Transfers getting their kicks at IU
Transfer students Jamie Vollmer and A.J. Corrado will hit the soccer field this season for the Hoosiers.
Transfer students Jamie Vollmer and A.J. Corrado will hit the soccer field this season for the Hoosiers.
Todd Yeagley enters his second season as the Hoosiers’ men’s soccer coach with high expectations to lead his team back to the promised land.
Surely the Hoosier soccer team will score goals, lots of them. But the void of 2010 Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year Will Bruin and the lack of offense thus far this season has left lingering questions about whether or not the 2011 Hoosiers will repeat as Big Ten Champions under second-year coach Todd Yeagley.
IU men’s soccer’s hopes of defending their Big Ten championship took a sizable hit Dec. 29, 2010, when their leading scorer, junior Will Bruin, decided to forego his senior season and pursue a career in Major League Soccer.
IU men’s soccer’s hopes of defending their Big Ten championship took a sizable hit Dec. 29, 2010, when their leading scorer, junior Will Bruin, decided to forego his senior season and pursue a career in Major League Soccer.
The No. 17 IU men’s soccer team will open their season at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in South Bend with renewed expectations. They’ll take on No. 12 Notre Dame in the team’s first season opener on the road since 2006.
Assistant coaches under famed former Indiana Coach Jerry Yeagley helped the Indiana men’s soccer program hoist the national championship trophy in both 2003 and 2004. Coaches Todd Yeagley and Caleb Porter returned only a few years after graduating to help their alma mater capture College Cup titles, which had eluded both men during their stints as leaders of the Hoosier soccer team.
After two exhibition games with moments of poor communication, near misses and tough goals, the IU men’s soccer team left the Shindigz National Soccer Festival in Fort Wayne, Ind., with only one goal and zero wins for their preseason slate.
Will Bruin no longer charged down the field with the ball at his feet. Rich Balchan no longer defended the backfield. Andy Adlard no longer flipped after the goals. Three IU men’s soccer players from last season were gone, now playing on their respective Major League Soccer teams. However, that didn’t stop the post-Bruin squad from scoring five goals in a lopsided 5-2 win against Evansville, its first of two spring season home games on Jerry Yeagley Field.
IU men's soccer announced their 2011 recruiting class Monday
Former IU soccer players Will Bruin and Rich Balchan were selected 11th and 12th respectively in the MLS SuperDraft on Thursday in Baltimore, Md.
Will Bruin has withdrawn from all his spring semester classes and will forgo his senior season — all in the name of Major League Soccer.
Junior forward Will Bruin said leaving college soccer behind will be difficult, but he will skip his senior season for an opportunity to play Major League Soccer. While IU coach Todd Yeagley backed Bruin's decision, the move also alters the makeup of IU in 2011.
The junior striker is one of seven soccer stars across the nation who signed a Generation adidas contract, according to Foxsoccer.com’s Ives Galarcep.
After former IU player and assistant coach Caleb Porter led the Akron men's soccer team to its first national championship Sunday, former IU coach Jerry Yeagley said the Zips, not the traditionally powerful Hoosiers, are the now the standard for college soccer in the Midwest.
Former IU men's soccer coach Jerry Yeagley’s influence on the program for 31 years and 544 wins have led to 19 former players either at a head or assistant coaching position in college soccer programs.
Akron scored two early second-half goals in a two-minute span and the Hoosiers could not recover, as the Zips eliminated the IU soccer team from the NCAA Tournament in a 2-1 final.
Todd Yeagley and Caleb Porter - former assistant coaches, former teammates and former roommates will meet as head coaches for the first time in the postseason when IU travels to Akron for a 4 p.m. Sunday third-round NCAA Tournament game.
An IU offensive bombardment yielded a 5-1 final against Tulsa on Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
IU forward Alec Purdie had a change in life perspective following a fireworks accident this summer. As his team prepares for the NCAA Tournament, Purdie is thankful he can still play the game.