesleyan, Pfeiffer, and Greensboro and, in addition to opening at Methodist and playing Regent and Warren Wilson twice, they add Bridgewater, Eastern Mennonite, Southern Virginia, Guilford, William Peace, and Piedmont.  Seems like there be plenty of D3 opponents for J&WC going forward, between the USA South and the ODAC, plus the other mid-Atlantic C2C schools.  That might allow them to decline to play DI Davidson, who they lost to 8-0 last year and are again scheduled to play this season.  I can understand accepting an opportunity to play local-ish D1 programs like Duke or UNC just for the experience even though they know they will be thrashed, but, with all due respect for @PaulNewman, who I believe went to Davidson, the experience of playing at Davidson's modest field and using their tiny locker rooms isn't going to be better than most DIII programs and will be worse than some.  Moreover, the "crowd" Davidson is going to get for a Wednesday game against J&W Charlotte probably isn't going to feel like a DI atmosphere, if such a thing exists across-the-board.  It does, however, provide a local game that their parents can easily attend, so from that perspective I get it.

La Verne

They open with a trip to Oregon to Pacific and Willamette and then they play Park (NAIA) and Westmont (DII) before opening SCIAC play with Chapman (who they play twice in ten days in a quirk of scheduling).  La Verne was 1-5-1 in away games last season, which they will have to rectify this year if they have any hope of qualifying for the conference tournament.

Emerson

They drop George Fox, Bates, Framingham State, and Amherst.  Adds a game at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on opening day, plus games against Eastern Connecticut State, Endicott, Rivier, and Bridgewater State.  Unless RPI has a massive turnaround this season, that's a pretty big dip in quality of schedule, although they still have a really tough two game sequence against Babson on Wed 10/22 and then at Tufts on Saturday 10/25.  Emerson may be hoping to get back above .500 this year after finishing 7-10-2 last season.

Quote from: Hopkins92 on July 10, 2025, 12:48:37 PMI don't mean this to be obnoxious, but I swear, the last 4 or 5 times I've popped in here, I could swear you are making these schools.

I know, right!?  Hamilton sounds like I just took the name from the Broadway Musical and then made up a conference that sounds like the Nescafe coffee brand. 

Seriously, though, there are 425 schools in D3.  I have to look them up myself sometimes when I see an announcement to determine whether it is a D3 school.

Theofanis Booras named head men's soccer coach at Fitchburg State

QuoteCoach Booras began his tenure at Fitchburg State at the start of the 2025 season, taking over a team that had reached the conference semifinals the previous year with an overall record of 9-8-3.

Coach Booras brings a variety of certifications and diplomas from over a decade of involvement in soccer. Most recently, he has served as the Technical Director for Abbey Villa Soccer Club and is the Regional Director for the Intercontinental Football Academy (IFA) in the Greater Lowell Region.

Through his experience, Coach Booras has gained:

    USSF B license
    UEFA B license through the German Football Federation
    UEFA C license from both the German & Scottish Football Associations
    Master's in High-Performance Football certificate | MBP
    Master Coach & Soccer Leader diploma | United Soccer Coaches & University of Delaware
    Director for Coaching Diploma | United Soccer Coaches
    Diplomas in talent identification and opposition analysis

Some additional Region X schedules

UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz is probably one of the most deserted of the D3 island schools in the country.  I think the closest D3 school is Cal Lutheran, which is about 315 miles or 5-6 hours away on a good day.  They are in the Coast-to-Coast conference, but every other member is in Maryland, Virginia, or North Carolina, so they only play a conference tournament.  While the other C2C schools tend to play each other (sometimes in a home-and-away series) in what are technically non-conference games, UC Santa Cruz is for all intents and purposes an independent.  Most years, that means it fills its schedule by traveling south to play SCIAC opponents, trying to get a NWC school or two to play them, and filling out its schedule with more local DII or NAIA opponents.  This year, however, they play the most D3 opponents that I have seen them schedule - 13.  They start with an intriguing preseason scrimmage against D1 Santa Clara and then they open the season with four straight NWC opponents (Willamette and Pacific at home and Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran away) and three SCIAC opponents (Caltech at home and Redlands and Whittier away).  They then travel to Texas to play SAA opponents Trinity and Southwestern, host Carleton from the MIAC in a somewhat surprising one-off match and then travel to SoCal again to play La Verne and Cal Lutheran from the SCIAC.  Their first non-D3 opponent is Oct. 15 and UC Merced (D2), before they travel back to SoCal for a midweek game with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  A lot of travel and teams from a lot of different parts of the country, but if they do well and their opponents do well, including in the C2C tourney against the likes of Mary Washington and Christopher Newport, this schedule might allow them to accumulate enough strength-of-schedule points to get an NCAA bid even if they don't win the conference tourney.  Of course, to do so they will have to do a little better, record-wise, than last season when they only suffered 2 losses, but also only had 6 wins because they had a whopping 9 ties.

Linfield

Linfield was 3-15-2 last season and two of its wins were against winless Lewis & Clark (the third was against a weak local NAIA side).  In those 20 games, they scored 21 goals and conceded 51.  In 2023, they weren't much better, finishing 5-12-3.  Despite their woes, they have traveled a decent amount in recent years.  Two years ago, they went to Southern California and played CalTech, La Verne and Pomona-Pitzer. Last season, they went to Virginia and played Bridgewater and Eastern Mennonite.  Unfortunately, they lost all of those games.  This year, they travel again, but they are playing even tougher opponents - Macalester and Augsburg - on the opening weekend of the season.  Unless Linfield has improved significantly or catch their Minnesota opponents unprepared, it should be more of the same this season.  At least they play Lewis & Clark twice again this season in conference.

UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz is probably one of the most deserted of the D3 island schools in the country.  I think the closest D3 school is Cal Lutheran, which is about 315 miles or 5-6 hours away on a good day.  They are in the Coast-to-Coast conference, but every other member is in Maryland, Virginia, or North Carolina, so they only play a conference tournament.  While the other C2C schools tend to play each other (sometimes in a home-and-away series) in what are technically non-conference games, UC Santa Cruz is for all intents and purposes an independent.  Most years, that means it fills its schedule by traveling south to play SCIAC opponents, trying to get a NWC school or two to play them, and filling out its schedule with more local DII or NAIA opponents.  This year, however, they play the most D3 opponents that I have seen them schedule - 13.  They start with an intriguing preseason scrimmage against Santa Clara and then they open the season with four straight NWC opponents (Willamette and Pacific at home and Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran away) and three SCIAC opponents (Caltech at home and Redlands and Whittier away).  They then travel to Texas to play SAA opponents Trinity and Southwestern, host Carleton from the MIAC in a somewhat surprising one-off match and then travel to SoCal again to play La Verne and Cal Lutheran from the SCIAC.  Their first non-D3 opponent is Oct. 15 and UC Merced (D2), before they travel back to SoCal for a midweek game with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  A lot of travel and teams from a lot of different parts of the country, but if they do well and their opponents do well, including in the C2C tourney against the likes of Mary Washington and Christopher Newport, this schedule might allow them to accumulate enough strength-of-schedule points to get an NCAA bid even if they don't win the conference tourney.  Of course, to do so they will have to do a little better, record-wise, than last season when they only suffered 2 losses, but also only had 6 wins because they had a whopping 9 ties.

Stevens

After losing to Amherst in the 2nd round of the NCAA tournament the last two seasons (in OT in 2023 and PKs in 2024) and to Chicago in OT of the Final Four in 2022, Stevens has to feel like it is on the precipice of breaking through.  This year, they drop Ohio Wesleyan, Chapman, Milwaukee School of Engineering and Rochester and replace them with William Paterson, Swarthmore, Manhattanville, and NYU. They host Denison in the opener for both teams, which should be a stern test for the two sides that tied 0-0 in Granville, Ohio last year. Their biggest tests, however, may not be how they play against the so-called "name" schools, but whether they can stay consistent and handle some of the local sides that are gunning for them.  Last season, they lost to SUNY New Paltz 1-0, tied Kean 0-0, and lost to Alvernia 2-0.  They play all three again this season.  How they do against those teams might be the best gauge for whether they are ready to take the next step.

Linfield

Linfield was 3-15-2 last season and two of its wins were against winless Lewis & Clark (the third was against a weak local NAIA side).  In those 20 games, they scored 21 goals and conceded 51.  In 2023, they weren't much better, finishing 5-12-3.  Despite their woes, they have traveled a decent amount in recent years.  Two years ago, they went to Southern California and played CalTech, La Verne and Pomona-Pitzer. Last season, they went to Virginia and played Bridgewater and Eastern Mennonite.  Unfortunately, they lost all of those games.  This year, they travel again, but they are playing even tougher opponents - Macalester and Augsburg - on the opening weekend of the season.  Unless Linfield has improved significantly or catch their Minnesota opponents unprepared, it should be more of the same this season.  At least they play Lewis & Clark twice again this season in conference.

A few more commitment posts from Oxy just dropped

Occidental

Enzo Bernales F/M Ballistic United MLS Next (Piedmont, CA)
Joshua Lang Wingback Silicon Valley Soccer Academy MLS Next (Union City, CA)
Torben Kroeger CB De Anza Force MLS Next (Mountain View, CA)
Noah Armour F Concorde Fire ECNL (Atlanta, GA)
Ted O'Brien M Utah Avalanche ECNL (Salt Lake City, UT)
Sawyer Benedict CB Legends FC ECNL (San Diego, CA)

Quote from: jekelish on July 08, 2025, 05:05:09 PMI am very curious to see what's gonna happen moving forward with Flo. For those who have not seen the news, the Big East - which is the biggest feather in Flo's cap - just announced they reached a deal to stream through ESPN+ today. So, Flo has lost its biggest collegiate client and, presumably, one of its biggest moneymakers.

They still have the CAA in DI, but my assumption is that the push to expand in DII and DIII and the launch of FloCollege has been in anticipation of the end of the Big East deal.  It's just an entirely different market and price point.  When they announced FloCollege, they only really highlighted DII and DIII.

Quote"We are building a product that will be best-in-class in serving college sports fans of all levels," said Mark Floreani, FloSports Co-Founder and CEO. "Our vision for FloCollege is to become the essential destination for the thousands of Division-II and Division-III athletes, their families, and fans, while providing much-needed funds to these smaller institutions, who are in critical need of additional revenue resources."

I get this, but I don't love it.  Calvin opened a beautiful new soccer field and stadium last fall and this summer they broke ground for a football stadium after they began a new football program last fall.  Unfortunately, they will reportedly be playing football this fall in the new soccer stadium.  I guess that means they will be painting football lines on this pristine soccer field for a season.

Here's a photo of the new Calvin soccer stadium and field (without football lines)

Hunter Promotes Evan Reifsnyder to Head Men's Soccer Coach

QuoteHunter College has announced Evan Reifsynder as the head coach of the men's soccer team for the upcoming 2025 season.

A former NYU varsity player, Reifsnyder brings a diverse and accomplished background to the sidelines, combining high-level coaching, video analysis, scouting, and data science. His experience spans elite youth, high school, collegiate, and professional environments, making him a dynamic and forward-thinking leader for the Hawks.

Prior to his appointment, Reifsnyder served as an assistant coach for Hunter's soccer team in 2024, where the team won it's first CUNYAC Championship and earned a berth to the NCAA DIII Tournament for the first time since 2010. He also spent four years (2020–2024) as the program director and head coach at Calabasas High School, where he led the boys' program to its first-ever league championship and was named Marmonte League Coach of the Year twice. Concurrently, he coached with the LA Galaxy's elite youth programs, where he was instrumental in player development, pre-academy training, and academy/second-team scouting from 2022 to 2024.

In 2023, Reifsnyder worked as a video analyst for the USL Championship club San Diego Loyal prior to the club's dissolution. He began his coaching career as the head coach of the junior varsity team at Grace Church High School in 2019 and as a head coach at Brooklyn City FC from 2017-2019, where he also competed for their men's team in 2019.

A native of the Northeast, Reifsnyder played varsity soccer at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire before going on to compete at New York University, where he studied at the Tandon School of Engineering and earned a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Urban Environments. He was also a Founder's Day Award recipient at NYU.

In addition to his coaching career, Reifsnyder currently works as a Data Scientist for Dream Sports, where he combines his analytical acumen with a passion for performance and strategy.