IMG Academy Bradenton

IMG Academy Bradenton is an American soccer team based in Bradenton, Florida, United States. Founded in 1998, the team plays in USL League Two, the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.^[1]

IMG Academy Bradenton

Full name	IMG Academy Bradenton
Nickname(s)	The Academics
Founded	1998; 27 years ago (1998) (as Bradenton Academics)
Stadium	IMG Academy Bradenton, Florida
Capacity	1,500
League	USL League Two
2018	4th, Southeast Division Playoffs: DNQ
Website	www.imgacademy.com/boarding-school/athletics/soccer-girls
Home colors Away colors

The team is associated with IMG Academy and the United States Soccer Federation's full-time residency program for the US Under 17 Men's National Team. The team plays its home games in the stadium at IMG Academy,^[2] where they have played since 2003. The team's colors are blue, gold and black.

From 2004 to 2008 the team had a sister organization, the Bradenton Athletics, who played in the women's W-League.^[3]

Players

Current roster

As of June 23, 2014.^[4][5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK  USA Connor Sparrow 1 GK  USA Marco Velez 1 GK  USA Robert Shearer 2 DF  ENG Jamie McGuinness 3 DF  USA David Abidor 4 DF  USA Joseph Hutchinson 4 DF  USA Konroad Kucharski 5 DF  USA Mathew Gardner 6 MF  USA Myles Englis 7 FW  NGA Yussuf Olajide 8 MF  HUN Alejandro Fritz Ruenes 8 MF  CRC Daniel Valenciano 9 MF  USA Raul Gonzalez 9 FW  JAM Christopher Campbell 10 MF  USA Douglas Goodman

No. Pos. Nation Player 11 FW  BAH Terry Delancy 12 DF  JAM Theodore Brown 12 DF  USA Jason Chapman 13 MF  USA Matias Rubio 14 DF  USA Eric DeJulio 15 DF  USA Daniel Barboto 15 DF  CRC Mario Mesen 16 FW  USA Oliver Harvey 17 FW  BER Casey Castle 17 DF  POR Nuno Gourgel 18 MF  FRA William Suedois 19 DF  USA Isaiah Fergusson — MF  USA Jesus Pineda —  USA Brendan O'Connor

Notable former players

This list of notable former players comprises players who went on to play professional soccer after playing for the team in the Premier Development League, or those who previously played professionally before joining the team.

• David Abidor
• Anthony Ampaipitakwong
• Bernardo Anor
• Jeff Attinella
• Zak Boggs
• Kevin Burns
• Jonny Campbell
• Francis de Vries
• Ben Everson
• Jani Galik
• Blair Gavin
• Michael Gavin
• Miguel Gonzalez
• Happy Hall
• Cameron Hepple
• Stephen Keel
• Wes Knight
• Nick Kolarac
• David Mahoney
• Devon McKenney
• Pascal Millien
• Steven Morris
• Kurt Morsink
• Nick Noble
• Michael Parkhurst
• Heath Pearce
• Charlie Reiter
• Brad Rusin
• Jordan Seabrook
• Yevgeni Starikov
• Ryan Thompson
• Tanner Wolfe
• Andrew Wolverton
• Leland Wright

Year-by-year

Year	Division	League	Regular Season	Playoffs	Open Cup
1998	4	USISL PDSL	3rd, Southeast	Division Semifinals	did not qualify
1999	4	USL PDL	5th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2000	4	USL PDL	2nd, Southeast	Conference Semifinals	did not qualify
2001	4	USL PDL	3rd, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2002	4	USL PDL	2nd, Southeast	National Semifinals	did not qualify
2003	4	USL PDL	3rd, Southeast	did not qualify	2nd Round
2004	4	USL PDL	4th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2005	4	USL PDL	3rd, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2006	4	USL PDL	1st, Southeast	Conference Finals	did not qualify
2007	4	USL PDL	4th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2008	4	USL PDL	2nd, Southeast	Conference Semifinals	1st Round
2009	4	USL PDL	2nd, Southeast	National Semifinals	did not qualify
2010	4	USL PDL	6th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2011	4	USL PDL	3rd, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2012	4	USL PDL	3rd, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2013	4	USL PDL	6th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2014	4	USL PDL	3rd, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2015	4	USL PDL	5th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2016	4	USL PDL	6th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2017	4	USL PDL	5th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify
2018	4	USL PDL	4th, Southeast	did not qualify	did not qualify

Honors

• USL PDL Southern Conference Champions 2009
• USL PDL Southeast Division Champions 2006
• USL PDL Southern Conference Champions 2002

Head coaches

• Tom Durkin^[6] (2005–2011)

Stadia

• IMG Soccer Academy; Bradenton, Florida (2003–present)

Average attendance

Attendance stats are calculated by averaging each team's self-reported home attendances from the historical match archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20100105175057/http://www.uslsoccer.com/history/index_E.html.

• 2005: 97
• 2006: 103
• 2007: 135
• 2008: 138
• 2009: 133
• 2010: 133