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We’ve already started counting down the days to Labor Day at the New England Soccer Journal. It was 49 on Monday, as Sam Robb O’Hagan noted in his NEPSAC boys’ midfielder-to-know story.
Today? Only 45 days. Sam made sure to remind me of that this morning.
If you can’t tell, we’re extremely excited … [Read more...]
Goalkeepers don’t get enough attention, do they?
We are, admittedly, part of the problem. We’re only including 10 NEPSAC boys keepers in the latest edition of our positional watch list series, where we identify impact players on teams likely to make noise in the NEPSAC, MIAA and CIAC.
Part of that … [Read more...]
If you asked someone to name the top boys’ soccer programs in the NEPSAC, you’d hear about the furious recent run of Taft, the eternal success of Northfield Mount Hermon, the international recruiting pipeline at Milton Academy.
The tradition at Loomis Chaffee is right up there.
The Pelicans are the … [Read more...]
We’ve covered the sexy positions.
Now it’s time for the less glamorous — but equally as important — part of any NEPSAC team’s lineup: the defense.
Although it should be noted that the modern game requires defenders to be more technical and skillful than ever before. That’s a theme of this story — … [Read more...]
I’ve only been covering the NEPSAC for a couple months, but that’s been enough time to figure out that Mount Saint Charles is one of the most-talked about prep programs in New England.
Suffice it to say, the discourse is polarizing.
The Mounties are the new kids on the block. They go about their … [Read more...]
Trivia question: How many days are left until Labor Day, the unofficial start of the NEPSAC soccer season?
48. Crazy, right?
As such, our preseason coverage is in full swing, and it continues here with the latest story in our positional watch list series, where we identify impact players on teams … [Read more...]
This is a transition year for Northfield Mount Hermon, but transition years at NMH aren’t like most transition years elsewhere.
Indeed, even ahead of the unavoidable gap year between the graduation of a significant senior class and the true arrival of the next young core of players, the Hoggers … [Read more...]
This story started as a watch list of 10.
It finished as a watch list of 25, such is the breadth of the NEPSAC boys forwards worth mentioning ahead of the 2026 season. There were still more who probably deserved a shout but didn’t make the cut. If you take one thing away after reading, let it be … [Read more...]
I wasn’t two weeks into this job when I first heard from another NEPSAC coach that Brooks should be, for lack of a better term, really, really good in 2026.
In the month since, Brooks has come up over and over again, both in conversations with coach Matt Carroll and in the reporting of several other … [Read more...]
Here are some words we live by in the New England Soccer Journal offices: It is (almost) never too early to start our preseason scholastic coverage.
With the second edition of our Best of New England series behind us, we’re turning our attention fully to the prep and high school seasons, coverage of … [Read more...]
What determines the order for our Best of New England rankings?
Is it the player who dominates every match and fills the stat sheet? Or the one with the most potential? What about someone with a dominant profile, like a tall left-footed center back?
Those are the questions we wrestle with when … [Read more...]
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