Welcome Home Evan Gershkovich!

[PaulNewman]

I'm sure Northman (or whatever he changed name to) and some other Bowdoin/NESCAC observers will have much more to add....

https://athletics.bowdoin.edu/sports/mens-soccer/roster/evan-gershkovich/3147

[PaulNewman]

Notice details of t-shirt....

https://photos.app.goo.gl/WJXR22bTTypPz38G6

[blooter442]

Fantastic news. Obviously a travesty that he was ever detained. Didn't realize that he made the winning penalty against Amherst in the 2010 Ro16, but a PPH article had an interesting anecdote.

Biette-Timmons remembers Gershkovich playing soccer their freshman year. A game against Amherst College went to penalty kicks. "Evan volunteered to take one, which is obviously insane and the most high-pressure thing you can do. He took one, and he made it. And he won the game."

[northman]

PaulNewman, I was TrueNorth before I somehow lost my handle and settled for Northman.  Evan Gershkovich was a freshman on the Bowdoin soccer team when my son was a junior.  That was the only year Evan played collegiate soccer.  History tells us he clearly had more important things to be doing as a college student.

Here's a cool piece of trivia:  Evan didn't get much playing time during the regular season or playoffs in 2010.  Bowdoin was hosting the NCAA sectionals and were playing arch rival Amherst in the round of 16.  The game, tied 1-1 after regulation and two OTs, went to PKs.  Amherst missed a couple of shots during the initial round of 5, so Bowdoin was in a favorable circumstance...but you still have to convert your shots. 

With the outcome in the balance, coach Fran O'Leary brought Evan off the proverbial bench (you were allowed to do that back then) for the next kick.  After not playing at all during regulation or OT, Evan stepped up and rolled the ball into the corner for a Bowdoin victory.  That's a pretty cool exclamation point to a brief college soccer career!

[EnmoreCat]

Notwithstanding the fact he broke purple hearts back in 2010, very glad he was released, but of course, it should never have come to that in the first place.  Will avoid political commentary, aside from saying, my views on the Russian President strongly differ to those held by a presidential aspirant, which I guess is political commentary.