Wingate's Kerrin Sheldon Named To NSCAA All-South Region Scholar-Athlete Team

MISSION, Kan. -- Wingate University senior midfielder Kerrin Sheldon (Moatsville, W.Va.) has been named to the 2007 National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-South Region Scholar-Athlete team, NSCAA officials announced recently.

The All-South Region Scholar-Athlete team includes student-athletes from NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III. Kerrin Sheldon was the only South Atlantic Conference student-athlete to earn a spot on the prestigious team. A Communication Studies major, Sheldon possesses a 3.93 GPA.

Sheldon is a two-time ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® performer in men’s soccer (college division). The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) voted him to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® first team in 2007. He was a second team selection in 2006.

On the soccer pitch, Sheldon is a two-time NSCAA All-Appalachian Region selection. He gained first team laurels in 2006 and second team honors in 2007.

Sheldon was voted Wingate’s 2006 MVP by his teammates. Sheldon was named first team All-South Atlantic Conference in 2006. He was a second team All-SAC selection in 2005.

Statistically, Sheldon had seven goals, five assists and a team-leading five match-winning goals in 2007. During the 2006 season, Sheldon led the Bulldogs with seven goals. He was four-for-four on penalty kicks, tops on the 2006 team.

Under the direction of head coach Gary Hamill, the Wingate University men’s soccer team compiled a 16-5-1 overall record in 2007. The Bulldogs qualified for the 2007 NCAA Division II Appalachian Region Men’s Soccer tournament this year, Wingate’s second appearance in the NCAA’s big dance.

2007 NSCAA/adidas® Men’s Soccer

All-South Region Scholar-Athlete

Pos. Name Yr. School

GK David Steinberg Sr. Trinity (Texas)
GK Tim Melia Sr. Lynn (Fla.)
DEF Lee Porter Jr. Lynn (Fla.)
DEF Kevin O’Neil Jr. Southwestern (Texas)
DEF Will Maddox Sr. Trinity (Texas)
DEF James Hayers Jr. Lynn (Fla.)
DEF Brad Sisk Jr. Pfeiffer
MF Kerrin Sheldon Sr. Wingate
MF Keol Newton Sr. USC Aiken
F Joshua Bruno Sr. Thomas (Ga.)
F Cliatt Norman Jr. Greensboro

Soto Named to College Soccer News' All-Freshman Team

BUIES CREEK, N.C. “ Josue Soto of Campbell University is one of 22 players nationwide to be selected to the College Soccer News All-Freshman teams. The 2007 Atlantic Sun Conference player of the year, was a second-team choice.

"This is a great honor for Josue and we are proud of the way he assimilated into the college game right away, said Campbell head coach Doug Hess. We truly believed each time he touched the ball that he was a threat, whether he was looking for something himself or trying to set up a teammate. Josue is an extremely talented individual and played a huge part in our success this past fall.”

Soto is the second Camel to earn Freshman All-America honors in the last two years. Sonny Guadarrama was also a College Soccer News All-Freshman selection following the 2005 season. The unanimous A-Sun Freshman of the Year in 2005, Guadarrama signed a professional contract with Mexican first division club Santos Laguna in 2006 and was recently transferred to Morelia. He is also a member of the Mexican Sub-20 National Team.

“We look for great things to come for Josue just as we did for Sonny," said Hess.

Soto was also named 2007 A-Sun Freshman of the Year and first-team all-conference, while gaining third-team NSCAA All-South Region recognition. He was also one of three players named on every ballot for the A-Sun all-freshman team. Soto and Justin Fojo of the College of Charleston were the only freshmen selected to the 33-man All-South squad.

A Monterrey, Mexico native, Soto was named MVP of the Richmond/Nike Challenge Cup, where the Camels defeated Duquesne (2-1) and Richmond (2-1) to win their first in-season tournament since 1988. He was also named A-Sun Player of the Week once and was selected to the national teams of the week by both Soccer America and College Soccer News on Sept. 17.

Barry's Ozery Featured on Inaugural Cover of NCAA's Champion Magazine

Barry University soccer student-athlete Maya Ozery is featured on the inaugural issue of Champion magazine, which will be available at this week’s NCAA Convention and mailed to subscribers beginning Monday.

Champion magazine is the NCAA’s new printed communication piece – a quarterly magazine designed to showcase the good people who do great things to support intercollegiate athletics. Champion covers will feature student-athletes who not only represent the best of being a student and an athlete, but who also have accomplished extraordinary measures off the fields and courts.

Ozery is portrayed for her effort to alter the course of women’s sports in her native Israel after participating in a national league she felt was neglected. “I felt like there was no reason for the sport not to develop and be a part of the sports landscape in Israel,” she said.

Ozery rallied players to approach members of the Israeli parliament, lawyers and other organizations demanding equal opportunity for girls and women – not just in soccer, but in all sports. They also launched a media campaign, organized protests in front of parliament and distributed newsletters explaining their position. Those efforts led to the Israeli Supreme Court ruling that women’s sports in Israel should receive a percentage of any money awarded to sports programs in the country.

“This was not about us, but about girls who are going to start playing when they are 7 or 8,” she said. “My generation isn’t going to benefit from this fight, but it’s definitely for the future of women’s athletics.”

Women's 2007 All American Teams

Lindsey Williams (Virginia Wesleyan College)	Senior	Goalkeeper
Courtney Krol (The College of New Jersey)	Senior	Defender
Erin Davis (Wheaton College-MA)	Senior	Defender
Jessica Koening (Trinity University-TX)	Senior	Defender
Avie Fitzgerald (Messiah College)	Senior	Midfielder
Bethany Barton (Wheaton College-IL)	Senior	Midfielder
Dana DiBruno (The College of New Jersey)	Senior	Midfielder
Stef Rowe (Messiah College)	Senior	Midfielder
Catherine Nathans (Western Connecticut State University)	Junior	Forward
Chelsea Feldman (Ithaca College)	Junior	Forward
Taryne Lee (Wheaton College-IL)	Sophomore	Forward

Women's All American Second Team

Player (School)	Year	Position
Meghan O' Rourke (Wittenberg University)	Senior	Goalkeeper
Kira Davis (Wheaton College-IL)	Senior	Defender
Lauren Askey (Lynchburg College)	Senior	Defender
Tracy Stankavage (William Smith College)	Senior	Defender
Ashley Hackman (Eastern University)	Junior	Midfielder
Becky Willis (University of Redlands)	Senior	Midfielder
Chrystal Bradley (Methodist University)	Senior	Midfielder
Martha Furtek (Tufts University)	Senior	Midfielder
Anne Van Devender (Washington and Lee University)	Junior	Forward
Gabrielle Woodson (Williams College)	Junior	Forward
Janece Levien (University of Puget Sound)	Sophomore	Forward

Women's All American Third Team

Player (School)	Year	Position
Lauren Walker (Swarthmore College)	Junior	Goalkeeper
Ashley VanVechten (University of Rochester)	Senior	Defender
Grace Lam (Emory University)	Junior	Defender
Kim Gerhardt (University of Redlands)	Senior	Defender
Amanda Rose (Carnegie Mellon University)	Senior	Midfielder
Jennifer Gordon (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)	Senior	Midfielder
Lauren Cush (Worcester State College)	Senior	Midfielder
Mary Velan (Oneonta State University)	Senior	Midfielder
Annick Lamb (University of California-Santa Cruz)	Sophomore	Forward
Jamie Kunkel (The College of New Jersey)	Junior	Forward
Jill DiRenzo (Eastern University)	Sophomore	Forward

Appalachian State Hires Pendleton As Men’s Soccer Coach

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University has hired Shaun Pendleton, NCAA Division II’s all-time winningest men’s soccer coach, as the 10th men’s soccer head coach in school history, director of athletics Charlie Cobb announced on Wednesday.

The Sheffield, England native has compiled a 320-53-13 record in 19 seasons as a head coach, including two years at the University of Charleston (W. Va.) and the past 17 campaigns at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. His .846 career winning percentage ranked tops all-time among NCAA Division II coaches.

At Lynn, Pendleton compiled a 293-42-12 overall record and led the Fighting Knights to a pair of national championships — with a 22-0-2 record at the NAIA level in 1991, his first season at the helm, and at the NCAA D-II level in 2003, when Lynn capped an undefeated 22-0-1 season with a 2-1 victory over Chico State in the national title game.

Since Lynn joined the NCAA in 1996, Pendleton took the Knights to the postseason in 9-of-12 seasons and reached the national semifinals four times. Overall, he directed the Knights to the postseason play in 14 of his 17 years at the helm, where he put together a 38-12-1 record (.755).

Under his tutelage, 46 LU players earned all-America status and, perhaps even more impressively, 23 garnered all-America Scholar recognition.

As a player, Pendleton was a two-time all-America defender at the University of Akron in 1984 and ‘85. He also earned academic all-America plaudits in 1985 and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in physical education from Akron that same year. He was inducted into UA’s athletics Hall of Fame in 2004.

Following his collegiate playing career, Pendleton went on to play four seasons in the American Indoor Soccer Association with the Columbus Capitals and the Memphis Storm, where he set a league record by playing in 177-conscutive matches.

“We’re excited to bring in someone of Coach Pendleton’s caliber to lead our men’s soccer program,” Cobb said. “He built a championship-level program at Lynn and we look forward to him doing the same here at Appalachian.”

“It’s an honor to be the coach of a program with the winning tradition that Appalachian has,” Pendleton said. “I truly believe that the foundation is here to return the program to Southern Conference and national prominence. I look forward to getting to work to take the program to the next level.”

Pendleton, 46, holds a USSF “A” license and a NSCAA advanced national diploma. He and his wife, Jody, have a dog, Sheffield.

SHAUN PENDLETON COACHING CAREER

Year School Record Notes

1989 Charleston (W. Va.) 14-5-0

1990 Charleston (W. Va.) 13-6-1

1991 Lynn 22-0-2 NAIA National Champion

1992 Lynn 20-3-1 NAIA National Runner-Up

1993 Lynn 23-1-0 NAIA National Runner-Up

1994 Lynn 18-6-1 NAIA National Semifinalist

1995 Lynn 16-4-1 NCAA Division II Regional Finalist

1996 Lynn 12-4-4 NCAA Division II National Semifinalist

1997 Lynn 19-2-0 NCAA National Runner-Up

1998 Lynn 18-1-0 Sunshine State Conference (SSC) Regular-Season Champion

1999 Lynn 15-3-1 SSC Regular-Season Champion

2000 Lynn 17-2-0

2001 Lynn 17-2-0 NCAA Division II Regional

2002 Lynn 16-1-0

2003 Lynn 22-0-1 NCAA Division II National Champion

2004 Lynn 12-5-0 SSC Tournament Champion

2005 Lynn 16-3-0 NCAA Division II National Semifinalist

2006 Lynn 15-2-0 NCAA Division II Regional Finalist

2007 Lynn 15-3-1 NCAA Division II Regional

Savage and James Selected in MLS Drafts

The first GSC Players of the Week in of 2007 shared the spotlight for the first time in 2008 as West Florida forward Keith Savage and Montevallo goalkeeper Melford James Jr. were both selected in Major League Soccer's Super and Supplemental Drafts, respectively. Savage and James are the first players in Gulf South Conference history drafted in any MLS Draft.

Savage, a Gulf Breeze, Fla. native, was selected by Team Chivas USA with the team's only pick in last Friday's SuperDraft. The three-time All-GSC honoree was chosen with the first pick in the fourth round, 43rd overall. Located in Carson, California. Club Deportivo Chivas USA is the sister team of Club Deportivo Guadalajara, popularly known as 'Chivas', Mexico's most beloved soccer club. Chivas USA celebrated its inaugural season as an MLS expansion team in 2005 and finished the 2007 season with the top record in the Western Conference (15-7-8).

The club is led by one of the most distinguished and spectacular players in MLS history, Preki. Preki is one of the most spectacular attacking players in the league's 12-year history. During a 10-year MLS career with the Kansas City Wizards and Miami Fusion, Preki registered 79 goals and 112 assists, won the MLS Cup in 2000, was named the league's only two-time MVP (1997 and 2003) and was an eight-time All-Star. The Yugoslavia native, who later gained U.S. Citizenship, played for the U.S. National Team with Keith's father Bruce Savage and was named Head Coach of Chivas USA on January 17, 2007 and quickly nabbed the 2007 MLS Coach of the Year Award.

"Keith is a hardworking kid who can play up top and in midfield," Preki said. "We look forward to having him join us when we open camp in February."

"I recognized coach as soon as he told me who he was because he played with my dad," Savage said. "He told me he was excited to tell me they drafted me and to get in shape quick."

"I am thrilled for Keith," said UWF Head Coach Bill Elliott. "He has worked extremely hard every single day and is very deserving. Keith will represent West Florida very well."

James was chosen in Thursday's Supplemental Draft with the tenth pick in the fourth round, 54th overall, by the Chicago Fire. The Fire was one of two expansion clubs in 1998 and won the MLS Cup in its inaugural season. Chicago finished fourth in the Eastern Conference last season at 10-10-10, but made it to the Conference Semifinals before losing to the New England Revolution, 1-0.

Chicago assistant coach Daryl Shore joined the Fire as the team's first full-time goalkeeper coach in 2000 and played collegiate soccer against Montevallo Head Coach Ryan Pratt. Shore attended Birmingham-Southern College while Pratt was at Alabama-Birmingham and after contacting Shore about his goalkeeper last month; Pratt said the Fire became interested in the Brampton, Ontario, Canada native.

"Junior is a big reason for our success at UM and I always felt he could play at the next level," Pratt said. "It was just a matter of finding the right people for him to showcase his talents."

James got a call from the Fire's President and CEO John Guppy Thursday informing the net minder of the team's selection and to be ready to report to camp early next month.

"Obviously Junior can punt the ball to the moon and back," Pratt said of James' unbelievable drop-kicking ability. "That can draw the scouts attention but from there you have to do more than just distribute the ball and Junior is so quick for his size and his remarkable strength, quick hands and feet are some of the qualities pro coaches look for. He also has incredible command between the pipes with his communication skills and that is important in team sports."

SMU's Schellas Hyndman Earns Prestigious National Award

NSCAA Honors Hyndman With Coaching Education Award

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Jan. 23, 2008

BALTIMORE, Md. - SMU men's soccer coach Schellas Hyndman was named this year's recipient of the Mike Berticelli Excellence in Coaching Education Award at the recent National Soccer Coaches Association of America convention in Baltimore.

Hyndman, who has more victories (466) than any coach in any sport in SMU history, has been a long-time influential part of the NSCAA Academy staff. As a member of the Senior Academy staff, he has shaped the instruction of NSCAA candidates and has taught NSCAA courses throughout the nation, as well as in England and Brazil.

A former NSCAA President and NSCAA vice President for Education, Hyndman also is an NSCAA Director of Coaching Emeritus. The Mike Berticelli Award is named in memory of the late Notre Dame men's coach who was the NSCAA Vice President for Education when he passed away in 2000.

Hyndman was not the only SMU coach honored this year by the NSCAA, which also named SMU assistant Tim McClements the South Region Assistant coach of the Year, making him eligible for the National Assistant Coach of the Year award.