KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Hays State Men's Soccer received votes in the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Top 25 Poll, released on Wednesday. The Tigers will begin where they left off at the end of their brief 2021 spring campaign.
Last year, FHSU posted a record of 4-2-1 in a brief spring season that saw them finish second in the Great American Conference standings. The Tigers enjoyed time inside the Top 25 of the United Soccer Coaches spring poll in 2021 before finishing the year in the receiving votes section.
Rogers State, the GAC regular season and tournament champion of the brief 2021 spring season starts the year at No. 12 in the poll, while Northeastern State is tabbed No. 19. By receiving votes, Fort Hays State gives the Great American Conference three of its eight men's soccer programs referenced in the preseason poll.
Fort Hays State will look to continue the longest active streak in NCAA Division II of making the NCAA National Tournament. The FHSU men have qualified for the national tournament eight consecutive years. The NCAA did not hold national championship tournaments for fall sports in 2020-21 due to issues with the COVID-19 pandemic. Fort Hays State's deepest run in the national tournament occurred in 2018 when it made the national semifinals.
Below is the 2021 United Soccer Coaches Preseason Men's Soccer Poll.
RankSchoolPrevW-L-T1University Of Charleston110-0-02California State University-Los AngelesNR0-0-03Lynn UniversityNR0-0-04University Of Indianapolis413-0-45Franklin Pierce University26-0-06Wingate University77-1-17California State University-San BernardinoNR0-0-08Colorado School Of Mines97-0-19Maryville University of St. Louis2411-4-210Lander University58-0-111West Texas A&M University78-2-012Rogers State University86-0-213Palm Beach Atlantic UniversityNR0-0-014Azusa Pacific UniversityNR0-0-015Adelphi UniversityNR0-0-016Union University106-1-017Gannon UniversityNR0-0-018University Of West FloridaNR0-0-019Northeastern State University255-3-020Saginaw Valley State University132-0-021Colorado Mesa University146-1-122Cedarville University237-2-122Midwestern State University207-3-124St. Mary's University (Texas)RV6-3-125Lake Erie CollegeNR5-5-0
Receiving Votes: Point Loma Nazarene, Notre Dame (Ohio), Lenoir-Rhyne, Erskine, Mississippi College, Davis & Elkins, Fresno Pacific, Carson-Newman, Saint Rose (N.Y.), Florida Tech, Anderson (S.C.), Fort Hays State, Post, Wilmington (Del.), Francis Marion, Young Harris, Cal Poly Pomona, McKendree, Mercy, Queens (N.C.), Tiffin, Assumption, Nova Southeastern.