Despite the loss of the championship game to Penn College, Rich Chilcoat, Penn State York’s soccer team’s coach, is effusive in his praise. Describing the game, played Sunday Nov. 11 at Jeffrey Field on the Penn State University Park campus, he said, “I dare say we outplayed them for the better part of the game. Our style of play was cleaner. I would say it was the best game we played all year.”

What really lost the game, according to Chilcoat, was inexperience. Penn State York started ten freshmen, while Penn College’s team was mostly juniors and seniors. “Coming in, I thought we had to be perfect and they had to be average for us to win. And quite frankly, we were … nearly perfect and they were average. It was just unfortunate that we made a couple mistakes that cost us,” he said.

The ending record for Penn State York’s season was 12-4. Notably, not a single home game was a loss.

“It was a very outstanding year, it’s a testament to the players” said Chilcoat about the 2007 fall season. “Never in my career did we have players work this hard. It was a joy.”

2006-2007 Awards

2007-2008 Awards

First-year awards: Colton M. Allison, York; Suhaib M. Alqaddomi †, York; Matthew D. Bieber, York; Joseph D. Dizio, York; Christopher R. Jones, East Berlin; Daniel C. Montague †, Lancaster; Andrew W. Rudisill *, Dover; Inwoo Seo, Marietta; Logan D. Shaffer, York; John F. Suarez *†, York; and Tyson B. Wright *, York.

Second-year awards: Neel Arora *, York and Brian A. Helm †, Spring Grove.

Broadbent Award – John F. Suarez

Christopher C. Miller Sportsmanship Award –Christopher R. Jones, East Berlin

* = Academic All-Conference

†= All-Conference PSUAC

2007 Roster