Schedule | Roster | Video Interview with Brian Stock

The Malone University men's soccer team finished the 2015 season with an overall record of 3-12-1, and a record of 3-10-1 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). The Pioneers are excited for new challenges this season. Malone is entering its first year in a new conference, the Great Midwest Athletic Conference (G-MAC). The Pioneers will face three opponents from last year's schedule. Those opponents are Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Walsh University, and Cedarville University. The rest of the schedule will be filled with new opponents, and Coach Brian Stock believes that the new conference and schedule will provide welcomed challenges for the Malone soccer team.

"Our expectation is that the league is going to be really good. It's a wonderful challenge that we are going to face that level of competition. For us, we want to face great teams. We want to be a great team, so we have to face great teams, and that's what we are going to get front to back in the schedule from the new league."

The team has aspirations to compete for a title at the end of season, but according to Coach Stock an opportunity to compete for a championship does not come by achieving a certain amount of wins or reaching a certain spot in the standings. A championship will come by working hard to improve on a daily basis.

Coach Stock believes that the returning players have done a great job developing a high standard for the team this year. The team has six returning starters from last year's team, including last year's leading goal scorer Nick Astalos. Astalos, a senior, will serve as the team's captain this season.

"Nick is just a quality young man, and he gives everything. He's a professional about everything that he does."

According to Coach Stock, he has some great players in the junior class that he is counting on to be leaders on the team this season as well in Brock Venman, Cole Hoop, and Robert Nemes.

"Those guys have been in the program, going into year number three, and they are true believers in what we are trying to accomplish. Those guys have been the key driving force for us on a daily basis."

The team is bringing in a class of nine freshmen and three transfer players this season as well. Coach Stock is very excited about what these new players have brought to the field on a daily basis in the pre-season.

"The group that we brought in makes us smile when we step out on the field every day for practice. We are pleased to have a great mix of transfers in the fold and some new guys as well. We are going to have to rely on some really young players, and younger is challenging sometimes because they just don't have the experience that everybody else does. But these guys have really settled in for us."

Transfers Caleb Griffith and Josh Sample have been a great spark for the team in the pre-season. They have brought reliable energy and quality talent in games. Freshman, Gino Finelli is doing an excellent job in the midfield so far, and freshmen Jeff Kreinbrook and Jonathan Dendinger and settling into spots on the defense as well.
Malone's men's soccer team will begin their season in a home game at Pioneer Field on Thursday, September 1^st at 4:00 p.m. against Slippery Rock.