The Evergreen State College men’s soccer team is listed 11th in the 2026 Cascade Collegiate Conference preseason coaches’ poll, which was released Tuesday.
Eastern Oregon University, which received three of the 13 first-place votes and 149 total points, ranked at the top of the poll.
In 2025, the Geoducks finished the year with a 1-9-2 record in the CCC and a 1-12-2 overall mark. Head coach Steve Schmidt is starting his sixth season at the helm of the Evergreen men’s soccer team.
Evergreen is set to begin the 2026 regular season on Thursday, Aug. 27 at Geoduck Pitch against Ottawa University Arizona at 11 a.m.
Junior defender Cooper Davis returns to the Geoducks after scoring one goal and one assist for three total points last season. Senior midfielder Kolby Juarez earned two goals in 2025 and has provided Evergreen with nine goals and six assists in his career.
Eastern Oregon held the top spot in this year’s CCC preseason poll by a slim margin of just one point. Carroll College ranked second in the poll with 148 points and four first-place votes. Carroll was one point ahead of Warner Pacific, which held third place with 147 points and led all teams with five first-place votes.
Rocky Mountain College was fourth in the poll with 133 points and the remaining first-place vote. College of Idaho was fifth with 116 points, and Southern Oregon held sixth place at 114 points.
Oregon Tech followed in seventh place with 94 points, while Bushnell was eighth with 83 points. Corban was ninth at 61 points, Northwest was 10th with 43 points, and Evergreen held 11th with 40 points. Walla Walla was listed 12th with 28 points, just a single point in front of University of Providence, which was 13th with 27 points.
