Update from Head Men's Soccer Coach Dave Brandt - Bucknell University Athletics

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends,

Happy New Year from the men's soccer office at Bucknell. I am happy to be checking in for the first time in 2023 with a program update. Classes began on January 17, and our players had their fitness test, a team lift, and our first team meeting that same day. For anyone wondering about the specifics of our fitness test, it is as long as you can go on a treadmill at 11.5 MPH, which is a 5:15 mile pace. Run until you can't go anymore, and there is a great mental and apparent physical component. Feel free to try at home if you've been staying fit over the holidays, as our guys were urged to do! It's a big semester for our young but, I believe, talented group, and it's vital that we grow in various ways and make some big and meaningful strides.

For those of you interested in our spring competition schedule, it looks like this:

Saturday, March 4 @ NJIT
Saturday, March 25 @ Duquesne
Saturday, April 1 @ Temple
Saturday, April 8 @ UMBC
Friday, April 14, vs. LaSalle at home
Thursday, April 20 vs. Bucknell Young Alumni

Please mark your calendars now for our annual Josh Butzke Memorial Golf event -- the DATE FOR THIS YEAR'S OUTING IS Friday, April 21.

Please consider making plans now to attend. The brochure containing more detailed information can be accessed using this link:

https://bucknellbison.com/documents/2023/1/31/2023_Soccer_golf_brochure.pdf

The schedule for the weekend looks like this:

Thursday, April 20, current team vs. Young Alumni at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 21, golf outing
Saturday, April 22, older alumni game, at noon.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the event in April. If you are attending any of our spring contests, please let me know so I can say hello to you following the match.

In closing, we have a significant 24-hour period approaching for our program. The annual One Herd One Day 24-Hour Giving Challenge will be on March 28-29 from 10:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m. Our program has historically been very competitive with the sports across the athletic department during the challenge. I hope we can all come together in March to turn in a huge day for the men's soccer program.

As always, thank you for the continued support of our program.

Dave Brandt
Head Men's Soccer Coach
db071@bucknell.edu
570-577-3083

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