Guilford College Ranked in ODAC Soccer Polls

Greensboro, N.C. (8/30/07) -- Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) soccer coaches picked Guilford College's women's team fifth and the Quakers' men eighth in their annual preseason polls Wednesday. Defending league champion Virginia Wesleyan College, which allowed nine goals in 2006, owns the top spot in the 12-squad women's poll. Roanoke College is first in the 10-team men's rankings by a single point over Virginia Wesleyan.

Guilford's women, two-time defending ODAC Tournament finalists, received 102 points in the poll, four shy of third-place Eastern Mennonite College and Lynchburg College. In 2006, the Quakers matched their school record for wins in a season with a 13-6-3 record and set a school standard with a 9-1-1 league mark. Sixth-year head coach Eric Lewis returns 11 letter winners from last year's club, including seniors Micki Boulineau and Morgan Jones. Boulineau captured 2006 Second Team All-ODAC honors after scoring a career-high 25 points on seven goals and a team-best 11 assists. The Quakers, who went 1-1 in two preseason scrimmages, open the 2007 season against Christopher Newport University and Carnegie Mellon University this weekend in a tournament hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Jeff Bateson enters his second year as Guilford’s head men’s soccer coach after a 5-11-1 season (2-7 ODAC). He returns 15 letter winners from last year and adds eight newcomers from his first recruiting class. Junior forward Scott Meguid is back after an all-south 2006 campaign in which he ranked among the league leaders with 24 points on 10 goals and four assists The Quakers played Cape Fear Community College to a 1-1 draw in its first of two scheduled scrimmages.

Guilford opens the 2007 season at Ohio Wesleyan University in the Fred Myers Invitational August 31 in Delaware, Ohio. The Quakers play their first home match Sept. 11 at 4:00 p.m. against Methodist on Haworth Field.

2007 ODAC Women's Soccer Coaches Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses)		 2007 ODAC Men's Soccer Coaches Poll
(first-place votes in parentheses)
1. Virginia Wesleyan 137 (7)
2. Washington and Lee 133 (5)
3. Eastern Mennonite 106
3. Lynchburg 106
5. Guilford 102
6. Roanoke 100
7. Randolph-Macon 69
8. Emory & Henry 57
9. Bridgewater 51
10. Randolph 29
11. Sweet Briar 24
12. Hollins 22 		1. Roanoke 88 (6)
2. Virginia Wesleyan 87 (2)
3. Lynchburg 81 (2)
4. Washington and Lee 72
5. Hampden-Sydney 65
6. Eastern Mennonite 45
7. Randolph-Macon 38
8. Guilford 36
9. Bridgewater 22
10. Emory & Henry 16