Natalie Kulla has finished her soccer career and moved on to the next step in her life, but she keeps winning awards.

The former Marquette goalkeeper, who finished her career last fall ranked second in NCAA Division I history with 43 shutouts, was named the 2011-12 Big East Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

United States National Team alum, Olympian, National Soccer Hall of Famer, and National Soccer Coaches Association of America Hall of Famer Harry Keough passed away on Tuesday morning. Keough was 84, a member of the 1950 USA World Cup team that beat England. He was also the architect of the St. Louis University soccer dynasty, leading them to five NCAA championships starting in 1967.

Minneapolis, Minn., – 02/06/2012 The University of Minnesota women's soccer team has announced the 2012 signing class with the addition of six new student-athletes to the Gopher program. Head coach Mikki Denney Wright has snagged five Minnesota preps stars in Ellie Arvesen, Mehan Bolton, Elle Dykema, Kristen Knutson and Allie Reinke while also pulling in [.

Shattuck-St. Mary's, a coeducational Episcopal, college preparatory boarding and day school enrolling students in grades 6 through 12 and located in Faribault, Minn., announced on Friday that 13 boys and girls who are part of their soccer program, signed letters of intent for NCAA division I and II schools.

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - Williamand Mary head women's soccer coach John Daly signed eight student-athletes tonational letters of intent on Wednesday. The eight player recruiting class joins a stout W&M squad, fresh offof a CAA championship, and a NCAA tournament birth last season. In the national polls, last year the Tribeclimbed to as high as No.

Fulham have stunned both Footballing Worlds by signing American Football player Tim Tebow on a free transfer.

"After being healed from my rib, lung and chest injuries suffered during the defeat to the Patriots earlier this month, I had a calling from God that I should try my hand at another sport this off-season," Tebow said.

What we would like to do is to in the longer-term to have a residency academy, bring in some players from the local area and foreign players into that academy,'' Soler told the Post. "We would like to bring him and give him education, both school education and soccer education and build the project from there.

After 13 successful seasons at NCAA Division III UW-Whitewater, Greg Henschel is making the move up to Division I.

Henschel, a former standout player at Brookfield East High School and UW-Oshkosh, was named the seventh coach in UW-Milwaukee women's soccer history Tuesday. He succeeds Michael Moynihan, who resigned last month after 14 seasons to take over the Northwestern program.

Ian Barker, who spent nine seasons as an assistant in the University of Wisconsin men's program, resigned as the coach at Macalester (Minn.) on Tuesday to become the director of coaching education for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

Barker was on assistant on coach Jim Launder's staff at UW from 1989 to '97, helping the Badgers earn four NCAA tournament berths – including the 1995 national championship.

In our recaps of Seattle Sounders FC's Academy Alumni the focus was primarily on the players within the NCAA system. Players like Sean Okoli (second leading scorer on the U18s in 2010/11), Deandre Yedlin and Nick Palodichuk are following typical American collegiate paths. Yedlin and Okoli even got picked for the recent United States U-20 path.

Coming off a season in which he was rated one of the NCAA's best propsects while he helped lead North Carolina to a national championship, Billy Schuler has plenty of reasons to feel accomplished.

Tribe's Abrigo, Smith Earn All-State Honors
Courtesy TribeAthletics.com Thu, January 19, 2012
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - William and Mary Tribe men's soccer players Nicolas Abrigo and Will Smith were honored by the Virginia Associate of Sports Information Directors (VaSID) on Thursday, earning All-State accolades.

This is from the website of the Arena Soccer League's Louisville Lightning, with whom Houston Dynamo first round pick Colin Rolfe has been training since the end of the NCAA season. It's nice to see this from Rolfe, simply because there are many people in this market who have never even heard of the guy, even though his college accomplishments at Louisville are impressive to say the least.

The Philadelphia Union select Greg Jordan with the 32nd overall pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft.

Jordan is a defensive type of midfielder, making him the fourth player on the Union that can play in a central defensive midfield role (Brian Carroll, Gabriel Gomez and Amobi Okugo, as well). He is a good passer of the ball and works hard throughout the midfield, a lot like Carroll.

The Philadelphia Union selected Chandler Hoffman with the 13th overall pick in the 2012 MLS SuperDraft. Chandler is a member of MLS' Generation Adidas program, having signed on as one of nine such players in this SuperDraft cycle.

Chandler was a standout striker at NCAA powerhouse UCLA, the former home of current Union midfielders Amobi Okugo and Kyle Nakazawa.

U.S. Under-23 defender Andrew Wenger, who was called in once again to the U-23s this month for training in Carson, Calif., is also taking home some collegiate hardware on the side.
The junior out of Duke won the Hermann Trophy on Friday, an honor that is given to the top NCAA Division I soccer players.

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CHICAGO -- Eclipse Select Soccer Club forward/midfielder and Downers Grove North High School junior Summer Schafer announces her commitment to play for Memphis University's women's soccer team in 2013.
"I think it will be a really exciting experience going to a college that not a lot of people from around here go to," Schafer said.

Stats for all division one NCAA schools that have had at least 10 players play a game in MLS. Ranked by average games played.
Players Avg GP Median GP Avg Goals 1 FIU CUSA 11 118.1 28 10.0 2 UCLA P12 57 101.5 75 8.9 3 Indiana B10 29 98.

Ethan Finlay (Marshfield) earned one of the most prestigious awards from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.

The Creighton senior forward, a consensus All-American who was the leading scorer for the NCAA College Cup semifinalist Blue Jays, was named the NSCAA men's Collegiate Scholar Athlete of the Year.

What do we mean by "prehistoric"? We mean before FIFA adopted co-opted, some might say women's soccer a couple of decades ago, with its history seemingly dated to the 1990s. Though there has been some coverage of the pre-war era (especially the interesting focus put on Dick, Kerr Ladies), the period between the end of the Second World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is patchily covered, at least to our knowledge (feel free to leave links to any good books, essays, papers etc in the comments).

UW-Whitewater senior forward Kevin Kron was honored as the Offensive Player of the Year and UW-Oshkosh senior defender Will Chaney (Cedarburg) took the defensive award on the NCAA Division III men's All-Wisconsin State team, selected by the state's National Soccer Coaches Association of America members.

photo courtesy Jarred Donalson
In what really should be a surprise to no one, Sporting Club have a bid in for LIVESTRONG Sporting Park to host the 2013 College Cup. The bid is up against bids from Philadelphia (PPL Park), Cary, NC (Wake-Med), Hoover, AL (Regions Park), Tulsa, OK, and Palm Beach, FL.

photo courtesy Jarred Donalson
In what really should be a surprise to no one, Sporting Club have a bid in for LIVESTRONG Sporting Park to host the 2013 College Cup. The bid is up against bids from Philadelphia (PPL Park), Cary, NC (Wake-Med), Hoover, AL (Regions Park), Tulsa, OK, and Palm Beach, FL.

On Saturday night, Kelyn Rowe put on his cheerleading hat as he watched the UCLA Women's Volleyball Team compete for the NCAA Championship against Illinois. OK, it wasn't actually a hat, but he was following the entire game, even during his interview with Zarek Valentin for an upcoming podcast. (Zarek gave his blessing, and even asked a couple questions .

Pac-"12" soccer threatening to become Pac-5 with SDSU leaving

Despite the name, the Pac-12 only has 6 schools that play soccer, and it gets to that number by including a school that isn't part of the Pac-12 in the major sports - San Diego State. Now SDSU is moving to the Big West. Only having 5 teams would prevent the Pac-12 from playing in the NCAA tournament, but it sounds like they'll hold on to SDSU until a replacement can be found.

Amanda, Kirsten and Shana return to discuss the women's and men's College Cup finals and the end of the NCAA season. Since Amanda is a Duke fan, you can probably guess how discussion of UNC winning a trophy went. But at least before that, they get to discuss Duke and Stanford and a much more satisfying women's College Cup.

While his University of Wisconsin men's soccer team is in its offseason, John Trask will be working with some of U.S. Soccer's top young players.

The Milwaukee native was named an assistant for the U.S. Under-23 national team under coach Caleb Porter, the coach at NCAA powerhouse.

Senior forward Kevin Kron, the leading scorer for the UW-Whitewater men's soccer team, and Carleton (Minn.) senior midfielder Ryan Cammarota (Neenah) were first-team selections on the National Soccer Coaches Association of America NCAA Division III All-North Region team.

Kron had 10 goals and three assists in 19 matches for the Warhawks, who won their third Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in as many years, and was the WIAC Offensive Player of the Year.

One player who spent his summer playing soccer in Wisconsin is now a national champion.

Carlos McCrary came off the bench and played 11 minutes as third-ranked North Carolina tipped No. 14 Charlotte 1-0 in the NCAA Division I men's final Sunday in Hoover, Ala.

McCrary, a National Premier Soccer League All-Star after scoring five goals and adding two assists for the Madison 56ers last summer, was on the field for the lone goal of the match – an impressive curling, left-footed shot by Ben Speas from 25 yards out in the 65th minute.

Creighton senior forward Ethan Finlay (Marshfield) collected another All-American honor, while Marquette midfielder Calum Mallace added his first.

Finlay was a first-team choice and Mallace made the second team of the College Soccer News team.

On Friday, Finlay was named to the top team of the National Soccer Coaches Association of America NCAA Division I men's All-America team and was announced as one of three finalists for the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy, awarded to the country's top player.

The Tarheels of North Carolina finally got over the hump and won the NCAA National Title Sunday with their 1-0 win over Charlotte. The number 1 seeded team didn't play... Read more »

Fourth time's a charm as the North Carolina Tar Heels finally won their second NCAA crown - in my old stomping ground of suburban Birmingham on a field I've trod many times, no less.- Greg Seltzer

Ben Speas scored the only goal in North Carolina's 1-0 win in the College Cup final against Charlotte on Dec. 11.
Youth National Team veteran Ben Speas, who played for the U-17, U-18 and U-20 Men's National Teams, scored the winning goal to help North Carolina beat Charlotte in the NCAA Division I Championship.

Semifinals Creighton 0-0 Charlotte (Charlotte advance 4-1 in PK's) The last two college players from Minnesota finished up their seasons on Friday evening when the Creighton Bluejays were eliminated from the NCAA College Cup by Charlotte 4-1 in a penalty kick shootout in the semifinals in Hoover, AL.

Once again the College Cup is upon us. While this game has little to do with MLS as a whole, it's nice to see the current top crop of NCAA soccer prospects, especially since many of them are probably looking at MLS as an entry to playing professionally. A few are probably already signed up for Generation Adidas as well.

Just a week after Stanford University captured the women's soccer title, four teams gather in Hoover, Ala., for the College Cup to decide the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Champion for 2011. Today, top-seeded University of North Carolina will meet the UCLA in one semifinal, while UNC-Charlotte will square off against Creighton in the other.

UW-Milwaukee and Marquette each won conference titles, each advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament and each had four players named to National Soccer Coaches Association of America women's all-region teams.

The Panthers' trio of senior forward Sarah Hagen (Appleton North), senior midfielder Keara Thompson and junior goalkeeper Jamie Forbes were all first-team selections on the All-Great Lakes Region team, while junior midfielder Helen Steinhauser made the second team.

The following is a post provided to VASoccerNews.com by John Daly. Daly is Head Coach of Women's Soccer for the College of William & Mary. Daly has an impressive resume having won 10 CAA Championships, 12 CAA Regular Season Championships, and 24 NCAA Appearances.
By John Daly
Currently there are far reaching and damaging proposals being considered by the NCAA as a result of the Presidential Working Group recommendations.

"It means I'm old, it means I've been coaching a long time, it means that there have been great players at Ohio Wesleyan over the 35 years I've been here. I'm proud that I've done something that no one else has, and that's kind of cool."
-- Ohio Wesleyan coach Jay Martin on the significance of his 608th college win, a 2-1 win over over Calvin to capture the NCAA Division III men's tournament.

The Stanford Cardinal are the newest champions of Division I women's college soccer after defeating Duke 1-0 in a hard-fought final at KSU Soccer Stadium outside Atlanta. The winning goal was scored about ten minutes into the second half by Teresa Noyola. Much had been stated about Duke's slow starts in their previous NCAA Tournament matches, and I think coach Robbie Church must have communicated to the team that if they did the same against Stanford they would find themselves behind early.