Messiah College Media Mentions

Jess Rhoads, the pitcher for the Messiah College softball team, has the team off to a great start, despite rehabbing both a knee and shoulder. On April 2, the York Daily Record talked to Jess about her off season and her hopes for the Falcons in 2011.

Read “Messiah College’s Rhoads riding a solid streak.” 

Chris Heisey, the Messiah alum who has worked his way into the Major Leagues, is interviewed by the Billings Gazette,  the hometown newspaper of the first farm team he was on before making his way to the Cincinnati Reds team. The article ran March 25.

Read “Chris Heisey — Can’t keep a good outfielder down.”

A native of Biatorbagy, Hungary, Dori Gyori came to central Pennsylvania her senior of high school and lived with Messiah Women’s Basketball Coach Mike Miller and his family. She quickly demonstrated her outstanding basketball skills on a high school team. Now, she is Messiah’s leading scorer and rebounder, according to a February 25 Harrisburg Patriot-News article.

Read “Gyori’s finding her way.”

On December 12 the Harrisburg Patriot-News wrote an extensive, three-page story about Messiah athletics and the coaches and players responsible for the “wild success of the College’s athletic program.”

Read “Winning is a family tradition at Messiah College.”

Jared Clugston led Messiah to three Division III national championships as a goalkeeper for the men’s soccer team. But, after his graduation in 2010 and while waiting to hear from the U.S. Marshals, Clugston began exploring his options for joining a bobsledding team. Clugston not only succeeded but made the U.S. National Bobseld Team, according to a December 9 article in the Pottsown Mercury.

Read “Former Upper Perk soccer star chasing Olympic bobsledding dream.”

The Thompsons-three–Logan, Danny, and Nick–grew up sharing a love of soccer. They never anticipated that soccer  would bring them each to Messiah College where they would share together in multiple quests for national championships. The eldest Thompson, Nick, is the Falcons leading scorer. CBS 21 (WHP) interviewed the brothers on December 2, just days before they left to clinch the Falcons’ eighth national championship.

Read “Rare feat: Three brothers play for NCAA soccer title.”

Dad coaches his freshman daughter on the the Messiah’s women’s team while his son racks up points for the men’s team. Soccer is in the blood for Scott Frey and his children Alicia and Drew who are both standouts on their respective teams, according to a December 4 York Daily Record article. The family traveled to Texas for the NCAA Division III national championships games this past weekend. The men came home victorious and the women lost a heartbreaker.

Read “Frey family bound together through soccer.”

The Harrisburg Patriot-News interviewed men’s and women’s soccer players as well as Messiah students to find out how the campus feels about their teams vying for another national championship this weekend in San Antonio, TX.  The story, which ran on November 30, reviews some of the history-making statistics racked up by these teams over the years.

Read “Kickin’ it.”

Alicia Frey, daughter of women’s soccer coach Scott Frey, is having an incredible first-year season with the Falcons and has earned a spot as the third-leading scorer. Alicia talked to the Patriot-News for a late October story about her journey to Messiah College and what it’s like playing for one of the winningest teams in NCAA history.

Read “For daughter, playing next level took devleopment.”

The Falcons beat York College on September 28 and clinched an NCAA Division III record — most consecutive wins with 61! The team hasn’t lost a game since they suffered a 1-0 defeat in the 2007 championship game to Wheaton. On October 1, the Harrisburg Patriot-News wrote about Messiah’s dominance.

Read “Messiah raises bar again.”