Southern Conference Announces Men’s Soccer Preseason All-Conference Team 

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Aug. 17, 2022) – In a release issued by the Southern Conference Tuesday afternoon, the Buccaneers’ representative on the 11-man Preseason All-Southern Conference team was junior forward Tarik Pannholzer (Flensburg, Germany).

Starting all 15 games for the Blue and Gold in 2021, Pannholzer scored 10 goals in seven matches. His 10 goals were the second-most in single-season school history. Earning First Team All-Southern Conference honors in 2021, Pannholzer ranked 26^th nationally in total goals scored. He ranked 16^th in shots on goals per game with 1.73 and 17^th in goals per game.   

After a fifth-place finish in the 2021 campaign, ETSU was picked to finish fourth in the men’s soccer preseason coaches poll behind Mercer and Furman, who were both tied for second. UNC Greensboro was picked to finish first, earning five first place votes. Tied for second, Mercer received the only other first place vote. Rounding out the list, Wofford was picked to finish fifth and VMI was picked to finish sixth.

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2022 Preseason Southern Conference Men’s Soccer Poll
Team (1st-place votes)     Total

1. UNCG (5)     25

T2. Mercer (1)  19

T2. Furman      19

4. ETSU           12

5. Wofford       10

6. VMI             5

2022 Preseason All-Southern Conference Men’s Soccer Team

F             Tarik Pannholzer, ETSU, Jr.

F             Jake Raine, Furman, Jr.

F             Brandon Oddy, Wofford, Sr.

MF          Dylan Gaither, Mercer, Sr.

MF          Ousman Jabang, Mercer, Sr.

MF          JC Ngando, UNCG, So.

D             Josh Hosie, Furman, Jr.

D             Emmanuel Hagan, UNCG, Jr.

D             Marco Milanese, UNCG, Sr.

D             Amin Mohammedi, Wofford, So.

GK          Niclas Wild, UNCG, Jr.