While there’s bound to be more high school players from PennLive’s growing coverage area heading for soccer’s next level than those highlighted here, here’s a list of those youngsters who have made their future destinations known.
Some will play at the NCAA Division I level — and they began signing letters of intent, if appropriate, sometime Wednesday — while others are headed off to join men’s soccer programs at the NCAA Division II and NCAA Division III levels.
Others continue to mull over their potential choices and have yet to decide.
What’s interesting to note is just how many college men’s soccer programs — including some from campuses nowhere close to southcentral Pennsylvania — scour our remarkably fertile area to find highly capable players.
More, undoubtedly, will be headed off to play somewhere in future years.
If we’ve missed someone — and our intent was to list everyone — please let me know and we’ll add your youngster to our roster of soon-to-be high school grads and soon-to-be college soccer players.
Bishop McDevitt
John Lopez – Pitt-Johnstown
Camp Hill
Colin Hester – West Virginia
Cedar Crest
Tommy Black – Penn State Altoona
Central Dauphin
Matt Baer – Alvernia
Damian DiFlorio – Robert Morris
Hayden Rowe – Penn State Berks
T.J. Yurkovic -- York
Chambersburg
Josh Brenize – Geneva
Cocalico
Daniel Graybill – Rochester Institute of Technology
Conestoga Valley
Matt Latschar – Millersville
Ahmed Qaisi – Millersville
James Thornton – Philadelphia U.
Cumberland Valley
Greg Armbrust – Pitt-Johnstown
Cam Avery – Lebanon Valley
Cole Smith – Gwynedd-Mercy
Jesse Zimmerman – Millersville
Ephrata
Kole DeHaven – Misericordia
Gettysburg
Jon Tarbox – U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Trey Thomas – Brown
Hempfield
Brian Gately – Ursinus
Hershey
Ben Haines – Messiah
James Buchanan
Ben Troupe – Dubuque (Iowa)
Lancaster Mennonite
Zach Lehman – Geneva
Middletown
Christian Roberts – Seton Hill
Mifflin County
Levi Sunderland – Penn State Behrend
Milton Hershey
Howard Haas – Wilkes
Northern York
Ben Hammon – Houghton (N.Y.)
Matt Printz – Lock Haven
Palmyra
Kameron Bush – Arcadia
Penn Manor
Ian Byrnes – Marywood
Tyler Groff – Houghton (N.Y.)
Ben Jennings – Oberlin (Ohio)
Red Land/Pennsylvania Classics (academy program)
Andrew Mannon – St. John’s
State College
Will Edwards – Swarthmore
Upper Dauphin
Madison Crum-Burger – East Stroudsburg
Note: Hester, Qaisi, Thornton, Avery, Zimmerman and Thomas were first-team PennLive all-stars last fall, while Edwards, Gately and Tarbox were second-team selections.
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