Springfield Soccer Club Alumni Are Going Dancing

With a history of over 100 former Springfield Soccer Club players going on to participate in college soccer the tradition of Alumni achieving success at the next level is a strong one. This past weekend a number of Springfield Soccer Club Alumni received NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III National Tournament bids.

The NCAA Division III Women’s Tournament begins this week at campus sites throughout the nation. The Women’s Tournament has two participants as Emily Jordan and her Concordia College teammates will look to continue their winning ways as they take on the University of Dubuque Spartans. The Cobbers completed the regular season with a 16-0-2 record and are looking to make some noise in the NCAA Tournament. On the other side of the country Hannah Winkel and the Marlins of Virginia Wesleyan will open play as they face Eastern College on November 14th. The Marlins are 17-3-1 on the season.

Loras College looks to make a three-peat appearance at the NCAA Division III Men’s College Cup (Final Four). The road to an amazing third straight appearance begins with a first round matchup against Webster University. The Duhawks who are represented by former Springfield Soccer Club Director Zach Alumbaugh also have Matt Medley and
Rob Harbach on the roster.

Luke Prater personally sent the Wartburg Knights into the NCAA Division III Tournament with a game winning goal in OT against Loras which gave Wartburg the IIAC Tournament Championship and the automatic bid into the tournament. Prater is joined by Blake Aggus on the Wartburg roster and they will face the University of Chicago in the first round.

In Pittsburgh Stuart Ziegler and Medaille will face off against Denison University. Ziegler has been a major part of the 17-2-2 record for Medaille.

Drury University and the # 2 ranked Panthers will open NCAA Division II Men’s play at home this Friday November 13th against GLVC foe Northern Kentucky University. Representing the Panthers from the Springfield Soccer Club are Danny Collins, Ben Hamilton, Adam Peterson and Alex Palmer. Also, from the Under 23 Program are Stephen Conner and Taylor Stacy. “When you look at the influence players from the Springfield Soccer Club are having on the national college scene it’s truly amazing.” It was just a few years ago when we were putting our first set of players into college soccer and now we have All-Americans and players competing for NCAA National Championships. It shows the caliber of talent that is being produced by the club.” said Jeremy Alumbaugh Director of Soccer Operations.

Follow all of the action at www.ncaa.com and locally at www.SGFsoccer.com

This information was provided by Springfield SC.