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I love to play soccer, and for relaxation I read for most of the time. The other half of my time is spent with friends traveling around Georgia and Florida. I am a member of Phi Theta Kappa and I was inducted into the society in the month of January 2007. I am also a Tiger Senator which basically means that I am an ambassador for the school.

Junior Noel, a native of Trinidad who played on the Caribbean Republic’s national soccer team, was recently named new head boys soccer coach at East Mississippi Commmunity College.

Dane Christian enters his first season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Washington State women's soccer program after recently serving as the assistant varsity girl's coach for Moscow High School. In 2006 and 2007, he coached at the summer soccer camps for Washington State University and Oregon State University. Last spring he also coached an Under-18 Moscow United boy's team.

It would be safe to say that New Orleans and Buckhannon, WV, do not share many similarities. The Big Easy is known for the French Quarter and the Mardi Gras, while Buckhannon is tucked away quaintly in the Appalachian Mountains.

Nine Trinidad and Tobago women footballers have received athletic scholarships in the United States.

Brenton Joseph became the seventh head coach in men’s soccer history at Augustana when he accepted the position in June of 2007. He joins the Augustana staff after a 10 year run at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois where he held head coaching spots with both the men’s and women’s programs. Joseph replaces Scott Mejia, who compiled a 68-37-6 record in a six year stint with the Vikings that began in 2001. Mejia, who was the head coach for both the men and women, will now turn his full attention to the women’s program.

University of Connecticut men's soccer player Julius James (Maloney Gardens, Trinidad) has been named to the 2007 Missouri Athletic Club’s Hermann Trophy Watch List for the third consecutive season. The complete list of 29, announced by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), was compiled by a panel of the organization's coaches.

Former National youth player Jason Devenish still has ambitions of representing Trinidad and Tobago at the international level and wants to ensure that his exploits don’t go unnoticed by the T&T Football Federation as it looks towards qualification for future World tournaments.