After advancing to the round of 16 teams a year ago at nationals, the ISU men’s soccer club not only has expectations of repeating last season’s success, but they also want to win it all this year.

The team currently has 45 players on their roster leading to a divided A and B Side. The A Side, varsity, is currently unbeaten with four wins and two ties, while the B Side, junior varsity, has lost two of its three matches.

One of the main purposes for playing so many matches to open up the season was to allow coach Andy Commins to determine who would compete on the A and B squads. The team is currently focusing more on practices, transferring from two a week at the beginning of the season to four a week.

The club is hoping the busy and competitive schedule Commins has organized for them will translate into success in late October and early November.

“We’ve got a lot more games scheduled this year than last year against a lot better competition, so we’re hoping that’s going to help us perform better at Nationals,” said Andrew Paleczny, the team’s center back.

Many changes have been made to the team since Commins has taken over as coach. He has added more structure and organization to the club over the past two seasons.

“When they asked me to come over and be the coach there wasn’t a whole lot of organization,” Commins said. “I think I provided some of that organization in terms of scheduled games and practices and expectations that people would come and perform up to the best of their ability.

“Last year we kind of walked into it and this year we’ve started right from the beginning with a lot of effort and a lot of commitment, and it’s shown on the field.”

The coaching methods and expectations Commins has given the team have players believing they can accomplish anything.

“Last year was the first time we advanced at all in the National Tournament and this year, the next step is to win it all, so we’ll see how that goes,” said Abdul Daoud, midfielder and team president.

Commins explained to players last week what the team needed to do in order to achieve the goals they have set in place for the remainder of the season.

“We sat down last week and talked about if this is where we want to be in terms of winning regionals and making a really honest run at winning Nationals, we got to start putting a little more effort at practice and a lot more conditioning,” Commins said.