UW match a trip home for Doody
Two years ago, as a junior soccer player at Neuqua Valley High School in Wisconsin, Patrick Doody hoped he would one day play college ball under Todd Yeagley.
Two years ago, as a junior soccer player at Neuqua Valley High School in Wisconsin, Patrick Doody hoped he would one day play college ball under Todd Yeagley.
Yeagley. To some it may be just a name, but to the Indiana men’s soccer program it stands for so much more.
Senior midfielder Alec Purdie earned his second Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors after he netted the only goal of IU’s victory against No. 16 Penn State. The senior leads the team with five goals.Junior goalkeeper Luis Soffner also earned his second Big Ten Player of the Week honors. His net has been untouchable in the last three games. He’s made 33 saves on the season and the Northwestern victory recorded his fourth season shutout.
Senior Alec Purdie scored the lone goal gave No. 7 IU a 1-0 victory against No. 16 Penn State on Friday at Jerry Yeagley Field. The squad is now 6-0-2.
The winning tradition began in 1982 with a coach, a forward and a national title. Almost 30 years later, that winning tradition is still growing with the sons of the 1982 coach and forward.
Against ranked opponents this season, the IU men’s soccer team has seen only zeros. IU Coach Todd Yeagley’s team has played then-No. 12 Notre Dame and then-No. 14 St John’s to 0-0 ties.
The winning tradition began in 1982 with a coach, a forward and a national title.
Since the Hoosiers left South Bend, they have been the team many envisioned at the beginning of the season. The slow start has since become a distant memory after their solid performance in the first seven games.
The IU men’s soccer team heads to the East Coast for its first true road test looking to continue hot offensive play.
Several players on the men’s soccer team haven’t had to make the transition to IU’s campus and soccer program alone. Eleven of the 28 players on this year’s roster played at least part of their high school careers with someone else on the team.
After coming to a scoreless tie with Notre Dame, the No. 10 Hoosiers have won four games in a row and have scored 14 goals in that span. Half of those goals came from senior Alec Purdie and freshman Eriq Zavaleta.
After roughly half the men’s soccer team’s scoring was lost to the MLS when former Hoosier Will Bruin was drafted by the Houston Dynamo, one concern was, simply, who would score?
Senior forward Alec Purdie scored three goals for the weekend, powering his team to wins against Bucknell and Denver for the tournament title.
After two wins last weekend in the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic against St. Louis and Dayton, the No. 10-ranked men’s soccer team is back in action this weekend in South Bend for the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament. They will face Bucknell and Denver.
The IU men’s soccer team returns to the field this weekend for two games as part of the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic at Bill Armstrong Stadium.
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.