Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Two-a-days
Two a days will start this coming Monday August 5th. We will be at the HS practice field (grass) from 9-11 am and at the turf game field from 1-3 pm. All athletes need to have their completed Physical in at the Athletic Office before the start of the first practice. You can wear cleats, indoor or turf shoes on the artificial grass field. Make sure to bring your own water/gatorade etc.. The coaches for the upcoming season are Coach Duerksen (Varsity Head Coach), myself (old Dijkstra; Varsity Assistant), both in our 23rd season, Seth Douwsma (JV Head coach, 7th season), Kyle Dijkstra (GK coach, 7th season) and Brayton Taylor (volunteer asistant, 1st season).
2019 Schedule
I don't believe that the 2019-2020 schedule has been posted on the school's website. Maxpreps.com does have our schedule for those who want to see the dates and times for the upcoming season.
Panthers win their own 2019 Classic!
NW defeats Westview, Elkhart Christian and Wawasee (7-0 for the championship) to bring home the trophy. Seventeen goals scored and none given up translates to a succesfull Tournament on a very hot day. The pre-season has concluded and we were able to win all 6 games. Next up is the "Jamboree" at Wawasee on August 17 when we face Manchester and Columbia City (and not Manchester City and Columbia as someone said!). The season opener this year is at home vs. one of two new opponents this year; Lakeland. The Lakers from LaGrange will be the first official Boys High school soccer game to be played on the new field.
Friday, July 19, 2019
NorthWood wins first three pre season games, hosts Panther Classic this weekend
On 7/12 and 7/13, NW defeats three Ohio teams (Bluffton 3-1, Central 5-4 and Hiland 3-0). On 7/20/19, the NorthWood Panthers will host the 3rd Panther Classic. It will be the first NW game on the new turf field at the soccer complex off of North Main Street. Temps will be in the mid to high 90's plus high humidity so it will again be a tough weekend on the pitch. The first game kicks off at 8 am (Bremen-Wawasee) At 9:15 NW faces Westview. At 10:30 Glenn plays Bremen and Westview and ECA face off at 11:45. The afternoon features Wawasee-Glenn (1 pm), NW-ECA (2:15pm) followed by the 3:30 game for 5th, 4:45 game for third place and finally the championship game at 6 pm. Group play will be 2x25 min and the cross finals will be 2x30 min. All tournament information and live game scores will be on pantherclassic.org which will be updated live from the field.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
2018 Fall Awards
The awards : MVP Sebastian Guillen, Offensive MVP Landon Parker, Travis Hunsberger Award (defensive MVP) Skyler Duerksen, Most Improved Marshall Beebe and Mental Attitude Kyle Luster. Congratulations to these Awards winners. We will miss our seniors but invite them to come out and play in the first Alumni Game on artificial turf in August of 2019 when we celebrate 25 Years of NorthWood Men's Soccer!!!!
2018 Fall Awards - All NLC
All NLC Landon Parker, Jerson Sanchez and Sebastian Guillen, Honorable Mention Skyler Duerksen
Friday, October 5, 2018
Season over
The 2018-2019 did not end the way we wanted to. If nothing else, you want to play your last game giving everything you got and it seemed that we were not hungry, not energetic enough. A win and a spot in a championship game is not a given every year but it was not to be! We need to do and need to be better next year. But the coaching staff wants to thank the Seniors for all the years they have given to the NorthWood Boys soccer program. We want to thank the school and specifically the Athletic Department and our Athletic Trainer Mr. Widner for all their help and support. We want to thank all the parents for all the help with the food, the snacks, for washing the pinnies and most of all for supporting your student athletes during a hectic and busy soccer season. The soccer program has been around for 24 years and Coach Duerksen and myself have been around for 22 of those years. A lot of changes have happened over the years but none more then the upcoming changes. It is exciting to see that we are finally moving to a new facility which is taking shape as I write this. To play on artificial turf at the Well Fields might not be the most ideal situation (who does not want to play on a pristine grass surface) but it is pretty much the second best situation we can find ourselves in. Our grass field at the game field has been awful for a majority of the years we have played our matches there. Too many games were canceled, once we even played a Senior Night game against Plymouth on the "soccer field" at the Middle School. Those days are now behind us and now we go from the worst field in Northern Indiana in 2018, to the best field in 2019. Great lights, great field; what an exciting time to be part of the program! So the focus shifts to the next season and we hope that with a new environment comes a new dedication from the players as well. I know our coaching staff is ready for August 5th, 2019. I will make an announcement here about Awards Night soon. Go PANTHERS!!!!!!
Monday October 8th - Turn in Uniform Day
Meet in Coach Duerksen's room at 3:30 Mondya to turn in all uniforms and warm ups. Make sure everything is clean!!!!!!!
NorthWood- West Noble 0-5 (0-3)
NorthWood never recovers from a slow start and never executes on good opportunities to end the season at 8-8-2. West Noble scores in the 14", 26", 29", 43" and 62" to move on to the Sectional Final (vs Wawasee).
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Sectional Semi Final Match Day
The Panthers face the West Noble Chargers this afternoon at 5 pm at Angola. West Noble is 14-3 on the season and ranked 15th in Class 2A. West Noble plays a considerably weaker schedule then the Panthers. Even though the Chargers were undefeated in their conference NECC) at 7-0, it is hard to compare their competition to that to of the NLC. West Noble and NW (8-7-2) have 6 common opponents with the results being the same for both schools; both defeated Wawasee, Lakeland, Bethany and Angola and both lost to Goshen and Northridge. So two of their 3 losses come against NLC opponents. West Noble's #12 is their topscorer with 18 goals on the season. It looks to be a very competitive match up.Last year this match up went down to the wire (4-3 NW win). The bus leaves (!) at 2:40 from the High School. Hope to see everyone there! The weather is supposed to be great for spectators (80). Let's get us a win so we can play for a Championship on Saturday -a win tonight will also guarantee a winning record-; GO PANTHERS!!!!
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
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