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Lincoln Northeast – Class A Team Preview (Girls)

by Chace Hutchison Profiles, Team Central

Previewing an upcoming season is never an easy task. To do so properly takes countless hours of emails, observations, statistical research, conversation, and reflection. Adding onto that difficulty are challenges, such as a cancelled 2020 season and lingering COVID restrictions, making our preview preparation feel almost impossible.

Despite these obstacles, the approaching 2021 season and its participants – whether that be players, coaches, fans, or families – deserve some semblance of normalcy. Soccer in Nebraska and all those who participate deserve to be promoted. Over the course of the next several weeks, NEST will overview EVERY high school soccer program in our state. This was done to the best of our ability using all of the information we could collect.

Nebraska Soccer Talk is here to support many fantastic teams, coaches, players, fans, and referees that make our game possible. One mission of this venture is to discover and centralize newsworthy information. This can only be done in collaboration with individual programs. As a whole, our sport must better promote itself in order to grow the player and supporter pool. We encourage every team to proudly and consistently advertise itself to us and the general public. The more information available, the more our game will grow. Soccer is a game historically left behind to linger in the background in the United States. That circumstance is changing, but that change will not happen automatically. Growing and covering all aspects of our sport will take effort from all of those who love it.

Disclaimer – To prepare for these articles, a questionnaire was sent to every school’s head coach and athletic director. Many of these questionnaires were returned in a timely fashion, others were not. Nebraska Soccer Talk prides itself on equal and in-depth coverage, but cooperation is needed to meet that goal. Please consider this to be our reasoning when it comes to article length and accuracy.

Lincoln Northeast

Head Coach – Jose Hidalgo

Previous Records

Year Record
2019 2-12
2018 6-9

Players to Watch – Riley Wrhel (Hastings College soccer signee), Hannah Beach (Central Community College soccer signee), Maddie Berndt (Central Community College soccer signee)

State Status – Front Runner, Contender, Dark Horse, Up-And-Coming, Building, Too Early To Tell 

NEST Analysis – Anchored by three known college commitments, Lincoln Northeast will have a talented returning group for the 2021 season. Coach Hidalgo is a recent hire to the Class A ranks, giving this program a new voice and direction. Riley Wrhel, a Hastings College commit, will be the standout player on this squad. Hastings has a knack for talent identification, and we trust their judgement.

 

Thank you for reading and being a part of our new community. A like, share, comment or recommendation of content would be greatly appreciated. In order to financially support our efforts, sponsorship/partnership opportunities have become available. Sponsors will receive vast exposure to the Nebraska soccer community through different media avenues. The sponsorship process is easy and reasonable.

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Northeast Community College – Men’s Soccer College Spotlight

by Chace Hutchison Spotlights

Although it is rarely covered by the traditional media giants of the state, Nebraska is filled with exciting and competitive collegiate soccer programs. In fact, Nebraska contains a grand total of THIRTY programs for men and women. Those thirty programs compete across a wide variety of collegiate levels including Division I, Division II, Division III, NAIA, and junior college.

Nebraska Soccer Talk is here to examine, cover, and promote all of these teams. This task has been made a bit more challenging by the circumstances created by COVID-19. Depending on the playing level, conference, and school, the season outlook changes drastically. Roster information can also be in flux, depending on the school. Despite these challenges, our staff attempted to put together the best program summaries possible. To our knowledge, we are the only outlet providing such coverage to our state’s college programs.

Just like Nebraska Soccer Talk, this column will grow and become more in depth as the years pass. In the future, we hope to provide sideline coverage of games, facility features, coach and player interviews. We look forward to the journey ahead. Thank you for being a part of our community. The sport of soccer is growing in Nebraska, and we intend to see it thrive.

Disclaimer – In the making of this article, team websites and other research sources were utilized. Although we attempt to avoid them whenever possible, errors can occur. Please contact us directly with corrections.

Northeast Community College

Head Coach – Chad Miller

Assistant Coaches – Nathan Broekemeier

Mascot – Hawks

Year Regular Season Record Conference Record
2019 2-13-1 0-8-1
2018 5-10 4-6
2017 7-12-1 4-5
2016 4-17 3-14

Nebraska Homegrown Players On Roster – 5/23 = 22%

NEST Analysis – The Hawks are a newly established program, still seeking stability in all aspects of the program. Improvements in terms of skill level, organization, and facilities have come at the cost of tireless work from those within the program. Those behind the scenes improvements have translated into rays of progress on the field, specifically in 2017 and 2018. Coach Miller has taken over head coaching responsibilities for both the men and women’s programs, which is uncommon regardless of the playing level. Under his leadership, both programs will continue to grow and soon compete at the JC level. Northeast CC is a growing educational institution that seems to be constantly putting more and more resources towards campus enhancement. If the same approach is applied towards the soccer programs, the Hawks can fly high.

 

Thank you for reading and being a part of our new community. A like, share, comment or recommendation of content would be greatly appreciated. In order to financially support our efforts, sponsorship/partnership opportunities have become available. Sponsors will receive vast exposure to the Nebraska soccer community through multiple different media avenues. The sponsorship process is easy and reasonable.

Contact us on our website or email @ nebraskasoccertalk@gmail.com.

Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, or listen to our podcast on Spotify.