Another Mountain Hawk will get his shot at professional soccer as senior Adam Gazda signed with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds on Tuesday. The Riverhounds are members of the United Soccer League (USL) Second Division.

Steve Fisher ‘04, a former standout forward for the Brown and White, has decided to hang up his soccer cleats and retire from professional soccer. Fisher spent his entire six-year career playing for the Harrisburg City Islanders of the United Soccer League Second Division.

The Lehigh Men’s Soccer team will be holding their annual New York City alumni event on March 4, 2010 at the historic New York Athletic Club (www.nyac.org).  The event’s focus will be to bring soccer alumni, both young and old, together for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres so they can mingle and reconnect with old teammates.  Following hors d'oeuvres, all attendees will be updated on the current state of the soccer program and the alumni partnership. The event will conclude with some time to catch up and network.

Lehigh men’s soccer head coach Dean Koski announced the class of 2014 on Wednesday, which includes six incoming student-athletes. The Mountain Hawks will be adding to a team that lost five seniors to graduation and returns a core of 19 players from the 2009 season.

Lehighsports.com is excited to present the very first episode of In the Spotlight – the video edition. Throughout the school year, members of the Lehighsports.com team will catch up with student-athletes about life on and off the field of competition, and open up a glimpse of what makes the Lehigh student-athlete a Mountain Hawk. In this episode, Mike Lederer ’10 chats with Adam Welch ’10 of the men’s soccer team, who was recently drafted in the Major League Soccer SuperDraft by the New England Revolution.