CARY, N.C — With Friday night’s College Cup semifinal victory over Denver, Vermont soccer became the first team in any sport for the school and America East to reach an NCAA national championship game.
The unseeded Catamounts will play No. 13-seed Marshall in Monday’s NCAA final at WakeMed Soccer Park.
But Vermont does have history with NCAA titles, and a couple near-misses. Here’s a quick synopsis:
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The Vermont men’s and women’s skiing program has claimed six NCAA championships in a decorated history filled with individual champions, All-Americans and Winter Olympians.
The NCAA championships are from: 1980, 1989, 1992, 1994 and 2012. The Catamounts have also been the NCAA runner-up on 17 occasions and third 11 other times.
Led by Martin St. Louis, Eric Perrin and Tim Thomas, the cherished 1995-96 Vermont men’s hockey team captured 27 games and reached the Frozen Four semifinals.
The Catamounts, though, lost to Colorado College in a two-overtime contest marred by a controversial no-call.
In 2009, Vermont returned to the Frozen Four, but lost to Hockey East rival Boston University in a 5-4 decision.
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