CORTLAND MEN's soccer 2014 TEam Guide 2014 Season Preview Third-year head coach Steve Newcomers on defense Axtell continues to build the include junior Sean Streb and Cortland men’s soccer team into a freshmen Bill Holscher and Ryan formidable program. Last season, Mehr. Streb was a two-time All- the Red Dragons earned the second American at Tompkins Cortland seed in the SUNYAC playoffs Community College. Holscher with a 6-2-1 mark, reaching the played two seasons at Commack championship game before falling High, and Mehr started three 2-1 to finish the season with an 11-7- seasons at H.F. Carey, earning all- 1 overall record. Cortland had a 10- conference honors twice. game stretch in which it went 8-1-1. The team’s 37 goals scored were Four players are back at the most since the 2003 season and midfield, including three starters. the 22 goals surrendered was the Senior Darren McCormack best defensive effort since 2008. earned first team All-SUNYAC and All-ECAC and third team In 2014, Axtell brings back 19 all-region honors last season. players, including seven starters, McCormack played in and Junior Robby Reiser. seven of the team’s top-10 scorers started 17 games, finishing Senior Andres Padilla. from a season ago and one of second on the team with 15 the top goalkeepers in the region. points on a team-high six goals Eleven newcomers also join the roster as the Red Dragons look to and three assists. Junior Robby Reiser has started 30 games over make a return to the NCAA Div. III playoffs. his first two seasons, including 15 in 2013. Reiser tallied nine points on three goals and three assists, earning third team All-SUNYAC Senior Tim Beauvais heads the list of the three returning honors. Sophomore Daniel Friend saw the field in 15 games with 12 goalkeepers. Beauvais earned first team All-SUNYAC honors and starts last season, scoring five points on one goal and three assists. received the SUNYAC Chancellor’s Scholar-Athlete Award for men’s Sophomore Dan Keller appeared in five games in 2013. soccer and the Fred Holloway Award as the conference’s Academic Player of the Year in 2013. He started all but one game, posting a Three players join the Red Dragons in the midfield this season. 10-7-1 record with a 1.18 GAA, 115 saves, an .839 save percentage and Junior Ole Daumann comes to Cortland from the German Sport seven shutouts and has moved into fourth place in career saves University of Cologne. Freshman Drew DeJohn was named Monroe at Cortland with 254. Senior Brian McNicholas has been with the County Div. III Player of the Year and second team all-state as a program for four seasons, while sophomore Joe Brandofino posted senior at Spencerport High. Sophomore Daniel Tesoro, a Sydney, a four-save shutout in a 1-0 win at Ithaca in his collegiate debut last Australia native, was the second-leading scorer at Monroe year. Freshman Connor Young joins the program after starting three Community College last season. seasons at Bayport-Blue Point. Three of the four returning forwards played most of their time Defensively, the Red Dragons lost 3-of-4 starters on the back in the midfield in 2013. Senior Matt Williams saw action in 18 games line with sophomore Jack Sumski the lone returner. Sumski saw the with two starts as a junior, scoring seven points on three goals and field in 14 games with 13 starts as a freshman. Senior Andrew Troisi one assist. Senior Tyler Marsh netted six goals while competing in 17 returns on the outside in 2014 after missing the entire 2013 season games with eight starts. Senior Thomas Nocito recorded five points due to injury. As a sophomore, Troisi was the only Red Dragon to on two goals and one assist in 13 games, including four starts, in his start all 18 games. first year with the team last season. Sophomore Matt Montanez was a member of the program but did not see game action as a Senior Chris McBride makes freshman. the switch from forward to defender in 2014, while senior Junior Ole Toepfer, sophomores Andres Padilla moves to the back Andre Brown and Nick Tata and line from the midfield. McBride’s freshman Curtis Grant join the 24 career points lead all returning team up top this season. Toepfer players. He recorded four points also attended the German Sport on one goal and two assists while University of Cologne. Brown playing in and starting 17 games last helped lead Suffolk Community season. Padilla tallied one goal in 16 College to a junior college runner- games, including four starts. Junior up finish. Tata earned third team Jordan Mastronardi also brings All-SUNYAC honors as a freshman experience to the defense with 20 at Brockport, and Grant started appearances and 10 starts through for three seasons at Elmira Free his first two years. Academy where he earned all- division honors and led his team to Three other defenders return the sectional finals as a senior. this season. Sophomore David Sophomore Daniel Friend. Sherman played in two games as a freshman with a start in a victory at Ithaca. Junior Jeremy Waite and Senior Andrew Troisi. sophomore Connor Brown were members of the program but did not see game action in 2013. CORTLAND Coaching Staff Steve Axtell Pat Pidgeon Head Coach Assistant Coach Steve Axtell enters his third sea- Pat Pidgeon enters his third year on the son as Cortland’s men’s soccer head Cortland men’s soccer coaching staff in 2014 after coach in 2014 with an overall record of being a four-year member of the Red Dragons 20-15-2. He was named the head coach as a goalkeeper. As a senior, Pidgeon started 14 in June 2012 after serving as interim games and posted a 5-6-1 record with a 1.40 GAA, head coach for five months and as an .773 save percentage and one solo shutout. He also was a member assistant coach for the Red Dragons in of the 2008 team that won a SUNYAC title and tied for 17th nation- 2010 and 2011. He also was a volunteer ally in Div. III. student assistant coach during the 2007 season. Prior to Cortland, Pidgeon, who holds a Football Association of Last season, Axtell led the Red Dragons to an 11-7-1 record, Ireland (FAI) Introductory Coaching Certification, worked for the FAI a second-place finish in the SUNYAC regular-season standings in 2011. He also served as a coach at the OnePlus Goalkeeper Acad- and a runner-up showing in the conference tournament. In 2012, emy and the WAZA FLO soccer club in Ithaca, N.Y., from 2007-11. He he guided Cortland to a 9-8-1 record and a berth in the SUNYAC also serves as an assistant coach for the Cortland women’s soccer postseason tournament. The Red Dragons won their opening team. playoff game before falling in the semifinals to the top seed. Pidgeon recently received his national diploma from the A goalkeeper for the Red Dragons for three seasons (2006, NSCAA and is currently pursuing consulting certification through 2008-09), Axtell earned All-SUNYAC honors in 2008 and ap- the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. He earned a bach- peared in 39 career games with nine shutouts. He earned a elor’s degree in psychology and is currently pursuing his master’s bachelor’s degree in kinesiology in 2008 and is currently pursuing degree in sport psychology at Ithaca College. a master’s degree in exercise science. A native of Franklin, N.Y., Axtell holds a Premier Diploma E.J. Reutemann and an Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma from the Na- Assistant Coach tional Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) with Distinguished Pass. He was appointed to the NSCAA National After a four-year career with the Red Drag- Staff, which makes him both a National Staff member as well ons, E.J. Reutemann enters his third year as an as Associate National Goalkeeping Staff for the NSCAA. He assistant coach in 2014. Reutemann played in 70 teaches NSCAA coaching courses throughout the Northeast games in his four seasons at Cortland from 2008- and directs the Goalkeeper College ID Camps at the University 11. He led the team in assists as a junior and senior of Connecticut during the summer. and was selected as a team captain in his final season. Axtell also is a certified strength and conditioning specialist A native of Clifton Park, N.Y., Reutemann, who earned a bach- and has received a conditioning for soccer diploma from the In- elor’s degree in sport management from the College in 2012, won a ternational Coaches Association. He is the founder and director Class AA state title at Shenendehowa High School. of the OnePlus Soccer Academy in Ithaca, N.Y., which features teams ranging from U8 to U18, residential camps and clinics. The He currently is the head coach of the Ithaca High School girls’ Academy does the training for various soccer clubs in the area, varsity soccer program and is pursuing his master’s degree at the has a goalkeeping academy and conducts coaching education College. A true student of the game, Reutemann holds an NSCAA clinics throughout the year. Part of the organization is a non- National diploma. profit club that holds grassroots programs for young players at no cost throughout New York state. Per Poulsen Besides assisting with both the men’s and women’s soccer Assistant Coach programs at Cortland, Axtell has served as the head coach of the Central Region scholastic soccer team at the Empire State The 2014 season is Per Poulsen’s first as an Games.