The Lehigh Valley region is gaining two more college soccer programs.
Penn State Lehigh Valley announced this week it is adding men’s and women’s soccer. The teams will start out as club sports this fall and join the Penn State University Athletic Conference and the United State Collegiate Athletic Association in the fall of 2018. Abe Mamari, of Allentown, was announced as the head coach. Mamari was a member of the first men’s soccer team at Lehigh Carbon Community College in 2001 and started the women’s soccer team there.
In other news of local interest from the past week:
Jimmy Ockford (Yardley, Pa.