It certainly was a triumphant weekend for the MSU men’s and women’s club soccer teams. After strong seasons for both squads, the work of a season proved successful at the 2012 NIRSA NCCS National Soccer Championship in Memphis, Tenn., as both the men’s and women’s club soccer teams won a title in the national tournament.
Growing up in Plano, Texas, Zach Bennett said he always told his dad that one day, he wanted to play college soccer in the NCAA Tournament.
The past three times the MSU men’s soccer team (11-9-1 overall, 3-3-0 Big Ten) stepped onto the field, it’s been do or die.
Just a day after receiving a Big Ten Tournament championship title, the MSU men’s soccer team (11-9-1 overall, 3-3-0 Big Ten) had to move on from its glory and look ahead to what’s next: an NCAA Tournament.
Evanston, Ill. — Success didn’t come easy, but it finally came.
The MSU men’s soccer team’s (10-9-1 overall, 3-3-0 Big Ten) run to a Big Ten championship continues as it readies for the Big Ten Tournament championship game on Sunday.
In its first Big Ten Tournament matchup, MSU men’s soccer (9-9-1 overall, 3-3-0 Big Ten) earned an advance to the second round with a 2-1 win over Indiana.
The last time Jay Chapman took the soccer field against Indiana, he walked away with his first collegiate hat trick and a 3-1 win for MSU men’s soccer (8-9-1 overall, 3-3-0 Big Ten). Chapman looks to have similar success as the Spartans open up the Big Ten Tournament on Wednesday in Evanston, Ill., against the No. 22 Hoosiers at 1 p.m., Central time.
Ann Arbor, Mich. – With the regular season Big Ten title on the line, MSU men’s soccer team lost 1-0 to Michigan in what was a classic rivalry game in Ann Arbor on Saturday night.
For junior defender Kevin Cope, the MSU men’s soccer team’s 1-0 loss to No. 2 Akron on Wednesday is a good example of how their season has unfolded.
Every program has one or two players who set the bar high for the program and stand out in history. In the case of the MSU women’s soccer team, that program-changing player is Laura Heyboer.
Heading into Sunday afternoon’s game against Indiana, MSU men’s soccer (8-7-1) player Jay Chapman had yet to receive a collegiate point. The freshman midfielder hadn’t picked up a goal or an assist throughout his 12 games as a Spartan, and he apparently thought Sunday was the perfect time to put an end to that.
Three players entered DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field for their last Big Ten game on home turf on Sunday afternoon.
“Amazing.” It was the word senior midfielder Luke Norman used to describe freshman midfielder Jay Chapman’s performance — a performance that carried the MSU men’s soccer team (8-7-1 overall, 3-2-0 Big Ten) to a 3-1 upset win over Indiana.
Even after losing what head coach Tom Saxton regarded as his best recruiting class last year, he still had an ambitious attitude for what he wanted his team to accomplish.
Even in a year of transition, this wasn’t the season the MSU women’s soccer team expected. It wasn’t the one they would have hoped for. And by any stretch of the imagination, it certainly wasn’t the one head coach Tom Saxton would have liked.
This weekend marks the last time seven Spartans take the field as members of the MSU women’s soccer team. But not to be lost in the shuffle, head coach Tom Saxton said to beat Northwestern, the biggest thing that the Spartans need to improve on is attitude.
With an NCAA Tournament bid lingering ahead of them, members of the MSU men’s soccer team (7-7-1, 2-2-0 Big Ten) are gearing up for the tail end of the season and determined to turn the season into a winning one.
The MSU men’s soccer team (7-7-1) swept the Big Ten weekly honors, nabbing the Offensive and Defensive Player of the Week awards.
For the past four years, the home team has won in the MSU-Wisconsin men’s soccer matchup. Sunday afternoon, MSU (7-7-1 overall, 2-2-0 Big Ten) extended that streak to five years, beating Wisconsin (5-7-3, 1-3-0) at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field, 2-0.