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March 30, 2006


Cvilikis, Dawson Earn Top '05 State Men's Soccer Honors

RICHMOND, Va. – Old Dominion University senior forward Brian Cvilikas (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) was named the 2005 Virginia Sports Information Directors (VaSID) University Division State Player of the Year. Alan Dawson of Old Dominion was named the State Coach of the Year.

Cvilikas was Second Team All-America by College Soccer News and Third Team All-America by the NSCAA. Cvilikas was the Colonial Athletic Association Player of the Year. He started 20 matches and led the CAA with 15 goals and 30 points. Cvilikas was twice named a National Player of the Week.

Dawson led the Monarchs to a 15-4-2 overall record and a 9-1-1 mark in the CAA to claim the league’s regular-season title. ODU lost 2-1 to Wake Forest in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Monarchs finished the season ranked ninth by Soccer America. ODU was the No. 10 seed in the NCAA Tournament, its best seed in school history.

Virginia had four players on the All-State First Team. The Cavaliers were represented by forwards Adam Cristman and Yannick Reyering, midfielder Nico Colaluca and defender Matt Poole. Virginia Tech had three first-team selections, with goalkeeper Chase Harrison, midfielder Joshua Boateng and forward Patrick Nyarko. Old Dominion and VCU had two first-team members each. Joining Cvilikas on first team was defender Trevor McEachron. The Rams had defender Veit Schaidinger and midfielder Stephen Shirley. The other members of the first team were defender Anthony Noreiga of George Mason and midfielder Kurt Morsink of James Madison.

The members of the VaSID All-State Second Team were goalkeeper John Connelly of Old Dominion; defenders Alexander Baden of Virginia Tech, Jonathan Burklo of Liberty, Brent Dillie of Virginia Tech and Mike Tuddenham of James Madison; midfielders Jeremy Barlow of Virginia, Kyle Cupid of Liberty, Magnus Einarsson of Virginia Tech and Osei Telesford of Liberty; and forwards Adrian Bumbut of Liberty, Patrick Colas of Radford, Charles Nweke of VMI and Colin Vint of Richmond.

All-State teams are selected by active members of the Virginia Sports Information Directors Association.  For more information, please visit the VaSID site at http://www.ferrum.edu/athletics/vasid.

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