Bucknell Bison men's soccer
Founded	1929; 95 years ago (1929)
University	Bucknell University
Head coach	Dave Brandt (2nd season)
Conference	Patriot League
Location	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Stadium	Emmitt Field at Holmes Stadium (Capacity: 1,250)
Nickname	Bison
Colors	Blue and orange[1]
Home Away
NCAA Tournament appearances
1974, 1975, 1976, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2024
Conference Tournament championships
2006, 2009, 2010, 2014, 2024
Conference Regular Season championships
1949, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1990, 2000, 2003, 2009

The Bucknell Bison men's soccer team is an intercollegiate varsity sports team of Bucknell University^[2] in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. They are an NCAA Division I team and member of the Patriot League.^[3]

Through its history, Bucknell has played in the Middle Atlantic Conference (1947–73), East Coast Conference (1974–89) and Patriot League (1990-pres.). Bucknell has won all four of its Patriot League titles since 2006 and in doing so has been one of the most successful Patriot League teams in that time.^[4]

The Bison are currently coached by Dave Brandt.

Bucknell has made seven appearances in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championships. The Bison have advanced to the second round three times by defeating Penn State in 1974, George Mason in 2006 and Princeton in 2009.^[5]

As of September 20, 2024^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 00 GK  ENG Freddie Lapworth 0 GK  USA Rex Alphen 1 GK  USA Andrew Blodgett 2 FW  USA Cade McGrath 3 FW  USA Drew Roskos 4 MF  USA Gianluca Marroni 5 MF  USA Matt McLeod 6 MF  USA Jimmy Pombor 7 FW  USA Zane Domsohn 8 MF  DEN Waldemar Kattrup 9 MF  USA Jack Roberto 10 FW  USA Kasper Piela 11 FW  USA Jack Lucas 12 DF  USA Collin Sullivan

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 MF  USA Noah Handzel 14 FW  USA Charlie Sorensen 15 MF  USA David Krumov 16 DF  USA Ben Sheffield 17 FW  USA Jakub Samelko 18 DF  USA Jackson Sullivan 19 MF  USA Cohen Weaver 20 DF  USA Winston Oziri 21 MF  USA Cade Whitmire 22 DF  USA Aidan Lawlor 23 DF  USA Jack Heintz 24 FW  USA Nick Prime 25 MF  USA Kiko Hidalgo 26 FW  USA Mason Lillis

Source:^[5]

• 1960 Lyman Ott
• 1960 Bob Schad
• 1976 Scott Strasburg
• 2009 Conor O'Brien
• 2013 Mayowa Alli

• 2004 Adam Edwards
• 2011, 2012 Brendan Burgdorf
• 2014 Jesse Klug
• 2014 Chris Thorsheim

• 1994, 1995 Greg Beatty
• 2001 Ryan Weber
• 2003, 2004 Jonathan Hemmert
• 2008 Chris Hennings
• 2009 Patrick Selwood
• 2012, 2013 Joe Meyer
• 2014, 2015 Jesse Klug
• 2020 Matt Thorsheim

Sources:^[4][5]

• 2003 Scott Visnic
• 2008, 2009 Conor O'Brien
• 2010 Brendan Burgdorf

• 2000 Bill Epley
• 2003, 2004 Michael Lookingland
• 2005 Tim Faneck

• 2005 Adam Edwards
• 2007 Joey Kuterbach

• 2002 Adam Edwards
• 2006 Nathan LaGrave
• 2010 Mayowa Alli

• 2006 Joey Kuterbach
• 2009 Patrick Selwood
• 2010 Ross Liberati
• 2014 Sebastiaan Blickman

• 1993, 1994 Greg Beatty
• 2003, 2004 Jonathan Hemmert
• 2015 Jesse Klug
• 2016 Zack Rockmore
• 2019, 2020 Matt Thorsheim

As of September 20, 2024^[7]

Since 1929, Bucknell has had 15 head coaches.^[5]

• No games were played in 1945

• 1993 Craig Reynolds
• 2000, 2003, 2009 Brendan Nash

Emmitt Field at Holmes Stadium hosts games for Bucknell's men's and women's soccer teams. Located on campus, the natural grass pitch was completed in 2005 with the remainder of the lighted stadium and grandstand finished in 2007.^[8]

The stadium has an official seating capacity of 1,250 with additional seating on the grass hill behind the north endline. The pitch surface is sand-based Kentucky Blue grass and is 120 by 75 yards.^[8]

The field was dedicated as Bison Varsity Soccer Field on September 16, 2005, prior to Bucknell's 3-2 women's soccer victory over Marist.^[8] It has since played host to the Patriot League Men's Soccer Tournament in 2009^[4] and the Patriot League women's soccer tournament in 2006, 2007 and 2016.^[9]

Holmes Stadium is named to honor the donation from Stephen P. Holmes '79, Chairman and CEO of Wyndham Worldwide and also includes Graham Field (field hockey and women's lacrosse). Emmitt Field was rededicated as such in 2008 in honor of lead donor Richard Emmitt '67,^[10] General Partner at The Vertical Group.

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