About Us
Summertime Sports Women's College Prep soccer camp was created by Eva and Rudy Meredith. With well over 40 years of experience both as coaches and players the camp main focus is to foster the development of women's soccer players through through individual instruction and drill work, as well as game play.
Eva Meredith was appointed as the faculty head coach of women's soccer at Wesleyan for the 2004 season and will be in her seventh season in 2010.
Eva coached at the University of Hartford for six years, her first three as assistant women's soccer coach and the last three as head coach. During her tenure, Hartford won three American East conference titles and competed in the NCAA Division I championships five times. In 2008 and 2009, Eva guided Wesleyan to its first back-to-back winning seasons in 15 years.
An outstanding soccer player both on the national level in her home country of Sweden and as a collegian at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire, Eva was a National Team player for Sweden from 1989-1991 and a premier league player there from 1986-1992. Attending Franklin Pierce from 1992-1995, Eva was a four-time all-New England choice, a three-time All-American and the NCAA Division II National Player of the Year as a freshman. She also was a two-time academic All-American and was a three-year team captain as Franklin Pierce captured NCAA titles in both 1994 and 1995.
In addition to coaching at Hartford, Eva coached the U-18 girls premier squad West Hartford United for a year and directed the Lady Hawk Soccer School each of her years at Hartford. She now conducts the Summertime Sports Soccer Academy at Wesleyan each summer.
Rudy Meredith, the winningest coach in Yale history with a 156-95-16 mark, begins his 16th season at the helm in 2010. During his tenure, Meredith has firmly established the Bulldogs as one of the most successful and respected women's soccer programs in the Northeast.
He is a three-time Northeast Region Coach of the Year and has guided the Bulldogs to the NCAA College Cup in 2002, 2004 and 2005. In 2005, the Bulldogs won a school record 15 games, captured the first outright Ivy League title in Yale history and advanced to the third round of the NCAA College Cup for the first time in school history. In the second round, Yale upset third-seeded Duke 2-1, scoring the winning goal with one second left in the second half, one of the most dramatic finishes in the history of the tournament. The Bulldogs were ranked 13th in the final NSCAA/adidas national poll.
In 2002, Yale made the first NCAA Tournament appearance in school history, upsetting Villanova in the first round before dropping a heartbreaking 1-0 decision to Nebraska in the second round. The Bulldogs returned to the NCAA Tournament in 2004 after winning 13 games and finishing second in the Ivy League.
Several individuals have earned accolades under Meredith's tutelage. Lorelei Wall '00 was named Yale's first Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 1996 and went on to receive first team All-Ivy honors the next three years. Crysti Howser was named Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2005, and Christina Huang became only the second Yale player to earn All-America recognition when she was named to the second team in 2005. In 2010, Yale had both the league's player of the year (Becky Brown) and the co-rookie of the year (Kristen Forster). Meredith has coached 23 players to first team All-Ivy honors during his tenure.
In May of 2007, Meredith served as an assistant coach for the United States Under-20 Women's National Team that played three matches against top English clubs in Manchester, England. He worked primarily with the goalkeepers - Chantel Jones of Virginia and Penn State's Alyssa Naeher.
Prior to being named head coach at Yale shortly before the start of the 1995 season, Meredith served three years as an assistant coach under Felice Duffy. In his first year as an assistant, the Bulldogs captured their first Ivy League title, sharing the crown with Brown.
Meredith, who has the United States Federation license, also has considerable experience coaching youth teams, including working with the Kenyan National Team for six months. He has guided six Connecticut state champions, two regional champions and two national champions, the under-16 Weston Wild Things in 1998 and the under-19 Yankee United Nova in 1997. Meredith is currently on the Region I Olympic Development coaching staff.