Monmouth Men's Soccer Ranked In Top-10 In Three National Polls

MU Head Coach Rob McCourt   The Monmouth University men’s soccer team is a consensus top-10 squad in three different national polls, including coming in at #7 in this week’s NSCAA/HendrickCars.com National Rankings, the organizations announced on Tuesday. The Hawks are also ranked sixth in this week’s College Soccer News National Poll and eighth in this week’s Soccer America Top-25. The Hawks captured the ’Save Face WVU Classic’ presented by Jersey’s Subs this past weekend, defeating host West Virginia, 1-0 in double overtime on Friday and Binghamton, 2-0 on Sunday. Hermann Award Watch List member Ryan Kinne, a senior midfielder, was named Tournament MVP, as well as NEC Player of the Week, Big Apple Soccer Player of the Week and to the College Soccer News National Team of the Week.

Monmouth Women's Soccer Moves Up National Polls

Thanks to the Hawks’ unblemished record after the first four matches of the season, the Monmouth University women’s soccer team moved up in the national rankings on Tuesday afternoon. Following home victories over Saint Peter’s and regional-power Boston University, the Hawks are ranked No. 22 by Soccer America, and are receiving 12 votes in the NSCAA/HendrickCars.com National poll. In addition, Monmouth is rated 10th in the Northeast Region by the NSCAA. The Northeast Region is comprised of all soccer institutions in the BIG EAST, America East, MAAC and Northeast Conference. "Our team is training hard, getting fitter each day and when game time arrives we are competing and battling for good stretches of the match," commented head coach Krissy Turner. "Our goal is that when the end of September arrives, we are doing this for 90 minutes."