Dexter Irvin, Athletic Director of the College of Southern Nevada, Thurs. Jan. 9, 2014.
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016 | 2 p.m.
The women’s soccer program at the College of Southern Nevada is returning.
The junior college announced today that men’s and women’s soccer will begin in the fall of 2016, restarting the women’s program that existed from 2000-04 before being replaced by softball.
CSN launched its athletic program with baseball in 1999. Next fall, it will have five sports — softball and girls volleyball are the others.
It also briefly had men’s and women’s basketball, but those folded after one season because of a lack of funding. But they, too, might also return, says Dexter Irvin, the CSN athletic director.
Irvin has headed the athletic department since 2014, delivering on his promise to expand the sports offered. Basketball, which folded in the early 2000s after one season, could restart in 2018 if funding continues to progress as planned, Irvin said.
“It goes back to my original point: Kids just want a place to play,” Irvin said.
He predicts that each soccer program will have 50 to 60 hopefuls try out. They’ll play games initially at public parks in Henderson, but Irvin hopes to eventually build a stadium on the Henderson campus. In March, a softball field will be built.
Geoffrey Hawkins was announced as the men’s coach, and Jennifer Schultz will head the women’s program. Hawkins is the president of the Las Vegas Mobsters adult team of the USL Premier Development League. Schultz, a Green Valley High graduate, played at Dixie State and in the English Women’s Premier League.
“We expect to be competitive from the start,” Irvin said in a statement.
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