Thursday, November 21st, 2019 -- The DI Men's Soccer Championship (College Cup) is set to kick off tonight with 12 former Arizona Soccer Association players vying for a chance to lift the national title.
Five of the last seven national championships have featured Arizona players on their roster.
- Karel Bradford (Chandler) in 2012 with Indiana
- Riggs Lennon (Paradise Valley) in 2014 with Virginia
- Adam Mosharrafa (Paradise Valley) in 2015, 2016, and 2017 with Stanford
Editors note - Hello all, Garrett Cleverly here. After going through every DI roster there might be a chance that I missed a player due to how the college programs list their rosters. If so, please reach out to me garrettcleverly@azyouthsoccer.org and I'll update the following list.
UFC - Glademir Mendoza (Phoenix)
SMU - Tobin Shanks (Scottsdale), Jacob Cohen (Phoenix)
Lehigh - Thatcher Cooper (Chandler)
Marshall - Ryan Sirk (Casa Grande)
Butler - Brendan Hicks (Phoenix)
UC Santa Barbara - Luka Zivkovic (Mesa), Carter Clemmensen (Paradise Valley), Sam Fletcher (Phoenix), Zade Ghani (Phoenix)
Michigan - Carter Payne (Phoenix)
Notre Dame - John Rea (Tempe)
DI Men's College Cup Schedule
Thursday, November 21
4:00PM - Butler (Hicks) at West Virginia
5:00PM - Notre Dame (Rea) at Wright St.
5:00PM - Pittsburgh at Lehigh (Cooper)
8:00PM - UC Santa Barbara (Zivkovic, Clemmensen, Fletcher, Ghani) at California
Sunday, November 24 (Second Round)
11:00AM - Notre Dame (Rea)/Wright St. at #13 Michigan (Payne)
12:00PM - Butler (Hicks)/West Virginia at #11 Marshall (Sirk)
4:00PM - Missouri St./Denver at #9 UCF (Mendoza)
6:00PM - NC State/Coastal Carolina at #8 SMU (Shanks, Cohen)