Sports > January 24, 2008

By Allison Lange | Sports editor

After having the undisputed best season in the country, junior Evan Brown has a lot of good memories. But even after the most successful season in Wake Forest history, the team still focuses on goals for next season.

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(Old Gold & Black file photo)

As a junior captain, Brown helped lead the team to the College Cup, the men’s soccer Final Four, for the second season in a row. Brown played in all 26 games this season and had 19 shots on the entire season as a defender. The Old Gold & Black’s Sports editor Allison Lange sat down with Brown to talk about winning the National Championship, goals for next year, his favorite moment of the season and being someone else for a day.

On his thoughts after winning the championship:

Well, it was pretty unbelievable.

I couldn’t really comprehend the fact that after talking about winning the National Championship for so long that we had finally done it.

The feeling that I got after the final whistle blew was unexplainable.

On winning after coming close last year:

It was very fulfulling.

We were so close last year and after seeing UC-Santa Barbara win last year, it made us that much more dedicated to get back to the College Cup and win one for ourselves.

On his favorite moment of the season:

I had a lot of favorite moments, but one of my favorites was during the Notre Dame game.

We went into OT with them and were pressing real hard to try and get a goal and Austin da Luz scored.

He began running to the crowd, but before he got there one of our redshirt freshman jumped from the stadium and ran onto the field.

When I saw him on the field, it made me really happy and made the celebration so much better.

I also must say watching the clock run down to 00:00 in the championship game was a pretty good moment.

On his favorite class at Wake:

My favorite class has to have been my Internet Issues class with Leah McCoy. She is an amazing professor and academic adviser.

On next season’s goals:

As a team we always are looking to make ourselves better. As of right now my goal is to try to mimic our accomplishments from this past year.

On being someone else for a day:

Right now I’d want to be Tom Brady. I would want to be him because he has had, and is still having, an amazing career in football, while being able to partake in a pretty lavish lifestyle.