2020 Fall Intramural Program

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Professional coaching staff led by boys youth director, Tristan Preece.

Dates:

  • September 8th - October 31st

Games:

  • Saturday Morning Games
  • Games will be held on Saturday Mornings between 9AM and 12PM
  • All Games will be monitored by Ukrainian Nationals Staff

Training Schedule:

  • Tuesdays 5-6pm 2016-2015 Birth Years
  • Thursday 5-6pm 2014-2013 Birth Years
For questions e-mail Tristan Preece at Tristan@UkrainianNationals.com

 

Meghan Nemzer named Girls youth director

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  • Associate Head Coach: Rutgers University
  • 2015 NCAA Final Four
  • Coached 7 Mac Hermann Trophy Nominees
  • Coached 12 NWSL Players
  • 2015 ECNL National Champion (First Female Head Coach)
  • Playing Experience: Rutgers University

Tristan Preece Named Boys Youth Director

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  • English FA Licensed Coach
  • Current Coach: EPYSA Olympic Development Program
  • Former Assistant Coach: Delaware Valley University
  • Former Player: Philadelphia Fury
  • Playing Experience: Delaware Valley University
  • Preece notched eight wins and 176 saves in net in three years with Delaware Valley (he missed the ’09 campaign with an injury). He burst onto the scene as a freshman in 2008 with 117 saves, including 12 in an upset win over Freedom foe King’s College, the Monarchs’ lone loss of the season.

Joe nemzer: named mid-atlantic conference representative, girls academy league talent id program

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Congratulations to Joe Nemzer, Senior Girls Director and head coach of the 2006G, 2007G Black and 2013B Teams.

National championship series playoffs 2020-2021

Congratulations to the following teams on qualifying for the National League Series Playoff for the 2020-2021 season.

  • 2003 Boys Black
  • 2005 Boys Black
  • 2006 Boys Black
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Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals Columbus

Day Tournament Dates: 10/9-10/12

 COVID Health and Safety Plan

As the COVID pandemic evolves, the focus of our Club will always be the health and safety of our players, coaches, and families. Our decision to run “in-person” camps (can proceed in Yellow Phase per the State and EPYSA), and eventually resume training (can only proceed in Green Phase per the State and EPYSA) will always be based on recommendations and guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control, the State of PA, and EPYSA.

kenie wright and jordan nash join our coaching staff

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Kenie Wright comes to the Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Club as a current member of Sky Blue FC of the National Women's Soccer League. Kenie was the 29th overall pick in the 2019 NWSL Draft following a decorated career at Rutgers University. The Two Year captain helped lead the Scarlet Knights to two Big Ten Championship games, four consecutive NCAA Tournaments appearances, and the NCAA College Cup in 2015. Kenie also was named Second Team All Big-Ten and Third Team All-Region for her performance in her senior campaign. The second year pro will begin her coaching career with the Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Club this spring.

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Jordan Nash comes to the Ukrainian Nationals Soccer Club as a current Assistant Women's Soccer Coach at Delaware Valley University and a former goalkeeper for Temple University. As a coach, Jordan helped lead DelVal to a resurgence defensively as the team had it's lowest goals against average in five years. Jordan also coached goalkeeper Haley Young who ended the reason ranked in the top 30 in the NCAA in saves per game. As a player, Jordan was a four year starting goalkeeper at Temple University. She finished her career with 226 saves and impressive 1.36 goals against average. During her freshman season she received American Athletic Conference Player of the Week and Goalkeeper of the Week honors, and was named to the American Athletic Conference All-Rookie

Tribute to a Great Man... Yaroslaw “Jerry” Kozak

Last week we celebrated the life and passing of Yaroslaw “Jerry” Kozak.  His solemn funeral mass at Annunciation BVM Ukrainian Catholic Church brought together so many people from Tryzub’s gloried past and present.  It is the bittersweet thing about funerals.  For those who attended from the Philadelphia Ukrainian Nationals, it was such a privilege to be there.  The Tryzub family came to honor an Extraordinary Man—a man who earned your respect and admiration every day of his life in the example he set.

The pictures below tell part of the story:  Jerry Kozak as a player here; Jerry Kozak as a coach here; Jerry Kozak building, planting, moving earth, operating equipment, etc.; Jerry Kozak leading us and representing us at all times with dignity.  The fuller story is how one dedicated, hard-working volunteer with a heart of gold and unexcelled passion for this Club could shape it for seven (7) decades.  For perspective, most people who come through our soccer organization will be involved here for five, maybe ten years.  We know Jerry Kozak was not alone in making this place.  But for those of us in the soccer leadership for the past couple decades, he was the most visible example of Tryzub’s core values: integrity, loyalty, dedication and service.  Jerry Kozak possessed an iron-will to get things done.

As soon as you joined the soccer organization, you discovered Jerry Kozak’s stature here.  It was never in anything Mr. Kozak said.  He possessed that rare gift of great leaders—humility.  But you knew he carried weight when you heard a teenage girl named Larissa or her brothers greet him as “Pon Kozak.”  While the term was unfamiliar to us, you could hear the respect in it.  Jerry Kozak earned respect, and not because he was Tryzub’s President at the time.  The pictures testify.  He was a man of action along with his friend, Ted Kulp.  Pon Kozak recognized a problem, analyzed it, and solved it.  Tryzub was always improving on his watch.

We joined this Club after the turn of this century.  By then, Pon Kozak had been here for fifty (50) years.  Through his life of service, he had a keen sense of who he could depend upon.  But he never asked of anyone what he was not prepared to do himself.  Today, we talk about the unfortunate sense of entitlement people have.  This was never Pon Kozak.  You would never see him take as much as a free draft.  It was frankly the opposite.  After a long day of spring clean-up, trenching, or getting ready for a Club event, Pon Kozak would buy his crew a round of “Old Kiev.”  You fondly remember the day you were in that special community of volunteers and toasted “Na zdrovya.”

The details of Pon Kozak’s extraordinary life and wonderful family are in his obituary posted on our Facebook page.  Pon Kozak was a WWII survivor.  He was intelligent, educated and successful.  Winston Churchill said:  “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”  Pon Kozak gave us everything.  Some might think it cliché to say Pon Kozak was Tryzub.  He was.