August 25, 2001
B.B. Branton
(931) 598-1136
Men's Soccer:
Three Sewanee Players Named to SCAC Pre-Season Team
(SEWANEE, Tenn.) -- Sewanee senior co-captains Ryan Davis and Paul Roper and senior Andrew North have been named to the 2001 pre-season All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men's soccer team.
Davis (Sr. Duncanville, Texas/Duncanville HS) has 20 career goals, was 2nd team All-South as a junior and 2nd team All-SCAC the last two years. He has started every match (57) the past three seasons.
Roper (Sr. GK, Richmond, Va./Collegiate School) was 1st team All-SCAC and 2nd team All-South as a junior and has 13 career shutouts, with a .095 goals against average per match.
North (Sr. Florence, S.C./Chattanooga Baylor School) was 2nd team All-SCAC as a junior and has 16 career goals and seven match-winning goals in three years at Sewanee.
Sewanee is picked to finish fourth in the conference by the voting of the conference coaches, behind defending champ Trinity, DePauw and Rhodes. Trinity received eight first place votes, while DePauw and Rhodes had one vote each.
Sewanee, 16-3-0 last season, is ranked No. 25 in pre-season and opens the season by hosting the Kyle Rote Jr. Invitational tournament, Sept. 1-2.
| 2001 Preseason All-SCAC Men's Soccer Team | ||||
| Josh Card | Trinity | Jr. | F | Dallas, Texas |
| Andy Cohen | DePauw | Jr. | F | Fort Wayne, Ind. |
| Ryan Davis | Sewanee | Sr. | F | Duncanville, Texas |
| J. R. Foster | DePauw | Sr. | F | Cincinatti, Ohio |
| Dylan Harrison | Trinity | Sr. | D | Austin, TX |
| Sal Lopez | Southwestern | Jr. | F | San Antonio, Texas |
| Andrew North | Sewanee | Sr. | MF | Florence, S.C. |
| Chris Garcia-Prats | Trinity | Sr. | MF | Houston, Texas |
| Paul Roper | Sewanee | Sr. | GK | Richmond, Va. |
| Nick Reed | Rhodes | Sr. | MF | College Park, Ga. |
| Josh Smith | Trinity | So. | MF | Dallas, Texas |
| 2001 Preseason All-SCAC Selections by Team | |
| Trinity University | 4 |
| University of the South | 3 |
| DePauw University | 2 |
| Rhodes College | 1 |
| Southwestern University | 1 |
| 2001 SCAC Men's Soccer Predicted Order of Finish | ||
| 1. | Trinity University Tigers (8) | 98 |
| 2. | DePauw University Lynx | 88 |
| 3. | Rhodes College Lynx | 74 |
| 4. | The University of the South (Sewanee) Tigers | 68 |
| 5. | Centre College Colonels | 66 |
| 6. | Southwestern University Pirates | 56 |
| 7. | Oglethorpe University Stormy Petrels | 36 |
| 8. | Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Engineers | 30 |
| 9. | Millsaps College Majors | 22 |
| 10. | Hendrix College Warriors | 12 |