Playing in front of tens of thousands of fans, signing autographs, and traveling around the globe with one of the best teams in the world while being in the national team pool is the fantasy of almost every youth soccer player in the world. But for Notre Dame College’s 2010 First Team All-American, Tom Mellor, he experienced all of those things before leaving high school. “I want to prove people right, and prove people what I’ve got,” declares Mellor as
Polite and unassuming, yet oozing national pride and self-confidence Juan Coca laughs as he recalls the video he sent Notre Dame College’s Head Men’s Soccer Coach Michael “Mac” McBride. “My video was so bad really, my video was so bad. I didn’t even like me as a player in the video; I was like what is this?” Coca said in his distinguishable Spanish accent. McBride noticed the skills in the video despite what Coca recalls it being a last minute idea
2012 MLS SuperDraft exposes the stretched coverage of college soccer It’s no wonder the national media was hard on Luke Holmes surrounding the 2012 Major League Soccer SuperDraft. They look at his stats from Notre Dame College and wonder how bad the competition must be … lets be serious he scored 24 goals as a junior and an NAIA best 29 as a sophomore. When you compare those stats to “only scoring” five goals in 16 games for the University of
Junior Christian Earnest continued his scoring binge with his 14th of the season to lead Notre Dame to a 4-0 victory over Lake Erie in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division II Championship Sunday night at Korb Field. With the win, the Falcons (19-0-0) secured their first undefeated season in program history and their first ECAC crown in their first appearance. Earnest, who recorded 14 goals and four assists in 19 matches, broke a scoreless tie in the seventh minute, assisted
Junior Forward Christian Earnest (Cuyahoga Falls, OH) is NDC's second leading goal scorer. The Eastern College Athletic Conference Men’s Soccer Committee announced the field and host for the 2011 ECAC Division II Men’s Soccer Championship today. The field will feature three teams: the Storm of Lake Erie College (Ohio), the Falcons of Notre Dame College (Ohio) and the Tigers of Salem International University (W.Va.). The competition will be played over two days, Nov. 12-13, at Korb Field in Lyndhurst, Ohio. Notre Dame
The pressure of a two-goal deficit within the opening 40 minutes was not apparent on Head Coach Michael “Mac” McBride this evening. The coach sat in his typical spot next to the bench. Cool and calm. Collected and focused on watching his team. Missed by the casual spectator was his passion, hidden by the calm exterior. Missed was the focus on success inside the 11-year Notre Dame Men’s Soccer coach. His team opened the second half with a newfound drive,
When one looks at the hotbeds of soccer in the United States, the great Northwest with the Seattle Sounders (MLS), to California and the Los Angeles Galaxy, to the East Coast where D.C. United (MLS) won three of the first four MLS titles, spring to mind. The Midwest is often overlooked by the masses as a soccer hotbed. An easy picture of farms stretching further than the eye can see does not bring athletic, silky soccer players to mind. For Jacob