2017 Akron Zips men's soccer team

2017 Akron Zips men's soccer
2017 Akron Zips men's soccer
MAC Tournament champions
NCAA Tournament, College Cup
Conference	Mid-American Conference
U. Soc. Coaches poll	No. 7
TopDrawerSoccer.com	No. 3
Record	18–3–2 (4–1–0 MAC)
Head coach	Jared Embick (5th season);
Assistant coaches	Leo Chappel (3rd season); Ger Coppinger (3rd season); T.J. Kolba (3rd season);
Home stadium	FirstEnergy Stadium–Cub Cadet Field

2017 Mid-American Conference men's soccer standings
	Conf.					Overall
Team	W		L		T	W		L		T
No. 9 Western Michigan +	5	–	0	–	0	17	–	4	–	1
No. 3 ‡	4	–	1	–	0	18	–	4	–	2
SIU Edwardsville	2	–	3	–	0	7	–	10	–	1
West Virginia	1	–	2	–	2	9	–	6	–	4
Bowling Green	1	–	3	–	1	7	–	9	–	1
Northern Illinois	0	–	4	–	1	3	–	11	–	1

‡ – 2017 MAC Tournament champion + – Invited to the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship As of December 13, 2017 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches

The 2017 Akron Zips men's soccer team represented The University of Akron during the 2017 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. The Zips, played in the Mid-American Conference.

The Zips ended their 12-year reign as the MAC regular season champions, as an upstart campaign by Western Michigan saw the Broncos beat the Zips on tiebreaker. In the Mid-American Conference Men's Soccer Tournament, Akron defeated Western Michigan, 3-1, in the championship match to win their sixth straight MAC Tournament championship. The championship ensured the program's 14th-straight berth into the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. In the NCAA Tournament, Akron advanced to their fifth-ever College Cup after posting victories over Seattle U, Wisconsin, and Louisville.

The Zips were guided by fifth-year head coach, Jared Embick.

Background

Roster

As of December 1, 2017^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	GER	Ben Lundt
2	DF	POR	João Moutinho
3	DF	USA	Nick Hinds
4	DF	USA	Niko de Vera
5	DF	USA	Marc Alexander
6	MF	USA	Skye Harter
7	FW	ENG	Sam Gainford
8	DF	USA	Morgan Hackworth
9	FW	NZL	Stuart Holthusen
10	MF	POR	Manuel Cordeiro
11	FW	CAN	Marcel Zajac
12	MF	CAN	Reggie Laryea
13	MF	ESP	Pau Belana
14	FW	NGA	David Egbo
15	FW	ERI	Ezana Kahsay
16	DF	USA	Shane Wiedt


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
17	DF	USA	Joe Korb
18	DF	USA	Nate Shultz
19	MF	BRA	Dener Dos Santos
20	DF	USA	Alex Mapp
21	MF	USA	Christian Lue Young
22	DF	USA	Jackson Crawford
23	MF	CMR	Barth-Luther Mouafo
24	GK	USA	Tor Saunders
25	DF	USA	Daniel Strachan
26	MF	CAN	Faisal Ghaffur
27	DF	IRL	Declan Watters
28	GK	USA	Nick Costa
29	FW	USA	Braden Petno
30	GK	USA	Codie Lynd
31	DF	CAN	Nate Brown

Schedule

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site City, State
Exhibition
August 16* 1:00 p.m.	No. 16	Penn State	W 1–0		FirstEnergy Stadium (1,154) Akron, OH
August 19* 4:00 p.m.	No. 16	Loyola (MD)	L 0–1		FirstEnergy Stadium (1,195) Akron, OH
Regular Season
August 25* 9:00 p.m.	No. 16	at No. 18 Utah Valley	L 0–1	0–1–0	Clyde Field (4,351) Orem, UT
August 28* 7:00 p.m., SLTV	No. 16	at No. 3 Denver	L 0–1	0–2–0	CIBER Field (503) Denver, CO
September 1* 7:00 p.m., ESPN3	No. 24	No. 10 Washington	W 2–0	1–2–0	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,987) Akron, OH
September 9* 10:00 p.m.		at UC Santa Barbara	W 3–1	2–2–0	Harder Stadium (1,759) Santa Barbara, CA
September 16* 7:00 p.m., A10N		at Saint Louis	T 0–0 ^2OT	2–2–1	Hermann Stadium (601) St. Louis, MO
September 24* 12:00 p.m., ESPN3		No. 21 UMass Lowell	W 5–0	3–2–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,320) Akron, OH
September 27* 7:00 p.m., ESPN3		No. 4 Michigan State	W 4–1	4–2–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (2,454) Akron, OH
September 30* 7:00 p.m., ESPN3		St. Mary's	W 2–1 ^2OT	5–2–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,813) Akron, OH
October 3* 7:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 25	at Syracuse	W 1–0	6–2–1	SU Soccer Stadium (1,172) Syracuse, NY
October 7 1:00 p.m., WMTV	No. 25	at No. 12 Western Michigan	L 0–1	6–3–1 (0–1–0)	WMU Soccer Complex (923) Kalamazoo, MI
October 10* 7:00 p.m., ESPN3		Cleveland State	W 2–0	7–3–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,844) Akron, OH
October 13 7:00 p.m., ESPN3		SIU Edwardsville	W 3–1	8–3–1 (1–1–0)	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,560) Akron, OH
October 17* 7:00 p.m., ESPN3	No. 19	No. 12 Notre Dame	W 2–0	9–3–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,905) Akron, OH
October 21 7:00 p.m., ESPN3	No. 19	Bowling Green	W 2–1 ^OT	10–3–1 (2–1–0)	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,809) Akron, OH
October 24* 7:00 p.m., ACCN	No. 14	at Pittsburgh	W 3–0	11–3–1	Ambrose Urbanic Field (707) Pittsburgh, PA
October 27 7:00 p.m., WVUS	No. 14	at West Virginia	W 4–0	12–3–1 (3–1–0)	Dick Dlesk Stadium (832) Morgantown, WV
November 1* 7:00 p.m., ESPN3	No. 10	Marshall	W 2–0	13–3–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,252) Akron, OH
November 4 7:00 p.m., ESPN3	No. 10	Northern Illinois Senior Night	W 4–0	14–3–1 (4–1–0)	FirstEnergy Stadium (2,061) Akron, OH
MAC Tournament
November 10 11:00 a.m., WMTV	(2) No. 7	vs. (3) SIU Edwardsville Semifinals	W 2–1 ^2OT	15–3–1	WMU Soccer Complex (479) Kalamazoo, MI
November 12 1:00 p.m., ESPN3	(2) No. 7	at (1) No. 4 Western Michigan MAC Championship	W 3–1	16–3–1	WMU Soccer Complex (650) Kalamazoo, MI
NCAA Tournament
November 19* 1:00 p.m., ESPN3	(5) No. 4	No. 23 Seattle U Second Round	W 3–0	17–3–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (1,739) Akron, OH
November 25* 4:00 p.m., ESPN3	(5) No. 4	No. 20 Wisconsin Third Round	W 3–2	18–3–1	FirstEnergy Stadium (2,089) Akron, OH
December 1* 7:00 p.m., ESPN3	(5) No. 4	at (4) No. 9 Louisville Quarterfinals	T 0–0 (W 4–3 PK) ^2OT	18–3–2	Lynn Stadium (3,179) Louisville, KY
December 8* 6:00 p.m., ESPNU	(5) No. 4	vs. (9) No. 3 Stanford Semifinals	L 0–2	18–4–2	Talen Energy Stadium (4,948) Chester, PA
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

Rankings

National rankings

Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking ██ Decrease in ranking
— = Not ranked RV = Received votes
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Final
United Soccer^[2]	16	24	RV	RV		RV	RV	RV	19	14	10	7	4	Not released
TopDrawer Soccer^[3]	13	13	16	—			24	8	12	15	9	5	3	3	3	3
CollegeSoccerNews.com^[4]	N/A	20	26	25	RV	29	17	21	17	15	11	10	5	Not released

Regional rankings

Ranking movements
	Week
Poll	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Final
USC Midwest Region

Season statistics

Individual Player Statistics (As of December 2, 2017)^[5]
Player	App	Goals	Asst	Points	Shots	Shot%	SOG	SOG%	GW	Pk-Att	GA	Saves	SO
Forwards
Egbo, David	17	1	4	6	21	.048	7	.333	1	0-0	0	0	0
Gainford, Sam	17	10	5	25	40	.200	24	.480	5	2-3	0	0	0
Holthusen, Stuart	23	12	3	27	52	.231	23	.442	5	2-2	0	0	0
Kahsay, Ezana	21	2	3	7	22	.091	5	.227	2	0-0	0	0	0
Petno, Braden	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Zajac, Marcel	18	4	1	9	26	.154	11	.423	1	0-0	0	0	0
Midfielders
Belana, Pau	21	0	3	3	11	.000	2	.182	0	0-0	0	0	0
Cordeiro, Manuel	22	2	5	9	34	.059	13	.382	0	0-0	0	0	0
Crawford, Jackson	3	1	0	2	1	1.000	1	1.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Dos Santos, Dener	3	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Ghaffur, Faisal	14	1	0	2	3	.333	1	.333	1	0-0	0	0	0
Harter, Skye	23	4	6	14	18	.222	9	.500	1	0-0	0	0	0
Lue Young, Christian	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Mouafo, Barth-Luther	7	1	0	2	1	1.000	1	1.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Defenders
Alexander, Marc	3	0	0	0	2	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Brown, Nate	6	0	0	0	1	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
De Vera, Niko	22	0	4	4	5	.000	2	.400	0	0-0	0	0	0
Hackworth, Morgan	21	0	5	5	6	.000	2	.333	0	0-0	0	0	0
Hinds, Nick	22	6	4	16	20	.300	9	.450	1	0-0	0	0	0
Korb, Joe	11	0	2	2	5	.000	3	.600	0	0-0	0	0	0
Laryea, Reggie	8	1	0	2	2	.500	1	.500	0	0-0	0	0	0
Mapp, Alex	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Moutinho, Joao	23	3	5	11	38	.079	17	.447	1	0-0	0	0	0
Schultz, Nate	22	2	2	6	11	.182	4	.364	1	0-0	0	0	0
Strachan, Daniel	23	0	2	2	4	.000	1	.250	0	0-0	0	0	0
Watters, Declan	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Wiedt, Shane	11	0	0	0	1	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Goalkeepers
Costa, Nick	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Lundt, Ben	19	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	10	46	10
Lynd, Codie	0	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	0	0	0
Saunders, Tor	4	0	0	0	0	.000	0	.000	0	0-0	2	8	2
Total	23	50	54	154	334	.150	136	.407	18	4-5	12	59	12
Opponents	23	12	9	33	172	.070	71	.413	3	1-2	59	86	5

Legend
App	Appearances	Asst	Assists	Shot%	Shots to Goals
SOG	Shots on Goal	SOG%	Shots on Goal Percent	GW	Game Winning Goals
PK-Att	Penalty Kicks-Attempts	GA	Goals Against	SO	Shut Outs
	Team high

MLS Draft

The following members of 2017 Akron Zips men's soccer team were selected in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft.^[6]

Player	Round	Pick	Position	MLS club	Ref.
João Moutinho	1	1	DF	Los Angeles FC	^[7]
Niko De Vera	2	31	DF	New York Red Bulls	^[8]

References

^ "2017 Men's Soccer Roster". gozips.com. Retrieved December 1, 2017.
^ "NCAA DI Men's National Rankings". United Soccer Coaches. June 12, 2017. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2017.
^ "College Soccer National Rankings". TopDrawer Soccer. June 12, 2017.
^ "CSN Top 30 Polls". CollegeSoccerNews.com. November 17, 2017.
^ "2017 Akron Soccer: Akron Individual Player Statistics (as of Dec 02, 2017)" (PDF). gozips.com. August 25, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
^ "2018 MLS SuperDraft Tracker". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer. January 19, 2018. Archived from the original on January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
^ Couch, Ben. "MLS SuperDraft: LAFC select Joao Moutinho No. 1 overall". MLSSoccer.com. Major League Soccer. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
^ "New York Red Bulls Select Niko De Vera in Second Round". newyorkredbulls.com. New York Red Bulls. January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.

[roster-1] "2017 Men's Soccer Roster". gozips.com. Retrieved December 1, 2017.

[2] "NCAA DI Men's National Rankings". United Soccer Coaches. June 12, 2017. Archived from the original on December 15, 2018. Retrieved December 2, 2017.

[3] "College Soccer National Rankings". TopDrawer Soccer. June 12, 2017.

[4] "CSN Top 30 Polls". CollegeSoccerNews.com. November 17, 2017.

[stats_-_individual-5] "2017 Akron Soccer: Akron Individual Player Statistics (as of Dec 02, 2017)" (PDF). gozips.com. August 25, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.

[mls_draft-6] "2018 MLS SuperDraft Tracker". mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer. January 19, 2018. Archived from the original on January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.

[moutinho-7] Couch, Ben. "MLS SuperDraft: LAFC select Joao Moutinho No. 1 overall". MLSSoccer.com. Major League Soccer. Retrieved January 19, 2018.

[de_vera-8] "New York Red Bulls Select Niko De Vera in Second Round". newyorkredbulls.com. New York Red Bulls. January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 19, 2018.

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Akron Zips men's soccer
Venues	Rubber Bowl (1954–1965) Cub Cadet Field (1966–present)
People	MLS draftees
Seasons	2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2018
College Cup finals	2009 2018
National championship seasons in bold; NCAA College Cup in italics

NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship College Cup teams (2010–2019)
2010	Akron Louisville Michigan North Carolina
2011	Charlotte Creighton North Carolina UCLA
2012	Creighton Georgetown Indiana Maryland
2013	Maryland New Mexico Notre Dame Virginia
2014	Providence UCLA Virginia UMBC
2015	Akron Clemson Stanford Syracuse
2016	Denver North Carolina Stanford Wake Forest
2017	Indiana North Carolina Stanford
2018	Akron Maryland Michigan State Indiana
2019	Georgetown Stanford Virginia Wake Forest
Italic denotes national championship (*) denotes results which were vacated

2017 NCAA Division I men's soccer season
Regular Season	America East American ACC Atlantic Sun Atlantic 10 Big East Big South Big Ten Big West Colonial Conference USA Horizon Ivy MAAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Northeast Pac-12 Patriot Southern Sun Belt Summit WAC West Coast
Tournaments	America East American ACC Atlantic Sun Atlantic 10 Big East Big South Big Ten Big West Colonial Conference USA Horizon MAAC Mid-American Missouri Valley Northeast Patriot Southern Sun Belt Summit WAC
National Tournaments	NCAA Final
Rankings	United Soccer Coaches Top 25 Poll