{"id":852406,"date":"2026-08-10T01:07:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852406\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T01:07:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T01:07:39","slug":"cats-open-the-season-with-new-coaching-staff-new-look-roster-and-same-high-level-of-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/852406\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats open the season with new coaching staff, new-look roster, and same high level of expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JAY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; The UVM men\u2019s soccer team is just a few weeks away from its 2026 season opener, and they\u2019re spending this week up at Jay Peak for their annual training camp.<br \/>\nEarlier this week, Vermont was ranked 13th in the preseason United Soccer Coaches national poll, but for the first time in three years, they were not picked to win America East. That honor instead went to rival Bryant, who the Cats defeated in each of the last two league title games.<br \/>\nPlayers suggested that could serve as a motivating factor, but everyone emphasized they\u2019re more focused on their process of growing together with an almost entirely new coaching staff and heavy changes to the roster.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s definitely like a big motivation,\u201d said junior goalkeeper Niklas Herceg, who was also named to the preseason all-conference team. \u201cBut at the end of the day, like we don\u2019t really care about like outside things, just like focus on us and then we\u2019re hopefully gonna prove everybody wrong.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cYeah, honestly, I\u2019m not worried about it,\u201d said first year head coach Adrian Dubois. \u201cI think the most important thing to us and to myself is just, it\u2019s day by day and it\u2019s creating an incredible environment. We\u2019re all progressing, man. We\u2019ve got to focus on what we can control and we can control high level sessions, championship habits and incredible culture, man. Those are the things that we\u2019re working on. And if we do those things really, really well, the success is going to come. Success is going to come, but that other stuff is not going to bother us.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Cats will host Central Connecticut in a srimmage next Tuesday with the regular season opener slated for August 20th against George Mason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JAY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; The UVM men\u2019s soccer team is just a few weeks away from its 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-852406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}