Messiah College News Archive

CBS Sports Presents Championships of the NCAA will air at 2 p.m. on July 4 and include footage from the softball team’s recent national championship. The one-hour special will also include video highlights from baseball, golf, rowing, tennis, and track and field.

Softball coach Amy Weaver and her team of assistants earned the National Fastpitch Coaches Association 2009 Division III Coaching Staff of the Year award after coaching the Falcons to a national championship and 43-4 season record.

The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association has ranked the Messiah College women ninth in the nation among DIII schools. The recognition is based on the teams’ finishes in the cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field seasons.

Junior Kristen Bates posted an impressive second place finish in the 100-meter hurdles while teammate Patrick Roach, senior, finished second in the 800-meter run.

Read more about Messiah’s performance at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships.

The Falcons clinched their first national championship with a 2-0 victory over Coe College.

For the first time in the program’s history, the Messiah College softball team (42-4) will play for the NCAA Division III national championship today.

Read more about the Falcons’ season.

Kai Kasiguran, an outstanding midfielder who helped lead the Falcons to three national championships between 2004 and 2006, will return to central Pennsylvania to play for the Harrisburg City Islanders professional soccer team.

In 2008, Kasiguran was drafted in the first round of the supplemental draft to play for the Major League soccer team, Chicago Fire.

Brad McCarty, Messiah’s top assistant for the past eight years, is appointed the new men’s soccer coach, becoming the seventh coach in the program’s 42-year history.

Senior J.D. Binger and junior Amanda Naeher are recognized by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America with Division III Player of the Year titles.

Binger, a Belvidere, Ill. native, has been a defensive anchor for the Falcons throughout his career. He started all 26 games this season and converted his penalty kick during the championship game shootout.

Naeher, a native of Seymour, Conn., led the team in scoring with 33 goals and 6 assists and holds two school records: single-season goals and points total.

Read more about each player on the NSCAA website.

For the fifth consecutive year, both Messiah’s men’s and women’s soccer teams clinched spots in the NCAA Division III Final Four.

The men defeated Christopher Newport University 2-1 in a nail-biter that took two overtimes to resolve. The Falcons, five-time national champions, will face Loras College (Iowa) on Dec. 5.

The women advanced after a sound victory against Eastern University (2-0). They will take on William Smith College on Dec. 5 in their sixth visit to the Final Four in the last seven years.

The Final Four and championship games will be played in Greensboro, N.C.