After losing in the semifinals on penalty kicks at the 2015 Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) tournament, Loyola men’s soccer head coach Neil Jones said his team is looking to take the MVC by storm and avenge last season’s disappointing end.
Men’s soccer finished the year with a 10-4-5 overall record and 2-2-2 in the MVC, becoming the program’s winningest team since 2008. Jones said he wants to build on last season’s success.
But Jones will have to do that without nine players from last year’s team, four of whom graduated. The biggest loss comes in the back, where Loyola had to bid goodbye to midfielder and defenseman Eric Schoendorf, who was the first player in MVC history to be named both the Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.