Since launching the women’s soccer program in 2001, success has come sparingly at Frederick Community College. The Lady Cougars have never had a winning season and only qualified for the playoffs once – in 2013. Though FCC has only won 13 games from 2014-2016, the program has weathered through adversity to assemble the largest team […]
Continue ReadingGrit. It’s what drove a team that lost seven of their last nine games in 2015 into one that was 90 minutes away from playing on the national stage. It’s what turned skeptics – outsiders who discarded a Cougar team with 17 freshman and a rookie coaching staff at the collegiate level – into believers. […]
Continue ReadingWith a rookie head coach and a roster consisted of 17 freshman, expectations at the beginning of the season were relatively unknown for FCC men’s soccer. After all, they were fresh off a pedestrian 9-8 season. How could things possibly get better with an untested head coach and a team that lacks overall experience? Statements that cast […]
Continue ReadingFrederick Community College men’s soccer coach John LaRocca announced Friday, Oct. 21 that players Maycol Nunez and Hein Aung have been released from the team. While LaRocca declined to elaborate, he described both releases as an “internal team matter.” “We aren’t going to share it outside of the team,” LaRocca said. “The team knows our […]
Continue ReadingSitting in the post-game presser before stumped reporters, Buck Showalter was engulfed by the one confounding question that baffled millions of baseball fans in Orioles’ 5-2 loss in the American League Wild Card game on Tuesday night. Why didn’t he pick up the phone and call Zach Britton’s number? Why was baseball’s most dominant reliever […]
Continue ReadingJohn LaRocca approaches each and every day with a vision that’s only clear to him. Tucked in the back of Frederick Community College’s campus is LaRocca’s office, a 100 by 60 yard grass field, which displays his prized student-athletes. In his first year at the helm, LaRocca has etched a laborious blueprint primed to steer […]
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