Soccer: Two More Loudoun Valley Athletes Headed to College Ranks as Justin Thomas and Stephen Palmer Choose Schools

(Apr. 21, 2010) - Loudoun Valley High School added two more athletes to its growing list of college-bound athletes as senior goalkeeper Justin Thomas and senior midfielder Stephen Palmer both have chosen NCAA Division III schools to play soccer at.

Thomas will play at Hampden-Sydney which is located 60 miles southwest of Richmond and plays in the ODAC. Potomac Falls grad Matt Swaney was a junior defender for the Tigers in the Fall.

Palmer will play for the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J. which plays in the Empire 8 conference and had players from 15 different states on the roster in 2009 from Hawaii to Texas to Maryland.

Check out the fun facts in the VivaLoudoun Choice chart ... Valley now has 20 athletes headed to college, most of any high school. We are up to 90 total athletes on our chart ... are we missing one? The 90 athletes are headed to an amazing 64 different schools. Some 50 of the 90 athletes will play football or soccer in college (football or futbol if you will!).