Southwest Missouri All-Star Soccer Game Rosters Announced

2006 All-Stars from Joplin and Neosho

The 7th Annual All-Star game is being played at the Greenwood Stadium Field at the Cooper Soccer Complex Thursday June 23rd. There will be two games, a Girls game beginning at 6:00 pm followed by the Boys game at 8:00 pm. The rosters for the game have just been released with a new color scheme [...]

Glendale Falcons Hold First Ever Alumni Game

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A large group gathered Sunday evening on the freshly mowed and lined Glendale pitch for the 1st Annual Alumni game, organized by 2004 graduate Maddy Senkowski. With representation from the class of 1992 to 2010, the game pulled a group that put a smile on Coach Jeff Rogers face as he prepares to begin his [...]

6th Annual Southwest All-Star Game Tonight!

Join us for tonight’s High School All-Star game, being hosted at Springfield Catholic High School for the first time. The game features the best graduating high school seniors in this region, as chosen by Steve Ole Olson of SGFsoccer.com, who covered over 50 games this Spring season, and Eric Sorlie of Springfield SC. Nominations were [...]

Steve Wilczewski, Glendale Falcons (2006)

With today’s Drury Alumni game (5:00 pm at Harrison Stadium) I took some time this month to chat with a few folks who know the record-setting Drury Panther player well. Today we look back to his High School career in conversations with his Coaches, Jeff Rogers and Josh Keisker. Keisker is also a Drury alum [...]

2009 Class 3 Southwest Region Team

Southwest Region Team Player Of the Year: Molly Brewer, Glendale Offensive POY: Lindsey Sprouse, Glendale Defensive POY: Emily Jordan, Glendale GoalKeeper: Paige Hemphill, Ozark Coach: Jeff Rogers, Glendale Position Player Year School F Neva Raschel 11 Branson M Molly Brewer 9 Glendale D Emily Jordan 12 Glendale F Lindsey Sprouse 11 Glendale F McKenna Adams [...]

FC Springfield and SpringHigh Select Merge

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News Release Re: Combining of FC Springfield and SpringHigh Select We are pleased to announce that, effective June 2009, FC Springfield and SpringHigh Select will combine their soccer clubs to expand youth development teams, and to continue to grow a competitive soccer club for high school aged players. FC Springfield was established in June of [...]

Southwest Soccer All-Stars Take The Field This Evening

UPDATE – the games will be played tonight. A little rain won’t stop us. Lightning and flooding would but I suspect we’ll avoid those possibilities and will enjoy the cooling effect a bit of rain will offer. We’ve got a full day today folks. Turn your radio on this morning, Thursday at 9:30am. Catch All-Stars [...]

Missouri Girls Soccer: Class 2 Southwest Region Honors

. Player of the Year – Lorin Opfer, Sr, Glendale (#4 in red) Offensive Player of the Year – Katie Pritchard, Sr, Waynesville Defensive Player of the Year – Ashley McWilliams, So, Glendale Co-Keeper of the Year – Paige Hemphill, So, Ozark Co-Keeper of the Year – Abbey Roam, Sr, Lebanon Coach of the Year [...]

Nelson Morgan – A Pulaski County Soccer Pioneer

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A son’s letter… The people who founded youth soccer, maintained it and now run it in the Waynesville-St.Robert area are numerous and otherwise unrecognized volunteers. Richland, Laquey, Dixon, and Crocker all owe a debt of gratitude to these people, for creating local interest in the sport and guiding them in the creation of their own [...]

NSCAA Convention 2008 – Rogers, Howard & Davidson

NSCAA Convention 2007 - Rogers, Davidson & Howard

It’s that time of year again. The NSCAA Convention just ended and the Ozark Conference was well represented. Jeff Rogers (Glendale), Mike Howard (Rolla) and Tom Davidson (Ozark) are pictured at the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Annual Convention which was held in Baltimore, Maryland again this year. Jeff, Mike and Tom…The 3 most [...]

2007 – Ole’s Top 10

While we contemplate the News-Leaders failure to name an All-Ozarks squad for the Boys Fall season, I’ll soldier on for the soccer community and offer my thoughts on the Top 10 achievements for 2007. As always, my goal is to recognize individual, team or groups reaching new heights, either on the pitch or within a [...]