Princeton 56ers
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| Full name | Princeton-56ers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | PSC56, P-56ers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Breese Stevens Field | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capacity | 4,965 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Charles Billings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Jim Launder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | National Premier Soccer League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 2nd, won Midwest Division | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Princeton-56ers are an American soccer team, founded in 2005 through the partnership of two long-standing soccer associations in southern Wisconsin, the Madison 56ers and Princeton SC. The team is a member of the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, and plays in the Midwest Division against teams from Detroit, Milwaukee, Goshen, Minneapolis and St. Paul and Kalamazoo.
The 56ers play their home matches at Breese Stevens Field in the city of Madison, Wisconsin. The team's colors are red, black and white.
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[edit] History
The team's first game was a 5-1 victory over Minnesota club Inferno 95 in a friendly May 15, 2005 at Breese Stevens Field, with Jed Hohlbein scoring the team's first goal. The team finished 6-8 overall and finished third in the NPSL Midwest with a 5-5 record, behind NPSL champion Detroit and Milwaukee.
In 2006, the Princeton-56ers were 12-2-4 overall and won the NPSL Midwest title with an 8-0-2 record. They lost to the Sacramento Knights 2-0 in the NPSL championship game on July 29, 2006 at Breese Stevens Field, with Anthony Chimienti and Alfredo Renteria scoring in the final 19 minutes. The game drew a club-record crowd of 1,351.
Jed Hohlbein, who starred at nearby Middleton High School and played two seasons at the University of Wisconsin, led the team in goals in each of its first two seasons, scoring 10 goals in 2005 and 13 in 2006. He had the Princeton-56ers' first hat trick in a 3-2 home victory over the St. Paul Twin Stars on May 20, 2006. Andre Francois also had a hat trick in a 9-1 home win over the Madison Latino League All-Stars in a friendly on July 2, 2006, the highest scoring game in the Princeton-56ers' first two seasons.
Their coach is Jim Launder, who coached the University of Wisconsin men's soccer team to its only NCAA championship in 1995 and was an assistant coach for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer from 2002 to 2004. Their assistant coach is Danny van Mol, a native of The Netherlands who was a player-assistant coach for the team in 2005.
Two Princeton-56ers players have gone on to professional careers. Defender Aaron Hohlbein, like his older brother a former standout at Middleton High School and the University of Wisconsin, was selected by the Kansas City Wizards with the third pick of the 2007 Major League Soccer supplemental draft. He signed a senior contract with the Wizards on March 1, 2007. Midfielder-defender Noah Goerlitz, a native of Neenah, Wis. who also played at the University of Wisconsin, played with Canterbury United in the New Zealand Football Championship in 2007.
[edit] Current squad
Players who saw action in 2006
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[edit] Year-by-year
| Year | Division | League | Reg. Season | Playoffs | Open Cup |
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| 2005 | "4" | NPSL | 3rd Midwest | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2006 | "4" | NPSL | 1st Midwest | Finalist | Did not participate |
