Liberty League

[stlawus]

New SLU commit today.  Verus Kibanga from Tanzania will be suiting up for Scarlet and Brown next year. Central midfielder I believe.

[stlawus]

Another SLU commit I missed earlier.  Henry Blaxter, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA.  Forward/CAM.

[stlawus]

New SLU commit.  Sam Bothwell, CAM/wing, Manchester Essex HS MA. All state honors/Cape Ann League player of the year.

[stlawus]

Updated full SLU commit list:

Zach Amato, GK, Brooks School MA.
Verus Kibanga, CAM/CM, Tanzania/UWC East Africa.
Henry Blaxter, F/CAM, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA. 
Sam Bothwell, CAM/wing, Manchester Essex HS MA
Kenneth Mejia Lopez, LB/LW, Fox Lane HS NY.

[stlawus]

Updated SLU commit list:

Zach Amato, GK, Brooks School MA.
Verus Kibanga, CAM/CM, Tanzania/UWC East Africa.
Henry Blaxter, F/CAM, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA.
Sam Bothwell, CAM/wing, Manchester Essex HS MA
Kenneth Mejia Lopez, LB/LW, Fox Lane HS NY.
Neel Mitra, M, Mamaroneck HS NY
Jack Greenwood, RB/LB, Harwood Union HS VT

[stlawus]

SLU is bringing in a pretty big class as another player committed.  That brings the total incoming class so far to 8, and there are a few more players still being targeted. 

Updated commit list:

Zach Amato, GK, Brooks School MA.
Verus Kibanga, CAM/CM, Tanzania/UWC East Africa.
Henry Blaxter, F/CAM, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA.
Sam Bothwell, CAM/wing, Manchester Essex HS MA
Kenneth Mejia Lopez, LB/LW, Fox Lane HS NY.
Neel Mitra, M, Mamaroneck HS NY
Jack Greenwood, RB/LB, Harwood Union HS VT
Tomas Ronzoni, CAM/LW/RW, Churchill HS MD

[kevdog]

SLU is bringing in a pretty big class as another player committed.  That brings the total incoming class so far to 8, and there are a few more players still being targeted. 

Updated commit list:

Zach Amato, GK, Brooks School MA.
Verus Kibanga, CAM/CM, Tanzania/UWC East Africa.
Henry Blaxter, F/CAM, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA.
Sam Bothwell, CAM/wing, Manchester Essex HS MA
Kenneth Mejia Lopez, LB/LW, Fox Lane HS NY.
Neel Mitra, M, Mamaroneck HS NY
Jack Greenwood, RB/LB, Harwood Union HS VT
Tomas Ronzoni, CAM/LW/RW, Churchill HS MD

I think they graduated 6-7 players and I wonder if other players are not coming back or just not playing any more. It's a big commitment to do any extra curricular activity in college.  As I told a parent who wanted me to talk to her son about playing college sports it the first thing that I will tell him is do you want to do it because you will miss out somethings.

[SKUD]

SLU is bringing in a pretty big class as another player committed.  That brings the total incoming class so far to 8, and there are a few more players still being targeted. 

Updated commit list:

Zach Amato, GK, Brooks School MA.
Verus Kibanga, CAM/CM, Tanzania/UWC East Africa.
Henry Blaxter, F/CAM, Stevenson School, Pebble Beach CA.
Sam Bothwell, CAM/wing, Manchester Essex HS MA
Kenneth Mejia Lopez, LB/LW, Fox Lane HS NY.
Neel Mitra, M, Mamaroneck HS NY
Jack Greenwood, RB/LB, Harwood Union HS VT
Tomas Ronzoni, CAM/LW/RW, Churchill HS MD

Wow Pebble Beach Ca and Potomac MD should be an interesting adjustment (to Canton BFE)for these young men.

[stlawus]

SLU spring game against Potsdam ends with a 4-0 SLU win.

[stlawus]

SLU's Henry Brown has transferred to Tufts for next season. Perhaps the coach should reconsider his unilateral disarmament philosophy on the transfer portal now that he lost his leading goal scorer. That makes two consecutive years of Liberty League first teamers transferring to the NESCAC. Hard to not be cynical about it all. 

Conversely Ogango is back on the team and played in the spring game. Doesn't appear he ended up transferring, at least for now.

[Kuiper]

SLU's Henry Brown has transferred to Tufts for next season.

Wow.  Big pickup for Tufts and loss for the Saints.

[kevdog]

Brown leaving is going to hurt. Might be difficult to replace that production. Hope someone can step up. Having Ogango back will help the team, imo.

[Saint_Dad]

If he does transfer he is going to be missed. I thought he was missed last year but best of luck to him if this does happen.

Jeremy was missed last year, as was Marco from Hong Kong. They were the missing piece or pieces of the puzzle to make a run in the NCAAs. Word is that Jeremy is staying. Their midfield, their weakness last year, will be much stronger this coming year. They will of course be missing their most talented player and their top goal scorer, but I expect a strong year ahead. I expect a lot from Jeremy.

[Saint of Old]

SLU's Henry Brown has transferred to Tufts for next season.

Wow.  Big pickup for Tufts and loss for the Saints.

Y would a Saint who has top scored (basically) his first seasons leave the team for a D3 program?
Not blaming the young man,  but imo things cannot be going right for this to happen.
Disrespecting history eventually impacts the present and future.

[kevdog]

SLU's Henry Brown has transferred to Tufts for next season.

Wow.  Big pickup for Tufts and loss for the Saints.

Y would a Saint who has top scored (basically) his first seasons leave the team for a D3 program?
Not blaming the young man,  but imo things cannot be going right for this to happen.
Disrespecting history eventually impacts the present and future.

Tufts has a reputation of being a very good academic school throughout the nation and their soccer program is top notch. One of the best in the nation and plays in the best league in the nation, NESAC.  SLU use to play in the best league in the nation back in the early 90's.  Maybe he just wantedmore of a challenge both academically and athletically.  Can't blame him for that but he will be missed.