6 questions with Elmira College soccer commit Patrick Croft of O-M

Patrick Croft is headed to nearby Elmira College to play men's soccer following six varsity seasons at Odessa-Montour.

His school took time to celebrate Croft during a signing ceremony Thursday, June 11. Croft was introduced by Greg Gavich, who is O-M's athletic director and was Croft's first soccer coach for the Hector Fudge under-5 team in the Chemung Valley Soccer Association.

Croft, 18, was a three-time Interscholastic Athletic Conference first-team all-star at O-M and helped the Grizzlies to back-to-back IAC South Small School titles his last two seasons. The midfielder and three-year team captain registered 24 goals and 16 assists those two seasons. He also excelled in wrestling for the Grizzlies.

Croft, who lives in Montour Falls, is the son of Chris Croft and Alichia Decker.

He plans to major in environmental science at Division III Elmira College, with hopes of working with waterways and fish after graduation.

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Answer: My first varsity coach, Kenny May, really taught me a lot. More as a person than most coaches would. We didn’t have great seasons. A lot of seniors graduated, rebuilding years, but we got there eventually.

Then Tanner Dupuy, my second varsity coach for my fifth and sixth year on varsity, we really picked it up, got a good group of guys, started doing well.