Duquense men’s soccer adds five mid-year transfers

The winter time has been a very busy period for College soccer programs, as rosters are in flux while the Spring provides opportunities for some high level match play against fellow college teams, while some programs will face pro teams, as the case for Duquesne and Pitt when they take on Riverhounds SC.

The Duquesne Dukes men’s program is no exception, as Head Coach Chase Brooks has already announced that they’ll have five new transfers joining the program in 2025.

Among the Dukes’ new additions include:

• 𝐀𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐨 – Redondo Beach, California (transfer from Akron) 
• 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐃𝐚  Rockville, Maryland (transfer from Macalester College 
• 𝐃𝐢𝐞𝐠𝐨 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐳  Tampa, Florida (transfer from Indiana) 
• 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐬 𝐅𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐬 Nicosia, Cyprus (transfer from Virginia Tech)
• 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐮 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 Oviedo, Florida (transfer from Clemson)

For Duquesne’s full roster, click here.

Ahead of Saturday’s scrimmage vs Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC at Highmark Stadium (2 p.m.), Brooks told Pittsburgh Soccer Now that most of the new guys will play in the match and three of the new transfers will be in the starting lineup.

With the NCAA roster sizes changing ahead of the 2025 Fall season, each of the local programs and coaches have been working diligently to round their respective rosters into shape.

In this day and age of Transfer Portal and NIL, this is already expected.

Add in the NCAA’s new roster and scholarship limits, and suddenly there’s a lot more moving parts to the equation. For the 2025 campaign, with the new NCAA roster limit in place, that number will have to be cut down to 28.

Mid-year signing announcements have been coming in throughout the College soccer landscape, both with commitments from incoming freshman and of course many others from the transfer portal.

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