As St. Louis University men’s soccer coach Kevin Kalish looks at his roster, he’s confident it’s a team that will be able to score some goals this season. Identifying who will score those goals is a bit more tricky.

SLU kicks off its season at 7 p.m. Thursday against South Florida at Hermann Stadium, and it is a very different squad from last season. Thirteen of the 30 players on the team’s roster are freshmen. Add in four transfers, and more than half of the team is new for 2025.

Gone with those graduates is much of the team’s offense. SLU scored 31 goals last season, but the players who are back scored only nine of them. (And four of those nine goals came in one late-season game against Division III Blackburn.) In its final four games of 2024, SLU scored just two goals, both in the sam

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