2019 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team

The 2019 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer team represented Pennsylvania State University during the 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer season and the 2019 Big Ten Conference men's soccer season. The regular season began on August 30 and concluded on November 3. It was the program's 107th season fielding a men's varsity soccer team, and their 29th season in the Big Ten Conference. The 2019 season is Jeff Cook's second year at the helm.

2019 Penn State Nittany Lions men's soccer
NCAA Tournament, Second Round
Conference	Big Ten Conference
U. Soc. Coaches poll	No. 13
TopDrawerSoccer.com	No. 18
2019 record	12–4–3 (6–1–1 Big Ten)
Head coach	Jeff Cook (2nd season)
Assistant coaches	Greg Dalby (2nd season) Ayotunde Ogunbiyi (2nd season) Jyler Noviello (1st season)
Captains	Aaron Molloy Pierre Reedy
Home stadium	Jeffrey Field

2019 Big Ten Conference men's soccer standings
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
No. 9 Indiana ‡	7	–	1	–	0			15	–	3	–	4
No. 18 Penn State +	6	–	1	–	1			12	–	4	–	3
No. 17 Michigan +	4	–	1	–	3			11	–	5	–	6
Maryland +	3	–	3	–	2			11	–	8	–	2
Northwestern	3	–	3	–	2			8	–	8	–	2
Michigan State	3	–	4	–	1			3	–	12	–	3
Wisconsin	1	–	4	–	3			3	–	11	–	4
Rutgers	1	–	6	–	1			7	–	8	–	3
Ohio State	1	–	6	–	1			7	–	11	–	1
‡ – 2019 B1G Tournament champion + – Invited to the 2019 NCAA Tournament As of 17 December 2019; Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Source: Big Ten

Background

The 2018 season was the Nittany Lions' 106th season as a varsity soccer program, and their 28th season playing in the Big Ten Conference. The team was led by first year head coach, Jeff Cook, who had previously served as an assistant coach for the professional soccer team, Bethlehem Steel of USL Championship.

Player movement

Departures

Name	Number	Position	Height	Weight	Year	Hometown	Reason for departure
Brennan Ireland	4	DF	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)	170	Senior	Annapolis, MD	Graduated
Austin Maloney	9	MF	5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)	150	Senior	Harrisburg, PA	Graduated
Mac Curran	14	FW	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	185	Senior	York, PA	Graduated
Dani Marks	18	DF	6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)	185	RS-Senior	Ra'anana, ISR	Graduated
Ryan Gallagher	19	DF	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	170	RS-Senior	Pine Bush, NY	Graduated
Noah Pilato	21	MF	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)	140	RS-Senior	Oak Hill, VA	Graduated; signed for Loudoun United FC in USLC

Arrivals

Name	Nat.	Hometown	High School	Club	TDS Rating
Liam Butts FW	USA	Lawrenceville, GA	Grayson	Atlanta United	[1]
Owen Elliott GK	USA	Philadelphia, PA	Chestnut Hill (PA)	SJEB Rush	[2]
Michael Gaines DF	USA	Oxon Hill, MD	Gonzaga (DC)	D.C. United	[3]
Kyle May MF	USA	Lebanon, PA	Cedar Crest (PA)	PA Classics	[4]
Omar Ozbay MF	USA	Morganville, NJ	Marlboro (NJ)	Baltimore Celtic	NR
Andrew Privett MF	USA	Fallston, MD	McDonogh	Baltimore Celtic	[5]
Kris Shakes GK	USA	Sunrise, FL	YSC Academy	Philadelphia Union	[6]
Alex Stevenson DF	USA	Bel Air, MD	C. Milton Wright	Baltimore Armour	[7]
Jalen Watson DF	CAN	Toronto, ON	U-Hill (BC)	Vancouver Whitecaps	[8]

Transfers

Name	Nat.	No.	Pos.	Height	Year	Hometown	Notes
Seth Kuhn	USA	17	MF	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)	Sophomore	Wyomissing, PA	Transferred from Duke[9]
Will Campbell	USA	20	DF	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)	Graduate	Wallington, PA	Transferred from North Carolina[10]

Preseason

Preseason Big Ten poll

Penn State was predicted to finish 6th in the Big Ten Conference.[11]

Coaches' Poll
Predicted finish	Team
1	Indiana
2	Maryland
3	Michigan
4	Michigan State
5	Wisconsin
6	Penn State
7	Northwestern
8	Ohio State
9	Rutgers

Squad

Roster

As of September 26, 2019[12]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  USA Josh Levine 2 DF  USA Mason Deeds 3 DF  USA Brandon Hackenberg 4 DF  CAN Jalen Watson 5 MF  ENG Callum Pritchatt 6 MF  USA Andrew Privett 7 FW  USA Liam Butts 8 MF  IRL Aaron Molloy (co-captain) 11 MF  USA Pierre Reedy (co-captain) 12 MF  USA Nicholas Rieple 13 GK  USA Kris Shakes 14 DF  USA Michael Gaines

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  USA Adam Laundree 16 MF  USA Keegan Ness 17 MF  USA Seth Kuhn 18 DF  USA Alex Stevenson 19 MF  USA Omar Ozbay 20 DF  USA Will Campbell 21 MF  USA Kyle May 22 MF  CRC Daniel Gonzalez 23 FW  USA Kyle Perno 24 FW  USA Christian Sload 25 DF  USA Dax Hoffman 26 FW  USA Josh Dabora 27 GK  USA Owen Elliott

Team management

Front office
Athletic Director	Sandy Barbour
Deputy Director of Athletics	Lynn Holleran
Deputy Director of Athletics	Scott Sidwell
Coaching staff
Head coach	Jeff Cook
Assistant coach	Greg Dalby
Assistant coach	Ayotunde Ogunbiyi
Volunteer assistant coach	Jyler Noviello

Last updated: September 6, 2019
Source: Penn State Athletics

Schedule

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (Attendance) City, State
Preseason
August 17* 7:00 p.m.		Georgetown	Not reported		Jeffrey Field State College, PA
August 24* 7:00 p.m.		Syracuse	L 0–1		Jeffery Field State College, PA
Regular season
August 30* 7:00 p.m.		No. 5 Stanford	L 0–5	0–1–0	Jeffrey Field (1,537) State College, PA
September 2* 7:00 p.m.		at Stony Brook	W 4–1	1–1–0	Kenneth P. LaValle Stadium (618) Stony Brook, NY
September 6* 7:00 p.m., Twitch		at No. 15 UCF	T 2–2 ^2OT	1–1–1	UCF Soccer and Track Stadium (706) Orlando, FL
September 8* 1:00 p.m.		at Stetson	W 2–0	2–1–1	Spec Martin Stadium (312) DeLand, FL
September 13* 7:00 p.m.		Villanova	W 1–0	3–1–1	Jeffrey Field (805) State College, PA
September 21 7:00 p.m.		at Ohio State	W 2–1 ^OT	4–1–1 (1–0–0)	Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium (697) Columbus, OH
September 27 6:00 p.m., BTN	No. 20	Michigan Mack Brady Match	T 0–0 ^2OT	4–1–2 (1–0–1)	Jeffrey Field (1,985) State College, PA
October 1 6:00 p.m., BTN	No. 20	at Michigan State	W 3–0	5–1–2 (2–0–1)	DeMartin Stadium (523) East Lansing, MI
October 6 1:00 p.m., BTN+	No. 20	No. 8 Indiana	L 1–3	5–2–2 (2–1–1)	Jeffrey Field (925) State College, PA
October 12 7:00 p.m.	No. 22	Northwestern	W 3–2 ^OT	6–2–2 (3–1–1)	Jeffrey Field (953) State College, PA
October 15* 7:00 p.m.		Pittsburgh Keystone Clasico	W 3–1	7–2–2	Jeffrey Field (509) State College, PA
October 19 7:00 p.m.		at Wisconsin	W 2–1	8–2–2 (4–1–1)	Dan McClimon Stadium (425) Madison, WI
October 22* 7:00 p.m.	No. 19	No. 18 James Madison	T 1–1[lower-alpha 1]	8–2–3	Jeffrey Field (393) State College, PA
October 25* 7:00 p.m.	No. 19	Appalachain State	W 4–0	9–2–3	Jeffrey Field (615) State College, PA
October 29* 6:00 p.m., BTN	No. 16	No. 17 Maryland Senior Night	W 3–2 ^OT	10–2–3 (5–1–1)	Jeffrey Field (657) State College, PA
November 3 3:00 p.m.	No. 16	at Rutgers	W 2–1 ^OT	11–2–3 (6–1–1)	Yurcak Field (1,167) Piscataway, NJ
Big Ten Tournament
November 10 1:00 p.m., BTN+	(2) No. 13	(7) Wisconsin Quarterfinals	W 3–0	12–2–3	Jeffrey Field (678) State College, PA
November 15 4:00 p.m., BTN	(2) No. 13	vs. (3) Michigan Semifinals	L 0–1	12–3–3	Ludwig Field College Park, MD
NCAA Tournament
November 24 5:00 p.m.	(15) No. 13	No. 21 Providence Second Round	L 2–3 ^OT	12–4–3	Jeffrey Field (290) State College, PA
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

1. The James Madison match was called off in the 72nd minute due to severe fog. The final scoreline was deemed the final score without an overtime period.[13]

Rankings

Ranking movement
Legend: ██ Improvement in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week. RV=Others receiving votes.

Poll	Pre	Wk 1	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Final
United Soccer[14]	NV	NV	RV											None Released
Top Drawer Soccer[15]	NV	NV	NV	RV
Soccer America[16]	NV	NV	NV
CollegeSoccerNews.com[17]	NV	NV	RV

2020 MLS SuperDraft

Player	Round	Pick	Position	MLS club	Ref.
Aaron Molloy	1	16	MF	Portland Timbers

References

1. "Liam Butts". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
2. "Owen Elliott". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
3. "Michael Gaines". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
4. "Kyle May". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
5. "Andrew Privett". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
6. "Kristopher Shakes". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
7. "Alex Stevenson". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
8. "Jalen Watson". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2019-09-06.
9. Ralph, Matthew (April 2, 2019). "Union Academy grad transferring from Duke to Penn State". Brotherly Game. SB Nation. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
10. Praga, Nicole (May 21, 2019). "Penn State men's soccer program signs 11 players for 2019". SoccerWire.com. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
11. "Indiana Claims First Place in Men's Soccer Preseason Poll". bigten.org. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
12. "2019 Men's Soccer Roster". gopsusports.com. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
13. "No. 19 Penn State Draws with No. 18 James Madison as Fog Forces Early End". gopsusports.com. October 22, 2019. Retrieved October 30, 2019.
14. "NCAA DI Men's National Rankings". National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
15. "College Soccer National Rankings". TopDrawer Soccer. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
16. "Soccer America Men's College Top 25". socceramerica.com. Soccer America. September 3, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
17. "CSN Top 30 Polls". CollegeSoccerNews.com. Retrieved September 4, 2019.

External links

• PSU Soccer Schedule