One thing we can't get enough of here at The18 is a ridiculous bicycle kick. And boy do we have one to share with you. Zach Knudson, a sophomore from Oakland, New Jersey provided us with this gem of a goal as N.C. State tied #4 Notre Dame this past weekend.
Going into week 6 of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Division 1 soccer season there was one thing clearer than all the rest: parity, even among the best teams in the nation, is at an all time high.
According to the Associated Press, 13 soccer players who took part in this summer's Women's World Cup have been dropped from the FIFA 16 video game because of concerns from the NCAA.
This is the first year FIFA 16 has featured women's teams, with 12 women's national teams from the World Cup included in the game..
The dropped players hail from three coutries: six from Mexico, six from Canada and six from Spain.
Thursday night in Chicago, with storms and lightning swirling over the city — reflecting the tenor of the match — the Loyola Ramblers defended their home pitch against number 21/20 in the country, DePaul. The match was intense from the first to last whistle – feeling every bit the cross-town rivalry.
The college soccer season is just beginning, but South Carolina's Jeffrey Torda is off to a great start.
Torda scored a sublime scissor-kick goal to put South Carolina up 3-2 on Georgia Southern (they would go on to win 4-0).
The play was the number two selection on SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays, and for good reason. What a rip.
Collegiate soccer programs began to truly emerge sometime in the 1980s. For women, the passage of Title IX opened up opportunities for female athletes that were only available to men playing football (the oblong type) and basketball. Men’s soccer programs have been around significantly longer (the first NCAA championship was played in 1959), but consistently take a backseat to padded football and madness of basketball.
You can chase a dream in college. That, more than anything else, is what separates it from the rest of life. There are options, new people, and new opportunities. This cavalcade of possibilities is present in almost all aspects of college, but no where more so than athletics. You can be a champion; you can be the best in the world, even if that world is only made up of people in the general age range of 18-22.
When the school year ends, most college soccer teams send their players home with workout programs and hope the players actually follow them, but that's about the extent of the training that goes on until fall camp.
Not Akron.
Akron, the alma mater of USMNT-ers Perry Kitchen and DeAndre Yedlin, went to Brazil to play four games in 10 days against Brazilian U-20 sides.
How the women have developed from youth to the national team squad.
For years, women’s college soccer has been dominated by the North Carolina Tarheels. Their grit and determination is why they continue to dominate the sport.