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great student crowd. very good to see the interim president and AD Larry Williams in the crowd Akron was the better team and deserved the win. The veterans...Victor, Adam, Sam, Danilo and Brad all really had outstanding games

this is down the road a little bit (and hopefully, Stuart will be 100% healthy by then)....but I just noticed that one zip soccer game this year will be televised on the big ten network The zips road game at Penn State will be televised on October 18 (hopefully, no zips jerseys will be stolen this year) http://www.btn2go.com/schedule?date=2016-10-18&sids=MSC

http://www.ohio.com/sports/zips/ua-soccer-second-ranked-zips-motivated-by-heartbreaking-loss-in-ncaa-tournament-1.707184 please get well, quickly....Stuart Holthusen

yes......just getting ready to post article from Marla Ridenour

soccer america http://www.socceramerica.com/article/70095/soccer-america-mens-preseason-top-25.html

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/divison-i-mens-soccer-preview:-aug-26-28_aid39719 top Drawer talks about the akron game and 4 other games. One encouraging note. We know that Georgetown's goalie is a first team all american pre season selection. The encouraging note is that Georgetown's 2 center backs and 2 outside backs from last year....all graduated. Go, Zips.

I sure hope that Marla Ridenour of the Beacon does an article Friday morning about the season opener. I know that she has been busy writing articles about Clayton Murphy and he deserves all of the credit that he is getting. However, I do hope that she finds time to write about Akron U.s best sports team.

Coach Embick is quoted several times in this article from a North Canton and Plain township newspaper http://www.northneighbornews.com/sports/20160824/zips-ranked-high-still-seeking-right-lineup-as-season-launches

September not far away http://www.starsandstripesfc.com/2016/8/23/12549910/usa-world-cup-qualifying-roster-squad-trinidad-tobago

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer/college-national-top-100/men/2016 Victor is selected by Top drawer soccer to be the 32nd best sophomore, junior or senior in College soccer and drum roll, please....they list Captain Adam Najem as the 2nd best player in all of college soccer. Georgetown has a midfielder listed as the 3rd best player in all of college soccer. We all know Victor and Adam would much much rather have a 2nd star at the end of the year....rather than pre-season recognition.

http://mac-sports.com/news/2016/8/23/MSOC_0823160003.aspx similar to last year, the zips are not picked by all coaches to win the regular season title

action photos from zips twitter

http://mac-sports.com/news/2016/8/23/MSOC_0823160431.aspx

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2016-tds-mens-preseason-best-xi_aid39686 Very happy to see Victor, Akron's very good holding midfielder recognized on a pre season all american list. Adam and Victor have truly been great 4 year starters Hopefully, Jon Lewis and Jesus Perez can join Nick Hinds on the freshman list when they do a post season all freshman team and wow....3 of the first 4 opponents are represented like crazy...Georgetown-1 on first team , 1 on 2nd team and 1 on freshman ; Seattle - one on first; one on 2nd ; UCLA - wow, how can they not be preseason #1 ? - 2 on first team ; 1 on 2nd team ; 2 on freshman team

http://www.nscaa.com/web/News/Articles/August_2016/DI_Men_s_Academic_Year_Model_FAQ.aspx

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/2016-conf-previews:-maac-mac-+-mvc_aid39687 I did not want to create a separate topic for top drawer previewing the MAC conference.....so I will put this under the pre season ranking grouping.... Hopefully, Jonathan Lewis, Marcel Zajac, Sam Gainford and Stuart Holthusen will combine very well to address the one question mark area in the article

#10 Georgetown lost their last exhibition last night at #17 Virginia ...2-0

Akron's season opening opponent...Georgetown...plays at Virginia tonight in an exhibition. On aug. 13, G'town played at Elon and they played to a 1-1 tie. On Aug. 16th, G'town played at Duke and they played to a 0-0 tie. I think that the G'town goalie was first team pre season all american by college soccer news. Goals should be scarce next Friday night.

I like how they are showing the starting lineups on twitter

http://www.gozips.com/sports/msoc/2016-17/releases/20160819pgl47h article has a photo gallery with 12 photos

http://www.ncaa.com/news/soccer-men/article/2016-08-18/mens-college-soccer-3-gigantic-opening-week-games-watch Akron and AN10 featured prominently in this NCAA article

http://www.topdrawersoccer.com/college-soccer-articles/north-carolina-tops-tds-preseason-top-25_aid39612 top drawer soccer comes out with their top 25

nice story. thanks for sharing.

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