We are so thankful for Penn State Soccer. They were with us from the very beginning, helping Mack’s buddies through their loss by putting on an impromptu clinic just weeks after Mack died. They continue the tradition this year with the 13th Annual Clinic. Please come and join us! Elizabeth […]
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Once again this year Penn State Men’s Soccer will open their Big Ten home season with the Mack Brady Memorial Match. This year it will be Tuesday night, September 19th against the University of Maryland. The record for Mack Matches stands at an impressive 7-1-2! Come join us to cheer […]
Penn State Men’s and Women’s Soccer Teams will again be offering the free Mack Brady Soccer Clinic for pr-K to 8th grade children. It will be help on January 8, 2023 from 2:30-4:00 pm in Holuba Hall on the University Park campus. Details on the PSU Sports site and below. […]
Penn State played a strong, grinding game against Wisconsin on Friday, September 16, 2022 for the 10th Annual Mack Brady Match. Kris Shakes stonewalled the Badgers to put up his first clean sheet of the season, a fitting tribute for a goalkeeper! The winning goal came in the 85th minute […]
Join us this Friday for the 10th Annual Mack Brady Match as Penn State Men’s Soccer open their B1G season play at home against Wisconsin! It is hard to believe that we are nearing the 10 year anniversary of Mack’s death, but what a remarkable community has helped us remember […]
The essay below is by Penn State alumnus and former goalkeeper Dan Sheerin. His son Danny was one of the first Mack Brady goalkeepers at Penn State and their entire family has been a mainstay at the annual Mack Match and Winter Clinic. He and I were musing on the […]
UPDATE: What a great evening! Kris Shakes was in goal and posted a clean sheet, his second in a row, to bring Penn State to 5-1-0 on the season and the Mack Match to 5-1-2 over all 8 years! The PSU Sports story is here. Hear Kris and Coach Cook […]
The 9th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Clinic was a great success! Elizabeth, Izzy, and I cannot thank our panelists enough for their gracious gift of time and their wonderful humor and candor in sharing about their journeys through youth soccer (play more than one sport!), tips about training at home, […]
While we cannot meet in person, we will not miss our Annual Mack Brady Clinic! Even in this odd year, the Goalkeeper Union comes through to provide another clinic for aspiring keepers! It will be virtual, of course, but mark your calendars for January 17, 2021 and register now! The […]
The 8th Annual Mack Brady Memorial Soccer Clinic will be from 2:30 to 4:00 pm on Sunday January 12th, 2020. The clinic is free of charge and open to children 16 and under, but all participants are required to fill out and bring with them two forms: the Consent for Treatment […]
Update: I had no idea this ran on the cover of the Collegian! Thank you again to the editorial board for covering the Mack Match and to David for writing the story. What a wonderful remembrance. Thank you. Penn State Collegian staff writer David Pollak did a very nice piece […]
On the morning of February 12, 2019 England’s greatest goalkeeper died. Gordon Banks was the winning keeper in Englands 1966 World Cup victory and had “The Greatest Ever Save” four years later against Pelé. He was the hero of many children, even an Irish lad from the north. I met […]
Thank you all for the wonderful clinic! We had over 120 kids in attendance, the Penn State Coaches and players were AWESOME (as always), and it was a wonderful celebration of Mack’s life and the sport he loved! Happy 15th Birthday Mack! 🍀
I hardly remember any details from those days after Mack died. The world continued to move, a new year had come in, yet everything had changed for us. Suddenly we had to cope with all sorts of things parents never imagine they need to deal with. My brother came to […]