NCAA Div. I Canucks ( 2004 version )

[Andrew W]

As many of you remember last year I posted a list of Canadians playing "abroad" in NCAA Div. I soccer. Rather than dig up that thread and update it I've started a new one which contains much of that information and any updates many of you posted. With the college season ready to go I thought it was a good time to update. [^]

Like last year I don't consider this list complete or wholly accurate, but rather one compiled from individual university websites, utilizing their information. Some of the websites aren't kept as up-to-date as others thus some of the information isn't as reliable. Feel free once again to comment and provide any information or updates that will make the list more complete. As well, now there is a division II list.

I don't plan on doing a CIS list for reasons listed last year (meaning it would be too big with virtually 98 per cent of the players being Canadian). That doesn't mean I prefer or find one level of a superior quality. The CIS players play in Canada and are accessible by following your local university side (which I do, go Dinos! ).

Enjoy and I hope you find some of the names familiar.

Division I

Appalachian State University (WV): Philip Cavicchia (Sr.) Goalkeeper, Brampton ON

University of Alabama, Birmingham: Lukasz Kwapisz (So.) Forward, Oshawa, ON; Dejan Jakovic (Fr.) Midfeld, Toronto ON; Melford James (So.) Goalkeeper, Brampton ON

Binghamton University (NY): Charles Darkwah (Sr.) Midfield, Toronto ON

Bowling Green University (OH): Omari Aldridge (So.) Forward, Coquitlam BC

Brown University (RI): Matt Britner (So.) Defender, Halifax NS

University at Buffalo: Daniel Bell (So.) Goalkeeper, Brampton ON; Shyle Braithwaite (Fr.) Forward, Brampton ON

University of California Santa Barbara: Tyler Rosenlund (Fr.) Midfield, Port Coquitlam BC; Andrew Proctor (Fr.) Forward, Burnaby BC; Myles Davis (Fr.) Defender, Delta BC.

Campbell University (NC): Chad Aboud (Jr.) Defender, Oakville, ON

Canisius College (NY): Shaun Griffith (Sr.) Forward, Ajax ON.

Centenary College (LA): Aron Taylor (So.) Midfield, Calgary AB; Greg Clarke (Sr.) Midfield, London ON.

Cleveland State University (OH): Harveer Mann (Sr.) Midfield, Windsor ON; Julien Meunier (Fr.) Midfield, Longueuil PQ

Coastal Carolina (SC): Jordie Hughes (Jr.) Forward, Victoria BC

Columbia University (NY): Chris Williams (So.) Defender, Markham ON

Cornell University (NY): Aaron Vieira (Fr.) Midfield Brampton ON

Dartmouth College (NH): Rowan Anders (So.) Goalkeeper, Qualicum Beach BC; Amar Takhar (Jr.) MIdfield, Garibaldi Highlands BC

Denver University: Liam Girard (Jr.) Defender, Victoria BC; James Merriman (So.) Midfield, Nanaimo BC; Mike Seager (So.) Defender; Victoria BC

University of Detroit-Mercy: Ryan Mendonca (So.) Goalkeeper, Belle River, ON; Vahid Assadpour (So.) Midfield, Richmond Hill, ON; Andrew Ornoch (So.) Midfield, Toronto, ON; Michael De Simone (So.) Defender, Mississauga, ON; Sasha Boskovic (Fr.) Goalkeeper, Oakville ON

Drake University (IA): Cole Richardson (So.) Midfield, Calgary AB

Drexel University (PA): Nick Macri (Jr.) Goalkeeper, Toronto ON; Kewsi Klass (So.) Midfield, Mississauga; Jack Przednowek (Fr.) Forward, Brantford ON.

Duke University (NC): Tomek Charowski (Fr.) Midfield, Anderson SC.

Fairfield University (CT): Vasilis Androutsos (Jr.) Midfield, Toronto ON

Fairleigh Dickinson University (NJ): Mathieu Savaria (Sr.) Defender; Montreal PQ; Elkana "Donny" Mayard (Fr.) Defender, Laval PQ.

University of Hartford: Carlo Cudini (Jr.) Defender, Woodbridge ON; Costa Kyritsis (Jr.) Midfield/Defender, Toronto ON; Maurizio Silvestri (Jr.) Defender/Midfield, Woodbridge ON

Hartwick College (NY): Josh Wagenaar (So.) Goalkeeper, Grimsby ON; Tyler Hemming (So.) Defender, London ON

Howard University (DC): Courtney James (Sr.) Midfield, Brampton ON

University of Illinois-Chicago: Roman Tulis (So.) Goalkeeper, Coquitlam BC

IUPU Indianapolis: Matthew Smith (Jr.) Midfield, Toronto ON

Iona College (NY): Sheu Fortunato (Sr.) Midfield, Coquitlam BC

James Madison University (VA): Kayin Jeffers (So.) Defender/Midfield, Oakville ON; Joel Phillips (So.) Midfield/Forward, Scarborough ON; Tristan Murray (Fr.) Midfield, Brampton ON.

University of Kentucky: Jarret Christie (Sr.) Goalkeeper, Vancouver BC; Nathan Li (So.) Midfield, Delta BC; Riley O'Neill (So.) Forward, Campbell River BC; Michael D’Agostino (Fr.) Midfield, Langley BC

Lipscomb University (TN): J.D. Murphy (Jr.) Goalkeeper, Ajax ON

Long Island University (NY): Mustapha Ayoub (Jr.) Midfield/Forward, Toronto ON; Eduardo Molina (Sr.) Defender/Midfield, Montreal PQ

University of Louisville (KY): Devin Matthews (Sr.) Midfield, Vancouver BC; Marco Terminesi (So.) Forward, Woodbridge ON; Jelani Grant (Jr.) Midfield, Markham ON; David Guzman (Fr.) Midfield, Toronto ON; Anthony Celebre (Fr.) Midfield, Woodbridge ON

Loyola College (MD): Jansen Blake (Fr.) Defender, Nepean ON; Dan Mulcahy (Jr.) Goalkeeper, Vancouver BC

University of Maine: Gabriel Germano (So.) Forward, Sainte Foy PQ

Marshall University (WV): Mike Bourassa (Jr.) Midfield, Victoria BC; Nicholas Ademolu (Jr.) Midfield/Forward, Windsor ON

Mercer University (GA): Tyler Lewis (Fr.) Goalkeeper, Vancouver BC

Niagara University (NY): Simon Adair (Sr.) Midfield, Oakville ON; Scott Devlin (So.) Midfield, Sarnia, ON; Sasha Kaplun (Jr.) Defender, Toronto ON; Brian Leonard (So.) Defender, Sarnia ON; Paul VandenBoomen (Jr.) Defender, Victoria BC; Kwame Oduro (Fr.) Forward, Toronto ON.

University of Nevada Las Vegas: Scott McEachern (Fr.) Defender, Langley BC; Mason Trafford (Fr.) Midfield, Vancouver BC

UNC Charlotte: Sean Zubick (Jr.) Midfield, Brampton ON

Oregon State University: Nathan Quan (So.) Midfield, Burnaby BC

Pennsylvania State University: Geordie MacNeill (Fr.) Defender, Markham ON

Philadelphia University: Franco Ruscetta (So.) Defender, Woodbridge, ON; Sherwin Forde (Jr.) Midfield/Forward, Pickering, ON; Luca Zucal (So.) Defender, Woodbridge, ON; Gianni Cimini (Jr.) Midfielder, Toronto ON

Princeton University (NJ): Victor Noskov (Fr.) Defense/Midfield, Toronto ON.

Quinnipiac University (CT): Francis Mavula (So.) Forward, Ottawa ON

University of Rhode Island: Simon Gatti (Jr.) Midfield, Welland ON; Jeffrey Gonsalves (So.) Midfield, Markham ON; Joel Dargan (Jr.) Defender, Montreal PQ

Robert Morris University (PA): Allan Brown (So.) Defender, Newmarket ON; Joe Di Buono (Sr.) Midfield, Vaudreuil PQ; Tomer Chencinski (So.) Goalkeeper, Thornhill ON; Mark Bono (Sr.) Defender, Mt. Hope ON; Dwayne Chin (Fr.) Midfield, North York ON

St. Bonaventure University (NY): Phil Amahazion (So.) Forward, Calgary AB; Kevin Omokhua (So.) Forward, Brampton ON; Andy Garcia (Jr.) Midfield, Mississauga ON; Konrad Paszkowski (Jr.) Defender, Calgary AB; Fredrick Taylor (Jr.) Midfield, Calgary AB.

St. Francis University (PA): Cesar Pena (Jr.) Defender/Midfield, Scarborough ON

Stetson University (FL): Evan White (Fr.) Goalkeeper, Surrey BC

Syracuse University: Richard Asante (So.) Midfield, North York ON; Brad Peetoom (Fr.) Defender, Abbotsford BC; Alim Karim (Jr.) Goalkeeper, Scarborough ON

Towson University (MD): Nigel Marples (So.) Defender, Delta BC; Angus Burke (Fr.) Forward, Delta BC.

University of Washington: Gavin Hobbs (Jr.) Defender, Vancouver BC; Spencer Schmidt (Fr.) Defender, Abbotsford BC

West Virginia University: Bernard Ouassa (Sr.) Midfield, LaSalle PQ

Western Illinois University: Elton Fernandez (So.) Midfield, Toronto ON

Western Michigan University: Keon Jordan (Jr.) Defender, Brampton ON

Winthrop University (SC): Andrea Granzotto (Jr.) Goalkeeper, Woodbridge ON

University of Wisconsin: Frank Iaizzo (So.) Defender/Midfield, North York ON

Wright State University (OH): Winston Marshall (Sr.) Midfield, Scarborough ON; Paul-Anthony Perez (Jr.) Forward, Scarborough ON; Kwaku Gyimah (Fr.) Midfield, Woodbridge ON.

Division II

Alderson-Broaddus College (WV): Gil Vainshtein (So.) Midfield, Richmond Hill ON

American Int. College (MA): Jean-Francois Mercier (Sr.) Midfield, St. Hubert PQ

Anderson College (SC): Jody Forno (Sr.) Defender, Toronto ON

Ashland University (OH): Brendan Volkmar (So.) Midfield/Forward, Winnipeg, MB.

Barry University (FLA): Mike Lupton (Sr.) Midfield/Forward, Qualicum Beach BC; Lee Yakubowich (Fr.) Forward, Victoria BC

Bloomsburg University (PA): Andrew Lansanah (So.) Midfield, Windsor ON

Catabwa College (NC): Nick Brown (Jr.) Defender/Midfield, Ajax ON

Christian Brothers University (TN): Ian Malnis (Fr.) Goalkeeper, Vernon BC; Ryan Peel (Fr.) Midfield, Mission BC

Davis and Elkins College (WV): Donnie MacGregor (Sr) Forward, Ottawa ON; Michael Knox (Fr) Midfield, West Hill ON.

Felician College (NJ): Dario Meo (Fr.) Midfield, Montreal PQ; Dario Fiorino (Sr.) Defender/Midfield, Montreal PQ; Daniel Fiorino (Fr.) Midfield/Forward, Montreal PQ

Franklin Pierce (NH): Michael Vitulano (Fr.) Defender/Midfield, Montreal PQ; Peter Petropanagos (So.) Defender, Mississauga ON; Adam Peros (Fr.) Defender, Mississauga ON

Gannon University (PA): Stefan Kamendy (Jr.) Defender, St. Catharines ON; Brian Yanful (So.) Forward/Midfield, London ON; Adam Maduri (Fr.) Forward/Midfield, Oakville ON; Greg Snazyk (So.) Defender, St. Catharines ON

Lynn University (Fla): Kevin Street (Jr.) Goalkeeper, Brampton ON

Mercy College: Curtis Millar (Jr.) Defender, (No hometown given) Canada

Mercyhurst College (PA): Jason Pedra (So.) Midfield, Mississauga ON

NY Tech: Xavier Paradis (So.) Defender, Longueuil PQ; Ghadi St. Hillien (So.) Defender/Midfield Quebec PQ; Real Paul (Jr.) Goalkeeper, Quebec PQ

University of North Florida: Terry Peak (Jr.) Forward/Midfield, London ON

Nyack College (NY): Oswald Adu (Fr.) Midfield, Toronto ON

Saginaw Valley State (MI): Kyle Grant (Sr) Forward, Milton ON; Claudio Cicchetti (5th Sr) Forward, Ancaster ON

Salem International University (WV): Sladjan Radic (So) Midfield, Windsor ON; Daniel Palcu (Fr.) Defender, Windsor ON; Aaron Hunte (So) Goalkeeper, Mississuaga ON

Seattle Pacific: Michael Brkich (Sr) Midfield, Vancouver BC; Kye Taylor (Jr) Mid/Def, Powell River BC.

Seattle University: Alex Chursky (Jr.) Forward, Federal Way WA.

University South Carolina Aiken: Eugene Eshun-Philips (Jr.) Midfield, Toronto ON

University South Carolina Upstate: Jordan Wanner (So.) Goalkeeper, Regina SK

St. Joseph's College (Ind.): Reshad Etminan (Fr) Surrey BC; Adrian Llewellyn (Sr) Midfield, Toronto ON; John Grigorakis (So.) Midfield, Belle River ON

Saint Michael's College (Vt.): Derek McCann (So.) Forward, Beaconsfield PQ.

Southern Connecticut State University: Ilias Calaitzidis (Jr.) Midfield, Brossard PQ; Sean Keane (Fr.) Midfield, Guelph ON; Christian Kabeya (Fr.) Forward, Montreal PQ.

Southern New Hampshire University: Dan Pelc, Goalkeeper, (Fr.) Hamilton, ON

Tusculum College (TN.): J.P. Swaminathan (So.) Goalkeeper, Brampton ON; Gerald Watt (Jr.) Midfield, Brampton ON; Matt Rouse (Sr.) Midfield, Woodstock ON; Matt Cuthbert (Fr.) Defender, London ON; Matt Ross (Fr.) Defender, Brampton ON; Damion Scott (Fr.) Defender, Brampton ON

Wheeling Jesuit (WV): Gaston Orique (So.) Defender,Toronto ON; Karl Pagels (Fr.) Forward, Toronto ON; Peter D'Amore (Fr.) Midfielder, Windsor ON; Preston Pierce (So.) Defender, Toronto ON

[Daniel]

University of Evansville (IN): J.P. Etienne (So.) Midfield, Anjou PQ

Woooo, another player I played against. He was the sh-it when we were 10 .

And with Otto, we now know not to write off our boys in D-II.

[loyola]

quote:Originally posted by Daniel

University of Evansville (IN): J.P. Etienne (So.) Midfield, Anjou PQ

Woooo, another player I played against. He was the sh-it when we were 10 .

And with Otto, we now know not to write off our boys in D-II.

Olivier Occean and Olivieri are both from DII powerhouse Southern Connecticut and Allen Marcina played at DII Barry University.

Also we should not write off D3 players since Greg Sutton played at St-Lawrence University. And there's an Argentina national team player who played with a D3 team in New Jersey, I don't remeber is name but I know that he played or is still playing with Real Madrid.

[Andrew W]

Did you guys read the preamble? I said there will be a Div. II list next week. I've already got the guy from South NH in my master list. Putting these things together takes a little time you know.

Nobody's been written off.

[loyola]

quote:Originally posted by Andrew W

Did you guys read the preamble? I said there will be a Div. II list next week. I've already got the guy from South NH in my master list. Putting these things together takes a little time you know.

Nobody's been written off.

I was just mentionning those names out of my head, I,m not saying that someone has been written off. I was just trying to give the names of canadians players who once PLAYED in the NCAA D2 or 3.

And I forgot about Felix Brillant.

[bc_soccer_fan]

Here is a guy that you missed. He plays for the University of Loyola.

http://loyolagreyhounds.collegesports.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/mulcahy_dan00.html

It says that he was born in Vancouver.

[marcl_19]

quote:Originally posted by loyola

Olivier Occean and Olivieri are both from DII powerhouse Southern Connecticut and Allen Marcina played at DII Barry University.

Also we should not write off D3 players since Greg Sutton played at St-Lawrence University. And there's an Argentina national team player who played with a D3 team in New Jersey, I don't remeber is name but I know that he played or is still playing with Real Madrid.

Camiso or Cambrisso or something like that?

[Andrew W]

quote:Originally posted by bc_soccer_fan

Here is a guy that you missed. He plays for the University of Loyola.

http://loyolagreyhounds.collegesports.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/mulcahy_dan00.html

It says that he was born in Vancouver.

Got him. Easy enough to miss because he doesn't use Vancouver in the roster as his hometown.

Thanks.

[bc_soccer_fan]

Another guy you missed is Anthony Celebre from the U of Louisville.

http://uoflsports.collegesports.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/celebre_anthony00.html

[Andrew W]

quote:Originally posted by bc_soccer_fan

Another guy you missed is Anthony Celebre from the U of Louisville.

http://uoflsports.collegesports.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/celebre_anthony00.html

He's in too. Some of these sites are recent updates. Louisville just updated their men's soccer section this past weekend, so I kind of was just quickly adding in people and missed that one. It happens.

[bungey]

Thanks for all the work you put into this, Andrew.

[Andrew W]

Thanks for the props.

It actually doesn't take as long as I thought, particularly after compiling the initial list last year. At least I had that to go on. Division II is a trifle more difficult because there are more schools and the web pages can be less reliable than some of the Div. I sites (particularly the big schools where there is likely a whole web division). I'll be doing my final sweep through the Div. II sites this week waiting for updated soccer sections. I hope they're updated. [xx(]

[Jason]

On the topic of NCAA soccer, has anyone heard what Rob Catana is up to? He should have graduated from Hartwick College last year. I expected him to be playing for the Aviators or Mustangs this year.

Jason

[BC supporter]

Interesting list, Andrew. Also intriguing to see that the two major schools in Kentucky -- UK and Louisville (both of whom are huge basketball powers) -- have 9 Canadians between them. UK's are all from BC, and Louisville's (mostly) from Ontario. I wonder how these two pipelines got started?

[nolando]

Yeah good job Andrew. You wouldn't happen to know an an infamous buddy of mine from Olds, now would you? Paul Becker?

[Andrew W]

A few thoughts:

Sorry, don't know Paul Becker, although in a town this size it's the usual "name sounds familiar though" . We've only lived here a couple of years.

As for the pipeline to the Kentucky schools, I have no idea where the UK connection is, however I read once on the Louisville site that the coach has a connection with someone in the Woodbridge soccer system. Adrian Cann played there as did Marco Terminesi and now Celebre. They likely played against Grant in the Scarborough system. As for Matthews, no idea.

As for Rob Catana, no idea either. He hasn't returned as a fifth year senior so he's not at Hartwick anymore. I expected him to show up on one of the Alberta A-League teams.

[Andrew W]

Hello again, Today (Friday) I just added a list of the Division II players up in the first posting. Like the Div. I guys, this is compiled from the schools' websites, so not all are updated while others still don't have any information or old information (and the Div. II sites can generally be less reliable than those of Div. I schools). So as the saying goes: I did the best I could with what I had. I'll try to update it when I find something or one of you does. Just post any additions or deletions.

Thinking of adding a Div. III and possibly an NAIA list as well.

Enjoy.

[Andrew W]

Just added an update as Dwayne Chin at Robert Morris was not on my original posting.

Been checking on some of the Canadian guys and many are off to great starts. I'll post any updates to rosters that I (or you) find and anything else of note.

[Guest Jeffery S.]

quote:Originally posted by marcl_19

Camiso or Cambrisso or something like that?

Esteban Cambiasso has been transferred to Inter Milan, has Italian passport. Before Madrid he was at River, went pro about 5 years ago.

[Andrew W]

Well, I've done a few updates as of now. Couple of new players in and a couple of deletions.

One guy I'm wondering about is Frank Bruno from Syracuse who played with our U-20s. He is no longer listed with the 'Cuse, so I wonder where he is at, if anyone has any info.

In another piece of news, Matt Britner of Brown and the U-20 nats is out for the season with an injury. No idea what the injury is.

Cheers

[hiltonhero]

Frank Bruno is currently with the Kansas City Wizards of the MLS he has beent there for 2 weeks already and doing very well, ive also heard from an inside source that he will be returning to Toronto in about 2 weeks time and will be returning to KC in january when preseason starts up again.

Maybe another Canuck MLS player, maybe deserving a call up for the MNT.

If anyone has more info please post

[Andrew W]

quote:Originally posted by Sigma

Just so you know, most Div III schools have websites. When I played, I only ran into three other Canadian players. I would expect more Canadian players in the NAIA then Div III.

I have access to all the Div I through Div. III links though the NCAA.org site. NAIA also has its own site. I did have Div. III list last year which I posted on last year's thread. NAIA will have more simply because of SFU which plays at that level, although there are others. I think the main difference is most Div. III schools do not offer full-ride scholarships for athletics.

BTW, what school did you attend? You must be a smart cookie because many of the Div. III schools maintain fairly high academic standards.

Cheers

[Andrew W]

quote:Originally posted by hiltonhero

Frank Bruno is currently with the Kansas City Wizards of the MLS he has beent there for 2 weeks already and doing very well, ive also heard from an inside source that he will be returning to Toronto in about 2 weeks time and will be returning to KC in january when preseason starts up again.

Maybe another Canuck MLS player, maybe deserving a call up for the MNT.

If anyone has more info please post

Thanks for the information.

[bc_soccer_fan]

Hey Andrew I found this site with a list of Canadians in NCAA div 1, 2 and 3, plus NAIA.

http://www.bcsoccerweb.com/university_men.htm

[loyola]

This list is one year old since they still list Olivier Occean, Ademolu and Simpson as Senior in their respective college. But it is still a good find.