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1 HISTORY IN THIS SECTION Championship Tradition Year-by-Year History Letterwinners Roster by State Coaching History JERRY YEAGLEY LED INDIANA TO SIX NATIONAL TITLES AND 544 VICTORIES DURING HIS 31 YEARS AT THE HELM.

2 CHAMPIONSHIP TRADITION 2005 Indiana University soccer is synonymous with tradition and excellence. Sixtime National Coach of the Year Jerry Yeagley turned the Hoosier program into the most storied in college sports. After leading the Hoosiers for 31 years, Yeagley retired after the 2003 season and turned the reins over to long time assistant and former Hoosier All- American, Mike Freitag. He was an assistant to Yeagley for 11 seasons before taking over the head job. Freitag did not skip a beat adding the program s seventh national title in his inaugural year in In their third decade of varsity competition, the Hoosiers are one of the most storied traditions in all of collegiate athletics. In the program s 32 seasons, Indiana owns more wins (563), has appeared in more College Cups (17) and has a higher winning percentage in both regular season (.821) and post-season play (.768) than any other school in Division I soccer. Yeagley guided the Hoosiers to six NCAA Championships (1982, 83, 88, 98, 99, 03), 16 College Cup appearances (1976, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 91, 94, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 03), and in the process, helped Indiana soccer hold the reputation of a program possessing a great deal of class and integrity. In just his first season as the headman, Freitag led IU to the program s seventh national title in It marked the third occasion in which IU had won back-to-back national titles and it was the program s record 17th appearance in the College Cup. Three of Yeagley s NCAA titles happened during the 1980s, giving the Hoosiers a number of other impressive credentials to earn the title of Team of the 1980s. During that span Indiana appeared in six College Cups, recorded 182 wins, posted a.813 winning percentage ( ), and boasted a 22-6 (.786) mark during play. All of those accomplishments were NCAA soccer bests. In addition, Yeagley s players excelled in the classroom. To go along with success on the field, 92 percent of his four-year players graduated. During a stretch of 14 months in the 82

3 2005 CHAMPIONSHIP TRADITION 1980s, the Hoosiers were, in fact, unbeatable. Beginning with a 2-1 win Sept. 4, 1983, over George Mason, Indiana went 46 games without being beaten. They compiled a mark during that stretch, including a 1-0 win over Columbia to win the 1983 NCAA title. What made the run that much more impressive was the fact that over 20 of the opponents were ranked in the top 20 by the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America in its weekly poll. The Hoosiers continued to excel in the 1990s. In 1994, the Hoosiers became the first team ever to have two players split the two National Player of the Year awards (Brian Maisonneuve Hermann Trophy; Todd Yeagley Missouri Athletic Club Award). In addition, Coach Jerry Yeagley was named the National Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association for the third time. No other coach has won the honor more than once. The Hoosiers won their third Big Ten title in four years, and they appeared in their eighth NCAA Championship match. They compiled a 23-3 record, had three players named All-American (Todd Yeagley, Brian Maisonneuve and Mike Clark) and had six players named first team All-Big Ten. The 1997 team was ranked No. 1 throughout the regular season. The Hoosiers finished 23-1 with the lone loss coming in the national semifinal match. They also had a record eight first-team All-Big Ten selections and three All-Americans (Lazo Alavanja, Nick Garcia and Dema Kovalenko). The 1998 team captured the program s fourth national championship as it went The team produced five first-team All-Conference players and three All-Americans. The squad also won the Big Ten title for the seventh time in eight years. In 1999, the Hoosiers brought home their fifth national championship and eighth Big Ten crown, and Yeagley was named National Coach of the Year for a then-record fifth time. The Hoosiers posted a 21-3 mark and a trio of All- Americans (Aleksey Korol, Nick Garcia and Yuri Lavrinenko). Korol also earned Soccer America National Player of the Year honors. Speaking of honors, Yeagley earned a few himself. In addition to being a six-time National Coach of the Year, Yeagley also was the recipient of the prestigious Bill Jeffery Award, in recognition of his outstanding and unique contributions to intercollegiate soccer. Iin 1989, Yeagley was inducted into the United States Soccer Federation Hall of Fame, the highest honor a collegiate soccer coach can receive. Whether you have won championships or not, one measures success by whether you get the best out of what you have, Yeagley said. That is how I measure success, and I believe we have done a very good job here at Indiana. The honors have been reaped by IU players as well. Five Hermann Trophy winners (including Ken Snow twice), three Missouri Athletic Club Players of the Year, one M.A.C. Hermann Trophy 83

4 CHAMPIONSHIP TRADITION 2005 winner (the M.A.C Player of the Year and Hermann Trophy were combined into one award prior to the 2002 season), 13 National Team players, six Olympians and six World Cup players have donned the Cream and Crimson. In addition, Hoosier players have earned All- America honors 52 times. Armando Betancourt played under Yeagley from , earning All- America honors each year. He won the Hermann Trophy in 1981 as the collegiate soccer Player of the Year, becoming the second Hoosier to do so. The native of Honduras also competed in the 1980 Olympics and the 1982 World Cup for his country. In addition, Betancourt was one of three Hoosiers to be named to Soccer America s All-Decade team for the 1980s, being crowned the Player of the Decade. Betancourt came to IU just after another Hoosier great, Angelo DiBernardo, left. DiBernardo played for Yeagley from , earning All- America honors twice. Like Betancourt, DiBernardo competed in the Olympics, playing for the United States in both 1980 and During his senior season, DiBernardo led the Hoosiers to their second College Cup appearance and was named the Hermann Trophy winner, becoming the first Hoosier to do so. Joining Betancourt on the Soccer America All-Decade team for the 1980s were former Hoosiers John Stollmeyer and Ken Snow. Stollmeyer, a midfielder from , was a part of two NCAA titles and three championship games. He earned All-America honors three times, and competed in the 1988 Olympics and the 1990 World Cup for the United States. In 1990, Ken Snow became the first Hoosier to win the Hermann Trophy and the Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year award for a second time. The fourtime first team All-American also shattered most of the school s season and career scoring marks. Snow finished his career with 84 goals and 196 points, both school records. In addition, Snow ranks on top of the school s single-season goals scored list having scored 28 in his freshman year (1987). He helped the Hoosiers to the 1988 NCAA title by scoring 22 goals and handing out seven assists, earning him his first Player of the Year honor. As the 90s began, Snow departed and Todd Yeagley and Maisonneuve moved into the spotlight. Yeagley became only the second Hoosier to earn All-America status each of his four seasons at Indiana, while Maisonneuve was a twotime Big Ten Player of the Year. Between them, they won two national player of the year awards, two Big Ten Player of the Year awards, earned All-America distinction six times and led the Hoosiers to two College Cups. Goalkeeper Scott Coufal also made his mark in the 1990s. The all-time winningest goalkeeper in Indiana history was named an All-American, an All- Region player three times, and an All-Big Ten first team member twice. The 1999 season put a close to Garcia s career along with Korol and Lavrinenko. That trio combined to win five All-America awards. Pat Noonan followed by etching his name among the great Hoosiers. Noonan earned All- America honors in 2000, 2001 and He finished runner-up for the Missouri 84

5 2005 CHAMPIONSHIP TRADITION Athletic Club Player of the Year in 2001 while scoring 44 points on 16 goals and 12 assists. As a senior in 2002, Noonan finished runner-up once again, by just four points, for the combined M.A.C. Hermann Trophy. Yeagley s Hall of Fame career ended in storybook fashion in The Hoosiers went unbeaten in their final 18 matches of the 2003 season compiling a mark during the run. With a victory over Virginia Commonwealth in the third round of the at Bill Armstrong Stadium, Yeagley became the all-time winningest coach in Division I soccer history. In all, Yeagley finished his career with 544 wins. The Hoosiers made a memorable run through the that culminated in the program s sixth national championship. Showing how much a team means to winning, the Hoosiers made the run during the NCAA Tournament without arguably its two best players. With the exception of the championship game on Dec. 14, Ned Grabavoy and Drew Moor missed the entire while playing for the United States U-20 National Team at World Youth Championships in the United Arab Emirates. Indiana s run was helped by a stout defense that only allowed three goals in five matches. The Hoosiers shocked No. 1 UCLA in the quarterfinals, 2-1, thanks to a goal by sophomore Pat Yates with just over 10 minutes remaining in the match. He followed that with the game-winner in the third overtime of the National semifinal against Santa Clara. Grabavoy and Jacob Peterson each netted a goal in the Hoosiers title game victory over St. John s, 2-1. Grabavoy capped off his Hoosier career by earning the second All-America honor of his career. He was named a first team All- America selection following the 2003 season. A Freitag-led group of Hoosiers in 2004 made it back-to-back NCAA titles for the third time in school history with a 3-2 victory over UC-Santa Barbara in penalty kicks. Goalkeeper Jay Nolly came up with a diving save to his left in the final round of kicks, giving IU its seventh title. Nolly was named the College Cup Defensive Most Valuable Player for the second straight year in the process. Nolly, Danny O Rourke and Drew Moor were recognized as All-Americans in 2004 with O Rourke and Moor earning first team accolades and Nolly being named a third team honoree. O Rourke became the first Hoosier to earn the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy. It was the combined award of the M.A.C. Player of the Year and Hermann Trophy, which was done following the 2002 season. O Rourke was also named the National Soccer Coaches Association of America Scholar-Athlete of the Year. These are just some of the great names and players that have been associated with the soccer program at Indiana University over the past 32 years, and the future looks to have more of the same. 85

6 HOOSIER HISTORY THE PROGRAM BEGINS After nearly 20 years of lobbying for varsity status, the Indiana Union Soccer Club was granted their wish, giving the school the ability to compete in future NCAA tournaments after finishing the 1972 season with an 11-1 record and the Indiana State Championship. Indiana mentor Jerry Yeagley was named the first varsity soccer coach at Indiana after compiling a record in 10 years as the head coach of the club team. Yeagley was one of the sports biggest promoters at Indiana, and a major factor in the athletic department s decision to make soccer a varsity sport. Indiana entered the 1973 season with a goal of participating in the in the first year they were eligible. But despite its 12-2 final record, they were passed over by the selection committee. Nevertheless, their inaugural campaign was a success with four players scoring over 20 points for the Hoosiers and a defense that allowed just seven goals on the season. Little did they know, the Hoosiers were embarking on a mission that would produce seven national championships and a program that would soon be known as one of the best in the nation. The Hoosiers began the season with a bang, winning the program s first-ever varsity contest, 5-1, at Notre Dame. The first official goal was scored by junior Ibrahima Fall, a native of Senegal. Then, as a sign of things to come, freshman Steve Burks scored two goals for the Hoosiers. Senior goalie Leo Ley, whose career goals against average coming into the season was a mere 0.75, allowed the lone goal in the victory. IU then played its first-ever home game at Memorial Stadium against Goshen College, participants in the 1972 NAIA tournament. Led by All-American Bob Nelson s hat trick and two more goals from Burks, the Hoosiers won 7-1. Nelson played the game with a partially broken arm in a splint, falling on the injured limb multiple Results (12-2) - S.14 at Notre Dame W S.22 Goshen W S.25 at Wabash W S.28 Kentucky W O.3 at Ball State W O.6 Indiana State W O.12 at Cincinnati W O.17 DePauw W O.20 at Ohio State W O.24 at Eastern Illinois L O.26 at Purdue W N.3 at Cleveland State L N.7 Earlham W N.9 Marion W After 10 years of directing the Indiana soccer program as a club team, Jerry Yeagley guided it to varsity status in times in the game but missing just four minutes. Indiana outshot Goshen 27-3, showcasing the dominance it would have over its opponents all season. After a 3-1 victory over Wabash, the soccer squad not only recorded its first official shutout with a 5-0 home victory against Kentucky in front of an estimated 15,000 fans, but it reeled off three straight shutouts, including a 10-0 rout over Indiana State. Burks scored six goals and 12 points, both records that are still standing. The Hoosiers outshot ISU 52-3 as Leo Ley recorded his third straight shutout. Following three more victories and two shutouts, the Hoosiers were forced to taste defeat for the first time since gaining varsity status. IU lost a heartbreaker to Eastern Illinois, 1-0, the only team to defeat them between 1971 and The Hoosiers only other loss of the season was another 1-0 gutwrenching defeat to Cleveland State. The Hoosiers closed out the campaign in the same manner in which they had played all season, shutting out three of their final four opponents. The team dropped Purdue, 6-0, as Burks scored two more goals and Nelson added a goal and an assist. Following the road loss to Cleveland State, the Hoosiers defeated an Earlham squad that finished the previous season seventh in the nation, 5-0. The Hoosiers eighth and final shutout came against Marion College 7-0. Indiana received a pair of goals from two of their five foreignborn players as Hong Kong native Peter Wong and freshman Azmil Yassin of Malaysia led the Hoosiers to victory. With a final record of 12-2, the Hoosiers were in solid contention for an NCAA Tournament bid in just their first year eligible, but were passed over. Burks ended the season with 48 points, including 20 goals, leading the team in both categories. Fall scored 10 goals and 10 assists, and Nelson followed up his All- American season with another solid performance, netting 10 goals and seven assists. But the Hoosiers ended the season still hungry for that NCAA bid, knowing that they would have to wait another full season before they could reach that illustrious goal FIRST NCAA APPEARANCE With a bitter taste still left in the Hoosiers mouths after an NCAA bid snubbing and five starters graduated, Indiana knew it had its work cut out for it. With All-American Bob Nelson gone and goalkeeper Leo Ley now an assistant coach, IU would need some new faces to step up and lead it. But with Steve Burks, the 12th leading scorer in the nation returning for the Hoosiers, along with Azmil Yassin and Robert Kirchner, Indiana also knew to expect a lot of scoring from the 1974 squad. Tom Redmond, a junior college transfer, would prove to be instrumental in the Hoosiers nine shutouts en route to being named the first IU All- American since the team achieved varsity status. In the Hoosiers exhibition opener, Burks would pick up just where he left off. In front of an estimated 8,000 fans at Memorial Stadium, he scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory over the University of Mexico. It was the first time the highly-regarded Mexico team had lost to an American team. The official season opener would be more indicative of the type of play the team would show in The Hoosiers broke their single-game scoring record set the year before by hammering Notre Dame, John Schulenburg, Tim McGonagle, and Burks each scored a pair of goals, and Ken Leon and Jerry Razumich each scored in their first collegiate game. Following a 7-0 rout of Dayton that saw Redmond lead the Hoosiers with two goals and an assist, the Hoosiers received their first dose of bad news. Freshman David Freud, who scored in both of the Hoosiers first two regular season games, was declared ineligible by the NCAA for not having met transfer requirements from the year he attended Hebrew University in Israel. It didn t take long for the Hoosiers to recover though, as freshman goalkeeper Cary Feld recorded his second straight shutout and IU defeated Goshen, 2-0. McGonagle scored the game-winner eight minutes into the second half, and Burks goal 86

7 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY helped Indiana to its fourth straight victory. Indiana entered the first-ever Indiana State Tournament undefeated and continued its dominance by beating up on Purdue 7-1 in the semifinals and shutting out Ball State 3-0 in the championship game. After Feld recorded his fifth shutout of the season, Indiana took on Michigan at home and freshman forward John Katsinis broke loose, scoring four goals to lead the Hoosiers to a 10-1 victory. Burks and Yassin each added a pair of goals in the Hoosier victory. Burks was far from finished though, as he went wild on Cincinnati at home, scoring five goals including three in the first 25 minutes while leading Indiana in a 7-0 win. He had another hat trick in the Hoosiers 6-0 victory over DePauw, as Feld recorded back-to-back shutouts for the third time of the year. Another tight Hoosier victory over Kentucky gave Indiana its 13th straight victory dating back to 1973 and 11th straight of the current campaign. But Eastern Illinois proved IU was not invincible. Despite out-shooting the Panthers 24-8 and taking a 1-0 lead into the half, the Hoosiers were unable to capitalize on three shots that hit the posts as they lost their first of the year, 2-1. Sandwiched between the Hoosiers only other regular season loss of 1974 was the Chicago Circle tournament in which Indiana took the title, defeating MacMurray 4-1 and host Chicago Circle, 2-1. With the team needing to perform well in its final two contests to earn an NCAA berth, the Hoosiers convinced the selection committee with back-to-back shutouts by Feld and four more goals by Burks, giving him a career-high 22 for the season. But that would be all the celebrating the Hoosiers would do, as they were blanked by Southern Illinois-Edwardsville in their first Results (14-3) - S.13 Notre Dame W S.21 Dayton W S.23 at Goshen W S.27 Purdue# W S.28 Ball State# W O.2 Wabash W O.4 Michigan W O.11 Cincinnati W O.16 at DePauw W O.18 at Kentucky W O.22 Eastern Illinois L O.24 MacMurray& W O.25 at Ill.-Chicago& W N.3 Cleveland State L N.5 at Earlham W N.8 Michigan State W N.16 at SIU-Edwardsville L # State Tournament (Bloomington, Ind.) & Ill.-Chicago Tournament (Chicago, Ill.) postseason NCAA action ever. The thirdranked Cougars scored twice before the half including an own goal that proved to be the game-winner. But with plenty of talent to build on and an NCAA appearance under its belt, 1975 would be a year of high hopes FALLING JUST SHORT Expectations would be high for the 1975 IU soccer team, but with a solid corps of returning starters and a highly regarded recruiting class, the Hoosiers felt up to the task. The 75 season would see another squad battle for an NCAA bid with plenty of highlights along the way. IU didn t disappoint in its opener against Cincinnati, firing 57 shots at the Bearcats, a record that still stands. The Hoosiers scored on just five of those 57, but easily won, 5-2 as freshman Charlie Fajkus scored his first two career goals in his first collegiate game and Steve Burks scored his first of the season, en route to an impressive season-long performance. The Hoosiers next victims were Wabash and Dayton, who were shut out 9-0 and 4-0, respectively. Indiana outshot the two teams as Burks scored four goals in the pair of games and All-American back Tom Redmond scored three. Burks set another current record for the Hoosiers in the Wabash game, firing 11 shots on goal. The squad would head home for its opener against Goshen where Burks would break out for four more goals as the Hoosiers won, 6-2. The team headed to the state tournament 3-0 and faced Purdue in the opening round. The Hoosiers recorded their first shutout of the weekend as Joe Kelley scored his first career goal, the game-winner. Joe Archer scored a pair of goals to round out the scoring in the 3-0 victory. The finals of the tournament were a rematch of the previous year, and had the same results. Indiana shutout Ball State, 4-0, on two more goals by Fajkus to take the state title. But the win streak would end at six for Indiana, as the injury-plagued team fell to Akron, 2-1. The team would rebound though, defeating Western Illinois, 2-1. Burks and John Katsinis scored for the Hoosiers as Cary Feld recorded six second-half saves in his seventh win of the year. The Hoosiers would then head to St. Louis to face their toughest opponent of the season and would be handed their worst loss since gaining varsity status in Yielding more than two goals for the first time in their past 40 games, the Hoosiers lost to the Billikens, 3-1, in the game they needed to win most. It would turn out to be the deciding factor in the Hoosiers inability to earn an NCAA bid. Needing a huge victory to stay in the NCAA tournament hunt, the Hoosiers responded by blasting DePauw 9-0 including eight first half goals. Fajkus, Burks, and Katsinis each scored two goals and David Freud had three assists. IU wasn t finished proving themselves though, shutting out back-to-back Big Ten opponents in the Big Ten Classic. The Hoosiers dusted off Wisconsin first, 5-0 on goals by Burks, David Shelton, and Rick Spray. In the championship game, the Hoosiers beat Michigan State, 6-0, to take the title as Burks and Fajkus accounted for three of the Hoosiers goals in their sixth shutout of the season. Fajkus would end the season with 13 goals, second only to Burks. Following a 1-1 tie against Eastern Illinois, the Hoosiers entered their next two contests knowing that a pair of wins would likely lock up another NCAA bid. After winning the first against Chicago Circle, 3-1, the Hoosiers had a repeat performance of their 1974 loss to Cleveland State, losing 2-1 in a game head coach Jerry Yeagley would call, probably the most bitter disappointment I can remember in a long time. Despite outplaying CSU in the second half, the Hoosiers fate was sealed on two first half goals. The loss would end Indiana s postseason hopes, leaving it nothing to play for but pride. With that in mind, the Hoosiers came out gunning, defeating Earlham, 8-0, and Kentucky, Burks scored four goals in the two games, giving him 22 on the year, and Dennis Grace and David Freud each had three. The two shutouts gave Indiana (13-3-1) nine for the year, besting their previous year s total, and their 79 goals also beat the previous high set in But they were unable to get the one thing they set out for at the beginning of the year an NCAA bid Results (13-3-1) - S.12 at Cincinnati W S.17 at Wabash W S.20 at Dayton W S.24 Goshen W S.26 Purdue# W S.27 Ball State# W O.4 at Akron L O.5 Western Illinois W O.11 at Saint Louis L O.15 DePauw W O.18 Wisconsin! W O.19 Michigan State! W O.22 at E. Illinois (OT) T O.25 Illinois-Chicago W N.1 Cleveland State L N.5 Earlham W N.7 Kentucky W # State Tournament (Bloomington, Ind.) & Ill.-Chicago Tournament (Chicago, Ill.) 87

8 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 Little did they know, it would be 10 years before the Hoosiers would fail to reach the NCAAs again ST TRIP TO THE FINALS Although Indiana soccer officially started in 1973 when it was awarded varsity status, 1976 was the unofficial beginning for the Hoosiers. It marked the beginning of a streak of 10 seasons in which IU would participate in the. It would also be only one of two seasons in the 32-year history of the program that the Hoosiers would finish the regular season undefeated. Another beginning for the Hoosiers was the start of Angelo DiBernardo s career one that would see him place his name among Indiana Soccer s all-time greats. He was in the same recruiting class as Mike Freitag, now the head coach of the program. The Hoosier freshmen wouldn t disappoint in their opener, as Tim Walters scored the game-winner and DiBernardo and Freitag each added scores in the 6-0 victory over Dayton. Indiana was unable to score against Western Illinois, but goalkeeper Cary Feld shut down the Leathernecks in a 0-0 tie. It would be the next contest against Dayton where DiBernardo would begin to show his talent. In a 6-0 win, DiBernardo scored a pair of goals to go along with his four assists, a record that still stands today. Senior Steve Results (18-1-1) - S.15 UW-Milwaukee W S.17 at W. Illinois (OT) T S.19 Dayton W S.24 Ball State# W S.25 Indiana State# W O.2 at Akron (OT) W O.10 Saint Louis W O.13 Cincinnati W O.16 Wisconsin! W O.17 Ohio State! W O.20 Eastern Illinois W O.23 at Wheaton& W O.24 Northern Illinois& W O.31 Cleveland State W N.3 at Earlham W N.5 at Kentucky W N.21 Akron W N.28 SIU-Edwardsville W NCAA College Cup (Philadelphia, Penn.) D.5 Hartwick W D.7 San Francisco L # State Tournament (W. Lafayette, Ind.)! Big Ten Classic (East Lansing, Mich.) & Wheaton Classic (Wheaton, Ill.) Charlie Fajkus (center) scored 13 goals and had seven assists in Burks, who would go on to earn All-America honors, also scored twice for the Hoosiers. Following another 6-0 win over Ball State, the Hoosiers went to West Lafayette for the finals of the State Tournament where they had another record-breaking performance. In Feld s fifth consecutive shutout, Indiana scored a record 19 goals, beating Indiana State Rudy Glenn and Ray Kean scored three goals and DiBernardo, Jim Mercurio, Walters and David Shelton each had two. After another victory over Akron, the Hoosiers pulled off what head coach Jerry Yeagley called at the time, our biggest win ever. Saint Louis, winners of 10 of the last 17 national championships, fell victim to DiBernardo and the Hoosiers, 5-1. DiBernardo scored all five goals for the Hoosiers, as they continued on their quest for a national championship. Their next six wins would include three one-goal victories and a Big Ten Classic title, upping their record to Their next opponent would be Cleveland State, whose 2-1 victory over the Hoosiers last season knocked them out of contention for the NCAA Tournament. IU showed it had not forgotten the previous year s loss, defeating the Vikings 5-0. DiBernardo scored twice for Indiana with Burks, Charlie Fajkus and Glenn also adding goals. The Hoosiers still had two games left to complete an undefeated regular season, and they took care of that task easily, defeating Earlham and Kentucky by a combined score of IU had 11 assists in the 13-0 win over Earlham, as Feld recorded his 10th shutout. With its No. 2 national ranking, Indiana was set to face Akron in the Midwest Regionals of the. Glenn scored first for the Hoosiers and Fajkus added a second goal on a penalty kick, as the Hoosiers fended off the Zips, winning 2-1. Their next match paired the Hoosiers against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, and a snowy field at Memorial Stadium left the Hoosiers with no traction. Neither team was able to score in the first half, sending Indiana to the locker room tied 0-0. It was there the Hoosiers switched into shoes borrowed from the IU Football team, a move Yeagley credited to then-football coach Lee Corso. The shoes made the difference, as Fajkus was able to score at the 87:44 mark to give the Hoosiers a 1-0 victory that would send them to the semifinals against Hartwick. Against Hartwick, DiBernardo sat out the entire scoreless first half with a groin injury, but once he entered, he made his presence known, scoring twice for the Hoosiers in the second half. It would be all they needed as the Hoosier defense and Feld held strong again, winning 2-1 and sending Indiana to the national championship game for the first time in school history. But the storybook season would end there for the Hoosiers, as they lost to defending national champions, San Francisco, 1-0. Indiana finished the year , marking the end of Burks stellar career which saw him score 182 points while taking 345 shots ALL-AMERICAN SEASON Coming off a season that saw the surprising Hoosiers advance to the national championship game and score an IU record 94 goals, 1976 NCAA Coach of the Year Jerry Yeagley expected big things from his squad. The Hoosiers lost just one starter, albeit Steve Burks, and they had one of the top recruits in the nation in Robert Meschbach. The squad opened up the season against Wisconsin-Milwaukee and barely walked away with a 2-1 victory. Their home opener was more like the Hoosiers of 1976, as they trounced Wheaton, 6-0. DiBernardo had his first hat trick of the season, and brothers Mark and Hudson Fortune of Brazil both scored for Indiana. 88

9 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY In a 9-0 victory over Dayton, Meschbach scored the first two goals of his career, and Tim Walters added a pair as well to lead the Hoosiers. The win would give the Hoosiers much needed confidence going into a rematch of the 1976 national championship game against San Francisco. The game found head coach Jerry Yeagley facing Steve Negoesco, who Yeagley passed in 2003 as the all-time NCAA wins leader. But confidence and a lone goal by Rudy Glenn was only good enough to tie the Dons, 1-1, giving Indiana a little bit of revenge against their West Coast rivals. The battle against the Dons sent the Hoosiers on a six-game win streak, the first of which was a surprising 5-0 win over Akron. Glenn scored again for the Hoosiers, moving them to The first win in that streak came as the Hoosiers snuck by Cincinnati, 1-0 on a goal by Fajkus off a rebounded shot from DiBernardo. John Putna earned his third shutout of the season for Indiana, heading into the Big Ten Classic. With convincing victories over Michigan State (7-0) and Wisconsin (8-1), the host Hoosiers had won yet another Classic as DiBernardo had a hat trick and the Fortune brothers both scored again against the Spartans. The Hoosiers embarked on a week-long three-game road trip that started out successfully, but ended with the Hoosiers lone regular season loss in two years. After defeating Eastern Illinois, 1-0 on a Meschbach goal, Indiana beat Chicago Angelo DiBernardo helped the Hoosiers to their first-ever NCAA final in his freshman season Results (12-2-1) - S.10 at UW-Milwaukee W S.14 Wheaton W S.18 at Dayton W S.25 San Francisco (OT) T O.2 at Akron W O.12 at Cincinnati W O.14 Michigan State! W O.15 Wisconsin! W O.19 at Eastern Illinois W O.21 at Ill.-Chicago& W O.29 at Cleveland State L N.2 Ball State W N.6 Purdue W N.12 at Saint Louis W N.17 at SIU-Edward. L ! Big Ten Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Illinois-Chicago Tournament (Chicago, Ill.) Circle, 2-0. But that would be the end of the Hoosiers win streak as Cleveland State avenged its previous season s loss at the hands of IU. Without star back Mike Freitag, a Hoosier defense that had only surrendered three goals up to that point in the season allowed two in the loss. The Vikings snapped the Hoosiers 28-game regular season unbeaten streak and handed Indiana its first shutout since the first round of the 1975 Midwest Regionals of the. Indiana had just three games left to prove it deserved a high seed in the tournament, with one of those games at Saint Louis, where the team had never won. After an 11-1 win over Ball State, the Hoosiers were set to face in-state rivals Purdue, a team they had outscored 10-1 in their past two meetings. This one would be no different, as another one-sided contest saw the Hoosiers rout the Boilermakers, 7-0. DiBernardo recorded his third hat trick of the season and David Shelton, the outstanding defensive player in the 1976 NCAA finals, added another goal for the Hoosiers. Then came the showdown between Indiana and Saint Louis, and the injuryplagued Hoosiers came to play. DiBernardo provided the goal, Feld the shutout, and IU bested the Billikens, 1-0, finishing its season at It seemed inevitable that Indiana would receive the second seed and home field advantage against Southern Illinois- Edwardsville, but the selection committee disagreed. The Hoosiers would face SIU-E, but as the #3 seed, and not at home. The game went four overtimes with Glenn and Hudson Fortune scoring for the Hoosiers but SIU-E outlasted Indiana, 3-2, leaving one of the best teams in Indiana history wondering how they could be heading home after just the first round. The postseason was not a total loss for the Hoosiers however, as DiBernardo was named All-American and Shelton and George Perry were awarded Honorable Mention. With its top six scorers returning for Indiana, they looked to 1978 to bring bigger and brighter things A TRIP BACK TO THE FINALS The big question heading into the 1978 season for the Hoosiers was defense, as the offense was expected to be carried again by Angelo DiBernardo, Robert Meschbach, and Charlie Fajkus. In what head coach Jerry Yeagley called a suicide schedule, nine of the Hoosiers first 10 opponents were nationally-ranked. Yeagley had hoped to break even through those 10 games, and starting with their opener, his wildest dreams began to come true. In their season and home opener against UCLA, the Hoosiers began an incredible streak of victories by beating the Bruins, 2-1 on goals by Hudson Fortune and Robert Meschbach. Indiana then left for an East Coast road trip to face three tough opponents. Following a 2-0 shutout over nationally ranked Rhode Island, the Hoosiers went to Connecticut where Yeagley would face Joe Morrone, who along with Yeagley is one of five coaches with more than 400 career victories. IU would come away with a 4-1 victory as DiBernardo and Fortune both scored. Two straight shutouts by John Putna over Hartwick (4-0) and Penn State (2-0) gave the Hoosiers the Big Red Classic championship and four wins over ranked teams as they headed west. Out in California, Indiana would have to face San Jose State before its match with San Francisco. The Hoosiers snuck by the Spartans, 1-0 on DiBernardo s goal with five minutes remaining. That set the stage for a battle between the No. 1-ranked Hoosiers and No. 2 Dons. All-American Fajkus scored for the Hoosiers in the first half, and after USF tied the score, DiBernardo put the Hoosiers up for good, solidifying their top spot in the nation. Everyone around the soccer program seemed in a daze after IU blew through its first 10 games undefeated to claim the national No. 1 ranking. But the winning would not stop there. After a 6-2 win over Cincinnati, Putna began a streak of four straight shutouts over Ohio State, Wisconsin, Eastern Illinois and Evansville. The first of those two gave the Hoosiers yet another Big Ten Classic Championship. The Hoosiers posted a 7-1 blowout over Notre Dame as Walters scored another pair of goals. Indiana, 16-0 at that point, had one 89

10 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 final serious obstacle, but it was the only team to defeat the Hoosiers in the regular season over the past four years. Cleveland State continued its dominance in a 1-0 victory, stopping Indiana s home-winning streak at 26 games. A final regular season record of 20-1 gave IU the ultimate opportunity for revenge in the first-round of the. The only opponents able to beat the Hoosiers would be their first victim Cleveland State. IU s two leading scorers led the way with DiBernardo scoring two and assisting on Meschbach s goal in the Hoosiers 3-1 victory. In the second round, IU would have a chance to avenge another loss its 1977 first round elimination at the hands of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. Another team fell victim to Putna and the Hoosier defense, 2-0. Putna would finish the 1978 season with an IU record 112 saves. Philadelphia-Textile (17-0) came into the semifinals as the only major unbeaten team in the nation, but fullback Joe Andert was able to contain its top player while DiBernardo and Walters did the scoring in another Hoosier 2-0 win. Finally the stage was set Indiana had lost to San Francisco in the 1976 championship match, but beat them earlier in the season, 2-1. But after an early shot just missed for IU, the Dons dominated, leaving Indiana one step Results (23-2-) - S.3 UCLA W S.7 at Rhode Island W S.9 at Connecticut W S.11 at Springfield W S.16 Penn State# W S.17 Hartwick# W S.22 at San Jose St.& W S.23 San Francisco& W S.30 at Akron W O.8 Saint Louis W O.11 Cincinnati W O.14 Ohio State! W O.15 at Wisconsin! W O.18 Eastern Illinois W O.20 at Evansville W O.22 Notre Dame W O.29 Cleveland State L N.1 at Ball State W N.5 Dayton W N.8 at Purdue W N.12 UW-Milwaukee W N.19 Cleveland State W N.26 SIU-Edwardsville W NCAA Final Four (Tampa, Fla.) D.6 Philadelphia Text. W D.8 San Francisco L * *Title was later vacated # Big Red Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Shriners Classic (San Jose, Calif.)! Big Ten Classic (Madison, Wis.) John Putna posted 14 shutouts, 23 wins and an 0.52 goals-against average in short of a championship for the second time in three years NO. 1 RANKING The end of one era saw the easy transition to the next. Angelo DiBernardo, who graduated in just three years at Indiana. The Hoosiers would have to go to Honduras to find his successor. In Armando Betancourt, IU found one of the greatest players in school history. But in a year that featured Betancourt on offense, it was the Indiana defense that stood out, setting school records for shutouts (18), fewest goals allowed (six), and lowest GAA (0.26). Following a 5-0 win over Wisconsin-Green Bay, Betancourt wasted no time getting used to college, scoring both goals in the Hoosiers 2-0 victory over Wisconsin- Milwaukee. He then scored two more for a 5-0 victory over Purdue as the Hoosiers shut out their third straight opponent for the first of four times in Indiana couldn t score against Southern Methodist, and lost to a regular season opponent other than Cleveland State for the first time in four years. The squad would rebound well though, defeating Appalachian State, 3-0 behind two goals from Hermann Trophy finalist Rudy Glenn. After two more shutouts over North Texas State and Rockhurst, head coach Jerry Yeagley would reach the first significant milestone of his career, winning his 100th varsity game at Indiana with a 4-0 win at Notre Dame. In his first six years, Yeagley compiled a record. In its fifth consecutive shutout, Indiana surprised Akron 3-0 as IU s top three scorers on the season Betancourt, Robert Meschbach, and Glenn each netted goals for the Hoosiers. Next, in a matchup that had produced similar results over the past three years, the Hoosiers defeated previously unbeaten Saint Louis for an unprecedented fourth time in four years, 3-1. Senior Mike Freitag scored first for the Hoosiers, with Betancourt netting the game-winner. Indiana would start another shutout streak, beginning in Cincinnati with a 6-0 romping of the Bearcats. Five different Hoosiers would score including Freitag and freshman Pat McGauley, IU s fourth-leading scorer in 1979 with 12 goals and nine assists. In the Big Ten Division Classic, the Hoosiers continued their dominance, winning their fifth straight championship with identical 5-0 victories over Illinois and Michigan State. But the next team to score on Indiana would also be the next the Hoosiers couldn t beat, as they tied Eastern Illinois, 1-1, while giving up just their third goal of the season. Once again, the Hoosiers bounced back with 1-0 victories over South Carolina and Evansville Results (19-2-2) - S.1 UW-Green Bay& W S.2 at UW-Milwaukee& W S.9 Purdue W S.15 SMU# L S.16 Appalachian St.# W S.21 N. Texas State% W S.22 Rockhurst% W S.28 at Notre Dame W S.30 Akron W O.5 at Saint Louis W O.10 at Cincinnati W O.13 Illinois! W O.14 Michigan State! W O.17 at E. Illinois (OT) T O.19 South Carolina@ W O.20 Evansville@ W O.28 at Cleveland St.(OT) T O.31 Ball State W N.4 Evansville W N.9 at Dayton W N.11 at Minnesota+ W N.18 Cleveland State W N.25 at Penn State L & UWM Kickoff Classic (Milwaukee, Wis.) # Big Red Classic (Bloomington, Ind. ) % SIU Classic (Edwardsville, Ill.)! Big Ten Classic (Bloomington, Wheaton Classic (Wheaton, Ill.) & Shriners Classic (San Jose, Calif.) +Big Ten Classic (Madison, Wis.) 90

11 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY Going into its match at Cleveland State where the Hoosiers had never won, Indiana needed at least a tie to assure itself of a top seed in the. They did just that, holding on to a 1-1 tie while playing a man short. In their next three games, the Hoosiers outscored their opponents 24-0 including a 13-0 trampling of Ball State and a 7-0 win over Dayton. John Putna recorded a singleseason record with an 0.26 goals against average. Indiana s last regular season game would be the Big Ten title match, as it faced Minnesota in the Big Ten Classic final. Indiana would have no problems disposing of the Gophers, 6-0 while winning its fifth consecutive Big Ten Classic championship. In a rematch with one of two teams Indiana couldn t beat in the regular season, the Regional Finals paired the Hoosiers and Cleveland State once again. This time though, there would be no tie as Glenn and McGauley each scored twice in IU s improbable 5-0 win over CSU. But that would be as far as the No. 1- ranked Hoosiers would go in In a huge upset, Penn State beat Indiana, 2-0 to advance to the Final Four, prompting Yeagley to sum up the season at the time by saying, One of college soccer s best-ever teams isn t even going on in the tournament A RETURN TRIP TO THE FINALS With the loss of eight senior starters from the 1979 team, the Hoosiers outlook was bleak. Head coach Jerry Yeagley would look to Armando Betancourt and Robert Meschbach to carry the load for the young squad. But the pair couldn t carry much in the first weekend in Dallas as Indiana got off to its slow start, going against Southern Methodist and North Texas State. It looked as though Yeagley s preseason prediction of a near.500 season wouldn t be far off. The Hoosiers received a second loss when freshman sweeper Dan King suffered a season-ending knee injury. The Hoosiers would return home against Joe Morrone s Connecticut Huskies, and an early goal by Betancourt held up as IU squeaked out a 1-0 victory. The squad then broke out against Purdue as Betancourt scored four times in the 10-0 win. It would give the Hoosiers much-needed confidence going into a rematch against the team that ended their 1979 season Penn State. Indiana would get its revenge, beating the Nittany Lions, 2-0 on a goal from Mark Goldschmidt as the defense held PSU to just four shots. It would be IU s first shot at revenge. A 4-2 victory over Portland put IU in the finals of the SIUE tournament against the host defending national champions. Pat McGauley scored the lone goal on a free kick in IU s 1-0 win. A 3-1 win over Akron left several Hoosiers injured as they limped home to face Notre Dame. Even with its injuries, Indiana was still able to run over the Irish behind two Betancourt goals. The victory was the Hoosiers eighth straight and set up a midseason clash with Saint Louis. In a loss that, according to Yeagley, brought the Hoosiers back to reality, the Billikens became the second and last opponent that season to shut out Indiana, 3-0. It would be another turning point in the Hoosiers surprising season, while the Cincinnati game was the turning point in Meschbach s career. Against the Bearcats, Meschbach scored a career-high five goals, giving him 10 in his past five games (he finished the year with 27). His 11 points is the second most singlegame total in Hoosier history. Indiana began its search for the Big Ten title by whipping Michigan State (5-0) and Ohio State (2-0). But against Cleveland State, it took a Viking own goal for someone other than Results (22-3-1) - S.1 at SMU (OT) T S.2 at N. Texas State L S.7 Connecticut W S.11 at Purdue W S.14 Penn State W S.19 Portland& W S.20 at SIU-Edward.& W S.24 Western Michigan W S.27 at Akron W S.28 Notre Dame W O.5 Saint Louis L O.8 Cincinnati W O.11 Michigan State! W O.12 at Ohio State! W O.15 Eastern Illinois W O.19 UW-Milwaukee W O.26 Cleveland State W O.29 at Ball State W N.2 at Evansville W N.3 at Southern Ind. W N.7 Dayton W N.9 at Wisconsin W N.30 Cleveland State W D.7 Penn State W NCAA Final Four (Tampa, Fla.) D.13 Hartwick W D.15 San Francisco L & SIU Classic (Edwardsville, Ill.)! Big Ten Classic (Columbus, Ohio) Big Ten Title Match (Madison, Wis.) Betancourt and Meschbach to score and it was freshman Mark Laxgang on the receiving end in the 1-0 victory. The win gave Chris Oswald, Chris Peterson and Roger Wicker their sixth straight shutout. Freshmen Steve Kabanas and Manuel Gorrity then led the Hoosiers to the 4-1 victory over Ball State in a game that saw an opponent score on IU for the first time in seven games. After two more wins over Evansville and Indiana State-Evansville, Meschbach recorded his first career hat trick in the 6-0 shutout of Dayton. The win gave the Hoosiers 10 straight victories heading into the Big Ten title match against Wisconsin. Their sixth consecutive Big Ten crown came on a 2-0 win over the Badgers and improved the Hoosiers to 24-0 against conference foes. The Hoosiers first-round matchup was a repeat performance of the past year s opener, as Indiana defeated Cleveland State once again, 3-0. Meschbach scored again for the Hoosiers, his seventh goal in four games. The second and third rounds would bring more of the same for the Hoosiers, as Meschbach scored three goals and Betancourt added two scores and an assist in victories over Penn State (3-1) and Hartwick (5-0). The victories would give the Hoosiers another title shot at San Francisco, the team they had hoped to face if they were to finally win that elusive national championship. But for the third time in five years, IU was unable to pull off the big win. This one was the hardest to take for Yeagley though, as his squad outshot the Dons 24-9 while losing 4-3 in OT. Little did they know, it would be the Hoosiers last shot ever at USF in NCAA tournament play STADIUM OPENER The newest and most permanent addition to the Indiana Soccer Program came in 1981 Bill Armstrong Stadium. Though it was then called Soccer/Little 500 Stadium, it was the same site that the Hoosiers would set their school record 18-game home winning streak that year. With its NCAA finals loss still fresh in its memory, Indiana began its quest for the national championship that had evaded the Hoosiers in their first three attempts. Armando Betancourt, already a two-time All-American, was returning for his final season while both Iker Zubizerreta and Paul DiBernardo, the younger brother of Angelo, were starting promising careers. Zubizerreta didn t wait long to show his talent, scoring his first collegiate goal and Indiana s first of the season in a 2-0 win at 91

12 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 Vermont. His next goal would be the gamewinner in Indiana s next victory over Boston College, 1-0. But the third game of the East Coast swing saw IU run into Joe Morrone and Connecticut again, falling 3-1. Indiana opened up at home against its arch rival San Francisco, and although it wasn t for a national championship, the Hoosiers beat the Dons for just the second time in school history. Betancourt and McGauley, the two leading scorers in 1981, led IU to a 2-1 victory in overtime. The next three games all saw Betancourt and McGauley score at least once for the Hoosiers in a trio of victories over Akron (3-1), Purdue (6-0), and Southern Illinois- Edwardsville (3-2). The road Hoosiers were a different team though, as Indiana suffered its second loss of the season when it was shutout by Saint Louis, 1-0. All of IU s losses in the season would come on the road as it would finish the season with an 11-0 home record. But the short trip to St. Louis made IU realize just how it enjoyed its new home, as the return to Bloomington produced four straight wins. The first saw five different Hoosiers score, including senior Gregg Thompson, who scored his first career goal in a 6-1 win over Louisville. Indiana State-Evansville was the next victim for the Hoosiers as Betancourt scored two more. Sophomore Dave Boncek, who scored six Hoosier goals in 1980, scored his first of the year. In the Big Ten Classic against Illinois, the Hoosiers came up with another convincing win, defeating the Illini, 8-0 behind three more Betancourt goals, and a pair of scores from Tim Walsh. The box score of the contest against Michigan State looked like one from the late 70s as a DiBernardo scored a pair of goals. But this time, it was Paul who was making a name for himself while helping the Hoosiers advance to another Classic Title match. A 7-1 win over Bowling Green saw Betancourt, who set the school single-season record with 118 shots, score for the fifth straight game. Joe Schmid then saved the Hoosiers from a huge upset, scoring the lone goal at the end of the first half in a 1-0 victory over Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Another shutout of Marquette led to a late-season showdown with nemesis Cleveland State that hardly lived up to its billing. The Hoosiers dominated, winning 6-0 as Boncek continued to break out of his early season scoring drought with the gamewinner. Bill Armstrong Stadium opened in Results (20-3) - S.2 at Vermont W S.4 at Boston College W S.6 at Connecticut L S.13 San Francisco (OT) W S.20 Akron W S.22 Purdue W S.27 SIU-Edwardsville W O.2 at Saint Louis L O.4 Louisville W O.7 Southern Indiana W O.10 Illinois! W O.11 Michigan State! W O.14 at Bowling Green W O.17 at UW-Milwaukee W O.18 at Marquette W O.24 at Cleveland State W O.25 at Notre Dame W O.28 Ball State W N.1 Evansville W N.6 at Dayton W N.8 Wisconsin W N.22 Wisconsin W N.29 at Philadelphia Text. L ! Big Ten Classic, (Bloomington, Ind.) Big Ten Title Match (Bloomington, Ind.) A trip to South Bend resulted in a 2-0 win over Notre Dame as McGauley and Betancourt each scored for IU. The second-to-last regular season win came against Akron, improving the squad to Zubizerreta then scored the only goal of the Big Ten title match against Wisconsin, while Indiana outshot the Badgers, 28-4 to win its seventh straight Big Ten Classic Championship. Indiana s first-round opponent was no stranger, as IU faced Wisconsin once again. This marked the first time in school history the team would face the same opponent in consecutive matches. It worked to the Hoosiers advantage though, as Betancourt and Boncek each scored twice in the 5-1 victory. But once again, the Hoosiers would bow out early, as they were unable to muster any offense in the National Quarterfinals, losing to Philadelphia Textile, 1-0. The lone postseason bright spot for the Hoosiers would be Betancourt, who became IU s second Hermann Trophy winner after tying Robert Meschbach s records of 27 goals and 63 points set the previous year NCAA CHAMPIONS More than anything else 1982 may be remembered as the year that defied all logic for the Indiana soccer team. It was a year that the experts said the Hoosiers would fall from grace, and after the first two weeks of the season, it looked as though IU would prove the critics right. You can call it destiny or call it fate, but what was to follow was most certainly a miracle. Even head coach Jerry Yeagley had doubts about the success of his club. After all, 1981 Hermann Trophy Winner and Soccer America s Player of the Decade, Armando Betancourt, had graduated and the team was coming off an early exit from the. Then came a disastrous 1-3 start, as three overtime losses in the first four games dropped the Hoosiers out of the top 10 for the first week since As if Indiana didn t already have enough to deal with, it was announced that captain Pat McGauley, who had scored 40 points for IU in 1981 would miss the season with a broken leg. The season was looking bleak and the Hoosiers hopes of a national championship were almost gone. But, as if on cue, the magic words were spoken and the turning point of the season occurred. On Sept. 17, freshman John Stollmeyer and sophomore Paul DiBernardo, after the 3-2 overtime loss to San Francisco said, That will be the last loss of the season, we won t lose another one. 92

13 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY Only time would tell if their prediction would come true. In the first half of the USF game, DiBernardo scored, starting a streak of seven straight games in which he would tally a goal. While DiBernardo was busy doing the bulk of the scoring for Indiana, Chris Peterson and Chris Oswald were stopping Hoosier opponents from even making the games close. Starting with a 1-0 win at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, Peterson and Oswald helped the Hoosier defense shutout 10 of 11 straight opponents But there were times during the season when it seemed that fate was destined to knock the team down. At Akron, senior captain and runner-up for the Hermann Trophy Gregg Thompson, suffered a knee injury that would sideline him for the last half of the regular season. Almost lost in the mix was the Hoosiers eighth consecutive Big Ten Championship that was won on a DiBernardo overtime goal against host Wisconsin. But it was the NCAA tournament that will be remembered most. Evansville, the only team the Hoosiers failed to beat over their past 17 games, fell first to the Hoosiers, 1-0 in a downpour at the Soccer/Little 500 Stadium. Then the Hoosiers knocked off the team that ousted them the previous year, beating Philadelphia Textile, 2-0 behind goals from Dave Boncek and Zubizerreta. The semifinal match against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville would turn out to be nearly identical to the teams regular season bout. Indiana won again, 1-0 with Max Laxgang scoring the game-winner Results (21-3-1) - Then came one of the greatest contests in soccer history. Facing the previously undefeated Duke Blue Devils, Indiana took a 1-0 lead to the half on a Thompson goal. But then Thompson was forced to leave the game for the first of three times and Duke tied the score. In seven of the most memorable overtime periods, neither team was able to win the game, prompting NCAA officials to extend the overtime period to 10 minutes. It was there Thompson scored his second goal and completed the impossible. S.2 at Penn State (OT) L S.4 Alabama A&M (OT) L S.10 Marquette W S.15 at Fresno St. (OT) L S.17 at San Francisco (OT) L S.19 at Stanford W S.22 at SIU-Edwardsville W S.24 Notre Dame W S.29 Kentucky W O.2 Saint Louis W O.6 Purdue W O.8 at Akron W O.9 Ohio State! W O.10 at Michigan State! W O.13 Bowling Green W O.16 UW-Milwaukee W O.22 Cleveland State W O.27 at Louisville W O.31 at Evansville (OT) T N.1 at Southern Ind. W N.5 Dayton W N.7 at Wisconsin (OT) W N.21 Evansville W N.28 Philadelphia Textile W D.5 SIU-Edwardsville W NCAA Finals (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) D.11 Duke (8OT) W ! Big Ten Classic (East Lansing, Mich.) Big Ten Title Match (Madison, Wis.) Armando Betancourt captured the Hermann Trophy Award as the nation s best player in BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONS One of the toughest feats in sports is repeating a championship. Following an incredible eight overtime win over Duke that gave Indiana its first national championship in school history, the Hoosiers would be faced with the challenge of defending their title. The big question for IU was complacency. Head coach Jerry Yeagley, who became the only coach ever to play for and coach a national championship team, knew his squad had the talent to repeat. With nine starters returning and the other two spots being filled by starters on the 1980 NCAA runner-up team, Yeagley s lone worry was if they would be hungry enough to win again. Indiana, which had gone unbeaten in 21 straight games to cap off its championship season didn t last long before Penn State proved IU was not unbeatable. In fact, it was in their first game of the season that the Hoosiers fell to the Nittany Lions, 2-1. But on September 4, the Hoosiers 2-1 victory over George Mason would mark the beginning of history in the making. They followed up that win with two more against SIU-Edwardsville and Kentucky before hosting Duke in a rematch of the past year s final. The two teams, which needed 159:16 to decide a winner in 1982, couldn t claim a victor in this match. The Blue Devils were unable to erase the memory of the title match, tying IU, 0-0. As their tough schedule continued, the Hoosiers were set to face long-time nemesis San Francisco. Indiana s defense held the Dons to just four shots, while goals from Mike Hylla, Rodrigo Castro and Iker Zubizerreta gave IU the 3-0 win. The offense was just starting to kick in when the Hoosiers took on Northwestern and pulled off their first lopsided win of the year. Behind a hat trick from Pat McGauley and two goals each from Zubizerreta, Castro, and All-American John Stollmeyer, IU routed NU, Results (21-3-1) - S.4 at George Mason W S.9 SIU-Edwardsville W S.11 at Kentucky W S.16 Duke* (OT) T S.17 San Francisco* W S.23 Northwestern W S.25 at Notre Dame W S.28 Purdue W S.30 at Saint Louis (OT) T O.2 Ohio State W O.7 Akron (OT) T O.12 at Bowling Green (OT) W O.16 at UW-Milwaukee W O.22 at Cleveland State W O.26 Louisville W O.30 Evansville (OT) W N.3 at Dayton W N.5 Michigan State! W N.6 at Ohio State! W N.9 at Ala. A&M (OT) T N.13 at W N.20 Akron (OT) W N.27 Saint Louis W D.4 Virginia W NCAA Finals (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) D.10 Columbia (OT) W * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.)! Big Ten Eastern Tournament (Columbus, Big Ten Title Match (Madison, Wis.) 93

14 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 After a convincing shutout over Notre Dame (4-0) and an 8-0 drubbing of Purdue that saw both Hylla brothers score (Tim, and younger brother Mike), Indiana ran into another tough Saint Louis team, tying the Billikens, 2-2. Two games later, the Hoosiers would fail to score against Akron, but were able to hold the Zips scoreless as well for yet another tie. Indiana would have little trouble with its next three opponents, winning by a total score of The Hoosiers received a first-round bye, and in a rematch of an earlier regular season matchup, the second round saw the Hoosiers hosting Akron at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Indiana, which was unable to score in its first contest with the Zips, took the lead on a first-half own goal and scored the game-winner on a Mike Hylla overtime goal. The third round found more familiar opponents as Indiana took on Saint Louis. In steady rain, the Hoosiers played goals by Zubizerreta and Mark Laxgang into a 2-1 win. To reach the Final Four for the fifth time in eight years, Indiana needed to get past Virginia. After falling behind, 1-0, Laxgang scored two more goals and the team s leading scorer, Paul DiBernardo added a third, giving IU a 3-1 win and another title shot. For the second straight year, the Hoosiers would face an undefeated and untied team in the national championship game, and for the second straight year, the Hoosiers would be forced into overtime for a Hoosier record eighth time of the season. In typical Indiana fashion, a pesky Hoosier defense and Chris Peterson held Columbia scoreless, and in the second overtime, McGauley, who hadn t scored in nearly two months, sent a Castro pass into the goal for the 1-0 win and the first consecutive championships since San Francisco in The Hoosiers, in winning consecutive titles, did so with no true standouts. Their leading scorers each had just 11 goals, while the team set school marks for most assists (79) and corner kicks (207) in a season. With a solid core returning, Indiana would be looking for an unprecedented third straight championship THREE-PEAT FALLS JUST SHORT In its quest for an unprecedented threepeat, Indiana needed to replace four key starters, including three All-Americans. But as usual, head coach Jerry Yeagley recruited some of the nation s top players, including goalie Bruce Killough, who would start most of the Hoosiers games in The Hoosiers were also working on a 25- Manuel Gorrity and Paul DiBernardo combined to score 64 points in game unbeaten streak as they opened the 84 campaign in Las Vegas against San Diego State, and picking up where they left off, beat the Aztecs 2-1. In the finals of the Rebel Classic, IU knocked off host UNLV, 3-2. The Hoosiers returned home for the adidas-metlife Classic where they would face Virginia. Indiana was challenged by the Cavaliers, but a first-half goal by All- American John Stollmeyer gave the Hoosiers the 1-0 win. The finals paired Indiana against Clemson for the first time in school history as Yeagley was up against Clemson head coach I.M. Ibrahim, who had won over 200 games in his coaching career. In classic style, Yeagley won his 200th game as a varsity coach while taking the Classic Championship, 4-3. Two of the Hoosiers next four wins came over Northwestern and Notre Dame, as All- American Paul DiBernardo scored four goals. The wins didn t come without consequence though, as senior Max Laxgang broke his foot against Notre Dame and would be forced to sit out the bulk of the season. The loss of Laxgang took the wind out of the Hoosiers sails as IU tied Saint Louis 2-2 in a highly-touted matchup of two of the nation s top teams. Indiana pulled off three more mid-season wins, improving its unbeaten streak to 39 games as it headed home to host Cleveland St. In another close battle, Manuel Gorrity scored the lone goal in IU s 1-0 victory, leaving them three short of the NCAA record set by SLU in With pressure mounting, Indiana beat Evansville behind two Tim Hylla goals. IU then had to face SIU-E without DiBernardo, who was suspended for a game for a red card against Evansville. Gorrity scored in his 11th straight game as Indiana tied the record with a 1-0 win. Then came the record breaker. A Purdue team which had been outscored 64-1 in 10 previous losses to Indiana scored first but it would be all the scoring they would have. Hylla, Dan King, Rod Castro and Keenan all scored, giving IU 43 straight wins, a record that still stands in NCAA history. But the final weekend of the regular season saw the end of an era. In the Tampa Classic, IU knocked off Tampa, 3-1 before falling short by the same score to South Florida. It marked the end of their 46-game unbeaten streak that began September 4, With another first-round bye, the Hoosiers opened the NCAA tournament with Evansville, and they came back with a vengeance, beating the Aces, 5-0 while allowing just two shots. The quarterfinals saw IU blow a two-goal lead against Saint Louis, giving up two second-half goals. But Tim Hylla and Gorrity Results (22-2-2) - S.1 San Diego State& W S.2 at UNLV& W S.8 Virginia* W S.9 Clemson* (OT) W S.14 California@ W S.15 at San Francisco@ W S.21 at Northwestern W S.23 Notre Dame W S.28 Saint Louis (OT) T S.30 at Ohio State (OT) W O.3 Bowling Green W O.6 Akron W O.12 UW-Green Bay W O.14 UW-Milwaukee W O.21 Cleveland State W O.28 at Evansville W O.30 at SIU-Edwardsville W N.3 Purdue! W N.4 Michigan State! W N.7 at Wisconsin (OT) T N.9 at Tampa% W N.11 South Florida% L N.25 Evansville W D.2 Saint Louis W D.9 Hartwick W NCAA Final Four (Seattle, Wash.) D.16 Clemson L & Rebel Classic (Las Vegas, Nev.) * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, MetLife Classic (San Francisco, Calif.)! Big Ten Eastern Tournament (Bloomington, Ind.) Big Ten Title Match (Madison, Wis.) % Tampa Classic (Tampa, Fla.) 94

15 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY scored late for the Hoosiers, giving them a 4-2 win. With a chance to return to the title game for the sixth time in nine years, it seemed a Hollywood writer scripted the Hoosiers semifinal match. In an intense and exciting battle that was tied 1-1 after 70 minutes, senior Mark Laxgang played for the first time in over two months. But after reentering the match at the 67:15 mark, Laxgang sent a perfect pass to Mike Hylla who converted the game-winner. But just like the 46-game unbeaten streak, all good things must come to an end. After giving up a Clemson goal at the 78:46 mark, IU miraculously evened the score on a DiBernardo goal just five minutes later. But with just 1:42 left in regulation, the Hoosiers gave up the game-winner, preventing them from becoming the first to win three straight championships TIME TO RELOAD After reaching the Final Four in 1984, the Hoosiers looked to once again reach the finals of the collegiate soccer world in Indiana also was looking to continue its streak of 20-win seasons which stood at five entering the season. Both of those marks remained hopes as the team finished overall and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The season began with a convincing 5-0 victory at Hartford before the Hoosiers returned home to host the adidas-metlife Classic. As with all of the season-opening Classics at Indiana, some of the nation s top teams were here to compete at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Indiana fell to Clemson in the first game, 3-2, and then lost to UCLA, 1-0, to find themselves 1-2. A trip to Duke followed the next weekend as the Hoosiers tried to get back above the.500 mark with games against North Carolina State and Duke. But disaster struck again as the team lost to the Wolfpack, 3-2, and Blue Devils, 2-0. Indiana returned to Bloomington looking for answers and a 1-4 record. Things picked up over the next two weekends as the Hoosiers defeated Ohio State and Notre Dame by identical 4-0 scores to inch closer to the.500 mark. An 8-1 victory over Purdue the next week put the Hoosiers at 4-4 before a game at Saint Louis. The Boilermakers were no match for IU as the Hoosiers pounded out 39 shots and attempted 15 corner kicks, both of which were season-highs. The defense tightened its reins during the three-game winning streak as it allowed just Results (12-9-1) - S.1 at Hartford W S.6 Clemson* L S.7 UCLA* L S.13 N.C. State& L S.15 at Duke& L S.20 Ohio State W S.22 at Notre Dame W S.25 Purdue W S.27 at Saint Louis L S.29 SIU-Edwardsville W O.4 Akron W O.9 at Bowling Green (OT) T O.11 at UW-Green Bay W O.13 at UW-Milwaukee W O.18 at Cleveland State W O.20 Marquette W O.27 Evansville L N.3 Michigan State W N.9 at Fla. Intern.% L N.10 Fresno State% L N.16 Akron W N.24 at Evansville L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Duke Classic (Durham, N.C.) % McDonald s Classic (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) 13 shots and the goalkeepers were forced into just five saves. The Billikens proved to be rude hosts as they defeated IU, 2-1. While that loss dropped the Hoosiers to 4-5, it would prove to be the last loss for the team for almost a month. The Hoosiers returned home after that Friday game with Saint Louis to defeat SIU- Edwardsville, 3-2. A win over Akron the next week put the Hoosiers at 6-5 and over the.500 mark for the first time since they started the season with a victory. The Hoosiers managed a 3-3 tie in the next game at Bowling Green. The Falcons had 14 shots, while IU had 12 in the closely-played game. It would be Indiana s only tie of the season. The non-losing streak continued as the Hoosiers swept a three-game road swing with victories over Wisconsin-Green Bay, Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Cleveland State by a combined 7-1 margin. During these three games, Indiana had 47 shots while the opponents had just 21. The streak would continue for just one more game, however, as the Hoosiers defeated Marquette at Bill Armstrong Stadium 2-1 to run the non-losing streak to seven games. It was snapped a week later as the Aces of Evansville came into Bloomington and won, 3-0. Indiana had more shots than UE (12-10) as well as more corner kicks and less saves but it was the Aces night to win. Indiana s final regular season win would come against Michigan State by a 4-0 score in Bloomington. In the first two tournaments the Hoosiers played, they lost both games to quality opponents. To finish the regular season IU played in the McDonald s Classic in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., against Florida International and Fresno State as it tried to reverse the trend in tournaments that had started earlier in the season. However, the results were the same as they lost to FIU, 2-1, and to Fresno State, 1-0. That left the Hoosiers with an record heading into the. The first game was against Akron at Bill Armstrong Stadium and the result was almost the same as it had been earlier in the year as IU won, 2-0. The season came to an end the next week as Evansville defeated the Hoosiers, 3-0, in Evansville to end IU s hopes of returning to the Final Four. Chris Keenan was IU s leading scorer on the season with 12 goals and four assists for 28 points. John Stollmeyer was right behind him with 27 points which included a teamhigh nine assists RELOADING PROCESS CONTINUES If there ever was a year that was uncharacteristic of the Indiana soccer program, it was It had been 10 years since the Hoosiers failed to make the NCAA Tournament, and this season would be a battle to the finish as IU tried to keep the streak alive. The Hoosiers opened up the season in the adidas-met Life Classic against South Carolina, and the final score would be indicative of the type of season it would be. John Johnson scored the lone goal for Indiana as it fell to the Gamecocks, 2-1. In their next match, the Hoosiers tied Virginia, 1-1, in a physical battle that saw five yellow cards issued and Indiana commit 31 fouls. Indiana s third game was its first win, as the Hoosiers knocked off Notre Dame, 2-0, behind goals from Johnson and Pete Stoyanovich. Bruce Killough and Matt Olson shared the shutout, one of seven Hoosiers shutouts on the season. The Big Ten season began early as the team traveled to East Lansing to take on Michigan State. Behind goals from Barry Margolin, Stoyanovich and Johnson, the Hoosiers made it 45 straight games against Big Ten foes without a loss by beating the Spartans, 3-1. With a winning record and some confidence, IU continued winning with a 2-0 victory over Bowling Green. Rod Castro, the team s leading point-scorer, had both Hoosier goals. It was then off to Columbus 95

16 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 for more of the same. Olson recorded the 2-0 shutout while Castro and Herb Haller provided the offense on two second-half goals. In its third straight shutout, IU s offense came to life with five unanswered goals including two in the first seven minutes. Stoyanovich had a pair of goals while Margolin, Johnson and Sean Shapert each netted scores in the 5-0 win. At 5-1-1, the Hoosiers thought they would be ready for Saint Louis, but despite outshooting the Billikens, they were down 3-0 when Castro scored with 2:32 remaining for the final margin. They bounced back quickly though with a 5-0 win over Miami (Ohio). Shapert recorded his first career hat trick, which included the 1,000th goal in Hoosier history. As the Hoosiers continued battling for a tournament berth, they traveled to Buchtel Field in Akron and were held scoreless again. Akron scored with just four seconds left in the first half and that was all the Zips needed to hold off the Hoosiers, 1-0. Two straight wins against Wisconsin- Milwaukee and Green Bay put the squad back on the right track as David Carlson scored in both Hoosier victories. With a record, IU was still in the hunt to make the tournament, but with seven games left it could not afford to lose any more. Against Cleveland State, the Hoosiers got a much-needed win with Margolin and Stoyanovich providing the punch again for the Hoosiers in the 2-0 victory. With many more victories necessary to sway the tournament committee, the Hoosiers held off on celebrating. Little did they know, it would be their last chance to do so in A Hoosier squad that set a record low for Results (9-6-4) - S.5 South Carolina* L S.6 Virginia* (OT) T S.12 Notre Dame W S.14 at Michigan State W S.19 Bowling Green W S.21 at Ohio State W S.24 Cincinnati W S.28 Saint Louis L O.1 Miami (Ohio) W O.5 at Akron L O.10 UW-Green Bay W O.12 UW-Milwaukee W O.17 Cleveland State W O.19 at Marquette (OT) T O.24 at Clemson& L O.26 American& (OT) T N.2 at Evansville (OT) T N.7 Florida Intern.% L N.9 at Tampa% L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Clemson-Umbro Invite (Clemson, S.C.) % Tampa Classic (Tampa, Fla.) John Trask, who later became an assistant coach at IU, was a senior on the 87 team. goals scored in a season with 35 (later to be broken by the 1995 Hoosiers), began to hit the scoring drought that was expected all year. Unfortunately, it came at the worst time, as the Hoosiers needed wins desperately. Despite scoring early, the Hoosiers found themselves tied against Marquette at the end of regulation. A Marquette goal nine minutes into overtime had the Hoosiers season flashing before their eyes, but Chris Keenan salvaged the loss with a last minute goal, tying the game and keeping IU s hopes alive. With wins needed in the Clemson Invitational, the Hoosiers came up short to the host Tigers, 3-1. Stoyanovich and Keenan saved two more Hoosier losses with late goals against American and Evansville, but Indiana s tournament hopes were fading fast. A season-ending trip to Florida turned out to be the end of the road, as the Hoosiers dropped back-to-back contests to Florida International and Tampa, leaving them with the only team in school history to fail to reach double figures in victories. It was the first time since 1975 the team didn t make the tournament, and just the third time in 32 years of Indiana soccer ( ) RETURN TO EXCELLENCE After consecutive disappointing seasons, 1987 would be the rebirth of Indiana soccer. Among the freshmen on the squad were Ken Snow and Juergen Sommer, two of the best players at their respective positions that Indiana soccer has ever seen. Also returning for the Hoosiers were juniors Pete Stoyanovich and Sean Shapert, as well as senior John Trask. With their talented and balanced squad, Indiana opened the season against South Carolina in the adidas-metlife Classic with shades of 1986 darkening the day. Despite a Stoyanovich goal, IU fell to the Gamecocks, 3-1. But against Southern Methodist, Snow made his presence known, scoring the first two goals of his illustrious Indiana career, en route to a 2-1 Hoosier win. As usual, Indiana continued beating up on Big Ten opponents by defeating Michigan State, 6-0. Shapert scored a pair of goals and had his first of a single-season recordsetting 18 assists. But the still inconsistent Hoosiers ran into an undefeated Notre Dame squad and fell, 3-2. Against Ohio State, five different Hoosiers scored, including Trask s first career goal. The 5-0 win came in Sommer s second start ever, as the walk-on recorded his first career shutout. To that point, Snow had not yet begun to show what he could do. The team s top scorer had five goals in the first six games, and with two more in a 3-1 victory at Bowling Green, he already had more than the past year s team leaders, eventual National Football League (NFL) star Stoyanovich and John Johnson. Stoyanovich netted the game-winner against Akron in a 1-0 win that marked the last time in nearly a month that Snow would Results (18-3) - S.4 South Carolina* L S.5 SMU* W S.11 Michigan State W S.13 at Notre Dame (OT) L S.16 Memphis State W S.18 Ohio State W S.20 at Bowling Green W S.25 Akron W S.27 at Saint Louis W S.30 Miami (Ohio) W O.3 Seton Hall& (OT) W O.4 Wake Forest& W O.7 Northwestern W O.9 Marquette W O.16 at Cleveland State W O.18 SIU-Edwardsville W O.25 Evansville W O.31 San Diego State% W N.1 at UCLA% W N.8 Wisconsin W N.22 Clemson L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Kenny Kent/Aces Classic (Evansville, Ind.) % UCLA-MetLife Classic (Westwood, Calif.) 96

17 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY not score at least two goals and Shapert not record an assist. On September 27, Indiana traveled to St. Louis to face the Billikens. Snow netted a pair of goals, while freshman and St. Louis native Chris Sciortino scored his first career goal. IU returned home to face Miami (Ohio), and the team routed the Redskins, 8-0. Snow, Sciortino and senior Paul Kapsalis each scored twice while Stoyanovich assisted on three goals and Ken Godat on two. The 8-2 Hoosiers had previously unbeaten Seton Hall to deal with next, and the teams played to a 1-1 tie in regulation, before Snow and Han Roest scored in the first overtime to give Indiana a 3-1 lead. Seton Hall would score in the second overtime, but IU held on for the win. Riding a seven-game winning streak, Indiana faced Wake Forest and the deadly combination of Snow and Shapert came through again in Bruce Killough s second shutout, 4-0. From there, it was back to Bloomington to face Northwestern, and Indiana disposed of the Wildcats easily, 7-0. Stoyanovich and Snow each scored twice while Shapert had two assists. Seven was the lucky number again for the Hoosiers, as they scored five second-half goals in a 7-0 win over Marquette. IU had now won nine in a row. Against Cleveland State, Snow scored his usual pair of goals, but this time it was Marc Behringer that stole the show. The senior more than doubled his career output with a hat trick in Indiana s 6-2 win. Once again, Freshman of the Year Snow knocked in a pair of goals in a 3-0 win over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, as the Hoosiers reclaimed the No. 1 ranking in the nation. Roest s early goal against Evansville prevented an upset just five days after taking the nation s top spot, as the Hoosier defense held strong in a 1-0 win. It was the first time in eight games that neither Snow nor Shapert got on the board for Indiana. The team left for Los Angeles on Halloween to face San Diego State in the MetLife Classic, with IU beating the Aztecs, 3-2. In the finals, Snow s first goal came on Shapert s record-setting 17th assist of the year, while his second of the game and 27th of the year was the winner, 2-1. Snow s record-setting 28th goal of the season came against Wisconsin as the Hoosiers beat yet another Big Ten team. But the Big Ten title would be the last celebrating they would do, as a 2-1 comeback upset at the hands of Clemson in the second round of the tournament snapped a record-tying 16-game winning streak while leaving the nation s top team nothing short of stunned THIRD NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP While 1987 was the year that helped put Indiana soccer back on the map, it was the 1988 season that made it the nation s soccer capital. With the nation s leading scorer, All- American Ken Snow, returning alongside IU s single-season assist leader Sean Shapert and one of the country s best goalkeepers and defense, the Hoosiers expected big things from As if the previous season s early exit from the was not enough motivation, the 1988 Final Four would eventually wind up being held at Armstrong Stadium. The pieces were in place the only question was if the squad would be able to put them together. Indiana began to answer that question in the annual adidas-metlife Classic against North Carolina and UCLA, and though it was only September, it was snowing in Bloomington. Ken Snow, that is, who after tallying 61 points in 1987, scored all four IU goals in the pair of wins. Following a tie at Notre Dame, IU repeated the past season s 6-0 performance against Michigan State Both Shapert and Snow scored against Akron, but it was junior sweeper Jim Crockford with the game-winner. The win improved the Hoosiers to as they played host to Saint Louis. In a clash of weather against the Billikens, Sommer and Snow came together as the sophomore striker recorded a hat trick while his classmate Sommer recorded another shutout, 3-0. The still undefeated Hoosiers faced Santa Clara, and in overtime, the Broncos became the only team of 1988 to score more than one goal against IU. The goal in the extra period gave Santa Clara a 2-1 win and handed the Hoosiers their first defeat of the year. After dropping its second straight game to George Washington, IU rebounded with a 3-0 win over Northwestern. IU then knocked off Marquette, 1-0, with Sommer and a defense led by Matt Isger getting the win. In what might be categorized as the most physical game in Hoosier history, Indiana literally battered its next opponents to a 2-1 win. Against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, IU recorded 44 fouls including five yellow cards while the Panthers also committed 27 fouls. Snow, the eventual Hermann Trophy winner and Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year, recorded his second hat trick of the year in a win over Cleveland State. After Evansville snapped the Hoosiers five-game winning streak, IU came back to beat Wisconsin, 2-0, making it 57 straight unbeaten games against Big Ten opponents. IU then closed out the regular season with ties against Stanford and South Carolina, leaving the ninth-ranked Hoosiers with a few questions as to what lay ahead. But after a first-round bye, IU seemed up to the challenge, as it drew Boston in the second round and quickly disposed of the Terriers, 3-1. Crockford then tallied the winning goal in the 3-1 quarterfinal win over Seton Hall the next weekend. The victory put IU in a position to host the Final Four, and a late night call from the NCAA Soccer Committee made it official Indiana University would serve as the site. Indiana had allowed only 11 goals on the season to date, but its semifinal opponent Portland had allowed just six. The defensive battle lived up to its billing, but Simon Katner scored at the 43:38 mark on a deflected shot by Snow giving the Hoosiers a 1-0 victory. So the stage was set. IU would face Jerry Yeagley s Hoosiers won a third National title on their home field at Bill Armstrong Stadium in

18 HOOSIER HISTORY Results (19-3-3) - S.2 North Carolina* W S.3 UCLA* W S.9 Notre Dame (OT) T S.11 at Michigan State W S.14 Northern Illinois W S.16 Bowling Green W S.18 at Ohio State W S.23 Akron W S.25 Saint Louis W S.27 Miami (Ohio) W S.30 Santa Clara& (OT) L O.1 G. Washington& L O.6 at Northwestern W O.8 at Marquette W O.9 UW-Milwaukee (OT) W O.14 Cleveland State W O.16 at SIU-Edwardsville W O.29 at Evansville L O.30 Wisconsin W N.4 Stanford! (OT) T N.6 at S. Carolina! (OT) T N.20 Boston W N.27 Seton Hall W NCAA Final Four (Bloomington, Ind.) D.3 Portland W D.4 Howard W * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Kenny Kent/Aces Classic (Evansville. Ind.) Carolina-MetLife Classic (Columbia, S.C.) Howard at home with the national championship on the line. In front of 5,168 Hoosier fans, Shapert converted a penalty kick to give IU a 1-0 lead. But Sommer broke his nose, forcing Matt Olson to preserve the win for 28 minutes. Olson and the IU defense did just that, and Indiana was national champion for the third time in school history ANOTHER TRIP TO THE FINAL FOUR The team of the 80s entered its final year of the decade with a few question marks. Head coach Jerry Yeagley had to replace his entire midfield from the national championship squad. The team that had advanced to five Final Fours in nine years would have to face a tough schedule that found the second-ranked Hoosiers opening the season in the adidas-metlife Classic against the top team in the nation. But the Hoosiers wasted the early opportunity, falling to Virginia, 1-0 before tying No. 13 Saint Louis. Ken Snow picked up where he left off, scoring the lone goal against the Billikens and the game-winner in the Hoosiers first win of the season, a 1-0 victory over Stanford. With a little shuffling, Yeagley found his winning combination, and Indiana was off and running. His new midfielder, freshman Chad Deering scored, as did senior forward Sean Shapert in a 2-0 win over San Francisco and the NCAA s all-time winningest coach at the time Steve Negoesco. Against Ohio State, two more freshmen stepped into the spotlight. Matt Coyer scored the IU s first goal, while Steve Snow, Ken s younger brother, scored his first career goal. Indiana then traveled to Bowling Green where it knocked off the Falcons, 2-1. IU then played host to Harvard, and the elder Snow took over. After Steve Snow scored first for Indiana, Ken recorded a first half hat trick, with two of the assists coming from his brother. He added another late goal, giving the family 12 points in the game and a 7-2 win. Both Snows scored again in wins over Notre Dame and Michigan State, while Shapert scored twice in a 3-1 victory over Marquette. The team was beginning to mesh, as it had won nine straight heading into a match at home with Cincinnati. Then, against the Bearcats, third team All- American Deering scored twice while both Snow brothers added scores to win, 4-1. IU continued rolling as it came out gunning against Wisconsin-Milwaukee, winning 3-1 as junior Matt Isger scored his first career goal. Indiana, which had fallen behind early to the Panthers and Harvard earlier in the year, did the same against SIU- Edwardsville before Deering knocked in two more to lead the Hoosiers to a 5-1 win. In clobbering Miami (Ohio), 8-0, Shapert recorded three assists including his recordbreaking 40th as a Hoosier. Indiana then made it 60 straight unbeaten contests against Big Ten teams when it came back from another early goal to tie Wisconsin, 1-1. The stage was now set for the showdown with Great Lakes Region rival Evansville at Bill Armstrong Stadium. IU was ranked fifth in the nation while Evansville was ranked fourth. Tempers flared early, with three Aces being red-carded in the first half, allowing the Hoosiers to coast to a 4-0 win. Ken Snow recorded yet another hat trick en route to his third straight All-American season. Victories over George Mason and Florida International at the Southern Bell Classic in Miami saw Ken Snow tally six points including two goals in the second game. Entering the as the No. 3 team in the nation, the Hoosiers received a firs-round bye. But their second-round opponent was out for revenge, as they would face the same Howard squad they had defeated to win the national championship in Indiana was up to the challenge and was able to thwart Howard s offense once again, winning by the same score, 1-0. The lone goal came from Steve Snow on an assist from Ken Snow Results (18-2-2) - S.2 Virginia* L S.3 Saint Louis* (OT) T S.9 Stanford& W S.10 at San Francisco& W S.13 Northern Illinois W S.15 Ohio State W S.17 at Bowling Green W S.24 Harvard W S.29 at Notre Dame W O.1 Michigan State W O.6 Marquette W O.8 UW-Milwaukee W O.13 Cincinnati W O.15 SIU-Edwardsville W O.18 Miami (Ohio) W O.22 at Wisconsin (OT) T O.29 Evansville W N.3 George Mason% W N.4 at Fla Intern.% W N.18 G. Washington W N.26 Howard W NCAA Final Four (Piscataway, N.J.) D.2 Santa Clara L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & adidas-metlife Classic (San Francisco, Calif.) % Southern Bell Classic (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) But after jumping out to a 2-0 lead on Santa Clara with two Steve Snow goals, the Broncos scored twice to tie the score at the intermission. Two more second half goals beat IU, 4-2, as Indiana gave up four goals for just the fourth time in school history SEASON OF ACHIEVEMENTS The 1990 Indiana soccer campaign became one of fulfillment, achievement and near magic. For openers, a disastrous 0-2 start was followed by a 16-game unbeaten streak. Ken Snow became the school s alltime leader in goals and points and captured his second Hermann Trophy and Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year award. It marked the second year that Snow had won both national player of the year awards in the same year. Goalie Juergen Sommer was named the adidas Goalkeeper of the Year. Head coach Jerry Yeagley became the sixth Division I coach to reach the 300-win mark. The Hoosiers and their six senior starters came within one win of appearing in their third consecutive Final Four. The win that wasn t meant to be came on a windy November afternoon in Evansville, Ind., where the top-ranked Aces ended the Hoosiers season with a 1-0 victory in front of over 3,000 fans. The Aces dominated the first half, out-shooting the Hoosiers, 5-1. The one that really counted came at the 22:57 mark when midfielder Tim Ernst scored from 12-yards out. 98

19 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY The second half was a reversal of fortunes for both teams as the Hoosiers outshot the Aces, 5-1. But several golden opportunities went by the wayside and the Hoosiers closed out the season at The Hoosiers headed into the season with nine starters returning from their 1989 Final Four squad and a No. 7 national ranking. Who could argue with a team that boasted the likes of All-Americans Ken Snow and Chad Deering up front and three-year starter Juergen Sommer in goal? But questions arose from the outset, when the Hoosiers season began with a trip to the Las Vegas Classic and matches with third-ranked and eventual national champion UCLA and No. 18 UNLV. These games turned into mismatches as the Hoosiers returned home 0-2 after losing 3-0 to the Bruins and 2-0 to the Rebels. The road didn t get any easier with No. 2 Virginia and San Francisco at the adidas- MetLife Classic in Bloomington. After a 2-2 tie with USF, the Hoosiers desperately needed a win against Virginia to get things turned around. In a steady downpour, freshman Mirsad Bubalovic took a pass from Deering and scored from four yards out to break a 1-1 tie and give the Hoosiers their first win of the season. That win would get the Hoosiers going and they would go on to win 11 straight and go to close out the regular season. It began with a pair of 4-1 wins over Bowling Green and Ohio State Results (16-4-2) - S.1 UCLA& L S.2 at UNLV& L S.7 San Francisco*(OT) T S.8 Virginia* W S.14 Bowling Green W S.16 at Ohio State W S.21 Akron (OT) W S.23 at Saint Louis W S.30 at Michigan St. (OT) W O.3 Cincinnati W O.6 at Marquette W O.7 at UW-Milwaukee W O.12 at Cleveland State W O.14 Miami (Ohio) W O.17 at No. Illinois (OT) T O.19 Northwestern W O.21 Wisconsin (OT) W O.27 Penn State% W O.28 at South Carolina% L N.10 UW-Milwaukee W N.17 Saint Louis W N.25 at Evansville L & UNLV Classic (Las Vegas, Nev.) * adidas-met Life Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) % MetLife Soccer Classic (Columbia, S.C.) Ken Snow became a two-time National Player of the Year in Indiana then survived two tests by defeating Akron, 2-0, and national power Saint Louis, 2-1, on the road. The Hoosiers then escaped East Lansing with a 2-1 overtime win over Michigan State, extending their winning streak to six and keeping the Big Ten unbeaten streak intact at 63. In the 3-1 win over Cincinnati, Snow became the school s all-time leading scorer with a goal at the 57:08 mark. He scored again later in the game to give him the alltime points lead at the school. The win was also Yeagley s 300th win making him only the sixth coach at the Division I level to reach that milestone. The Hoosiers embarked on a three-game road trip and won each of the games by the same, 2-1, score at Marquette, Wisconsin- Milwaukee and Cleveland State to give them a 10-game unbeaten streak. After easy wins over Miami (Ohio) and Northwestern, Indiana put its 63-game unbeaten streak on the line against always tough Wisconsin. The Hoosiers had escaped Madison with a 1-1 tie in 1989, and it would not be any easier in After 109 minutes of scoreless play, Snow tallied the contest s only goal four minutes into the second overtime to extend the streak to 64. After defeating Penn State 2-1 at the South Carolina adidas-metlife Classic, the Hoosiers fell to the host Gamecocks, 2-1, to finish the regular season with a loss. Indiana easily defeated Wisconsin- Milwaukee in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 5-1, and then took care of Saint Louis, 2-1, before losing to Evansville to conclude the season. Although the Hoosiers were denied a third consecutive trip to the Final Four, six Hoosier seniors closed out their collegiate careers with a great deal to remember. For those six, the past four years included an NCAA title, a record, and numerous milestones, both as a team and individually BIG TEN SOCCER BEGINS Heading into the 1991 season, head coach Jerry Yeagley wondered where he would get his scoring from as his opening day lineup contained five freshmen. The question of scoring was quickly resolved as Indiana defeated Butler, 5-0 behind two goals from Blake Rodgers. Indiana posted another shutout in its second game as it beat Louisville, 3-0 and found a starting goalkeeper in junior college transfer, Andre Luciano. The road got tougher for the Hoosiers as they faced West Coast power Stanford in their opening game of the adidas-metlife Classic at Bill Armstrong Stadium. Indiana held on for a 2-2 tie as Luciano made what turned out to be a season-high nine saves. The Hoosiers then made Big Ten history as they faced off against Penn State in the first-ever conference game, as soccer became a Big Ten sport for the first time in The Nittany Lions looked to end the Hoosier 64-game unbeaten streak against Big Ten opponents as they jumped out to a 1-0 lead. Then freshman Todd Yeagley took over. He scored two goals in 10 minutes to give the Hoosiers a 2-1 lead. Penn State fought back with 15 minutes remaining, but Todd Yeagley was the MVP of the Big Ten Tournament as a freshman in

20 HOOSIER HISTORY Results (19-3-2) - A.30 at Butler W S.1 at Louisville W S.6 Stanford* (OT) T S.8 Penn State* W S.13 Cleveland State W S.15 Ohio State W S.20 at Akron W S.22 Saint Louis W S.27 at Notre Dame (OT) W S.29 Michigan State W O.5 Quincy& (OT) T O.11 UW-Milwaukee W O.13 at Bowling Green W O.18 at Northwestern W O.20 at Wisconsin L O.25 Illinois State (OT) W O.27 Marquette W N.1 at Yale L N.3 at Harvard W Big Ten Tournament (Bloomington) N.9 Penn State W N.10 Wisconsin (OT) W N.24 Wisconsin W D.1 SMU (OT; PK s) W NCAA College Cup (Tampa, Fla.) D.6 Santa Clara L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Saint Louis Classic (St. Louis, Mo.) Yeagley came through once again. He netted his third goal of the game at 75:14 and walked away with the Tournament s Most Valuable Player award. Indiana then strung together six straight wins to move to on the season and climb to fourth in the national rankings. After a tie to Quincy, the Hoosiers rallied for three more wins to pull to on the season. In the four-game span, Indiana defeated ninth-ranked UW-Milwaukee and Bowling Green and moved up to second in the polls. They also upended Northwestern, 8-0 as Yeagley set a school record with four assists. The Hoosiers Big Ten unbeaten streak was on the line when they traveled to Madison to face Wisconsin. The game remained scoreless after 20 minutes, but that all changed after a loose ball collision awarded the Badgers a penalty kick that they converted to take the lead. The score stayed that way until the final horn went off, putting an end to the 68-game unbeaten streak. But the Hoosiers would get revenge not once, but twice. The Hoosiers played host to the first-ever Big Ten Tournament. After a first-round bye, IU faced Penn State and jumped out to a 2-0 lead behind goals from Joel Russell and Wane Lobring and held on for a 4-2 victory. In the first Big Ten title match, IU and Wisconsin played to a 0-0 score after 45 minutes, but at the 61:10 mark, Ward scored to give the Hoosiers the 1-0 lead. Craig Ginsberg added an insurance goal 15 minutes later, and Indiana was the first Big Ten soccer champion. The Hoosiers did indeed earn a No. 1 seed in the and with it, a first-round bye. Indiana opened tournament play against none other than Wisconsin. The teams went scoreless for 90 minutes, and in the first overtime, Matt Coyer broke the tie with Lobring adding a second goal to give the Hoosiers the 2-0 shutout. Indiana then faced SMU with a trip to Tampa and the Final Four for the victors. This game was to be decided in overtime as the two teams ended regulation tied at zero. The Hoosiers scored twice in the two overtimes and looked to be on their way to Tampa. But the Mustangs fought back, scoring twice in the final six minutes to send the game into sudden death. Neither team could score in the two 15-minute periods and after 150 minutes of soccer, the game would be decided on penalty kicks. Mike Clark, Rodgers, Mike Anhaeuser and Coyer each scored for the Hoosiers and with the penalty kicks tied 4-4, Steve Keller stepped up and knocked in the game-winner, sending IU to the Final Four. The unexpected success came to an end in the national semifinals against Santa Clara. The Broncos ended IU s season with a 2-0 victory in front of 3,225 fans in Tampa, Fla. The experienced Broncos dominated the young Hoosier squad, out-shooting it YOUNG GUNS FALL JUST SHORT The 1992 season marked the 20th anniversary of soccer as a varsity sport at Indiana and even though the season did not begin the way the Hoosiers would have written it, when it ended Indiana was just one step away from making its 10th Final Four in those 20 years. The Hoosiers found themselves with a mark after their first 12 games, but turned things around and stayed unbeaten in their next 11 games before losing in the NCAA quarterfinals, 2-0, to San Diego to finish the season The season began with the annual adidas-metlife Classic in Bloomington and the Hoosiers lost the first game to Duke in front of over 3,000 fans. It was the first loss at Bill Armstrong Stadium since 1989, a span of 36 games. UCLA, which had defeated Notre Dame in its first game, used a late goal to hand Indiana its second loss of the season. It was the first time in seven years that an Indiana team had lost consecutive games at home. The Hoosiers got on the winning track in Indianapolis as they defeated Butler, 3-0, as Brandon Ward scored and Brian Maisonneuve added two more for the final score. The shutout over the Bulldogs was a sign of things to come for the Hoosiers as Kentucky fell victim to Indiana s new found offense. The Hoosiers defeated the Wildcats, 6-0, as six different Hoosiers scored. Goalkeeper Andre Luciano increased his scoreless streak in the net to 270 minutes as he led the Hoosiers to a 1-0 victory over Akron to push the Hoosiers over the.500 mark at 3-2. The Hoosiers were ranked 6th in the nation and travelled to St. Louis to play the Billikens ranked seventh. Indiana found itself involved in its sixthstraight shutout but on the low end as Saint Louis scored twice in the first half to beat the Hoosiers. But Indiana bounced back and posted three consecutive victories including two shutouts to improve its record to 6-3. Indiana then made a trip to Penn State to face the Nittany Lions on the road for the first time since the school became part of the Big Ten. Happy Valley proved to be the opposite for the Hoosiers as they lost 3-1 in overtime. It marked the third time in as Results (14-6-4) - S.5 Duke* L S.6 UCLA* L S.10 at Butler W S.13 Kentucky W S.18 Akron W S.20 at Saint Louis L S.25 Notre Dame W S.30 Louisville W S.27 at Michigan State W O.2 at Penn State (OT) L O.9 at UW-Milw. (OT) T O.11 Bowling Green L O.16 Wisconsin (OT) T O.18 Northwestern W O.20 at Evansville W O.23 Illinois State W O.25 at Ohio State W O.30 San Francisco& (OT) T N.1 at Fla Intern.& (OT) T Big Ten Tournament (Bloomington, Ind.) N.7 Ohio State W N.8 Penn State W N.15 at Evansville W N.22 Washington W N.29 at San Diego L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Fla International Classic (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) 100

21 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY many tries that the Hoosiers had lost at Penn State. Indiana then suffered its worst loss of the season to Bowling Green with the top spot in the Great Lakes Region on the line. The Falcons broke a 1-1 tie in the second half to win 2-1 and claim the top spot. Then things turned around for the Hoosiers as they tied Wisconsin 0-0, but Coach Yeagley made a key change in the lineup that proved to be pivotal later in the season. Ernie Yarborough replaced Luciano in the goal and he responded with the shutout tie against the Badgers. Luciano returned against Northwestern and the Hoosiers responded with an 8-0 victory over the Wildcats. Indiana posted a 1-0 win over Illinois State but John VanBuskirk and Todd Yeagley went down with knee injuries. VanBuskirk s injury kept him out the rest of the season and Yeagley s cost him four games. The Hoosiers went in its final three regular-season games before winning the conference tournament, 2-1, against Penn State at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The Hoosiers made a return trip to Evansville to start the and came away with a 4-1 victory. The game also marked the return of Yeagley. Indiana returned home to face Washington in the second round. Goals by Matt Coyer and Brian Maisonneuve gave the Hoosiers a 2-0 lead they would not give up and advanced to the quarterfinals. The 11-game unbeaten streak would come to an end, as well as the season, at San Diego. The two teams played scoreless soccer for over 80 minutes with the Hoosiers owning the best scoring chances but USD scored twice in the last 10 minutes for the 2-0 win. Yeagley earned second team All- American honors. He, along with Maisonneuve and Blake Rodgers, also earned first team all-conference honors as well COACH OF THE YEAR As the 1993 season progressed the Hoosiers looked primed to make their 10th trip to the Final Four in the last 21 seasons. But, the season came to an unexpected end as the Hoosiers dropped two of their last three games, including a 1-0 loss to Wisconsin in the NCAA Regional finals. The season began with the adidas- MetLife Classic. The Hoosiers won their season-opener, 1-0, over UNLV on a goal by Harry Weiss. But, Indiana lost game two to Rutgers, 1-0, and Notre Dame went on to win the Classic. The eighth-ranked Hoosiers made their first road trip of the season as they went to the Duke Classic where they faced North Carolina State and Duke. Weiss and Chris Casaburo scored against N.C. State to give the Hoosiers a 2-0 win over the sixth-ranked Wolfpack to set up a championship game with Duke. The second-ranked Blue Devils jumped out to a 1-0 lead 27 minutes into the first half and the score stayed that way until the 55th minute when Weiss scored his third goal of the season. Steve Keller then scored with less than 10 minutes to play to give the Hoosiers the 2-1 win. Indiana then travelled to Akron and won 4-0 for a 3-1 record on the season. The shutout was a sign of things to come for goalkeeper Scott Coufal, as he rattled off three more shutouts in victories over Saint Louis (3-0), Notre Dame (3-0) and Michigan State (2-0). After those wins, the Hoosiers traveled to South Bend for the Notre Dame Classic. The Hoosiers opened the tournament with a conference game against Penn State and posted a 4-1 win as Weiss and Maisonneuve each netted goals. Indiana met South Carolina and won the tournament with a 1-1 tie. Indiana then flexed its offensive muscles as it netted 38 goals in its final eight games to stretch its unbeaten streak to 16 and improve to on the season. The Hoosiers won 6-0 at home over Wisconsin- Milwaukee. The Hoosiers then began a four-game road trip at Bowling Green and posted a come-from-behind 5-2 win. IU trailed 2-1 at the half but scored four times in the final 45 minutes for the win. The Hoosiers traveled to Wisconsin for a matchup between the top two teams in the conference. IU broke a 1-1 tie with two goals in the final 12 minutes of the first half and went on to the 5-1 victory. Indiana, now overall and 3-0 in the Big Ten, looked to stay unbeaten in conference play when it traveled to Northwestern. The Hoosiers continued their domination over NU with a 6-2 victory. Yeagley led the way with a goal and three assists. The Hoosiers closed out the road trip at Illinois State. The Redbirds took a 1-0 lead at the 16:00 mark but Maisonneuve tied the score in the 22nd minute. Goals by Weiss and Steve Keller in the second half gave the Hoosiers a 3-1 win. IU beat Ohio State, 7-0, to finish the conference season at 5-0 and then won at South Florida and beat the College of Charleston to close the regular season at Indiana rode an eight-game winning streak into the Big Ten Tournament where it owned the top seed. The Hoosiers were upset by Penn State 1-0 in the semifinals to Results (17-3-1) - S.4 UNLV* W S.5 Rutgers* L S.10 N.C. State# W S.11 at Duke# W S.17 at Akron W S.19 Saint Louis W S.24 at Notre Dame W S.26 Michigan State W O.1 Penn State& W O.2 South Carolina& (OT) T O.8 UW-Milwaukee W O.10 at Bowling Green W O.15 at Wisconsin W O.16 at Northwestern W O.22 at Illinois State W O.24 Ohio State W O.29 at South Florida% W O.31 Charleston% W Big Ten Tournament (Madison, Wis.) N.6 Penn State L N.15 Memphis W N.21 Wisconsin L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) # Duke Classic (Durham, N.C.) & Notre Dame Classic (South Bend, Ind.) % South Florida Classic (Tampa, Fla.) prevent Indiana from winning the Big Ten title for the third consecutive season. Indiana entered the 32-team field as the top seed and faced Memphis in the first game at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The Hoosiers wasted little time showing the country why the NCAA believed they were one of the top teams in the nation. They scored three goals in each half for a 6-0 victory. The six goals were an record for the Hoosiers. The Hoosiers then played Wisconsin in the regional finals. The two teams played earlier in the year and IU had won 5-1. Chad Cole scored in the first half for UW and that was all it needed as goalkeeper Tim Deck held the Hoosiers scoreless. The loss was only the second in 31 home tournament games for IU. Indiana had five first team all-conference performers with Maisonneuve earning Co- Player of the Year honors and Jerry Yeagley was named Coach of the Year 1994 THE NATION S BEST The 1994 season was one of titles, trophies and awards. The Hoosiers became the first team in Big Ten history to win both the regular season and tournament titles. The team finished the regular season No. 1 in the nation, with Brian Maissoneuve and Todd Yeagley each winning National Player of the Year awards and head coach Jerry 101

22 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 Yeagley earning National Coach of the Year honors. The only thing missing was a national championship. That dream came up just short with a 1-0 loss to Virginia in the national championship game. However, this Indiana team will long be remembered as one of the finest collegiate soccer teams of all-time. The season began as the Hoosiers hosted the annual adidas-metlife Classic. All four teams IU, South Carolina, North Carolina and Saint Louis were ranked in the top 15 and the teams lived up to their advanced billing. Indiana defeated South Carolina, 1-0, in the opener but then dropped a 2-1 decision to North Carolina. Before the largest crowd, at the time, to ever see a collegiate soccer game in St. Louis, the Hoosiers played a ball-control game on the astroturf and staked their claim to the No. 1 ranking with an impressive 4-0 victory. After a few near misses by Clemson, the Hoosiers took charge and came away with the 3-1 victory. After the victory, Indiana returned home and defeated Notre Dame, 2-0, before starting the conference season just two days later at Michigan State. Once again, the Hoosiers brought out a record crowd and sent them home disappointed as they clipped the Spartans, 2-0. With a firm grip on the top spot in the nation, the Hoosiers next faced No. 6 Penn State on the road. Hardy quieted a crowd of almost 5,000 early in the first half when he beat a pair of defenders and scored on a breakaway in the 13th minute. Maisonneuve s penalty kick in the 69th Brian Maissoneuve was the Big Ten Player of the Year in 1993 and Results (23-3) - S.3 South Carolina* W S.4 North Carolina* L S.9 Miami (Ohio) W S.11 at Kentucky W S.16 Akron W S.18 at Saint Louis W S.21 Clemson# W S.23 Notre Dame W S.25 at Michigan State W S.30 at Penn State W O.2 Drake W O.6 at Butler W O.9 Bowling Green W O.14 Wisconsin W O.16 Northwestern W O.21 at Evansville W O.23 at Ohio State W O.28 CS Fullerton& (OT) L O.30 at UCLA& W Big Ten Tournament (Columbus) N.11 Wisconsin W N.13 Penn State W N.20 Notre Dame (OT) W N.27 Creighton W D.4 Cal State Fullerton W NCAA College Cup (Davidson, N.C.) D.9 UCLA W D.11 Virginia L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) # Game of the Week (Davidson, N.C.) & UCLA Classic (Los Angeles, Calif.) minute gave the Hoosiers some insurance as they went on to the 2-1 victory. Indiana had revenge on its mind as the Badgers came into Bill Armstrong Stadium. It was Wisconsin who had come down to Bloomington the year before and knocked the Hoosiers out of the. Goals by Bannister and Ginsberg took care of the revenge as IU won, 2-0. A 1-0 victory at Ohio State gave the Hoosiers a perfect 5-0 mark in conference play, a 16-1 mark overall, and the Big Ten regular season championship. The Hoosiers winning streak stood at 15 games as they headed west for their final regular season play the UCLA MetLife Classic. The Hoosiers met Cal State Fullerton in the first game of the tourney. The game was tied, 2-2, at the end of regulation and Indiana was going into overtime for the first time in But the Hoosiers gave up an early goal in overtime and lost to the Titans, 3-2. Two days later, IU regrouped and stung the fourth-ranked host Bruins, 2-0 on goals by Yeagley and Maisonneuve. The Hoosiers had a week off before going back to Columbus for the Big Ten Tournament. A 1-0 semifinal victory over Wisconsin set up another showdown with Penn State for the conference title. Indiana would not be denied as it defeated the Lions, 3-1 to become the first team to win both the regular season and tournament. Next up was the NCAAs and IU earned the No. 1 seed for the second straight year. After a pair of hard-fought 1-0 wins over Notre Dame and Creighton, IU was set to face Cal State Fullerton. The game was scoreless at halftime, but Bannister put the Hoosiers up 1-0 early into the second half. Then Caleb Porter scored, giving Indiana a much-needed goal in the 2-1 victory. In the semifinal match, the Hoosiers played perhaps their finest game of the year as they dominated UCLA, 4-1, to win. The stage had been set for a showdown with Virginia in the national championship match. But that was the end of the Hoosiers incredible run, as an early goal stood up, denying the Hoosiers their fourth national championship, RELOADING ONCE AGAIN The 1995 soccer season at Indiana was a learning process for Jerry Yeagley and his team as nine new starters took the field in early September for the Hoosiers. Results were mixed as the season went on. But in the end IU tied for the Big Ten Tournament championship and finished the season ranked No. 8 in the country. The season began on a high note at the adidas-metlife Classic. The Hoosiers showed signs of things to come as they tied North Carolina State 1-1 and then defeated No. 2 Boston University 2-0 to claim the tournament title. Good luck continued for the Hoosiers as they won their next game 1-0 in overtime at Rutgers in front of more tahn 5,000 fans. Flying high after that emotional win, Indiana returned home to face Kentucky, a team it had never lost to in four previous matches. This game also played to a 0-0 score in regulation but this time it was the opposition that scored in overtime. Indiana s offensive woes continued the next week at Akron. The Hoosiers managed only eight shots against the Zips and won just 1-0 on an Akron own goal which was credited to Rolando Carrascosa. Things looked bleak for the young Hoosiers as they had to face nationallyranked Saint Louis at home just two days later. However, strong goalkeeping by Coufal and a goal by Scott Merritt gave the Hoosiers a 1-0 victory. Indiana won its third straight game with a come-from-behind performance. Notre Dame jumped out to a 2-0 lead. But, the team battled back cutting the deficit in half by the break on a goal by Tommy Keenan. Jeff Bannister scored in the 65th minute and 102

23 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY Results (14-5-2) - S.2 N.C. State (OT)* T S.3 Boston Univ.* W S.8 at Rutgers (OT) W S.10 Kentucky (OT) L S.15 at Akron W S.17 Saint Louis W S.22 at Notre Dame (OT) W S.24 Michigan St. (OT) W S.29 Penn State L O.1 at Miami (Ohio) W O.6 Butler (OT) W O.8 at Bowling Green L O.13 at Wisconsin L O.15 at Northwestern W O.20 Evansville (OT) T O.22 Ohio State W O.27 vs. Charlotte# W O.29 at Florida Intern.# W Big Ten Tournament (East Lansing, Mich.) N.10 vs. Northwestern W N.11 vs. Penn State W N.19 Butler L *adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) #FIU Southern Bell Classic (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) the game went to overtime. It didn t take long for Indiana to take the lead as Lazo Alavanja scored just five minutes into overtime and Weiss added an insurance goal for a hard-fought 4-2 victory. The offense struggled in a 1-0 OT win over Michigan State. The victory left the Hoosiers with a record. Penn State, like Notre Dame, jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead after 14:00 but this time the Hoosiers could not overcome the Lions as they managed just eight shots in a 2-1 loss at home. After a 3-1 win at Miami (Ohio), the Hoosiers hosted Butler, another team that had never beaten them. It was the same story as Indiana managed just 10 shots in regulation but Alavanja ended a 0-0 tie with a goal from eight yards out in the 105th minute. Consecutive road losses at Bowling Green (2-1) and Wisconsin (2-0) marked the first time since the beginning of the 1990 season that the Hoosiers had lost back-toback games. Northwestern proved to be the right tonic as the offense returned in a 7-0 victory. A 2-2 overtime tie against Evansville put the Hoosiers at Alavanja once again saved the team, scoring the tying goal with just under four minutes left to play in regulation. The regular season was to finish in Miami against Charlotte and host Florida International. Victories in each of the games were imperative to wrapping up an NCAA berth. The Hoosiers jumped out quickly on the 49ers with goals by Alavanja and Merritt in the first 25 minutes to take a 2-0 lead. The defense held UNCC in check allowing just eight shots in the game for the 2-1 victory. Weiss scored just three minutes into the Florida International game for a 1-0 Indiana lead and in the end IU held on for the 1-0 win. Indiana entered the Big Ten Tournament as the third seed and beat Northwestern in the first round, 2-1. The second day of play was cancelled due to poor weather and it was decided the winners of the two semifinal games would be declared co-champions of the league. To earn a share of the title, Indiana would have to avenge a loss earlier in the season to Penn State. The game was tied at 1-1 in the second half when goals by Bannister and J.T. Cerroni gave Indiana a 3-1 victory and a share of the conference championship. Butler was to be the Hoosiers first-round opponent in the at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The Hoosiers outplayed the Bulldogs holding them to just five shots while having nine of their own as well as nine corner kicks. However, when time ran out Butler had won 1-0 to finish the Hoosiers season at YEARS OF EXCELLENCE The 1996 season might best be described as one of what ifs for the Indiana soccer team. The biggest if was the health of Dema Kovalenko. The exciting forward was on fire in the early portion of the season scoring 10 goals in the first eight games before suffering a displaced tendon in his right ankle which required surgery and missing the remainder of the season. To the other players credit, they took up the offensive slack left by Kovalenko s absence to post a Big Ten championship and advance to the national quarterfinals of the before losing a tough 1-0 decision at Florida International. Many said, however, if the Hoosiers had Kovalenko they just might have ended up with the program s fourth NCAA title. The season started with a disappointing 1-0 loss to UCLA in the opening game of the adidas-metlife Classic. Looking for better play the next evening, Indiana was tied with Duke, 0-0, at halftime before a heavy thunderstorm canceled the remaining portion of the game. So the Hoosiers would have to wait another week to get their first win. They did so against Marquette and then tied UAB in the Fort Wayne Soccer Classic. The entire team seemed to get on track Caleb Porter was a three-time All-Big Ten selection from 1995 to over the next few weeks in a pair of home wins against Akron and Notre Dame. After Michigan State got out to a 1-0 lead, it was Dema Kovalenko to the rescue again as he scored in the 55th minute to tie the game and then once again in overtime to give the Hoosiers a hard-fought 2-1 win. Indiana traveled to Penn State where the Hoosiers had not won before in four tries. The game went to overtime tied at Results (15-3-3) - S.7 UCLA (OT)* L S.14 vs. Marquette (OT)# W S.15 vs. UAB (OT)# T S.20 Akron W S.27 Notre Dame W S.29 at Michigan St. (OT) W O.4 at Penn State (OT) T O.6 Miami W O.10 at Butler W O.13 Bowling Green L O.18 Wisconsin W O.20 Northwestern W O.24 at Kentucky W O.27 at Ohio State W N.2 at Charleston& W N.3 vs. South Carolina& W Big Ten Tournament (University Park, Pa.) N.16 at Penn State T N.17 vs. Michigan State W N.24 Evansville W D.1 Bowling Green W D.8 at Florida Intern. L * adidas-metlife Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) # IPFW-Three Rivers Classic (Ft. Wayne, Ind.) & Charleston Classic (Charleston, S.C.) 103

24 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 before Kovalenko put the Hoosiers ahead in the 97th minute. The victory seemed to be in the bag but with 14 seconds left, PSU s Frederick Guster scored for a 1-1 tie. Two days later Kovalenko was injured in the game against Miami (Ohio) as the Hoosiers won 4-0. He did, however, score before getting hurt to run his scoring streak to seven consecutive games. Without Kovalenko, the Hoosiers prepared to play at Butler, the team which had eliminated them from the the year before. It appeared it might be the Bulldogs night after Craig Donaldson scored in the 18th minute to take a 1-0 lead. The Hoosiers scored three times in the final part of the first half on goals from Lazo Alavanja, Aleksey Korol and Yuri Lavrinenko to take a 3-1 halftime lead and never looked back for a 6-1 win. The victory over Butler brought IU s nonlosing streak to eight games. That came to an end against Bowling Green as the Falcons won 2-0 in Bloomington. The game at Kentucky was the first at UK s new soccer stadium and the Hoosiers jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the fourth minute on a goal by Scott Merritt and won 5-3. The Hoosiers defeated Ohio State to win the Big Ten regular-season title as Caleb Porter s goal at the 7:58 mark proved to be the game-winner. The Big Ten Tournament started against Penn State on their home field. The game Yuri Lavrinenko earned All-Big Ten honors in was similar to the regular season matchup as the game was tied 1-1 at the end of regulation and IU won on penalty kicks. The Hoosiers went on to win the conference tournament with a 4-0 victory over Michigan State. Evansville was Indiana s first opponent in the. IU won 4-1 in Bloomington. Joey Cavallo scored in the 37th minute and Lavrinenko scored in the second half for the 2-0 victory over Bowling Green in the second round. Perhaps one of the best games of the season came in the national quarterfinals at Florida International. The game was 0-0 at halftime as Coufal made five saves in the first 45 minutes against a tough-attacking FIU squad. He continued to make point-blank saves in the second half before the Panther s scored in the 77th minute. Mario Pino s corner kick found the head of Jorge del Corral and he re-directed the ball to the right post. Fadeski tried desperately to clear the ball off the line as he just barely got a foot on the ball, but it sailed into the netting on the left side of the goal NEAR PERFECTION The 1997 Indiana soccer season was one of the best ever by a collegiate soccer program. The Big Ten champions entered the NCAAs with a perfect 20-0 record, which is the best start in school history. Butler was the first opponent on the Road to Richmond and proved to be a formidable opponent. The Hoosiers scored early as Lazo Alavanja connected on a long shot in the ninth minute for the 1-0 lead. The game appeared headed for a conclusion with that score until Butler s Craig Donaldson scored in the 82nd minute to tie the game and send it into overtime. Indiana s Matt Fundenberger ended the suspense with a header off a crossing pass from Nick Garcia in the 124th minute to win the game 2-1. The Hoosiers rolled through the regional final with a dominating 4-0 victory over Bowling Green and then defeated South Florida 6-0 in the National Quarterfinal. With the victory, the Hoosiers were on the way to their 11th Final Four. The record was 23-0 and things looked bright for a fourth national title as IU was about to face UCLA in the national semifinal. In the 132nd minute, UCLA s McKinley Tennyson found himself six yards out in front of the goal with the ball at his feet off a rebound. With IU goalkeeper T.J. Hannig just off his line, Tennyson kicked the ball over his head. Convincing wins were commonplace during the season and that was the way the year began with a 4-0 victory at Notre Dame Results (23-1) - S.2 at Notre Dame W S.5 Rutgers* (OT) W S.6 Clemson* W S.12 vs. N.C. State% W S.13 at Duke% W S.20 vs. Bowling Green& W S.21 vs. Rhode Island& W S.25 Kentucky W S.28 Michigan State W O.3 Penn State W O.5 at Miami (Ohio) W O.9 Butler W O.12 Evansville (OT) W O.17 at Wisconsin W O.19 at Northwestern W O.26 Ohio State W O.31 vs. Stanford# W N.2 at California# W Big Ten Tournament (Bloomington, Ind.) N.15 Penn State W N.16 Ohio State W N.23 Butler (3 OT) W N.30 Bowling Green W D.7 South Florida W NCAA College Cup (Richmond, Va.) D.12 vs. UCLA (3 OT) L * adidas-foot Locker Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) % Duke adidas Classic (Durham, N.C.) & Butler Classic (Indianapolis, Ind.) # California Classic (San Francisco, Calif.) Indiana returned home to host the annual adidas Classic with the first game coming against Rutgers. The Hoosiers had to rally from three onegoal deficits to win 4-3 in overtime. The Hoosiers got back on track in the second game against Clemson as they made the most of nine shots winning 3-0. Indiana then played at the Duke adidas Classic and defeated North Carolina State and Duke. The Hoosiers were now 5-0 and had won two tournament titles. The Butler Classic was next on the schedule as IU tried to make it three in-season tournament titles. IU beat Bowling Green and Rhode Island for the third title. The Hoosiers then opened league play against Michigan State at Bill Armstrong Stadium. The result was another shutout as the Hoosiers won 3-0. In one of their most dominating games of the season, the Hoosiers knocked off Penn State 2-0 in their next game. Why so dominant? Well, Indiana did not allow the Lions a shot. The shutout streak reached four as the Hoosiers defeated Miami (Ohio), 4-0. The Hoosiers finished off the conference season with a perfect 5-0 mark following a 2-0 victory over Ohio State. It was out to the West Coast for a show- 104

25 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY down with No. 2 Stanford and something was going to have to give. The Hoosiers came into the match as the highest scoring team in the nation and Stanford came into the game having allowed just five goals all season. Fundenberger broke through in the 77th minute with a header off a cross from Andrew Parrish to give the Hoosiers the 2-1 victory. Two days later, the Hoosiers defeated Cal, 3-1, to win their fourth tournament title of the season. The Hoosiers finished the regular season 18-0 which was the first time in 25 years the team had accomplished a perfect regular season. Indiana began the defense of its Big Ten title in Bloomington with a semifinal match against Penn State. While it would have been hard for the Hoosiers to hold the Lions without a shot this time, they almost did in a 4-0 victory. Penn State had only two shots and T.J. Hannig did not have to make a save. The Hoosiers would then play Ohio State for the conference championship. On a cold, windy day, Nick Garcia scored in the 21st minute for the game s only goal to make IU Big Ten Champions for the sixth time in seven years FOUR-TIME NCAA CHAMPS There was a look of vindication on Indiana head coach Jerry Yeagley s face as he sat on the podium after his Hoosiers had beaten Stanford, 3-1, for the national championship. It was just one year before and Yeagley was in the same place, in the same city, in the same media tent, answering questions after Indiana lost a heart-breaking triple overtime national semifinal game to UCLA, 1-0. This time there was no disappointment, just elation, as the Hoosiers had won their fourth national title in the 26-year history of the program Yeagley had built into the finest in the nation. But before it started, the Indiana soccer program was playing for something more than a chance for a national title. During the summer of 1998, the program lost a dear friend in Bill Armstrong. The man for whom Indiana s stadium is named for and the team s No. 1 fan passed away. The team honored him throughout the season by wearing a patch on their sleeves and dedicated the season to Army. Before the season began, the Hoosiers were the team to beat. Coming off a season where they were 23-1, Indiana began the season ranked No. 1. The quest for the national championship Results (23-2) - S.4 Charleston* W S.5 California* W S.11 vs. FlU% W S.12 at SMU% L S.16 Miami (Ohio) W S.18 vs. C. Florida& W S.20 vs. Jacksonville& W S.25 Louisville W S.27 at Michigan State W O.2 at Penn State (OT) W O.8 at Butler W O.11 at Evansville (OT) W O.16 Wisconsin W O.18 Northwestern W O.21 at Kentucky W O.25 at Ohio State (OT) W O.30 vs. LMU# W N.1 at UCLA# L Big Ten Tournament (Evanston) N.14 vs. Wisconsin W N.15 vs. Penn State (OT) W N.22 Akron (OT) W N.29 Butler (OT) W D.6 at Clemson W NCAA College Cup (Richmond, Va.) D.11 vs. Santa Clara W D.13 vs. Stanford W * adidas Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) % SMU Classic (Dallas, Texas) & Butler Classic (Indianapolis, Ind.) # UCLA Soccer Classic (Los Angeles, Calif.) began at home in the annual adidas Classic. Indiana was to play the College of Charleston and California. The Hoosiers got a taste of what was to come later in the season as they went to overtime in the first game against C of C. IU outplayed the Cougars throughout the game but could not score. Yuri Lavrinenko ended the suspense in the 100th minute with a goal off a re-start for the 1-0 victory. Overtime was not in the cards against the Golden Bears as freshman Ryan Mack scored in the fourth minute. Dema Kovalenko added another late in the game for a 2-0 victory. After SMU snapped Indiana s 31-game regular season unbeaten streak Indiana won 13 consecutive games. While that is a great achievement, it did it in great style, as it allowed just two goals during this stretch. The win streak came to an end in the Hoosier s final regular-season game of the year against arch-rival UCLA at its own Classic. So the Hoosiers finished the regular season at 16-2, but now it was time for the real campaign to commence. The Hoosiers walked off the field in Evanston, Ill., with their seventh Big Ten title in eight years with wins over Wisconsin and Penn State. It was then time to wait for the NCAA tournament pairings. Yeagley and his troops assembled to watch the announcement but then were surprised to find out they were the No. 8 seed in the tournament after being ranked No.1 in the polls for the season. The Akron Zips were the first opponent in the tournament and they proved to be a worthy opponent as it took overtime before Indiana posted a 3-2 win. It took overtime once again as the Hoosiers needed extra time to knock off Butler in the second round. The 2-1 victory gave the Hoosiers a 7-0 record in overtime games in The victory set up a national showdown between then top-ranked Clemson and the Hoosiers, who were then No. 2, in South Carolina on an unseasonably warm December afternoon. Indiana responded and got a pair of goals from Korol to post a 2-1 victory. It was now back to the Final Four and a matchup with Santa Clara in the national semifinals. The national semifinal was no contest as Indiana posted a 4-0 win behind two more Korol goals. Korol scored one more time in the championship game as the Ukranian Connection (Korol, Kovalenko, Lavrinenko) each scored a goal of their own en route to a 3-1 national championship victory BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONSHIPS Indiana staked its claim to the title Team of the 90s as the Hoosiers closed out the decade with back-to-back NCAA crowns in Dema Kovalenko scored 40 points during IU s 1998 national title season. 105

26 HOOSIER HISTORY and The 1999 championship was the fifth in the school s history and the Hoosiers 21 wins on the season gave them 185 during the 1990s, more wins than any other program in the millennium's final decade. The Hoosiers quest to defending the crown that they had won in 1998 began slowly as Indiana won just one of its first three games. Aleksey Korol s goal lifted Indiana to a 1-0 season-opening win over Maryland in front of 4,726 fans at Bill Armstrong Stadium, the sixth-largest crowd ever and the largest in Bloomington since Indiana then dropped a 1-0 decision to Saint Louis at home and fell to Yale 2-1 in the Brown/adidas Classic. But, the Hoosiers responded and would not lose again until the final regular season game of the year stringing together 13 straight wins. The winning streak began with a 5-0 victory at Brown as Tyler Hawley led the way with a pair of goals. The winning continued away from home as the Hoosiers posted wins in Indianapolis defeating Fresno State, 2-1, on a game-winner from Korol, and knocking off TCU, 1-0, with Korol netting the lone score. Matt Fundenberger and Pat Noonan both Results (21-3) - S.3 Maryland# W S.5 Saint Louis# L S.11 vs. Yale$ L S.12 at Brown$ W S.17 vs. Fresno State^ W S.19 vs. TCU^ W S.23 at Louisville W S.26 Michigan State W O.1 Penn State W O.7 Butler W O.10 Evansville W O.15 at Wisconsin W O.17 at Northwestern W O.20 Kentucky W O.24 Ohio State W O.29 at FIU (OT) W O.31 vs. James Madison L Big Ten Tournament (East Lansing, Mich.) N.13 vs. Northwestern W N.14 vs. Penn State W N.21 Kentucky (OT) W N.28 Washington W D.5 Penn State W NCAA College Cup (Charlotte, N.C.) D.11 vs. UCLA (4OT) W D.12 vs. Santa Clara W # adidas Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) $ Brown/adidas Classic (Providence, R.I.) ^ Nike/Snickers Soccerfest IV (Indianapolis, Ind.) scored in a 2-0 victory at Louisville and Indiana won its first conference game with a 2-0 decision at home against Michigan State. Penn State ended the shutout string at three, but not the win streak. Noonan, Fundenberger, Korol and Yuri Lavrinenko each found the back of the net to give Indiana a 4-2 victory over one of its toughest Big Ten foes. Indiana put together another streak of shutouts after knocking off Penn State as the Hoosiers did not allow a goal in their next four games, outscoring the opposition Korol netted a hat trick in a 5-0 victory over Butler and was one of five Hoosiers to score in a 6-0 win over Evansville. Ryan Mack tallied a pair of goals in the win over the Purple Aces. Korol extended his scoring streak to four games when he scored in a 2-0 victory over Wisconsin. Korol s personal streak came to an end against Northwestern, but Lavrinenko s goal secured a 1-0 victory for Indiana. The winning ways continued with a 4-2 win against Kentucky and then the Hoosiers locked up the Big Ten regular-season crown with a 2-1 victory over Ohio State. Fundenberger was the hero against Kentucky tallying his second career hat trick and Korol once again netted the gamewinner against Ohio State. Indiana closed out the regular season at the Florida International Bell South Classic. The Hoosiers handled host FIU, 1-0, and once again Korol provided the lone goal. But then, just as it had happened to close out the 1998 season, Indiana dropped its final regular season game, this time 2-0 to James Madison. The Hoosiers enjoyed a week off before beginning their quest for an eighth Big Ten crown. Indiana received a first-round bye and then faced Northwestern in the semifinals. Lavrinenko and Korol provided the offense as Indiana moved onto the championship with a 2-0 victory. Korol netted both goals, including one in the second overtime to give Indiana a 2-1 victory over Penn State and its eighth Big Ten crown in nine seasons. The next week it would take overtime again and Korol s heroics once again as this time he scored against Kentucky to give Indiana a 1-0 win in the first round of the NCAA Championship. The next two weeks saw two more shutouts and three more goals from Korol as Indiana defeated Washington, 2-0, and Penn State, for the third time, 3-0. The three victories over Penn State marked the first time that an Indiana team had ever beaten the Aleksey Korol paced Indiana with 50 points in same opponent three times in one season. It was on to the College Cup for the 13th time in Indiana s history. The Hoosiers would face UCLA in the semifinals and after four overtimes, Mack sent the Hoosiers to the championship game as his goal gave Indiana a 3-2 victory. The championship game displayed the defensive strength of the Hoosiers led by Nick Garcia as Indiana posted a 1-0 victory over Santa Clara in front of 15,439 fans in Charlotte, N.C. Lavrinenko scored the lone goal to earn offensive MVP honors, while Garcia was named defensive MVP. Both Garcia and Lavrinenko, along with Korol were honored as All-Americans following the season and that trio was joined by Fundenberger on the All-Big Ten first team. Korol was named the conference s Player of the Year and Soccer America s National Player of the Year. Both he and Garcia were finalists for the Hermann Trophy. Garcia finished second in the voting. Korol led the Hoosiers in scoring 20 goals and 50 points. T.J. Hannig tallied a 14-2 mark in goal and owned a 0.52 goals against average on the season TRIP 14 TO THE COLLEGE CUP From the early going, critics and fans alike believed 2000 would be a rebuilding year for Indiana soccer. With only three seniors on the team, much was left to be determined. When the Hoosiers suffered 106

27 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY two straight losses to open the season, it looked as if the fears were confirmed. The team struggled to find places on the field for all the new and young faces. As the season went on, a defensive player scheme fell into place. Junior transfer Josh Rife developed his defensive skills, becoming the starting sweeper. Freshman David Prall used his aggressive, scrappy playing style to help sophomore John Swann and Rife in holding opponents to only 22 goals on the season. Junior All-American and Big Ten Player of the Year Ryan Mack controlled the midfield. Mack led the team and the conference in assists with 12. Grabbing the ball off Mack feeds were sophomore forward Pat Noonan and senior Matt Fundenberger. The combination netted 23 of the team s 42 goals and also added eight assists. The Hoosiers would have to endure another blow to the already veteran-lacking team. Senior keeper T.J. Hannig suffered a lateral meniscus tear causing him to miss the majority of the season. After seeing only 20 minutes of action in 1999, junior Colin Rogers became the starting goalie. Rogers first start came against the then-thirdranked Nittany Lions where he posted eight saves in the Hoosier s 3-2 victory. From that point on, Rogers led the team to a Results (16-7) - S.1 Portland# L S.2 UCLA# L S.8 at Maryland$ (OT) W S.10 vs. Virginia$ W S.13 IUPUI W S.15 vs. Creighton^ L S.17 vs. Fla. Inter.^ W S.21 Louisville W S.24 at Michigan State W S.30 at Penn State W O.6 at Butler W O.8 Michigan W O.13 Wisconsin W O.15 Northwestern W O.18 at Kentucky W O.22 at Ohio State W N.4 vs. Stanford% (OT) L N.5 vs. California% L Big Ten Tournament (Columbus, Ohio) N.13 at Ohio State L N.18 vs. San Jose State W N.25 at Washington W D.2 at UNC W NCAA College Cup (Charlotte, N.C.) D.8 vs. Creighton (3OT) L # adidas Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) $ Maryland Soccer Classic (College Park, Md.) ^ Butler Classic (Indianapolis, Ind.) % Cal-Berkeley Soccer Classic (Berkeley, Calif.) Ryan Mack earned Big Ten Player of the Year accolades in record heading into the. In the first round of Indiana s 25th tournament bid, a tourney-confident team snapped San Jose State s 25-game unbeaten streak in explosive style, routing the Spartans 4-0. The Hoosiers returned to the West Coast the following weekend for a bout with the Washington Huskies. Indiana overcame the Huskies, 2-1, and prepared to meet the topseeded North Carolina Tarheels in the quarterfinals. Against the offensive-minded Heels, IU held them to their first goal-less game of the season, grabbing a 1-0 victory and a fourth consecutive trip to the College Cup. The semifinals featured the Hoosiers against the Creighton Bluejays. Revenge floated through Hoosier minds as early in the season the Bluejays handed Indiana a 4-1 defeat, the worst loss in the program s history. The match would need triple overtime to determine a winner. A Bluejay goal early in the third extra session in the semifinal round of the College Cup marked the conclusion of Indiana s "rebuilding year." 2001 JOURNEY TO A 15TH COLLEGE CUP The start of the 2001 season did not peg the Hoosiers as a College Cup contender. Indiana suffered the loss of All-American midfielder Ryan Mack when he tore his ACL during the summer months and was forced to take a medical redshirt. Highly-touted freshman Ned Grabavoy was the Hoosiers hope to replace Mack, so when he broke his second, third, and fourth metatarsals on the first day of practice, the question marks remained. The adidas/iu Credit Union Classic opened the season for the Hoosiers and Indiana suffered its first loss of the season to a strong St. John s squad, 2-1. IU responded with a 1-0 double overtime win over Kentucky on a header by John Swann. Following the Classic, the 1-1 Hoosiers headed out West where they had achieved much success in 2000 on the road to the College Cup. The young Indiana team came up with a big 1-0 victory over the No. 2 Washington Huskies and turned some heads in the Hoosiers direction. In the title game of the Portland Classic, the hosts scored an early goal, defeating IU, 1-0. Despite a 2-2 start, IU got things headed in the right direction with a 7-match winning streak. Indiana put offensive concerns to rest, opening up the attack with four goals at Louisville. One of the most important combinations on the team came alive in obvious fashion. All-America forward Pat Noonan scored two goals against the Cardinals, both assisted by freshman forward Mike Ambersley. The two had reunited in the Cream and Crimson after working together up top at DeSmet Jesuit in Ballwin, Missouri. The Hoosiers returned home for the first time since the Classic to host their Big Ten Results (18-4-1) - A.31 St. John s * L S.1 Kentucky * (2OT) W S. 8 vs. Washington & W S.9 at Portland & L S.20 at Louisville W S.23 Michigan State W S.28 Penn State W O.4 Butler W O.7 at Michigan W O.12 at Wisconsin W O.14 at Northwestern W O.17 Notre Dame L O.20 Ohio State W O.26 at Rutgers W O.28 at Princeton T N.4 IUPUI W Big Ten Tournament (Madison, Wis.) N.9 vs. Michigan (3OT) W N.11 vs. Michigan State W N. 25 Michigan State W D.2 Rutgers W D.9 Clemson W College Cup (Columbus, Ohio) D.14 vs. St. John s (2OT) W D.16 vs. North Carolina L *adidas/iu Credit Union Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) &Portland Classic (Portland, Ore.) 107

28 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 Colin Rogers collected 16 shutouts, had an 0.40 goals-against average and was an Academic All- American in season opener and blanked Michigan State, 3-0. IU continued on through the Big Ten, as Penn State picked up an early goal but it went unnoticed as the Hoosiers followed up with three scores of their own. While the wins were coming, another milestone in Hoosier soccer was also approaching. Head coach Jerry Yeagley won his 500th career game as IU shutout Butler, 3-0, on goals from Ambersley, Noonan and Swann. Indiana headed out for a three-game road trip in the Big Ten, stopping at Michigan first. Ambersley put his name in the Hoosier record books, netting a hat trick against the Wolverines for a 3-0 Indiana victory. The Hoosiers then turned in dominating performances with 4-0 and 3-0 wins over Wisconsin and Northwestern, respectively. Notre Dame halted the Hoosiers sevengame win streak, tallying a goal in the 50th minute of play to upset Indiana, 1-0. With three games remaining in the regular season, Indiana wasted little time getting back on track. The Hoosiers closed out yet another perfect conference season with a 1-0 victory over Ohio State. Traveling East, Indiana got a big 1-0 win over the Rutgers Scarlet Knights and played to a 1-1 tie with a tough Princeton Tiger squad. The Indiana Hoosiers headed to the Big Ten Tournament in Madison, Wis., as the No. 1 seed. After garnering Big Ten Freshman of the Year (Mike Ambersley), Player of the Year (Pat Noonan), and Coach of the Year (Jerry Yeagley) honors, Indiana won its ninth Big Ten Tournament title in 11 years. After a first-round bye, IU needed a Noonan goal in triple overtime against Michigan to advance to the championship game. Indiana topped Michigan State, 2-0, on goals by Swann and Michael Bock. One of the nation s most difficult schedules, a record, and a Big Ten championship assured the Hoosiers of a fourthseed in the and home field advantage for the length of their stay. IU got MSU for the third time in the second round after the Spartans knocked off Butler, 2-1. The Indiana offense relied on a penalty kick by senior midfielder Tyler Hawley to advance to third round competition with a 1-0 win. The next round would bring another familiar face to Bloomington, Rutgers. An Indiana offense that had been rather quiet as of late, pounded on the Knights, out-shooting them 15-7 and netting three goals to accompany another shutout performance by the Hoosier defense. With a College Cup berth at stake, Indiana s Ballwin Brothers propelled the Hoosiers to a 2-0 victory over the No. 5 seed Clemson Tigers in quarterfinal action. Noonan netted both goals with Ambersley assisting on the game-winner. Heading into its 15th College Cup appearance, the defense had held its opponents scoreless for 653:16. After seeing two previous tournament opponents during the regular season, the College Cup semifinal would be no different. Indiana would avenge an early season loss to St. John s thanks to a Vijay Dias goal from Ambersley and Noonan in the second overtime period. Noonan found Ambersley with Indiana trailing 1-0 to send the game to OT. The win set up a Indiana-North Carolina battle for the NCAA title. UNC scored a first-half goal to take the early advantage and then iced it with a penalty kick with 15 minutes remaining. Indiana fell in a 2-0 heartbreaking loss, denied a sixth championship crown. Noonan was an All-American and finished runner-up for the Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year award. He finished the year with 16 goals, 12 assists and 44 points, all team-highs. Goalkeeper Colin Rogers led the nation with a goals against average of 0.40 and 16 shutouts HOOSIERS FALL SHORT OF SIXTH-STRAIGHT COLLEGE CUP The Hoosiers entered the 2002 season with high hopes and the nation s No. 1 ranking. With two Hermann Trophy candidates and preseason All-Americans in seniors Pat Noonan and Ryan Mack, the IU offense appeared to be primed, but the question mark was a defense that returned only one starter and started a rookie goalkeeper. Indiana came out of the gates a little slow as it forged ties in its first two games of the season against a pair of top 10 teams, Rutgers and Clemson, in the adidas/iu Credit Union Classic. After a loss at St. John s in its fourth game of the season, the Hoosiers record stood at From that point, the Indiana reeled off 11 straight victories, including a 6-0 mark in the Big Ten. With its perfect conference record, the Hoosiers won their seventh straight regular season title. Seven Indiana seniors not only won their fourth conference title, but finished their careers a perfect 36-0 in Big Ten regular season matches. Included in the IU s streak, were impressive 6-1 and 5-1 victories over No. 22 Michigan State and Wisconsin, respectively. Noonan and Mack each scored two goals against MSU, while sophomore Ned Grabavoy had four assists to tie a school record against the Spartans and two goals against Wisconsin. Grabavoy also gave the Results (15-4-2) - A.30 Rutgers * (2OT) T A.31 Clemson * (2OT) T S. 6 vs. William & Mary! W S.7 at St. John s! L S.10 Louisville W S.13 Air Force# W S.15 Hartwick# W S.22 at Michigan State W S.27 at Penn State (2OT) W O.3 at Butler W O.6 Michigan (2OT) W ) O.11 Wisconsin W O.13 Northwestern W O.16 at Kentucky W O.20 Ohio State W O.25 at Cal State Fullerton L O.27 vs.uc-santa Barbara^ W N.3 IUPUI (OT) W Big Ten Tournament (University Park, Pa.) N.15 at Penn State (2OT, PKs) L N. 27 Notre Dame W D.1 at Connecticut L *adidas/iu Credit Union Classic (Bloomington, Ind.)! St. John s Classic (Kingsport, N.Y.) # Butler SoccerFest (Indianapolis, Ind.) ^played in Fullerton, Calif. Hoosiers a double overtime victory over then- No. 12 Penn State in Happy Valley on a penalty kick. The Hoosiers streak finally came to an end with a 2-1 loss at Cal State Fullerton. Indiana bounced back to win its final two games of the season with victories over No. 108

29 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY John Swann co-captained the 2002 Hoosiers and earned first-team All- America honors. 17 UC Santa Barbara, 3-1, and IUPUI, 2-1, in overtime. The team entered the Big Ten Tournament in State College, Pa., as the top seed and enjoyed a first-round bye. In semifinal action, Indiana met tourney host and No. 4 seed Penn State. The Hoosiers and Nittany Lions battled to a 1-1 tie in regulation. Despite dominating and out-shooting Penn State, 7-0, in the two overtime periods, Indiana fell on penalty kicks, 4-2, and lost the match by a score of 2-1. Despite an impressive mark against one of the nation s toughest schedules and the Big Ten regular season title, the Hoosiers were not awarded one of the top eight seeds in the. Indiana received a first-round bye in the and hosted 21st-ranked Notre Dame in second round action. After playing to a first-half stalemate, the Hoosiers cracked the scoring column at the 51:03 mark. Grabavoy found freshman Brian Poltkin on a run from seven yards out to give the Hoosiers a 1-0 victory over the Irish. The goal was Poltkin s first and only of the season. For the first time in the last six years, the Hoosiers did not advance to the College Cup after they fell at seventh-seeded UConn, 1-0. On a cold and blustery day, the Huskies scored in the 17th minute and were able to make it hold up en route to the win. At season s end, Indiana remained tied for first in the nation in wins (63, with Saint Louis) and maintained the country s best winning percentage in tournament contests with a record (.741). In addition, the Hoosiers were No. 11 in the final adidas/nscaa Top 25 poll. IU continues to lead the country in end of the season top 10 rankings since 1971 with 22. Noonan led Indiana in scoring for the third straight season, finishing with 37 points on 14 goals and nine assists. In his senior campaign, he became just the 14th player in IU history to score 100 career points. Noonan finished his IU career ranked sixth on the career points list with 127 and seventh on the career goals list with 48. The big question mark for the Hoosiers coming into the season was defense and sophomore goalkeeper Jay Nolly helped answered it. After seeing just 132 minutes of action his redshirt freshman season, Nolly, along with an outstanding backline of seniors John Swann and Phil Presser and sophomore defensive midfielder Danny O Rourke, posted a goals-against average of 0.78, which ranked No. 17 nationally, and eight shutouts. Three Hoosier players attained All- America status in Noonan completed his career as a three-time National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-American and also finished runner-up, by just four points, for the newly combined M.A.C. Hermann Trophy, which honors college soccer s consensus national player of the year. Swann earned first team All- American honors for the first time in his career, while Grabavoy made the second team. In addition, seven IU soccer athletes were selected All-Big Ten Conference. Noonan, Swann and Grabavoy, were all consensus selections, while Nolly, Mack and O Rourke garnered first-team honors. Presser nabbed a spot on the second team. Plotkin was tabbed the league s freshman of the year, and Noonan was the player of the year for the second straight season, extending Indiana s stronghold on the award to five straight seasons. Head coach Jerry Yeagley earned his seventh Big Ten Conference Coach of the Year award. Yeagley, college soccer's winningest active coach, extended his career record to (.823) and moved to within 18 wins of breaking Stephen Negoesco s all-time record of 544 coaching victories (in 39 seasons). In the offseason, Yeagley announced his plans to retire as Indiana s head coach following his 31st and final season in FAIRY TALE ENDING - NATIONAL TITLE NO. 6 The 2003 season will certainly be one to remember for the Indiana men s soccer Results (17-3-5) - A.29 California * W A.30 UAB * (2OT) T S.5 vs. G town & (2OT) T S.6 at UCONN & L S.12 vs. Akron % (2OT) L S.14 vs. Fresno State % W S.18 at Notre Dame (2OT) L S.21 Michigan St. (2OT) T O.2 Butler (2OT) T O.5 at Michigan (OT) W O.10 at Wisconsin W O.12 at Northwestern W O.15 IUPUI W O.19 Ohio State W O.24 Saint Louis W O.29 at Louisville W N.2 Kentucky W N.8 Penn State W Big Ten Tournament (Bloomington, Ind.) N.14 Wisconsin W N.16 Penn State (3OT) T (IU wins Big Ten Tournament, 4-1, on PKs) N.26 Kentucky (2OT) W N.30 Vir. Commonwealth W D.6 at UCLA W College Cup (Columbus, Ohio) D.12 vs. Santa Clara (2OT) W D.14 vs. St. John s W *adidas/iu Credit Union Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) & Connecticut Classic (Storrs, Conn.) % Notre Dame Berticelli Classic (South Bend, Ind.) team. Despite a slow start, IU capped the 2003 season with a storybook ending by winning a sixth national championship. Head coach Jerry Yeagley closed his 31-year career by becoming the first coach to win six national titles at one school. Following a 5-0 victory over Virginia Commonwealth on Nov. 30, Jerry Yeagley became the all-time winningest coach in Division I soccer history. With the victory, Yeagley captured his 541st career win, passing former University of San Francisco coach Stephen Negoesco. Yeagley s overall career record closed at (.821) and he posted a winning record in all 31 of his seasons in Bloomington. He is only the second coach in NCAA Division I men s soccer history to post 500 career wins. In addition, Yeagley was named the 2003 adidas/national Soccer Coaches Association of America National Coach of the Year award for Division I at the annual NSCAA Convention on Jan. 17. The honor marked the sixth of its kind for Yeagley, which stands as a record. He also earned national coach of the year accolades in 1976, 1980, 1994, 1998 and The season certainly did not start the way it finished. IU stumbled out of the gates with 109

30 HOOSIER HISTORY 2005 Head coach Jerry Yeagley retired following the 2003 season as the alltime winningest coach and with six national titles. a record through nine games, marking the worst start in school history. But a young Hoosier squad fought back, reeling off 10 straight victories and winning 15 of its last 16 matches en route to the NCAA title. The Hoosiers also captured a 10th Big Ten Conference regular-season title with a record, and added a 10th Big Ten Tournament crown. Indiana maintains a 45-match league regular season unbeaten streak. Hoosier junior Ned Grabavoy was selected a first team All-American by the National Soccer Coaches Association. In addition to Grabavoy, junior Danny O Rourke and sophomore Brian Plotkin were named first team All-Great Lakes Region. Sophomore Drew Moor was the second team. The Hoosiers success also continued into the professional ranks. Grabavoy was selected by the Los Angeles Galaxy as the 14th overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft on Jan. 16. Grabavoy is the 19th Indiana player to be drafted into the league since its inception in 1996 and fourth Hoosier in the last two years. Off the field, the nine Hoosiers were named academic All-Big Ten. Greg Badger, Jordan Chirico, John Hayden, Nicholas Kuklenski, Danny O Rourke, Brian Plotkin, Christopher Pomeroy, Andrew Shinabarger and Patrick Yates earned the academic honor. A new chapter in Indiana soccer began in following the 2003 season as former Hoosier All-American and longtime assistant coach Mike Freitag took over as head coach BACK-TO-BACK FOR THE THIRD TIME For the third time in school history, the Indiana soccer program won back-to-back national championships. In a season that was the first as the head coach for former IU All-American Mike Freitag, the Cream and Crimson began and ended the season in the same spot, at the top of the mountain. Indiana got off to a quick start in 2004, winning its opening five games and capturing a pair of classic titles in the process. It marked the seventh time in school history that the Hoosiers had won five or more games to start the season. The Hoosiers needed a comeback victory in the season-opening adidas/iu Credit Union Classic. After taking a 1-0 lead into halftime, IU found itself on the wrong side of a 2-1 affair to Boston University with under five minute remaining. A goal by junior Brian Plotkin in the 89th minute and the game-winner from sophomore Jacob Peterson in the 94th minute gave IU a 3-2 overtime victory to begin the season. IU captured their own classic title with a 3-1 victory over Oregon State. The Hoosiers got goals from senior Danny O Rourke, sophomore Julian Dieterle and Peterson in downing the Beavers. Peterson earned classic offensive MVP honors for his play. Indiana made it 2-for-2, winning the Mike Berticelli Memorial Tournament in South Bend. The Cream and Crimson needed double overtime and a pair of Drew Moor goals in the tournament-opening 2-1 win over Cal- State Fullerton. IU clinched the tournament title, scoring early and often in a 4-0 defeat of Evansville. In a battle of top five teams, the Cream and Crimson got goals from Plotkin and Peterson in the second half to down Notre Dame, 2-0, on Sept. 15. At 5-0, the Hoosiers trekked west for two matches against top 20 foes. Indiana had a difficult time of it at the adidas/crescent Financial Solutions Invitational in Albuquerque, N.M. For the first time in over a calendar year, the Hoosiers tasted defeat. After going unbeaten for 23 straight matches (20-0-3), IU fell victim to a header in the second overtime period against then-no. 11 UC- Santa Barbara. The Hoosiers would find a similar fate the next day losing in double OT to New Mexico, 1-0. Indiana rebounded, going over their next five games. Peterson jump started the offense at Michigan State, netting his first career hat trick in a 3-1 win over the Spartans. Junior Mike Ambersley and Peterson kept the tide rolling with first-half Results (19-4-1) - S.3 Boston Univ. * (OT) W S.5 Oregon State * W S.10 vs. CS-Fullerton % (2OT) W S.12 vs. Evansville % W S.15 Notre Dame W S.18 vs. UCSB & (2OT) L S.19 at New Mexico & (2OT) L S.26 at Michigan State W O.1 at Penn State W O.6 at Kentucky (2OT) T O.10 Michigan W O.15 Wisconsin W O.17 Northwestern L O.20 at Butler W O.24 at Ohio State W O.27 Louisville W O.31 at Saint Louis (OT) W N.3 IUPUI W Big Ten Tournament (Ann Arbor, Mich.) N.12 vs. Michigan State L N.23 Michigan W N.28 Boston College W D.5 Tulsa W College Cup (Carson, Calif.) D.10 vs. Maryland (2OT) W D.12 vs. UCSB (2OT) W (IU wins NCAA title, 3-2, in penalty kicks) *adidas/iu Credit Union Classic (Bloomington, Ind.) % Notre Dame Berticelli Classic (South Bend, Ind.) & adidas/crescent Financial Solutions Invite (Albuquerque, N.M.) goals in a 2-1 win over Penn State in Happy Valley. The third-ranked Nittany Lions brought out a record crowd for the Hoosiers with 4,583 visiting Jeffery Field. After a 0-0 tie to a packed defensive-minded Kentucky squad, the Cream and Crimson picked up a pair of Big Ten wins. The victories also brought about the emergence of sophomore midfielder John Michael Hayden. In 2-1 and 1-0 wins over Michigan and Wisconsin, respectively, Hayden began a streak scoring game-winners in both matches. A goal off a free kick in the seventh minute for Northwestern put an end to IU s mini-run as NW picked up a 1-0 win at Armstrong Stadium on Oct. 17. The Wildcats also ended IU s 50-game conference regular season unbeaten streak and its 31-game home unbeaten streak. The defeat was short-lived for the Cream and Crimson as the team again ran off fivestraight and in the process wrapped up its ninth straight regular season Big Ten Championship. The streak started with a 2-0 victory over Butler thanks to goals from Hayden and junior Pat Yates. Hayden clinched the regular season Big Ten hardware with a second half goal in a 1-0 win at Ohio State. 110

31 2005 HOOSIER HISTORY Danny O Rourke was named the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy winner as the top player in college soccer. Once again Hayden was up to the task against Louisville the following game. He bent in a corner kick in the fourth minute of play and Yates added one toward the end of the first half as IU cruised to a 2-0 win over Louisville. It marked five-straight winning matches for the Hoosiers that Hayden had scored the game-winner. Peterson notched a game-winner of his own knocking one in from the right side in overtime against Saint Louis. The Billikens had evened the match up with less than five seconds remaining in regulation. The Hoosiers wrapped up the regular season at with a 4-0, blanking of IUPUI. Hayden finished with a goal and two assists in the match, while Dieterle scored the game-winner in the fifth minute. Michigan State made IU s stay as the top seed in the Big Ten Tournament a short one with a 2-1 win over the Hoosiers. MSU s Ryan McMahen scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner on a free kick in the 70th minute. Despite the loss in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament, the Cream and Crimson garnered the second seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Hoosiers got goals from a pair of unlikely sources in the opening rounds. In the second round against Michigan, sophomore Kevin Robson notched his first goal of the season in the 87th minute. In the next round, sophomore Josh Tudela notched his first marker of the season on a header in the first half, propelling IU to a 1-0 win over 15th-seed Boston College. The Hoosiers made short work of an offensive minded Tulsa team in the quarterfinals to advanced to their NCAA-record 17th College Cup. IU scored four second half goals with junior Jordan Chirico scoring the game-winner and Peterson adding a pair in the 4-0 win. In a back and forth affair, IU won the first national semifinal, 3-2, over third-seeded Maryland in double overtime. Hayden was Johnny on the spot with heroic. The Louisville, Ky., native elevated over the Maryland goalkeeper and headed home a cross from O Rourke for the game-winner with 48 seconds remaining in the second overtime. After trailing 1-0 at the half, the Hoosiers got goals from Plotkin and Ambersley to take a 2-1 lead before Maryland evened it. The win set up a rematch of an earlier defeat for the Hoosiers with ninth-seeded UC-Santa Barbara. The Cream and Crimson took an early lead with Peterson scoring in the 27th minute. Sophomore Jed Zayner lobbed a pass into the middle of the field to Peterson, who flicked the ball over the top of the UCSB goalkeeper. The double-overtime win over Maryland caught up to the Hoosiers in the second half as their legs became heavy. UCSB finally broke through the defensive wall as Drew McAthy scored off a rebounded shot in the 82nd minute. After a pair of scoreless overtimes, the teams headed to penalty kicks. The Cream and Crimson trailed early in PK s as the UCSB goalkeeper came up with a save on IU s first attempt and McAthy scored to give the Gauchos a 1-0 lead. Hayden tied it Mike Ambersley scored IU s final penalty kick in the shootout against UC-Santa Barbara. Jay Nolly saved the final PK attempt for UCSB, propelling IU to its seventh national title. up with his PK before Neil Jones sent one high over the bar and round two ended tied at one. Senior Greg Badger coolly gave IU s its first advantage scoring on his attempt before UCSB evened it with one of their own. The fourth Hoosiers attempt was saved by the UCSB goalkeeper and senior goalkeeper Jay Nolly followed suite to keep things tied. Ambersley scored giving the Hoosiers a 3-2 advantage and setting up the dramatics. Diving to his left, Nolly stopped Nate Boyden s attempt, giving IU its seventh national title. Nolly earned College Cup Defensive MVP honors for the second straight year. Following the season, O Rourke and Moor were named first team All-Americans, while Nolly was a third team honoree. O Rourke capped the year becoming the sixth Hoosier to win the Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy as the top player in college soccer. He was also renowned for his academics, earning National Soccer Coaches Association of America Scholar Athlete of the Year honors. 111

32 LETTERWINNER STATISTICS 2005 FIELD PLAYERS Stat lines include: Goals-Assists-Points - A - G A P Ahumada, Matt Akman, Tanner Alavanja, Lazo Ambersley, Mike , Andert, Joseph Anhaeuser, Michael Archer, Joseph B - Baciu, Chris Badger, Greg Bannister, Jeff Barber, Sasha Barkett, Gus Barg, Stephen Becker, David Behringer, Marc Berry, Tom Betancourt, Armando Bobb, Robin Bock, Michael Boncek, Dave Bootes, Damon Bowditch, Michael Brabender, Kyle Bubalovic, Mirsad Burks, Steve C - Calkins, Scott Carlson, David Carlson, Rob Carrascosa, Rolando Casaburo, Chris , Casaburo, Tom , Castro, Rodrigo Cavallo, Joey Cerroni, J.T Chirico, Jordan Chorvat, Marcus Christian, Lucas Clark, Mike Compani, Behatz Correia, Mike Cowan, Todd Cox, Alex Cox, Todd Coyer, Matt Crawford, George Creager, Heath Crockford, Brian Crockford, Jim D - Das, Biman Deering, Chad Deery, Simon de St. Aubin, Bobby Desmuke, Daniel Dias, Vijay DiBernardo, Angelo DiBernardo, Paul Dieterle, Julian DiGuardi, Gino Doerr, Steve Donaldson, Nick E - Eichinger, F.A Eise, David Ellsworth, Cliff F - Fadeski, Dennis Fajkus, Charlie Fall, Ibrahima Fauser, Christian 1981, Ferland, Thomas Fleck, Bill Fortune, Hudson Fortune, Mark Freitag, Mike Fresen, Gary Freud, David Fundenberger, Matt G - Gallagher, Peter Garcia, Nick Gauvain, Dave Getman, Mike 1978, Ginsberg, Craig Glenn, Rudy Godat, Ken , Gold, Noah Goldsmidt, Mark Goldstein, Eric Gorrity, Manuel 1980, Grabavoy, Ned Grace, Dennis Griggs, Brad H - Haller, Herb Hammer, Ryan 1998, Hardy, Tim Harris, Tory Haugen, Lars Hawley, Tyler Hayden, John Michael Hocking, Randy Hubbard, Lake Hussey, Thomas Hylla, Mike Hylla, Tim I - Isger, Matt Iung, Ernane Iung, Silvio

33 2005 LETTERWINNER STATISTICS - J - Jambois, Stephen Johnson, John Johnston, J.D Jorgensen, Jason K - Kabanas, Steve Kallay, Bob Kapsalis, Dan Kapsalis, Dean , Kapsalis, Paul 1984, Katner, Simon Katsinis, John Kaull, Kevin Kean, Raymond Keenan, Chris Keenan, Tommy Keller, Ray Keller, Steve Kelley, Joe Kennedy, Greg King, Dan King, Sean Kirchner, Bob Kirchner, Stephen Klein, Chris Kornhaber, Steve Korol, Aleksey Kovalenko, Dema Kropp, Joe Kuklenski, Nick L - G A P Lavrinenko, Yuri Laxgang, Mark Layman, Craig Layman, Lance 1982, Leon, Kenneth Leytze, Bob Lobring, Wane Londergan, Ben Losh, Brian Loyal, Michael M - McCarthy, Edward McCartney, Michael 1982, McClements, Timothy McDevitt, Nick McGauley, Pat , McGonagle, Timothy McGuire, Chris Mack, Ryan , Maisonneuve, Brian Margolin, Barry Martin, W.M Meek, Trey 2001, Mercurio, James Merritt, Scott Meschbach, Robert Meyer, Keith 1980, Meyer, Steve Moor, Drew Mukete, Abel N - Nelson, Robert Noonan, Pat Oliver, Rudolpho Olson, Matthew 1986, O Rourke, Danny P - Parrish, Andrew Paul, John Peltonen, Craig Perry, George Peterson, Jacob Peterson, Kevin Plotkin, Brian Pohn, Jordan Pomeroy, Chris Popp, David Porter, Caleb Prall, David Presser, Phil Priest, Wes R - Rawson, Donald Razumich, Jerry Redmond, Tom Reiher, Josh , Rife, Josh Riggs-Miller, Henry Ripley, Eric Ripmaster, Austin Robson, Kevin Rodgers, Blake Rodriguez, Esmundo Roest, Han Romanelli, Dominic Rossiter, Chris Roy, Shashi Rupprecht, Bryan Russell, Joel S - Sagstetter, David Schmid, Joe , Schulenburg, John Schwartz, Kyle Sciortino, Chris Sendobry, Jeff Shanker, Joel Shapert, Sean Shelton, David Shinabarger, Drew Simanton, Mark Simonsohn, Dan Sloane, Mike Smith, Aaron Snow, B.J Snow, Ken Snow, Steve Spirk, Justin Spray, Rick Stalter, Todd Stevning, Greg

34 LETTERWINNER STATISTICS 2005 Stewart, Derek Stollmeyer, John Stoyanovich, Pete Swann, John Sweet, Mark T - Tauber, Brandon Tauber, Justin Thompson, Gregg 1978, Trask, John Traylor, Charley Trigg, Bob Tsandes, Ted Tudella, Josh V - VanBuskirk, John , Veldman, Thomas Vieira, Kim W - Waldschmit, James Walsh, Timothy Walters, Timothy Ward, Brandon Weiss, Brad Weiss, Harry Westbrook, Steve Wilcox, Toby Wong, Peter Wright, David 1991, Y - Yassin, Azmil Yates, Pat Yeagley, Todd Z - Zayner, Jed Zubizerreta, Iker GOALKEEPERS State lines for goalkeepers include: Games-Minutes-Wins-Saves- Shutouts - A - G M W S Sho Atinay, Charles : Cerroni, Tony 1996, C - Coufal, Scott F - Feld, Cary Full stats not available - H - Hampton, Len 1981, Hannig, T.J : J - Jermack, Greg : Johnson, B : K - Killough, Bruce L - Lawrence, Don Ley, Leo 1973 Full stats not available Luciano, Andre : M - Mitrovich, Nick NA Munroe, Chris : N - Nolly, Jay : O - Olson, Matthew 1986, Oswald, Chris NA P - Paddock, Chris NA Peterson, Chris NA Phillips, Sean 1992, : Putna, John Full stats not available - R - Rapp, Dana NA Reiswerg, Matt : Rogers, Colin : S - Scherpenisse, N : Shinneman, J NA Sommer, Juergen : W - Warren, Doug Wicker, Roger NA Y - Yarborough, Ernie Z - Zarr, Joe :

35 2005 ROSTER BY STATE - ALABAMA - St. Paul s Episcopal Ginsberg, Craig Mobile - ARIZONA - Horizon Ahumada, Matt 2000 Scottsdale Ironwood Creager, Heath 2002 Glendale - CALIFORNIA - Berkshire School Hammer, Ryan Irvine Brentwood Castro, Rodrigo Culver City Henry Gunn (Palo Alto) Getman, Mike Bloomington, Ind. Newport Harbor Trey Meek 2001, 2003 Corona Del Mar Palos Verdes Peninsula Resich, Nick 1997 Rolling Hills Poway Gold, Noah 2002 Poway Rudy Glenn - COLORADO - Alexander Dawson School Ripmaster, Austin 1998 Boulder Chatfield Nolly, Jay Littleton Glenn, Rudy Colorado Springs Columbine Latronica, Anthony 1993 Littleton - CONNECTICUT - Vidovich, Jay 1978 New Canaan - FLORIDA - Barron College Schini, Michael Naples Culver Military Academy Sommer, Juergen Naples Dr. Phillips Yarborough, Ernie 1991 & Orlando Oviedo Barber, Sasha 2000 Oviedo Pine Crest Riggs-Miller, Henry Ft. Lauderdale Mark Laxgang - GEORGIA - Parkview Doran, Chris 1991 Stone Mountain - IDAHO - Meridian Christian, Lucas Meridian - ILLINOIS - Buffalo Grove Laxgang, Mark Arlington Heights Buffalo Grove Laxgang, Scott 1988 Arlington Heights Schmalz, Frank 1978 Chicago Christian Benningfield, Rob 1997 Peoria Okinsicas, Paul 1977 Cicero Carl Sandburg Zayner, Jed Orland Park College of DuPage Cavallo, Joey St. Charles Kean, Ray 1977 Evanston Fenton Baciu, Chris Bensenville Glenbard West Church, J.T Glen Ellyn Glenbrook North Crockford, Brian Northbrook Glenbrook North Crockford, Jim Northbrook Glenbrook North Peterson, Chris Northbrook Gordon Tech. Meschbach, Robert Chicago Granite City Vanbuskirk, John Granite City Granite High Goldschmidt, Mark Granite City Hamburg Doherty, Tom 1981 Claredon Hills Lamberti, Luciano Highland Park Hoffman Estates Snow, Ken Schaumburg Chris Peterson John VanBuskirk 115

36 ROSTER BY STATE 2005 Greg Badger Manual Gorrity Hoffman Estates Snow, Steve 1989 Schaumburg Larkin Dieterle, Julian Elgin Lincoln-Way Doster, Steve 2001 Frankfort Lincoln-Way Grabavoy, Ned New Lenox Maine South Leever, Martin 1982 Park Ridge Maine South Mitrovich, Nick Park Ridge Goodman, David 1981 Morton Grove Shelton, David 1977 Morton Grove Morton West DiBernardo, Angelo North Riverside Naperville North Plotkin, Brian Lisle New Trier Badger, Greg Wilmette New Trier Lieder, Jeff 1987 Wilmette New Trier Rogers, Colin Wilmette New Trier West Biggs, Dan 1980 Northfield New Trier West Gorrity, Manuel Wilmette New Trier West Peltonen, Craig Wilmette New Trier West Rossiter, Chris Winnetka New Trier West Simanton, Mark Northfield New Trier West Feld, Cary Wilmette New Trier West Perry, George Wilmette Niles West Margolin, Barry Lincolnwood North Fleck, Bill Naperville Deutchmann, Andres 1980 Palatine Quigley South Putna, John Chicago Riverside DiBernardo, Paul N. Riverside Rochester Thomas, Cal 1999 Rochester St. Viator Kadkhodaian, Vrahrahm 2000 Mt. Prospect Hoffenberg, Scott Skokie Springfield Meyer, Steve Springfield Stevenson Logan, Tony 1997 Vernon Hills Stevenson Rodgers, Blake Buffalo Grove Warrenville Kaull, Kevin 1981 Wheaton Waubonsie Valley Bock, Michael Naperville Waubonsie Valley Keller, Steve Naperville Wheaton Shaikh, Ned 1982 Wheaton Wheaton Central Fajkus, Charlie Wheaton Wheaton Central Peterson, Kevin Wheaton Wheaton North Limbrick, Frank 1982 Wheaton Wheeling High Hampton, Len Wheeling William Fremd Calkins, Scott Palatine William Fremd Warren, Doug 1999 Palatine Willowbrook High Wilke, Steve Villa Park Mark Simanton Blake Rodgers - INDIANA - Adams Hudson, Brandon 1986 South Bend Angola Weaver, Wyatt Angola Bishop Dwenger Abella, Joe 1991 Ft. Wayne Bishop Dwenger Losh, Brian Ft. Wayne Bishop Luers Casaburo, Chris , 1993 Ft. Wayne Bloomington Collins, Danial 1978 Bloomington Bloomington Hall, Harris Bloomington Bloomington Martin, Willy 1978 & 1980 Bloomington Bloomington North Berry, Tom 1990 Bloomington Bloomington North Bubalovic, Mirsad Yugoslavia/ Bloomington Bloomington North Hubbard, Lake 2004 Bloomington Bloomington North Keller, Ray 1978 & Bloomington Bloomington North Matthews, Dan 1990 Bloomington Bloomington North Stalter, Todd Bloomington Bloomington South Cox, Alex 2000 Bloomington Bloomington South Johnson, Lucas 1988 Bloomington 116

37 2005 ROSTER BY STATE Bloomington South Londergan, Ben Bloomington Bloomington South Paddock, Chris Bloomington Bloomington South Prall, David Bloomington Bloomington South Ripley, Eric 1995, Bloomington Bloomington South Wicker, Roger Bloomington Bloomington South Yeagley, Todd Bloomington Broad Ripple Priest, Wes Indianapolis Brownsburg Swann, John Brownsburg Canterbury Casaburo, Tom Ft. Wayne Canterbury Presser, Phil Ft. Wayne Canterbury Schwartz, Kyle 2004 Ft. Wayne Carmel Coots, Dan 1991 Carmel Carmel Coyer, Matt Carmel Carmel Kapsalis, Dan Carmel Carmel Kapsalis, Dean Carmel Carmel Kapsalis, Paul Carmel Carmel Meeker, Jim 1986 Carmel Cathedral Behringer, Marc Indianapolis Columbus North Allway, Dave Columbus Columbus North Stewart, Derek Columbus Evansville North Tudela, Josh Evansville Harrison Martin, Jamie 1991 Evansville Heritage Christian Caldwell, Tim 1990 Indianapolis Highland Tauber, Brandon Highland Highland Tauber, Justin Highland Homestead Anhaeuser, Mike Ft. Wayne Homestead Shinabarger, Drew Ft. Wayne John Adams Cerroni, J.T South Bend John Adams Cerroni, Tony South Bend Lake Central Alavanja, Lazo Schererville Lawrence Central Crawford, George Indianapolis Logansport Bowditch, Michael Logansport Memorial Donaldson, Nick Evansville North Central Frazier, Rashaad 1996 Indianapolis North Central Fundenberger, Matt Lebanon North Central Harris, Tory Indianapolis North Central Katner, Simon Indianapolis North Central Keenan, Tommy Indianapolis North Central Munore, Chris 2004 Indianapolis North Central Reiswerg, Matt Carmel North Central Sloane, Mike Indianapolis North Central Stevning, Greg 2004 Indianapolis North Central Traylor, Charley 2004 Indianapolis Roosevelt Goins, Rodney 1984 Gary St. Joseph s Sweet, Mark South Bend Snider Weiss, Brad Ft. Wayne Snider Yates, Pat Ft. Wayne Terre Haute Kabanas, Steve Terre Haute Warren Central Gallagher, Pete Indianapolis Warren Central Griggs, Brad Indianapolis Western Illinois Univ. Cromartie, Richard 1995 South Bend Westfield Washington Cowan, Todd Carmel - KANSAS - Shawnee Mission Pihl, Roger 1978 Mission Shawnee Mission East Doerr, Steve Prairie Village Phil Presser Justin Tauber Mike Anhaeuser Matt Fundenberger 117

38 ROSTER BY STATE 2005 Charles Atinay - KENTUCKY - Ballard Dias, Vijay Helena, Mont. Ballard Hallenberg, Robbie 2000 Louisville Ballard Rainey, Brent 1996 Louisville Ballard Wilcox, Toby Louisville Clay Atinay, Charles Lexington Jeffersontown Layman, Craig 1982 Louisville Jeffersontown Layman, Lance Louisville St. Xavier Bootes, Damon Louisville St. Xavier Pomeroy, Chris Louisville Trinity Hayden, John Michael Louisville Trinity McDevitt, Nick Prospect Trinity Reinhart, Evan Indianapolis, Ind. Pohn, Jordan 1987 Louisville - LOUISIANA - Kaiserslautern (W.Germ.) Pease, Chris 1982 New Orleans - MASSACHUSETTS - Bradenton Acad.(Fla.) Thompson, Matt 1998 Wellesley Brookline Cotton, Chris 1982 Brookline St. John s Mignogna, Louis Northboro Roffo, Dave 1980 Springfield Mike Clark Chris Keenan - MICHIGAN - Birmingham Seaholm Mack, Ryan , 02 Beverly Hills Carman High Iung, Ermane Flint Iung, Orestus 1980 Flint Country Day Clark, Mike West Bloomfield Country Day Russell, Joel Rochester Hills Crestwood Stoyanovich, Pete Dearborn Heights De La Salle Collegiate Chorvat, Marcus Clinton Township De La Salle Collegiate Hardy, Tim New Baltimore De La Salle Collegiate Maisonneuve, Brian Warren East Grand Rapids Scherpenisse, Nathan Grand Rapids Gull Lake Keenan, Chris Kalamazoo Gull Lake Porter, Caleb Richland IMG Academy Peterson, Jacob Portage Okemos Merritt, Scott Okemos Okemos Smith, Aaron 1985 Okemos Oxford Kalso, Kellen 2000 Oxford Pioneer Kallay, Bob Ann Arbor Portage Central Snow, B.J Kalamazoo Portage North Johnston, J.D Portage B.J. Snow - MINNESOTA - Robbindale Kennedy, Greg Minneapolis Stillwater Thompson, Gregg Stillwater Stillwater/UW-Mil. de St. Aubin, Bobby Stillwater - MISSOURI - Aquinas King, Dan St. Louis Chaminade Robson, Kevin St. Peter s Christian Brothers Denham, Bryan 1986 St. Louis Christian Brothers Freitag, Mike St. Louis Christian Brothers Gauvain, Dave 1985 St. Louis Christian Brothers Godat, Ken St. Louis Christian Brothers Johnson, John St. Louis Christian Brothers King, Sean St. Louis 118

39 2005 ROSTER BY STATE Christian Brothers McElvoy, Bryan Chesterfield Christian Brothers Westbrook, Steve St. Louis De Smet Jesuit Ambersley, Mike , 04 Ballwin De Smet Jesuit Klein, Chris St. Louis De Smet Jesuit Noonan, Pat Ballwin De Smet Jesuit Popp, David St. Charles De Smet Jesuit Weiss, Harry St. Louis Florissant Valley, J.C. Hocking, Randy Pt. Pleasant, NJ Florissant Valley, J.C. Sendobry, Jeff St. Louis Hazelwood Cent. Killough, Bruce Florissant Lafayette Blasingame, Greg 1982 St. Louis Lee s Summit Wright, David Lee s Summit Lindberg Mercurio, Jim St. Louis Parkway Central Shanker, Joel St. Louis Parkway West Rupprecht, Bryan 1992 Carmel, IN Ritenour High Walters, Tim St. Anne Rosary Eise, David St. Louis Kelley, Joe 1977 St. Louis St. Mary s Boncek, Dave St. Louis St. Mary s McGauley, Pat St. Louis St. Mary s Meyer, Keith St. Louis St. Thomas Aquinas Andert, Joe Berkeley University High Bannister, Jeff St. Louis University High Jermak, Greg St. Louis University High Schmid, Joe & 1983 St. Louis University High Trigg, Bob 1987 St. Louis University High Walsh, Tim St. Louis Vianney Hylla, Mike St. Louis Vianney Hylla, Tim St. Louis Vianney McCartney, Mike St. Louis Vianney Oswald, Chris St. Louis Vianney Sciortino, Chris St. Louis Joel Shanker Tim Walters - NEBRASKA - Strevey, Philip 1978 Omaha - NEVADA - Chaparral Luciano, Andre Las Vegas - NEW JERSEY - Edgewood McClements, Tim Blue Anchor Ridge Scherp, Kenny 1991 Basking Ridge Sayreville War Mem. Grossman, Seth 1992 Parlin - NEW YORK - Olsher, Brett 1978 Bayside Gates-Chili Lavrinenko, Yuri Rochester Greece Arcadia Kovalenko, Dema Rochester Livonia Chirico, Jordan Conesus Livonia Korol, Aleksey Rochester Newburgh Free Acad. Jorgensen, Jason 1998 Newburgh Ramado High Roy, Shashi Spring Valley Webster Blanchard, Jim 1985 Webster Ferland, Tom 1980 Webster - NORTH CAROLINA - Marshall Univ. Leggat, Ian 1997 Rodanthe Ravenscroft Kuklenski, Nick 2003 Raleigh Keith Meyer Andre Luciano 119

40 ROSTER BY STATE 2005 Dino DiGuardi - OHIO - Anderson Lobring, Wane Cincinnati Archbishop Alter DiGuardi, Gino Dayton Centerville Biman, Das Centerville Centerville Carlson, David Spring Valley Christian Lawrence, Don Dayton Eck, John 1978 Cincinnati Luksic, John 1978 Clayton Kusovski, Boro 1978 Columbus Northmont Spirk, Justen Englewood North Olmsted Isger, Matt North Olmsted North Olmsted McGuire, Chris & 1995 North Olmsted North Olmsted Paul, John North Olmsted Oak Hills Leytze, Bob 1982 & 1984 Cincinnati St. Charles Parrish, Andrew Worthington St. Francis DeSales Romanelli, Dominic Columbus Summitt Country Shteiwi, Jamal 2000 Cincinnati Turpin Campbell, Brad 1987 Cincinnati Western Reserve Haller, Herb Parma Huster, Marc 1978 Westerville Westerville South McCandlish, Todd 1992 Columbus Westerville South Ward, Brandon Westerville Worthington Kilbourne O Rourke, Danny Columbus - OKLAHOMA - Santa Fe Laisle, Rory 1996 Edmond Andrew Parrish - OREGON - Corvallis Smith, Jake 1995 Corvallis - PENNSYLVANIA - Central Bucks West Rapp, Dana Doylestown Cathedral Preparatory Brabender, Kyle 2004 Erie Manheim Township Woolley, Andy 1986 Lancaster Moon Area Shapert, Sean Coraopolis - TENNESSEE- Christian Brothers Acd. Correia, Michael Germantown Sean Shapert Josh Rife - TEXAS - Bishop Lynch Garcia, Nick Plano Cathedral Marcum, Ryan 1996 El Paso Churchill Fauser, Christian San Antonio Cistercian Prep Phillips, Sean Dallas Tranchina, Mark Dallas Denton/TCU Rife, Josh Denton Episcopal Moor, Drew Dallas McCallurn Becker, David Austin Plano Deering, Chad Plano W.T. White Rodriguez. Esmundo 1995 Dallas - VIRGINIA - Potts, Rick 1980 Falls Church Jefferson Stollmeyer, John Annandale W.T. Woodson Goldstein, Eric 2002 Annandale - WASHINGTON - Lindbergh Olson, Matt Ranton 120

41 2005 ROSTER BY STATE - WEST VIRGINIA - The Linsly School Hannig, T.J Wheeling - WISCONSIN - Brookfield East Henning, Peter Elm Grove Cedarburg Hawley, Tyler Cedarburg Central Zarr, Joe Brookfield East Coufal, Scott Brookfield East Fadeski, Dennis Brookfield Homestead Ellsworth, Cliff Mequon Homestead Reiher, Josh , 04 Mequon Madison West Kuelbs, Brian 1982 Madison Whitefish Bay Trask, John Whitefish Bay - WYOMING - Cheyenne East Tsandes, Ted 1988 Cheyenne Tyler Hawley - INTERNATIONAL COUNTRIES - - BRAZIL - American School Breve, Daniel 1983 Brasilia Fortune, Hudson Brasilia Fortune, Mark Brasilia - COLUMBIA - Culver Military Academy Campuzano, Sergio Bogota - HOLLAND - Baarn Roest, Han Baarn Scott Coufal - HONDURAS - Escuela International Betancourt, Armando San Pedro - IRELAND - Cresent College Deery, Simon Dooradoye, Limerick Noble, Edward 1981 Antrim, Northern Ireland - ITALY - American School Carrascosa, Rolando Vicenza - NORWAY - Manglerud Videregaaende Haugen, Lars Oslo John Trask - CANADA - Nepean (Ontario) Huson, Byron 1995 Ottawa - VENEZUELA - San Ignascio Oliver, Rudolpho 1981 Caracas San Ignascio Zubizerreta, Iker Caracas Rolando Carrascosa 121

42 FORMER HEAD COACH JERRY YEAGLEY JERRYYEAGLEY YEARS ( ) AT INDIANA ALL-TIME WINNGEST DIVISION I SOCCER COACH: (.828) There is no tradition in the sport of collegiate soccer like Indiana s, and there is no head coach that can match the success that Jerry Yeagley had in his 31 years at the helm of the Hoosiers. Yeagley s career came to a fitting and magical end in 2003 as his Hoosiers went unbeaten over its final 18 games going, and winning the 2003 NCAA Championship. The title was the sixth for the program under Yeagley and in the process, he became the all-time winningest coach in collegiate soccer history with 544 wins. Up until the 2004 season, Yeagley had been the only soccer coach Indiana has known. Yeagley built the Indiana program from the ground floor up. Soccer began as a club sport in 1963 at Indiana, and 10 years later was awarded varsity status. In Yeagley s 31 years, the program flourished like no other soccer program in the country. Yeagley s accomplishment were recognized by the Indiana Athletic Department following the 2003 season. The field at Armstrong Stadium was given the title Jerry Yeagley Field. Yeagley led the Hoosiers to 16 trips to the College Cup, including 12 championship game appearances. The 16 College Cups are the second-most ever. In fact, every player who has played at Indiana for four years has competed in at least one College Cup, a claim that no other program can make. Since soccer earned varsity status on the Bloomington campus in 1973 until Yeagley s retirement in 2003, no team won more NCAA Championships or appeared in more College Cups than Indiana. The consistency the Indiana program has maintained under Yeagley s tutelage was unmatched. Not only have the Hoosiers appeared in 16 College Cups, but the Hoosiers longest stint away from the national semifinal is three years ( ) and they followed that brief drought by winning the 1988 NCAA crown. Yeagley led the Hoosiers to 28 NCAA tournament berths, the thirdmost in NCAA history, including one in each of his final 17 seasons. In 13 seasons since the inception of Big Ten men s soccer in 1991, he guided Indiana to 10 Big Ten (Tournament) Championships. In addition, his Hoosiers finished at the top of the regular season standings in his final eight seasons. Yeagley s overall career record was (.828) and he posted a winning record in all 31 of his seasons in Bloomington. His teams were ranked among the top five in the final NSCAA poll 17 times, four more times than any other program. From 1976 to 2003, Yeagley s teams earned a top 10 ranking in 23 of 30 NSCAA polls. Since the establishment of the Soccer America poll in 1980, Indiana has been ranked in the top five in that poll 14 times and in the top 10 in 20 of the 24 final polls. His accomplishments, both personally and for his program, were recognized by his peers as he has won NSCAA National Coach of the Year honors an unprecedented six times (1976, 1980, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2003). He was named Big Ten Coach of the Year an unmatched eight times (1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003). In 1989, he earned the highest honor a college coach can receive as he was inducted into the United States Soccer Federation Hall of Fame. Two years prior in 1987, he received the prestigious Bill Jeffrey Award given for his unique contributions to intercollegiate soccer. One year later, in 1988, he was inducted into the Pennsylvania Athletic Hall of Fame in Carlisle, Pa. In 1997, Yeagley received the National Soccer Coaches Association of America s Honor Award, the organization s highest tribute. Yeagley sat among the deans of college soccer, having held positions of Chairman of the NCAA Soccer Committee and President of the Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America. Yeagley also served on a panel with soccer legends Pele and Franz Beckenbauer, along with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger that addressed the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Commerce in an attempt to bring the 1986 World Cup to the United States. Yeagley s teams, like the World Cup, had an international flavor to them. A firm believer in the team concept of the sport, his squads consistently blended American players with a sprinkling of international talent. The combination of the two helped Hoosier players earn All- America honors 49 times in the program s 31 varsity seasons under Yeagley. From 1973 to 2003, an Indiana player has earned first-team All-America honors 21 times. Six former Hoosiers were Olympians and more than 65 IU players have gone on to the professional ranks under Yeagley. Also under Yeagley, IU had more than 20 national team players, an NCAA record five Hermann Trophy winners, three Missouri Athletic Club Players of the Year, two Soccer America Players of the Year, one ISAA Player of the Year, one NSCAA Player of the Year, one ISAA Goalkeeper of the Year, one adidas Goalkeeper of the Year and six World Cup players. Yeagley also sent more than 20 former players or coaches into the collegiate coaching ranks. During the Yeagley s teams posted even more impressive numbers than the regular season, if that is even possible. 122 Yeagley built the Indiana soccer program from the ground up. After 10 seasons of directing the club team, the program earned varsity status in In his 31 years as varsity coach, the Hoosiers won six national titles, made 16 College Cup appearances and won 544 games.

43 2005 FORMER HEAD COACH JERRY YEAGLEY His Hoosier teams owned a (.756) record in tournament play, the best winning percentage of any school. Indiana s 68 tournament victories are the most of any school in NCAA history. Yeagley was just as successful in the Big Ten. He was instrumental in the development of a conference tournament, which currently determines the Big Ten champion and an automatic berth into the. Yeagley s teams won nine of those automatic Big Ten berths and 10 (one shared) of the 13 crowns. They owned an astonishing (.933) record against Big Ten opponents. Since the advent of the conference season, Yeagley led Indiana to a (.920) mark in Big Ten regular season play. Yeagley s career is filled with memorable seasons and games. His first season saw the Hoosiers post a 12-2 record and fall just short of a bid to the. The following season saw Yeagley make his first of 28 appearances in the as IU posted a 14-3 mark. The Hoosiers would return to the Tournament in 1976 after posting a record in The 1976 season saw Indiana make its first of 15 College Cup appearances as it posted an overall mark of with their lone loss coming in the NCAA Championship game. Yeagley and the Hoosiers returned to the finals in 1978 after posting a mark in The 1978 season saw Indiana post an overall mark of 23-2, tying it for second on the NCAA wins in a season list. The following season Indiana went and posted the second-lowest team GAA in NCAA history (0.25) as the Hoosiers blanked an NCAA record 78.3 percent (18 shutouts) of their opponents. They earned a return trip to the, and then in 1980, they advanced all the way to the championship game before falling to close out the year with a mark. The 1981 season saw the Hoosiers and Yeagley post 20 wins once again as IU finished In 1982, the Hoosiers returned to the finals yet again and fought through eight overtimes to defeat Duke 2-1 to capture their first national crown. The Hoosiers wasted little time giving Yeagley his second NCAA title as IU went to win the 1983 NCAA Championship. The following year they went to the finals for the third straight season before losing to finish the year at During the 1983 and 1984 seasons, Yeagley s Indiana teams set an NCAA record by going unbeaten in 46 consecutive games. The Hoosiers posted a mark during that time frame. Indiana once again advanced to the in 1985 and posted a record and in 1986 went The 1987 season saw the Hoosiers begin their current string of consecutive appearances in the as they posted an 18-3 overall mark. In 1988, Yeagley pulled together an injury-riddled squad to defeat Howard, 1-0, in the NCAA Championship match at Bill Armstrong Stadium for his third NCAA title. The Hoosiers closed out the campaign with a mark. The following season Yeagley made another trip to the College Cup before closing out the year with an mark and a loss in the national semifinal. The 1990 campaign saw the Hoosiers post a record. The 1991 season marked the first year for Big Ten soccer and Yeagley captured the crown as Indiana went and advanced all the way to the NCAA Championship game. The Hoosiers claimed their second Big Ten crown in 1992 as they posted a mark and in 1993 went Yeagley won his third Big Ten title in 1994 and once again advanced to the College Cup as Indiana posted a 23-3 mark, tying the school record for wins in a season, a mark which is also tied for the second most in NCAA history. The third conference crown began a string of six straight Big Ten titles for the Hoosiers and Yeagley. Jerry Yeagley celebrates his sixth and final National Championship in The Hoosiers finished off the Championship run with a 2-1 win over St. John s. IU posted a mark in 1995 and a record in In 1997, Yeagley led his troops to a 23-1 record, once again tying the school mark and the second-best NCAA mark for wins in a season. The Hoosiers earned another College Cup berth with the lone loss coming in the national semifinal. It was the first time in school history Yeagley s team had gone through the regular season undefeated. The 23-game winning streak still stands as the longest in school history and the third longest in NCAA history. In 1998 he led his team to its fourth national championship, erasing the painful memory of the national semifinal loss the previous year. Yeagley s Hoosiers went 23-2, tying the school mark for wins in a season, which tied them for second on the NCAA single season list. The Hoosiers also scored an NCAA-record seven goals in the College Cup and posted 17 total shutouts, the third highest mark in NCAA history. The 1999 season saw the Hoosiers claim back-to-back crowns for the second time in the school s history. They used four overtimes to knock off UCLA in the semifinal and then beat Stanford in the championship. From October of 1996 until September of 1999 Yeagley and his Hoosiers did not lose at home, compiling 27 consecutive wins, the third-best mark in NCAA history. During the 2000 season, which was classified as a reloading year for the Hoosiers, Yeagley may have done his best coaching job yet, leading the Hoosiers to the College Cup for the 14th time. Indiana posted a 16-7 overall record. In 2001, Indiana returned to the College Cup for the fifth straight season. The Hoosiers posted an mark, brought home yet another Big Ten title, and advanced to the NCAA Championship game for the 11th time. Yeagley was honored as the conference s coach of the year. From October 1995 until the 2000 Big Ten Tournament, Yeagley and the Hoosiers were unbeaten in 38 (36-0-2) straight games against conference foes, the second longest conference unbeaten streak in NCAA history. Indiana went 6-0 to win the Big Ten regular season title in 2002 and finished at overall. 123