Season’s Almost Here! – OGL Roundup

We’ve collectively almost made it through the JMU offseason. Football kicks off at Maryland in less than four weeks and many of the Olympic sports will be well underway long before then (Women’s soccer kicks off the year August 22nd vs. Xavier!). We’ve been on vacation wrapping up our summer research for Beer of the Week this year but it’s time to ramp up our two-a-days, or hopefully just back to three-a-weeks.

Here’s a quick Old Guys Leave roundup of some news, notes and links to finish out these last weeks of vacation:

First, pretty cool that two current JMU Women’s Soccer players spent the summer playing on the Washington Spirit’s Reserve Squad, where they made it all the way to the title game. Great work ladies!

Jordan Stanton’s been making some early noise at Giants camp and we’re excited to see all the Dukes in camps and preseason action this fall (especially given most of them are now with the two teams we cheer for). Check out this cool story and keep it up Jordan!

Damn those Dukes look good in burgundy and gold!

And here’s something rarer than a unicorn, a great piece in the RTD, in this case on the Skins’ Akeem Jordan playing for his boyhood team and trying to balance out essentially playing for the home team.

Lastly, as I’ve sort of mentioned this summer (and probably overmentioned @JMUSportsblog), I moved to Greensboro, NC this summer for work. So JMUSB will be split up other than BFS, but we’ll also have a odd presence (ok, just me) at some off-brand road games this year. So feel free to comment and let me know if you’re interested in W’s Soccer at Wake Forest August 29, M’s Soccer at UNCG September 5, or of course any of the roadies at Elon.