Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's soccer

Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's soccer
2015 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's soccer team
University	University of Delaware
Conference	CAA
Location	Newark, DE
Head Coach	Ian Hennessy (7th year)
Stadium	Delaware Mini-Stadium (Capacity: 1200)
Nickname	Hens, Fightin' Blue Hens
Colors	Royal Blue and Gold
Home Away
NCAA Tournament Round of 16
1968
NCAA Tournament Appearances
1968, 1970, 2011, 2013
Conference Tournament Champions
1968, 1970, 2011
Conference Regular Season Champions
1968, 1969, 1970

The Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's soccer team represents the University of Delaware in all men's college soccer competitions. The Blue Hens, have enjoyed a resurgence in conference and national prominence in the last 2 years under head coach Ian Hennessy. The team qualified and lost in the semi-finals of one of the nations top conferences, the CAA, in 2010 before winning its first ever conference championship in 2011. The 2011 team defeated the University of Virginia in the NCAA first round before succumbing to Final Four participant UCLA in the second round. The team's previous apex of success came in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when the Blue Hens qualified into the 1968 and 1970 editions of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, to date their only appearances in the tournament.^[1]

On November 13, 2011, the Blue Hens earned their first ever CAA Tournament Championship, thus earning their first berth into the NCAA tournament in 41 years. The team also clinched an NCAA at-large birth in 2013, finishing the season with a record of 14-4-1, and hosted the program's first ever NCAA tournament match in a 2-1 OT loss to St. John's.

Roster

As of September 17, 2013^[2]

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

No. Position Player 00 GK Borja Barbero 0 GK Bill Boyer 1 GK Jay Lupas 2 DF Kaz Boschen 3 DF Tobias Müller 4 DF Ignacio Martín 5 MF Ben Sampson 7 DF Drew Colletti 8 MF Joe Dipre 9 MF Guillermo Delgado 10 FW Roberto Gimenez 11 MF Jaime Martinez 12 DF Kyle Nuel 13 FW Angus Maloney

No. Position Player 14 MF Ben Asante 15 MF Luke Oostdyk 16 MF Dieter Bahr 17 DF Mark Garrity 18 MF Vincent Mediate 19 MF Moses Adjieteh 20 MF Nick DiRienzo 22 DF Prince Nartey 23 DF Evan Reed 26 DF Gil Simonetti 27 FW Kyle Bruno 28 DF Troy McCartney 34 GK Paul DeFeo

References

1. "Men's Division I Championship Brackets" (PDF). NCAA. Retrieved September 17, 2011.
2. "2013 University of Delaware Men's Soccer Roster". University of Delaware Athletics. Retrieved September 17, 2013.

External links

• UD Blue Hen's Men's Soccer