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Franklin men’s soccer head coaches:
1984–87 — John McLachlan
1988–90 — Ray Lord
1991 — Brian McManus ’89
1992 — Rahim Elghamni
1993–96 — Tom Pollert ’91
1996–99 — Bob Boucher
2000–05 — Maurice Schilten
2006–present — Shaun Mahoney ’97
Franklin’s individual honorees:
NAIA scholar-athlete
1988 — Dan Markham ’89
All-Indiana collegiate athletic
conference first team:
1989 — Mike Sage ’93, Kelley Lasek ’90
1991 — Cory Robertson ’95,
Mark Susemichel ’92
1994 — Andy Glover ’98,
Kristofer Scheid ’97
All-Heartland collegiate athletic
conference first team:
2001 — Dominic Favia ’02
2003 — Howen Hernandez ’04,
Andy Pickett ’07
2005 — Jacob White ’06
2007 — Michael Harwood ’09
2008 — Rocky Legge ’10
Participants in the 2009 alumni vs. students soccer game included in row one: Andy Pickett ’07,
Joe Copeland ’05, Jacob White ’06, Kevin Smith ’03, Howen Hernandez ’04, Jody Tooley ’04,
Rob Bush ’08, Ben Robertson ’08 and William Stafford ’99. In row two are: Michael Harwood ’09,
Ben Jarvis ’08, Joe Stack ’09, Justin VanHorn ’06, T.J. Davis ’06, Nick Rensing ’09, Daniel
Schuetz ’97, Gavin Teevan ’99, Brian Davis ’95, Ryan Brodfuehrer ’90, Kelley Lasek ’90,
Brian McManus ’89, Tom Pollert ’91 and Chris Morlock ’93.
Men’s soccer celebrates 25 years
By Kevin Elixman
Sports Information Director
The 2009 fall season marked the 25th for the Franklin College varsity men’s soccer
program. The team celebrated its anniversary with a game in late August between its
current members and an alumni team, featuring Grizzly players from throughout the
program’s history.
Despite reaching the quarter century mark, soccer is the second youngest program
within men’s athletics. Only men’s swimming, which began intercollegiate competition
this academic year, is newer.
Franklin College fielded its first men’s soccer team in 1984 under Coach John
McLachlan. The Grizzlies posted a 1–11–1 record that season.
In his first year as head coach, Maurice Schilten coached Franklin to its only winning
season (10-9-0) in 2000. The team was 1–18–0 the previous year. Franklin also made its
first Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament in 2000. The fourth-seeded
Grizzlies fell to top-seeded Anderson University 3–1 at Anderson on Nov. 1, 2000.
In Schilten’s final season, Franklin won North Central College’s annual Sal Vaccaro
Tournament for the first time in 2005.
Tom Pollert ’91 was the second former Grizzly soccer player to become the program’s
head coach, after Brian McManus ’89. Pollert’s son, Isaac Pollert ’13, who joined the
team this season, is the first second-generation soccer player at Franklin College.
Shaun Mahoney ’97, now in his fourth season, is the third former Franklin player
to take the head coaching reins and is determined to build a winning program after
coaching at the high school level for 10 years.
Regardless of the team’s accomplishments on the field, Mahoney wants more for his
athletes than wins; he encourages excelling in academics and building camaraderie with
teammates as part of their experience.
“We want them to leave with a sense of the values of the college and to have a sense
of self-discipline. We want soccer to be an extension of the learning experience,” said
Mahoney.
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