by Kailey Schuyler and Josh Odum | Sep 26, 2017 | News Slider, Sports
Deep in the heart of Allen Arena, men’s soccer coach Charles Morrow reviews his team’s lineup for Saturday’s game in San Diego. Morrow, a 13-year fixture at Lipscomb still appears far more at home on the sideline of a soccer pitch than he does in his office, surrounded by soccer memorabilia, but this isn’t particularly surprising. Morrow was introduced to soccer while growing up in a predominantly Latino school district near Corpus Christi, TX. “When we went out to play at recess, we weren’t playing football; we were playing soccer,” Morrow said. As a true freshman in 1994, Morrow played for Queens College in Charlotte, which he chose because it was a co-ed school with a growing soccer program. “Good soccer and a lot of girls,” he noted, adding, “It sounded great.” However, Morrow said he struggled in his freshman year with the transition from “a big fish in a small pond” in high school to “the lower half of the roster for sure, if not lower third” at Queens. Despite this, Morrow pointed to this year as the year he realized that college soccer was what he wanted to do. Nevertheless, Morrow said the “party school” atmosphere got old. “In the early nineties, Lipscomb was a school that Church of Christ parents could send their kid to and feel good that their kids would be safe and be taught the right things . . . . What you saw was ‘I’m here because my parents are making me go here. This is where they would pay for me to go to school,’” he said. Morrow was looking for...
