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Retired BSC Head Men’s Soccer Coach Preston Goldfarb made
history this summer by leading the Maccabi USA men’s soccer
team to a dramatic gold-medal win at the 20th World Maccabiah
Games in Jerusalem, Israel.
That’s another gold added to the one the Americans won under
Goldfarb in 2013. They became the first team to win back-to-back
men’s soccer championships in the 80-year history of the games
after they edged out Great Britain in a final rematch on July 16.
Goldfarb, who will be inducted into the National Jewish Sports
Hall of Fame and Museum in Commack, N.Y., next spring, says his
coaching career is now done.
“I can’t think of a greater way to end my career than following
our historical first gold medal with the 2013 Impossible Dream
Team for the U.S. Open Men’s Soccer Team with another gold
medal with our 2017 Forever
Team,” he said.
Goldfarb retired from
leading the Panther
program in 2015 and led
his final BSC youth camp in
2016. He built the college’s
soccer program from
scratch into a prominent,
intercollegiate program.
In 2013, Birmingham-
Southern’s soccer field was named the Preston Goldfarb Field
in his honor. Goldfarb will be inducted into the BSC Sports
Hall of Fame this fall.
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Logan Harris ’14, most recently the Panthers’ assistant
women’s lacrosse coach, is taking the helm this fall as the
team’s head coach.
Harris played lacrosse all four years at Birmingham-Southern
and was team captain for two. An injury limited her play her
first year, but she received second-team all-conference honors
her sophomore year and continued to excel from there. She
earned all-conference honors in both her junior and senior
seasons after coming in second on the team in caused turnovers
and third in the league in ground balls.
“As a coach, my goal is to develop each player to maximize
their potential,” said Harris. “I want to see continual growth
both on and off the field.”
Before coming to BSC as a coach, she worked as program
coordinator for the local nonprofit group Magic Moments,
which fulfills wishes to children with life-threatening illnesses.
BSC alumna picked
to lead women’s
lacrosse program
Hanging up the cleats
Goldfarb makes soccer history with second gold at Maccabiah Games