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Cravalho cited as
complete team playerADRIAN Cravalho spent his third and final season at Seattle Pacific as the backup goalkeeper to junior James Ward. Cravalho did start in the Falcons final match and posted a 5-0 win over Humboldt State.
In five matches, the Kamehameha graduate had a 1.09 goals against average.
"Adrian is a walking, living definition of The Perfect Team Player. I, on the other hand, need help to be a better coach," said Seattle Pacific coach Cliff McCrath. "Adrian arrived in Seattle a zealous but overweight young man. He failed to make the active roster but did not fail to maintain his vision to make the team and continued to train until he made the roster. During his tenure he dedicated himself to a rigid training program and returned as a lean, vastly improved player.
"The next season, a young, very athletic goalkeeper/goal scorer arrived and I made the mistake of playing him in the goal. If I could roll the calendar back to the fall of 2001 Adrian would have been my No.1 keeper and Jimmy Ward -- by now -- would be closing in on some kind of scoring record. Jimmy is an excellent keeper, but with Adrian in the goal and Jimmy on the field I think we would not have missed back-to-back postseason playoffs for the first time in our history.
"In all, Adrian remained a pumped-up enthusiastic keeper and leader on our team. He is some kind of special man."
Cravalho played 911 minutes in 21 matches during his three-year varsity career. He started six matches, made 25 saves, allowed 10 goals and compiled a 0.99 goals against average.
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Amber Waddle (Makua Lani Christian) scored three goals and had one assist for Vanguard. The Lions were 8-7-3 overall, 5-4-1 in the NCAA Division III Golden State Athletic Conference. The junior striker started 18 matches.Andrew Sundeth, a redshirt freshman midfielder also from Makua Lani Christian, started 10 of 20 matches for Vanguard. He scored twice on seven shots and had three assists for the Lions (6-12-0, 2-6-0 GSAC).
Sundeth's second goal came in the season's final match on a header in the 36th minute, as the Lions beat Hope International 3-0 to finish with a four-match winning streak.
Alana Souza, who played for two Baldwin state championship teams, transferred from California Lutheran to Nevada-Las Vegas. The sophomore midfielder, inactive last fall, plans to try out for the Rebels this spring.
Noah Rolf, who began his college career at Brigham Young-Hawaii, then transferred to Baker U. in Kansas, gave up soccer. The former Mililani Trojan defender is a member of the Wildcats cheerleading squad.
Coaching news
Bruce Arena, U.S. National Men's Team manager, and the United States Soccer Federation have agreed on a new contract that will have Arena guiding the team through 2006, the year the next FIFA Men's World Cup is held.George Van Linder, who led the Southern Methodist Lady Mustangs to three Western Athletic Conference titles in four seasons, is the new women's coach at Baylor. SMU finished in the Top 25 three times, compiled a four-year mark of 59-21-10 (.711 percent) and a league record of 24-3-2 (.862) under Van Linder.
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