COLONIA, N.J. – With the season around the corner, the East Coast Conference has announced the 2025 ECC Men's Soccer Preseason Coaches Polls and your D'Youville University men's soccer team have been picked to finish fifth in the upcoming season while receiving one first-place vote.
 
The Saints are coming off a 2024 season where they made their first ECC Postseason appearance while also hosting their first ever home playoff game in program history. The team posted an overall record of 5-8-4 and a record of 3-2-3 within the conference.
 
DYU returns three all-conference players from a year ago in Conor Livingstone, Ethan Robinson, and Shawn Richardson, who will look to be the key contributors once again. In all, D'Youville returns 18 players from last years team while also adding 10 new players including a pair of transfers.
 
The 2025 season gets underway on September 4th as they open the season on the road at Slippery Rock University at 4 p.m.

2025 ECC Men's Soccer Preseason Poll
1. Queens - 80 points (8 first-place votes)

2. Mercy - 70 points

3. District of Columbia - 51 points

4. Molloy - 48 points

5. D'Youville - 47 points (1 first-place vote)

6. Roberts Wesleyan - 43 points

7. St. Thomas Aquinas - 36 points

8. Staten Island - 18 points

9. Daemen - 12 points

2025 ECC Preseason Offensive Player of the Year
Harry Cooke, Sr., Queens College

(Unanimous selection)

2025 ECC Preseason Defensive Player of the Year
Thanasis Shehadeh, R-So., Queens College