After losing to rival UC Santa Barbara last Saturday, the Mustangs losing streak extended to two after falling to UC Davis 1-0 on Wednesday, Sept 27 at 7 p.m. at Mustang Memorial Field to open up Big West play. The Mustangs (2-5-1) and the Aggies (4-3-2) were locked in defensively from the start as neither […]
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Cal Poly Men’s Soccer clinches first win against Air Force Falcons
Cal Poly Men’s Soccer won their first game of the season 2-1 against the Air Force Academy Falcons on Sunday, Sept. 17 at Mustang Memorial Field The Mustangs (1-3-1) played after the conclusion of the women’s soccer match, who defeated the University of Pacific earlier that day. The Mustangs had the first score of the […]
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Cal Poly men’s soccer falls 5-3 to Oral Roberts in high-scoring affair
It was the perfect start to new head coach Olge Kennedy’s tenure with the Mustangs. Not even a full minute in and junior midfielder Nate Colley was standing over the penalty spot. Colley, the captain for the Mustangs, converted on the penalty kick and Cal Poly was off to the races with a 1-0 lead […]
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Men’s soccer looks to be ‘an exciting team to watch’ under new head coach
Cal Poly men’s soccer recently had the worst defensive season of the program’s history. In 2022, the Mustangs gave up 2.82 goals per game, which resulted in 48 goals against on the season. In his first head coaching gig at Division II college Fort Lewis in Colorado, new Mustangs head coach Olge Kennedy’s squad gave […]
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Cal Poly men’s soccer falls to UCLA in exhibition match 1-0
Despite Cal Poly men’s soccer holding UCLA to seven total shots, the Mustangs fell in their first exhibition game 1-0 to the Bruins in Wallis Annenberg Stadium. With new head coach Oige Kennedy, the Mustangs are looking to bounce back from a season where the team went 2-11-4 (2-5-1 Big West) and finished second-to-last in […]
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Meet Oige Kennedy: Men’s Soccer’s new head coach with championship pedigree
When former Cal Poly Men’s Soccer head coach Steve Sampson announced his abrupt retirement on Oct. 18, 2022 due to health reasons, it appeared to be simply the latest in a long line of hiccups and challenges the team had to endure. Instead, it ended up becoming perhaps the best chance the Mustangs have had […]
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Breaking: Cal Poly announces Oige Kennedy as men’s soccer head coach
Cal Poly Men’s Soccer announced the hiring of Oige Kennedy as the program’s new head coach at a press conference Friday morning. Kennedy has spent his last seven seasons at Stanford, serving as an assistant coach from 2016-17 and as the associate head coach from 2018-22. Former Mustang head coach Steve Sampson retired during the […]