We received an update from John Petito now living in Ocean Pines MD. John is a public affairs manager for Delmarva Power, is married to Susan and they have 2 young budding soccer players in the family. John's fondest memory at UD is being a tri-captain on the 1982 team, and still being the 3rd highest scorer in UD history. We also received a hello from Mike Stanford now in Branchburg NJ, who also has 2 children. Mikes fondest memory at UD is going from 4-11 in 1981 to 10-5-1 in 1982. Chris Carroll, class of 1984 also reached out to say hello. Chris is married to Hilary and they have a 10 year old daughter. Chris works for Xerox currently lives in Oak Hill VA, and his fondest soccer memory at UD is beating MD on their own turf in 1982 and 1983. Anthony Talarico, class of 2007, has just accepted the head coaching job at Paul VI in NJ and his class mate Matt Haney has joined the staff here at UD as my assistant. Matt works full-time as a math teacher at St. Elzabeths in DE. Tom Horn, class of 1989, checked in from nearby MD to pass on his favorite memory as the win over Philly Textile in 1985. Tom has 3 girls and unfortunately is looking at having his hip replaced later this year. Hayes Glanden, class of 2007 is currently finishing up his doctorate at the University of Delaware in Physical Therapy and will remain employed at the University in the prestigious UD clinic on campus. Ron Sandell wrote in that his favorite memory from UD Soccer was playing at the ODU tournament (Rutgers & William and Mary) in front of 17,000 fans, the largest in the NCAA that year. Ron now works in Medford NJ as a Territory Sales manager for Given Imaging Inc. He has 3 children and enjoys golf coaching and watching youth soccer. Justin Arpan, a 2006 graduate is now working in sales. Justin says he enjoys sky-diving and travelling and his favorite memory is beating then #17 Lehigh and scoring with a diving header to against UMBC to force the game into over-time.

John Zimmerman (See Photo Gallery) is now a chiropractor living in Fort Collins Colorado with his wife and 3 children and writes..... "This is one memory I will never forget from UD soccer. It was my junior year- 1972- I think. We were playing Temple at home. They were cocky to say the least and some of them I knew from Philly club soccer- German Hungarian Club. Billy Dannenberg absolutely hated them. At some point in the game I was about 20 yards out from their goal, in the middle above the circle. Billy had the ball and was dribbling across the goal mouth about 8 yards out. He was bent over and surrounded by Temple players. He was faking and moving and it looked as if they were jumping on his back and he was shrugging them off. It was an impossible situation and I have never seen anyone so determined. Of course he scored. It was pure will power. He totally made it happen from pure desire and persistence. In difficult situations I always think of doing a Dannenberg- not accepting anything less than success. I remember we won that! game and that their coach was really angry about it and told my Dad he didn’t want to play us again. Thanks Billy. The dates may be wrong, even the location or the score but I can still see that entire play in my mind’s eye." Pat Werner says hello from New Smyrna Beach in Florida. Pat  is married with 2 Children and working as a graphic designer when not surfing and mentions time on the bus on away trips as his favorite memories. Joaquin Hurtado saye hello from Santa Cruz in Bolivia. A 1999 graduate he is currently working as a High School co-ordinator and is raising 2 children with his wife. His fondest memory is beating Georgetown in 1995 with 7 starting freshmen in the first game of the season after coming off a 1-17 record in 1994.