Blake Camp and Danny Kramer Invited to adidas MLS Player Combine

Durham, N.C. - Blake Camp and Danny Kramer are two of 56 college seniors who have been chosen by Major League Soccer to participate in the 2006 adidas MLS Player Combine. The combine will be held at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. for the third straight year and will take place January 12-15.

Camp, a midfielder from Danielsville, Ga., finished his career at Duke with 24 goals and 22 assists. He started all 20 of Duke's games in 2005 and scored nine goals with five assists. He was a first team All-ACC selection and was named the ACC Tournament MVP after leading the Blue Devils to their second conference championship. He was named the Soccer America National Player of the Week on Nov. 15 and was a three-time national team of the week selection as a senior.
Prior to the season he was a preseason All-America selection and was named to the Hermann Trophy watch list. His junior year he was named third team All-America and was a first team All-South pick. He was also a first team All-ACC selection as well as an ACC All-Tournament team choice in both his junior and sophomore seasons.

Kramer, a midfielder from Plainview, N.Y., compiled 19 goals and 17 assists in four years with the Blue Devils. A senior captain, Kramer ended the 2005 season with four goals and three assists. He was named ACC Player of the Week on Sept. 19 after scoring the tying goal and assisting on the game-winner against Wake Forest. He was also selected to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District second team. He had his best collegiate season as a junior, leading the team in scoring with 10 goals and seven assists. He scored five game-winning goals and led the squad to the College Cup for the fifth time in school history.

The 2006 adidas MLS Player Combine will separate all players into four teams and feature doubleheaders at The Home Depot Center on the mornings of January 13, 14 and 15. Players will arrive on January 12 and participate in organizational training sessions that same afternoon at The Home Depot Center.

The coaching staffs and general managers from all 12 MLS teams will be in attendance to scout talent at the 2006 adidas MLS Player Combine, which concludes five days before the 2006 MLS SuperDraft. The 2006 MLS SuperDraft will be held on Friday, January 20, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pa. in conjunction with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Of the 48 players selected in the four rounds of the 2005 MLS SuperDraft, 39 had participated in the 2005 adidas Player Combine, including New England Revolution draftee Michael Parkhurst, a Generation adidas player and Major League Soccer's 2005 Gatorade Rookie of the Year.

The initial list of players for the 2006 adidas Player Combine was determined by a select panel of Division I college coaches representing all conferences, who nominated and voted for players in conjunction with MLS coaches. Youth players from the Generation adidas program will join additional collegiate players from NCAA Division II and III schools, NAIA schools and Division I alternates to finalize the 2006 adidas Player Combine. These players will be announced in the near future.

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