Heath Melugin has been named as a Top Drawer Soccer Top Collegiate Prospect for the Class of 2008. Top Drawer Soccer is the leading website for youth soccer information. See www.topdrawersoccer.com for more information. Congratulation to Heath.

Two of your fellow United soccer players have made it to the next step in the tryout process for the ODP team. Congratulations to Graham Basecke and Heath Melugin who will both begin a week-long tryout today in Carson, Calif., with the Olympic Development Midwest Regional under-14 soccer team.

Five players from Springfield attended the U14 Boys ODP Camp in Rockford Illinois: Blake Aggus, Graham Basecke, Matt Beckett, Heath Melugin, and Ryan Moses.

From the 280 players at the ODP Camp, 32 are selected for pool training. Two of these players, Graham Basecke and Heath Melugin were selected for pool training that will comprise the Regional team. The regional team is composed of players from 12 states in the Midwest.

There are players from the U16 team attending the camp this week. It is quite an honor to make the pool training for the regional team. Out of these 32 players will be 18 picked to represent the Region II at the National camp and tournament, held in LA in August.

These players are added to a short list of players from Springfield that have ever made the Regional team Other players include Jackie Jewsbury was the only other player out of Springfield to make it on the boys side. Maddie Senkosky has been the only girl.