2019 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team

The 2019 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team represented Virginia Tech during the 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer season. It was the 48th season of the University fielding a program. The Hokies played their home games at Sandra D. Thompson Field in Blacksburg, Virginia. The Hokies were led by eleventh year head coach Mike Brizendine.

2019 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer
Fairfield Inn/JMU Invitational Champions
NCAA Tournament, Third Round
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
U. Soc. Coaches poll	No. 13
TopDrawerSoccer.com	No. 12
Record	10–6–3 (2–4–2 ACC)
Head coach	Mike Brizendine (11th season)
Assistant coaches	Patrick McSorley (10th season) Josh Dunn (1st season)
Home stadium	Thompson Field
Seasons ← 2018 2020 →

2019 ACC men's soccer standings

v t e	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Atlantic
No. 5 Clemson +	6	–	1	–	1			18	–	2	–	2
No. 3 Wake Forest +	6	–	2	–	0			16	–	5	–	2
NC State +	3	–	4	–	1			9	–	7	–	3
No. 20 Louisville +	3	–	4	–	1			10	–	8	–	2
Boston College +	2	–	4	–	2			9	–	6	–	3
Syracuse +	2	–	4	–	2			8	–	7	–	4
Coastal
No. 2 Virginia ‡	6	–	1	–	1			21	–	1	–	2
Pittsburgh +	4	–	3	–	1			10	–	8	–	2
Notre Dame +	3	–	5	–	0			10	–	8	–	1
North Carolina	3	–	5	–	0			7	–	8	–	3
No. 13 Virginia Tech +	2	–	4	–	2			10	–	6	–	3
Duke	2	–	5	–	1			7	–	9	–	2
‡ – 2019 ACC Tournament champion + – Invited to the 2019 NCAA tournament As of 17 December 2019 Rankings from United Soccer Coaches Source:The ACC

Background

Main article: 2018 Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer team

The 2018 Virginia Tech men's soccer team finished the season with a 11–7–3 overall record and a 3–4–1 ACC record. The Hokies were seeded seventh–overall in the 2018 ACC Men's Soccer Tournament. The Hokies won their first round match up against Syracuse, but fell to North Carolina in the second round. The Hokies earned an at-large bid into the 2018 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. As the twelfth overall seed Virginia Tech defeated Charlotte in the second round, before losing to James Madison in the third round.

Player movement

Players leaving

Name	Number	Pos.	Height	Year	Hometown	Reason for departure
Arion Sobers-Assue	11	FW	6'0"	Senior	Miami, FL	Graduated
Rory Slevin	16	MF	5'11"	Senior	Middletown, NJ	Graduated

Players arriving

Virginia Tech announced its 2019 signing class of six players on November 28, 2018.^[1]

Name	Nat.	Hometown	Club	TDS Rating
Alex Adjetey FW	GHA	Accra, Ghana	Beachside Academy	^[2]
Nicholas Blacklock FW	USA	Hellertown, PA	Philadelphia Union	^[3]
Daniel Pereira MF	VEN	Roanoke, VA	Roanoke Star	^[4]
Daniel Starr FW	USA	Charlottesville, VA	SOCA	^[5]
Kyle Stenzel DF	USA	Staunton, VA	SOCA	^[6]
Matt Zambetti GK	USA	Mechanicsburg, PA	HMMS Eagle FC	^[7]

Squad

Roster

Updated: December 2, 2019^[8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK   USA Connor Jordan-Hyde 1 GK   NED Mathijs Swaneveld 2 DF   USA Will Mejia 3 DF   NOR Sivert Haugli 4 MF   USA Kyle Stenzel 5 DF   ISL Jon Ingason 6 FW   USA Brendan Moyers 7 FW   USA Nico Quashie 8 FW   USA James Kasak 9 MF   VEN Daniel Pereira 10 MF   USA Chris Little 11 FW   USA Daniel Starr 12 MF   FIN Emil Koho 13 DF   CAN Nikal Clarke-Smith 14 FW   USA Kahlil Dover 15 MF   USA Kristo Strickler

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 FW   USA Nick Blacklock 17 DF   SUI Marc Hoppler 18 FW   USA Jacob Labovitz 19 DF   USA Nathan Durst 20 MF   USA Femi Adu 21 MF   USA Camron Lennon 22 DF   USA Mason McClendon 23 FW   USA Evans Moyo 24 MF   FIN Justus Kauppinen 25 GK   USA Matt Zambetti 26 DF   USA Chris Nicola 27 GK   USA Hayden Kickbush 30 FW   GHA Alex Adjetey 31 FW   GER Jakob Bluemler 32 MF   USA Andrew Weber

Team management

Position	Staff
Athletic Director	Whit Babcock
Head Coach	Mike Brizendine
Assistant Coach	Patrick McSorley
Assistant Coach	Josh Dunn

Source:^[8]

Schedule

Source:^[9]

Date Time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site (Attendance) City, State
Exhibition
August 16* 4:00 p.m.	No. 16	at No. 23 West Virginia	W 3–1	– (–)	Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium Morgantown, WV
August 20* 7:00 p.m.	No. 16	Old Dominion	W 2–1^[10]	– (–)	Thompson Field Blacksburg, VA
August 24* 4:00 p.m.	No. 16	No. 13 Georgetown	L 0–3	– (–)	Thompson Field Blacksburg, VA
Regular season
August 30* 7:00 p.m.	No. 16	at Loyola Marymount	W 2–1	1–0–0 (0–0–0)	Sullivan Field (0) Los Angeles, CA
September 1* 7:00 p.m.	No. 16	at UC Santa Barbara	W 3–1	2–0–0 (0–0–0)	Harder Stadium (1,500) Santa Barbara, CA
September 6* 4:00 p.m.	No. 10	vs. Loyola JMU Invitational	W 2–1	3–0–0 (0–0–0)	Sentara Park (0) Harrisonburg, VA
September 8* 4:00 p.m.	No. 10	vs. Hofstra JMU Invitational	W 4–3	4–0–0 (0–0–0)	Sentara Park (0) Harrisonburg, VA
September 13 7:00 p.m.	No. 9	No. 18 North Carolina	L 1–3	4–1–0 (0–1–0)	Thompson Field (2,012) Blacksburg, VA
September 17* 7:00 p.m.	No. 17	Grand Canyon	W 4–0	5–1–0 (0–1–0)	Thompson Field (712) Blacksburg, VA
September 20 7:30 p.m.	No. 17	at Louisville	L 1–2	5–2–0 (0–2–0)	Lynn Stadium (1,164) Louisville, KY
September 27 1:00 p.m.	No. 18	Boston College	T 2–2 ^2OT	5–2–1 (0–2–1)	Thompson Field (1,232) Blacksburg, VA
October 1* 7:00 p.m.	No. 22	Gardner-Webb	W 4–0	6–2–1 (0–2–1)	Thompson Field (409) Blacksburg, VA
October 5 7:00 p.m.	No. 22	at No. 6 Clemson	T 0–0 ^2OT	6–2–2 (0–2–2)	Riggs Field (1,639) Clemson, SC
October 11 7:00 p.m.	No. 22	at Pittsburgh	L 1–3	6–3–2 (0–3–2)	Ambrose Urbanic Field (621) Pittsburgh, PA
October 18 5:30 p.m.		Notre Dame	W 2–1	7–3–2 (1–3–2)	Thompson Field (822) Blacksburg, VA
October 22* 7:00 p.m.	No. 25	Longwood	Postponed ^[11]	0–0–0 (0–0–0)	Thompson Field Blacksburg, VA
October 25 7:00 p.m.	No. 25	No. 6 Virginia Rivalry	L 0–2	7–4–2 (1–4–2)	Thompson Field (1,738) Blacksburg, VA
October 29* 7:00 p.m.	No. 22	at Princeton	L 2–3	7–5–2 (1–4–2)	Roberts Stadium (200) Princeton, NJ
November 1 7:00 p.m.	No. 22	at Duke	W 2–1	8–5–2 (2–4–2)	Koskinen Stadium (793) Durham, NC
ACC Tournament
November 6 4:00 p.m.	(11) No. 22	at (6) Louisville First Round	W 2–0	9–5–2	Lynn Stadium (255) Louisville, KY
November 10 5:00 p.m.	(11) No. 22	at (3) No. 7 Wake Forest Quarterfinals	T 2–2 (5–6 PKs) ^2OT	9–5–3	Spry Stadium (2,009) Winston-Salem, NC
NCAA Tournament
November 24 4:00 p.m.	(10) No. 23	No. 16 New Hampshire Second Round	W 4–1	10–5–3	Thompson Field (420) Blacksburg, VA
December 1 8:00 p.m.	(10) No. 23	at (7) No. 7 Stanford Third Round	L 1–2	10–6–3	Laird Q. Cagan Stadium (664) Stanford, CA
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from United Soccer Coaches. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.

Awards and honors

Recipient	Award	Date	Ref.
Kristo Strickler	All-ACC Second Team	November 13, 2019	^[12]
Daniel Pereira	All-ACC Freshman Team

2020 MLS Super Draft

Main article: 2020 MLS SuperDraft

Player	Team	Round	Pick #	Position
James Kasak	Sporting Kansas City	4	84	DF

Source:^[13]

Rankings

Main article: 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer 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]	16	10	9	17	18	22	22	RV	25	22	22	19	23	None Released				13
TopDrawer Soccer ^[15]	19	19	19	17	15	13	10	12	16	17	20	19	13	12	11	12	12	12

See also

• Virginia Tech Hokies men's soccer
• 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference men's soccer season
• 2019 NCAA Division I men's soccer season

References

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4. "Daniel Pereira". topdrawersoccer.com. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
5. "Daniel Starr". topdrawersoccer.com. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
6. "Kyle Stenzel". topdrawersoccer.com. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
7. "Matt Zambetti". topdrawersoccer.com. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
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