Three members of the SUNY Cortland men's soccer team have been named United Soccer Coaches Division III All-Americans for the 2021 season. Graduate student midfielder
Blake Aronson (Huntington Station/Walt Whitman) was named to the All-America first team, and graduate student defender
Scott Cebollero (Commack) and senior forward
Anthony Ruggiero (Holtsville/Sachem East) were selected to the third team.
Aronson started 20 games and finished the season with a team-high 16 goals along with one assist for 33 points. He led Division III nationally with 10 game-winning goals. Aronson scored once in 16 different games, including the SUNYAC semifinal and championship games and each of Cortland's three NCAA tournament contests. Aronson was a defender for the Red Dragons in 2018 and 2019 after transferring from Division I Marist College.
Cebollero started all 22 games this fall and registered two goals and two assists in addition to helping anchor a defense that allowed only 19 goals. He scored a goal in the NCAA tournament first round and notched an assist in the NCAA second round. Cebollero was a graduate transfer in his first season with Cortland this fall after previously playing three seasons at Oneonta.
Ruggiero played in 22 games, 18 as a starter, and finished the season with 11 goals and six assists for 28 points. He was second on the Red Dragon squad in goals, assists and total points. He scored five game-winning goals, including an overtime tally at Liberty League champion St. Lawrence. He also scored goals in the SUNYAC championship game and the NCAA second round, as well as two goals each in regular-season wins at Buffalo State and Oswego. A transfer from Division I North Carolina State, Ruggiero has career totals of 22 goals and eight assists in three seasons at Cortland (2018-19, 21).
Cortland finished the season with an 18-3-1 record, the second-highest win total in school history and just one shy of the record 19 won by the 2016 Red Dragon squad. Cortland won both the SUNYAC regular-season and tournament titles and posted wins over Nazareth and Kean in the NCAA Division III tournament before losing at eventual national runner-up Amherst in the third round to tie for ninth place nationally.