Former Falcon Ashley Meyer is now playing soccer for Lynchburg College in Virginia.

The Lynchburg women’s soccer team will be traveling to Costa Rica this summer to play a series of games and experience the soccer from an international perspective while learning about the Costa Rican way of life.

Each player is expected to raise funds to cover the expenses of the trip. This letter from Lynchburg’s coach, Todd Olsen, explains more about the trip and the donation opportunities.

Any contributions would be greatly appreciated.

Senior Sam Palmer was named to the All-Ozarks second team but was inadvertently omitted from yesterday’s announcement on our website.

The News-Leader only listed the first team in the online edition, and the webmaster does not look at the smeared ink on dead trees edition very often. As Ghostbuster Egon Spangler noted: “Print is dead.”

Congratulations, Sammy.

Congratulations to seniors Stephen Conner, Jared Dusha, and Danny Collins on being named to the News-Leader’s 2006 All-Ozarks team first team and Senior Sam Palmer for being named to the second team.

I missed this earlier because, for some strange reason, the News-Leader’s Varsity HQ blog does not have an RSS feed even though they have feeds for the traditional sections of their paper. How bizarre.

Anyway, News-Leader report Allen Vaughn has acknowledged the impressive performance of Glendale’s athletic teams during the fall season.

Five Falcons have been selected to play in the Boys Southwest Missouri Soccer All Star Game on June 18, 2007 at the Cooper Soccerplex.

Stephen Conner, GK
Andrew Sawyer, M
Danny Collins, F/M
Jared Dusha, D
Sam Palmer, D

Congratulations to Stephen Conner and Jared Dusha on being named to the Class 3 All-State team. Conner was named to the 1st team and Dusha was named to the 2nd team.

The complete All-State team and final rankings have been posted. The Falcons finished the season ranked 15th.

Well done!

At last night’s soccer banquet several players were recognized with team awards.

Varsity MVP
Stephen Conner

Varsity Best Offensive Player
Danny Collins

Varsity Best Defensive Player
Jared Dusha

Coaches Award
Ryan Frewin

Captains Award
Justin Rogers

JV MVP
Patrick Baltz

JV Best Offensive Players
Ian Newport & Patrick Baltz

JV Best Defensive Player
Ryan Partch

Coaches Award
Chris Maddox