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Men's Soccer
Updated September 2, 2010 4:46 AM
There's one player Matheus Braga is always trying to keep up with in practice.
Updated September 1, 2010 4:46 AM
In the spring, Brian Forgue looked right at home as the third inside back on the Penn State men's soccer team's defense, which played five men at the time.
When starting goalkeeper Warren Gross suffered an injury just days before the Penn State men's soccer team's final preseason game against Louisville on Aug. 28, defender Justin Lee barely broke a sweat.
Updated August 31, 2010 4:49 AM
The preseason is over and, from now on, the games count.
Updated August 30, 2010 4:46 AM
Penn State 2, Louisville 1
Enduring a 20-hour bus trip wasn't exactly how Bob Warming wanted to spend his team's last weekend before the start of the regular season.
Updated August 27, 2010 4:47 AM
Bob Warming is less than pleased with the Penn State men's soccer team's road record over the past four seasons.
While the Big Ten Tournament will take place at Jeffrey Field and the yearlong 100-year celebration of the program, the first-year head coach knows if the team wants to contend for a title, it will start on the road.
Ideally, Bob Warming would like his team to have at least two more preseason exhibitions on its schedule.
The Penn State men's soccer coach knows his squad can benefit from traveling together and learn to come together as a team with extra practice in a game scenario.
Years before they started taking the sideline together at Penn State, Erica Walsh and Ann Cook were teammates at William & Mary.
This Sunday, the two will simply have to turn to their right and look down the touchline to see a familiar face from their past, a man they refer to simply as "JD".
Updated August 26, 2010 4:50 AM
On The Brink
Reading United A.C. coach Brendan Burke has known Corey Hertzog since Hertzog was 16, and this summer, the coach was finally able to utilize Hertzog's developing talent.
Updated August 25, 2010 4:50 AM
Even with his 6-foot-2, 200-pound frame, Jordan Tyler still finds himself intimidated by the size of players at the college level.
Andres Casais considers all of his teammates his brothers, a group that plays for each other and wins as a team.
But the senior centre back has an even closer bond with his brotherhood on the back line of defense.
Updated August 23, 2010 4:43 AM
Mark Fetrow has played soccer all his life, is a starting centre back and was named to the All-Big Ten Freshman team in 2008, but first-year coach Bob Warming has managed to teach the junior a few things he never knew.
The posters are being given out all around town: 100 years of history and greats from the past subdued in the background as five current men's soccer players erupt forward into the future.
As a heavy drizzle picked up to a light rain late Saturday night, Bob Warming stood soaked and satisfied under the bright lights of Jeffrey Field.
Updated August 21, 2010 11:24 PM
Penn State 3, Hartwick 1
Regardless of the surroundings, no matter the situation, Warren Gross is able to shut out everything around him and focus only on what's in front of him. Updated 11:24 PM
Updated July 6, 2010 4:01 PM
The Penn State men's soccer team has brought in Jason Mims as an assistant coach and will retain Isang Jacob as an assistant for a second year, the Penn State athletic department announced Tuesday in a press release. Updated 4:01 PM
Updated May 24, 2010 10:32 AM
Penn State has hired Bob Warming, formerly of Creighton University, as its new men's soccer coach, Penn State announced in a press release Monday morning. Updated 10:32 AM
Updated May 8, 2010 2:38 AM
West Virginia men's soccer coach and Penn State alumnus Marlon LeBlanc is no longer a candidate for the same position with the Nittany Lions, he confirmed in an e-mail Friday afternoon. Updated 2:38 AM
Updated May 6, 2010 12:40 PM
West Virginia men's soccer coach and Penn State alumnus Marlon LeBlanc is among the candidates for the same position with the Nittany Lions, West Virginia sports information director Bryan Messerly confirmed Thursday. Updated 12:40 PM
Updated April 28, 2010 4:00 AM
Brendan Birmingham hasn't gotten any taller, but he is clearly playing bigger in the net after this spring.
Updated April 26, 2010 4:47 AM
The ball shot off Matheus Braga's foot toward one of his teammates and two West Virginia defenders with only open space and the goalkeeper ahead.
Updated April 23, 2010 4:48 AM
Last Saturday against Pittsburgh, Corey Hertzog did it again.
Updated April 22, 2010 4:46 AM
It only takes one split-second. One bad touch, a few extra inches of field and one daring defender.
Updated April 21, 2010 4:52 AM
FC Dallas coach Schellas Hyndman lost half of his job Tuesday morning, but he couldn't be happier at who is shouldering that workload.
Updated April 19, 2010 4:51 AM
It's a common thread among many that travel the long and cold road to State College -- there's something about Penn State that grows on a person and prevents him from leaving.
Score early and score often.
Updated April 15, 2010 4:48 AM
As a defender, Patrick Krispin's job is to knock opposing players off the ball and win possession back for his team.
Updated April 14, 2010 4:52 AM
There was a void on the sideline where the two coaches stood -- one, Isang Jacob, in a beanie. The other, Ryan Defibaugh, wearing no hat with his blonde hair exposed.
With defenders converging on him, Mackenzie Arment connected on a spiraling left-to-right shot from 25 yards out as the goalkeeper extended to try and stop it.
Updated April 13, 2010 4:52 AM
Penn State men's soccer coach Barry Gorman announced his resignation to the team Monday afternoon after practice.
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