Five Colonial Athletic Association soccer players–three men’s and one women’s athlete from Hofstra and one from the Northeastern men’s team–have been named preseason players to watch by United Soccer Coaches, the organization announced in its leadup to the 2022 season.

Colonial Athletic Association women’s soccer coaches selected UNCW as the conference’s preseason favorite in a close contest between the 2021 CAA regular-season champion and the CAA Tournament champion.

The Colonial Athletic Association women's soccer season is on the horizon, and some new schools are joining the party.

The Gulf South Conference women's soccer tournament will have a little Sunday fun day on Nov. 7, with the top eight seeds duking it out for a spot in the semifinals in Pensacola, Florida. The GSC overall was a strong conference this fall, with four teams notching 10 or more regular season wins.

The Colonial Athletic Association women's soccer championship starts Thursday, Nov. 4, and it would appear all signs point to an eventual clash of conference heavyweights.

In the COVID-19-shortened spring 2021 season, the Big East's sole representative in the NCAA tournament was conference champion Georgetown. Make of that what you will, but ahead of the fall conference season, the Big East looks poised to send more than one squad to the Big Dance this November.

By Jerry Beach Simon Riddiough, the head coach of the Hofstra women’s soccer team, spent about two minutes of a 21-minute interview Tuesday afternoon discussing why he’s content at the Long Island school and not planning to see if he can replicate his success with a higher-profile Power Five school that would offer the resources and opportunities to make a deep NCAA Tournament run that are generally lacking in the mid-major arena.

Here are the 11 positions in soccer, ranked from best to worst. Note that this is a completely objective ranking that cannot be questioned in any way.

I’m just gonna put it out there: July 7, 2019, was a great day for women’s sports in the United States.

“It saddens me to fall short of a dream that I have worked so hard for. While competing at the highest level, I've always strived to be the best person I could be, through both the good times and bad. I believe in the future of this sport and I am excited to be a part of it.”

At the moment, the U.S. women's national team is everything you want from a team defending a World Cup title: fluid, saucy, and ruthless. 

I-35 is lined with bluebonnets, fast food chains, and land so open you can see the smallest slope.