Men’s soccer team, nine seniors play last match of season Saturday afternoon
The men’s soccer team plays for pride and graduating seniors as they take on South Florida Saturday.
By Jay Zuckerman
Skiff Staff

The end is approaching for nine TCU soccer players.

Seniors Michael Blackburn, Carrington Brown, Michael Lahoud, Kenny Leising, Jon Meyers, Bobby Montes, Dustin Sitar and Adam Williams will play their last games in a TCU soccer uniform at noon Saturday at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium.

Midfielder Nick Browne cannot attend because of his duties as the kicker for the football team, which plays 2 p.m. Saturday against Tulane.

Since TCU (3-13-1, 2-6-1 Conference USA) is no longer in playoff contention, associate head coach Blake Amos will allow these seniors a chance to finish their careers with a win against South Florida (10-6-0, 5-4-0 C-USA).

True freshman forward Hunter West leads South Florida with 12 goals. Florida’s Gatorade Player of the Year as a high school senior, West has scored just three fewer goals than the entire TCU team this season.

Amos admits that it has not been easy to motivate his players to practice since their loss to DePaul Oct. 26, which eliminated their chances to qualify for the C-USA Tournament.

“All we can do is play every day and make sure we stay competitive and fit,” he said.
“We’ve just kind of played to enjoy ourselves. Luckily, the weather was good (this week), so it made it even more fun.”

The team is motivated to winning one last match for the seniors, players say.

“Since it is the seniors’ last (match), it would be nice to get them a win since we can’t go to the postseason any more,” said junior midfielder Andrew Porteous, TCU’s leading scorer.

“It is the last game of our competitive careers and I do not think any of us are going to go pro,” senior midfielder Jon Meyers said. “It would be nice to go out with a win in something you have been doing your whole life.”

m.j.zuckerman@tcu.edu