Hartwick Hawks men's soccer

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Hartwick Hawks men's soccer
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Founded1956;67 years ago (1956)
University Hartwick College
Head coachJohn Scott
Conference Empire 8
Location Oneonta, New York
StadiumElmore Field
(Capacity: 3,000)
NicknameHawks
ColorsRoyal blue and white
   
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NCAA Tournament championships
1977
NCAA Tournament College Cup
1970, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1985
NCAA Tournament Quarterfinals
1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986
NCAA Tournament appearances
DI: 1962, 1964, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1993, 1995, 2005, 2014, 2015
D II: 1972
Conference Tournament championships
Atlantic Soccer Conference: 2005
Sun Belt Conference: 2014, 2015
Conference Regular Season championships
Atlantic Soccer Conference: 2005
Sun Belt Conference: 2014, 2015

The Hartwick Hawks men's soccer team represents Hartwick College as member of the Empire 8 in NCAA Division III. The Hawks play their home matches on Elmore Field located on the Hartwick campus in Oneonta, New York. The team is coached by John Scott, the seventh head coach in the program's long history. [1] The Hawks were distinguished by being the only Division III program [2] playing Division I men's soccer as an affiliate member of the Sun Belt Conference [3] and by having won the 1977 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship. [4] However, on February 28, 2018, Hartwick announced that the men's soccer program would be moving from D1 to D3. [5]

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History

Hartwick men's soccer was started by Hal Greig in 1956, three years before the NCAA began sanctioning the sport. Building slowly, Greig headed the program for four years, leading the Hawks to their first two winning seasons.

Greig was succeeded by David Haase, who in seven seasons had five winning teams, two more with .500 records, and led the Hawks to their first two NCAA Men's Soccer Championship tournaments in 1962 and 1964.

Al Miller headed the program for six seasons, leading the Hawks to five NCAA Tournaments, including their first College Cup placing third in 1970. Miller was coach when, in 1972, the NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was begun. Hartwick, along with many other "non-major" schools, moved into the new division. Following that season, Miller was hired away into the ranks of professional soccer.

After only one season in DII, Hartwick and several other of the more prominent DII soccer programs moved back to Division I. Timo Liekoski headed the program for three seasons, gaining three NCAA tournaments, and a second third-place finish in 1974 before he, too, was hired away to the pros.

Liekoski was succeeded by Jim Lennox, who remained at the Hartford helm for twenty-seven seasons. Under Lennox, the Hawks advanced to thirteen NCAA tournaments, five College Cups, and the 1977 NCAA Championship. By the time Lennox departed Hartwick for the NSCAA, several of the "major" athletic conferences had come to emphasize soccer, and the non-major soccer independents like Hartwick were largely overtaken by big-budget major schools. While Lennox's teams made the NCAA tournament in eleven of his first twelve seasons, they made only three of his last fifteen, including missing during each of his last seven seasons at Hartwick. In 2000, Hartwick left the ranks of the independent schools, joining the Atlantic Soccer Conference (ASC). In 2002, Lennox quit the Hartwick post unexpectedly to become Director of Coaching Education for the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). For his work at Hartwick and the NSCAA, he was named to the NSCAA Hall of Fame in 2013. [6]

Ian McIntyre followed Lennox. His Hawks had five winning seasons in seven years. They won the ASC regular season and tournament titles in 2005, putting Hartwick in the NCAA tournament for the first time in ten years. In 2007, Hartwick became an affiliate member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC).

Hartwick has been coached by John Scott since 2010. In 2013, the MAC eliminated affiliate members, and Hartwick became an affiliate of the Sun Belt Conference, which added men's soccer in 2014 for the first time since 1995. In the first season in the Sun Belt, while having an overall record of only 6–10–4, the Hawks went 3-1-1 in conference competition to win the regular season championship, then won the conference tournament to advance to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005. Building on that success, the 2015 Hawks were 11–6–3, repeating as conference champions at 5–0–0, winning their second conference tournament, and earning successive NCAA tournament spots for the first time since 1986–87.

Hartwick was playing Division I men's soccer and awarding athletic scholarships to soccer players before the NCAA initiated the non-scholarship Division III in 1974–75. Several other schools that moved into Division III also were awarding scholarships in ice hockey, lacrosse, or volleyball. These schools (originally nine, now eight) were "grandfathered" into Division I in their one sport as long as they had sport from the other gender (usually a women's program) also in D1 to meet Title IX requirements (Hartwick chose to start a D1 women's polo program, but eliminated the program when it moved the men's soccer program back to D3 in February 2018).

Roster

As of July 5, 2022 [7]

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

No.Pos.NationPlayer
1 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jodi Johnson
3 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jake Zona
5 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jimmy Noel
6 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ryan Cooke
7 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Matteo Sweet
8 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jim Mahony
10 MF Flag of Mexico.svg  MEX Diego Espinola
11 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ethan Kaiser
12 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Tyler Muir
13 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Peter Crawford
14 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Timmy O'Connor
No.Pos.NationPlayer
15 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Ben Hulbert
16 DF Flag of India.svg  IND Ansh Budhwar
18 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Drew Crawford
19 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Joey Bertone
20 FW Flag of the United States.svg  USA Brady Cummings
22 MF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Zach Craft
23 DF Flag of Mexico.svg  MEX Rodrigo Fernandez
24 DF Flag of the United States.svg  USA Nik Heasley
25 DF Flag of Mexico.svg  MEX Jose Moreno
30 GK Flag of the United States.svg  USA Jackson Gilstrap

Record by year

Sources [8] [9] [10]

Statistics overview
SeasonCoachOverallConferenceStandingPostseason
Hartwick Hawks (Single division independent)(1956–1971)
1956Hal Greig 2–3–0
1957Hal Greig 3–4–0
1958Hal Greig 5–4–0
1959Hal Greig 8–1–0
Hal Greig:18–12–0 (.600)
1960David Haase 4–4–0
1961David Haase 8–1–1
1962David Haase 10–2–0NCAA 1st round
1963David Haase 10–1–0
1964David Haase 9–2–0NCAA 1st round
-1965David Haase 4–4–1
1966David Haase 10–1–1Atlantic Coast Tournament 2nd
David Haase:55–15–3 (.774)
1967 Al Miller 11–1–0Atlantic Coast Tournament 2nd
1968Al Miller 9–3–0NCAA Quarterfinals
1969Al Miller 10–2–1NCAA Quarterfinals
1970Al Miller 14–1–0NCAA 3rd Place
1971Al Miller 11–2–1NCAA Quarterfinals
Hartwick Hawks (Division II independent)(1972–1972)
1972Al Miller 9–3–1NCAA DII 2nd round
Al Miller:64–12–3 (.829)
Hartwick Hawks (Division I independent)(1973–1999)
1973 Timo Liekoski 9–2–1NCAA Quarterfinals
1974Timo Liekoski 10–4–3NCAA 3rd Place
1975Timo Liekoski 9–3–1NCAA 2nd round
Timo Liekoski:30–9–7 (.728)
1976Jim Lennox 16–1–1NCAA 3rd Place
1977Jim Lennox 16–0–2NCAA Champion
1978Jim Lennox 10–5–1NCAA 1st round
1979Jim Lennox 12–3–2NCAA 2nd round
1980Jim Lennox 14–7–1NCAA 4th place
1981Jim Lennox 10–6–4ECAC Champions
1982Jim Lennox 13–5–1
1983Jim Lennox 13–4–1NCAA 2nd round
1984Jim Lennox 16–5–1NCAA 3rd Place
1985Jim Lennox 17–3–1NCAA 3rd Place
1986Jim Lennox 13–7–1NCAA Quarterfinals
1987Jim Lennox 10–5–4NCAA 2nd round
1988Jim Lennox 9–8–2
1989Jim Lennox 13–5–2NCAA 1st round
1990Jim Lennox 10–7–3
1991Jim Lennox 8–10–2
1992Jim Lennox 12–5–0
1993Jim Lennox 16–4–2NCAA 2nd round
1994Jim Lennox 11–5–3
1995Jim Lennox 13–2–6NCAA 2nd round
1996Jim Lennox 8–12–0
1997Jim Lennox 9–8–1
1998Jim Lennox 8–10–1
1999Jim Lennox 9–9–1
Hartwick Hawks (Atlantic Soccer Conference)(2000–2006)
2000Jim Lennox 11–8–15–2–1t-2nd
2001Jim Lennox 12–8–03–3–04th
2002Jim Lennox 9–7–34–1–02nd
Jim Lennox:318–163–43 (.648)12–6–1
2003 Ian McIntyre 15–2–13–1–12nd
2004Ian McIntyre 13–3–14–1–02nd
2005Ian McIntyre 13–6–15–1–01stNCAA 1st round
2006Ian McIntyre 8–10–23–2–1t-2nd
Hartwick Hawks (Mid-American Conference)(2006–2013)
2007Ian McIntyre 5–6–72–1–23rd
2008Ian McIntyre 7–5–72–2–24th
2009Ian McIntyre 10–4–43–2–22nd
Ian McIntyre:71–36–25 (.633)22–10
2010John Scott 2–14–11–5–07th
2011John Scott 5–6–51–2–35th
2012John Scott 5–10–22–5–07th
2013John Scott 5–9–43–2–13rd
Hartwick Hawks (Sun Belt Conference)(2014–present)
2014John Scott 6–10–43–1–11stNCAA 1st round
2015John Scott 11–6–35–0–01stNCAA 1st round
2016John Scott 9–6–42–2–14th
2017John Scott 7–9–22–2–14th
John Scott:50–70–25 (.431)17–17–6
Total:606–317–106 (.640)

      National champion        Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion        Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion      Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

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