With soccer opening up this weekend, here are a couple videos from around the league to get you pumped up.
The first, representing A-10 Women's Soccer, comes from the University of Dayton and highlights their stellar defensive resume:
And the second from the University of Rhode Island Men's Soccer team during a recent outing to Gillette Stadium to watch the Houston Dynamo, and former Ram and 2007 A-10 Midfielder of the Year Geoff Cameron [#20], take on the New England Revolution.
Looking forward to getting our fall seasons underway- be sure to send us your pictures if you attend any A-10 soccer games this weekend- email them to photos@atlantic10.org
NBA lock out got ya down? Counting down the days to college basketball season A-10 Nation? Here's a snippet to hold you over...
Temple Men's Basketball head coach Fran Dunphy answers questions about the landscape of college basketball and what the Owls need to do to contend for the A-10 title this year while featured on the August 17th, 2011 edition of Katz's Corner on ESPNU.
Stay tuned for more as Saint Joseph's Phil Martelli and Rhode Island's Jim Baron are both being featured on Katz's corner on ESPNU at 5pm tonight!
MATT KAVANAUGH (Aug 9-10)
Upon landing in Amsterdam, I immediately recognized several cultural
differences while being in the airport alone! Walking around on the
first day was definitely fun. Day two was another very fulfilling day
starting with the Anne Frank House. It was amazing to actually be in
the same rooms where those eight people had to cram together and hide
for over two years. I could not imagine anything that horrid happening
during my lifetime. My teen years were some of the best years of my
life so far and I just cannot imagine what Anne Frank and her family had
to go through. From there we walked back to the hotel to rest up for
the game. We started out slow in the first half, but picked up the
intensity in the second and won 70 to 66. Now it is dinner time and
then we will walk around to take in Amsterdam for awhile, then it is to
bed.
JOSH PARKER (Aug 10)
This has been a very exciting day for us…well I know for me it has! To
start it off, we went to the Anne Frank House. Having read the Diary of
Anne Frank, it was very interesting to me to actually see the house
they lived in and hid inside for over 700 days. It was amazing and sad
to see the way they lived and how they survived for the amount of time
they did. My favorite part of the house was seeing Anne’s room. Her
room was extremely small and she tried to decorate it to make it feel
more home-like even though it was truly a hiding space. All of the
pictures she clipped and put on the wall were still there and it was
interesting to see. I really enjoyed my visit. Additionally, our first
game here was fun and interesting. There are many different rules
compared to our rules in the U.S. including timeouts, calls…everything
seemed different! I really enjoyed playing with the guys.
Sounds like the team is taking in the sites and having a great time- any recommendations of places they should visit in Amsterdam, Belgium or France?