Los Angeles, CA – August 13, 2009 – For the fifth consecutive
season, the stars of NCAA Division I soccer will have an opportunity to
shine on Fox Soccer Channel.
Under an ongoing agreement with the National
Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), Fox Soccer Channel’s live
and exclusive NSCAA College Game of the Week telecasts will include
eight women’s and 12 men’s matches. All but one of the women’s matches will
be featured on Sunday afternoon, while 11 of the 12 men’s matches will be
played on Friday nights.
The 20-game telecast schedule announced today features eight men’s and eight
women’s teams ranked in the NSCAA pre-season national rankings. Fox Soccer
Channel’s exciting college slate will kick off on Friday, Sept. 4 at 11 p.m.
ET when the Memphis men’s side travels to Bradley. A rematch of the 2008
NCAA title game will then be on tap when reigning national champion and
pre-season No. 1 Maryland hosts Atlantic Coast Conference rival North
Carolina (No. 2 in the NSCAA pre-season rankings) on Friday, Sept. 25 at 8
p.m. ET.
Women’s action commences on Sunday, Sept. 20, at 5 p.m. ET when Boston
University will host Harvard to close out a weekend featuring a pair of
Beantown derbies. Two days earlier, Boston University’s men’s side will host
cross-town rival Boston College at 8 p.m. ET. The women’s schedule is loaded
with top-flight teams, as 10 of the 16 College Game of the Week
participants advanced to the 2008 NCAA Tournament, including all four
semifinalists (eventual champion North Carolina, Notre Dame, Stanford and
UCLA). The men’s schedule will feature 11 teams that were selected to last
year’s NCAA Tournament.
"Fox Soccer Channel is pleased to once again be the home for the best in
NCAA Division I soccer, bringing viewers the pride, passion and rivalries of
the collegiate game,” said David Sternberg, executive vice president and
general manager of Fox Soccer Channel. "Our live and exclusive NSCAA
College Game of the Week package is a key component of Fox Soccer
Channel’s year-round coverage of the top international and domestic soccer
competitions.”
Some of the brightest stars in the collegiate game will appear this season
on Fox Soccer Channel. A total of 27 players – 21 women and six men –
scheduled to appear on NSCAA College Game of the Week telecasts
recently were named to the 2009 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy Watch
List. Presented annually to the top NCAA Division I male and female players
in the country, the two MAC Hermann Trophy winners are selected by a vote of
current Division I NSCAA member coaches.
Play-by-play responsibilities will be handled by Dean Linke, radio voice of
the United Soccer Leagues’ Carolina RailHawks. He will be joined in the
booth for the NSCAA College Game of the Week men’s telecasts by
color commentator Keith Tabatznik, who recorded 220 career wins in 22 years
as men’s soccer coach at Georgetown University. The primary color analyst
for the women’s games will be Kyndra de St. Aubin, a former collegiate
soccer player at the University of Minnesota who has covered the Milwaukee
professional and collegiate sports scene for ESPN Radio and does television
work for ESPN and the Big 10 Network.
“The NSCAA is proud to celebrate five years of working with Fox Soccer
Channel to showcase NCAA Division I soccer,” said Randy Waldrum, NSCAA
President and Notre Dame women’s coach. “This partnership has helped raise
the visibility of the sport in the past four years, and we look forward to
offering another exciting schedule featuring some of the nation’s top
programs, players and regional rivalries.”
Following is the complete schedule for Fox Soccer Channel’s 2009 NSCAA
College Game of the Week telecasts:
Schedule of NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Coverage on Fox Soccer Channel*
Date Teams Time
Friday, September 4 Bradley vs. Memphis 11:00 p.m. ET
Friday, September 11 UC Santa Barbara (16) vs. Rutgers 11:00 p.m. ET
Sunday, September 13 Louisville (25) vs. Illinois-Chicago (10) 5:00 p.m. ET
Friday, September 18 Boston University (24) vs.
Boston College 8:00 p.m. ET
Friday, September 25 Maryland (1) vs. North Carolina (2) 8:00 p.m. ET
Friday, October 2 UC Santa Barbara (16) vs. Indiana (7) 11:00 p.m. ET
Friday, October 9 West Virginia vs. Connecticut (12) 8:00 p.m. ET
Friday, October 16 Binghamton vs. Boston College 8:00 p.m. ET
Friday, October 23 Evansville vs. Drake 8:00 p.m. ET
Friday, October 30 Bucknell vs. Lafayette 8:00 p.m. ET
Friday, November 6 Santa Clara vs. San Francisco 11:00 p.m. ET
Friday, November 13 Princeton vs. Yale 8:00 p.m. ET
Schedule of NCAA Division I Women’s Soccer Coverage on Fox Soccer Channel*
Date Teams Time
Sunday, September 20 Boston University vs. Harvard 5:00 p.m. ET
Sunday, September 27 North Carolina (1) vs. Wake Forest 5:00 p.m. ET
Sunday, October 4 Northern Colorado vs. Wyoming 5:00 p.m. ET
Sunday, October 11 Texas A&M (7) vs. Loyola-Chicago 5:00 p.m. ET
Sunday, October 25 Notre Dame (3) vs. Georgetown 6:00 p.m. ET
Friday, October 30 UCLA (5) vs. Southern California (8) 10:00 p.m. ET
Sunday, November 1 Santa Clara (22) vs. Portland (4) 5:00 p.m. ET
Sunday, November 8 Stanford (2) vs. California 5:00 p.m. ET**
* Schedule subject to change; home teams are listed first; numbers in
parentheses denote NSCAA pre-season Division I top 25 ranking.
** Match will be televised on a one-hour delay
About Fox Soccer Channel
Fox Soccer Channel offers the most comprehensive coverage of world-class
soccer available in the United States, including England’s Barclays Premier
League, Italy’s Serie A, Major League Soccer, Women’s Professional Soccer,
the Argentine First Division and the Australian Hyundai A-League, as well as
such global tournaments as the English FA Cup, FIFA Club World Cup, CONCACAF
Champions League™ and 2010 FIFA World Cup™ qualifiers. Fox Soccer Channel
serves as the primary U.S. television destination for the UEFA Champions
League, with additional coverage on a number of other Fox-affiliated
networks. The Official Broadcast Partner of the United States Youth Soccer
Association, Fox Soccer Channel also televises the United Soccer Leagues and
NCAA Division I college men’s and women’s soccer. The Nielsen-rated channel
reaches more than 34 million cable and satellite households nationwide.
Fox Soccer Channel is one of 28 national and regional programming networks
within Fox Networks Group, an operating unit of the News Corporation
(NYSE:NWS). These broadcast, cable, satellite and telephony delivered
networks reach more than half a billion U.S. television homes, and represent
one of the media industry's most diverse collections of programming
operations. Fox Networks Group consists of FOX Sports, Fox Broadcasting
Company, Fox Cable Networks and Fox Networks Engineering & Operations. For
more information, visit America’s most visited online soccer destination at
foxsoccer.com.
About NSCAA
Based in Kansas City, Kansas, the NSCAA is the largest coaches' organization
in the United States. Since its founding in 1941, it has grown to include
more than 27,000 members who coach both genders at all levels of the sport.
In addition to a national rankings program for colleges and high schools,
NSCAA offers an extensive recognition program that presents nearly 10,000
individual awards every year. It fulfills its mission of coaching education
through a nationwide program of clinics and week-long courses, teaching more
than 7,000 soccer coaches each year.
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Ben Alkaly
Fox Soccer Channel
310 444 8642
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Craig Bohnert
NSCAA
800 458 0678
cbohnert@nscaa.com