News from SUNY Oneonta
Matthew Matteo competes for SUNY Oneonta men’s soccer team
ONEONTA, NY (12/18/2015)– Matthew Matteo, a Senior majoring in Business Economics from Millerton, NY played for the SUNY Oneonta men’s soccer team this fall.
The Red Dragons finished the season with an overall record of 19-3-2 while going 8-1 in the SUNYAC. The team captured its fourth conference title in the last five years while qualifying for the NCAA tournament for the fifth year in a row. In the NCAA tournament Oneonta advanced to its second straight national championship weekend, falling to the eventual national champion Amherst in penalty kicks in the semifinals.
Matthew earned second team All-SUNYAC honors this fall. He played in 19 games this season and started in 18 of them. He recorded two assists for a total of two points.
SUNY Oneonta supports 21 varsity teams and is a member of the SUNYAC Conference while competing at the NCAA Division III level. The state-of-art athletics facilities include a field house and two field turf fields.
A liberal arts institution with a strong focus on undergraduate research, SUNY Oneonta consistently gains recognition for delivering excellence and value. The college has been named to Kiplinger’s list of “100 Best Values in Public Colleges” for nine consecutive years and sits at No. 9 on the 2015 U.S. News and World Report list of the best public institutions in the region. SUNY Oneonta enrolls 6,000 students in its 70 undergraduate majors and 14 graduate programs.
