Steve Corpening (born August 11, 1965 in

Rantoul, Illinois Rantoul is a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,371 at the 2020 census. History The community was named after Robert Rantoul, Jr., a U.S. representative from Massachusetts, and a director of the Illino ...

) is a former U.S.

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who was the 1989 Western Soccer League leading scorer. He three seasons in the

American Professional Soccer League The American Professional Soccer League (APSL) was a professional men's soccer league with teams from the United States and later Canada. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the third American Soccer League with the Western Soccer League. It ...

and three in the

Continental Indoor Soccer League The Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL) was a professional indoor soccer league that played from 1993 to 1997. History In the summer of 1989 Dr Jerry Buss, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers and California Sports, told his executive Vice Pre ...

Youth

Born in Illinois, Corpening grew up in England where his father, a member of the United States Air Force was stationed. Corpening's family moved to

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where he graduated from Dixon High School. In 1984, he entered American River College where he was a 1984 All Northern California soccer player. In 1986, he transferred to California State University, Sacramento. However, he was ineligible to play the 1986 season. He spent the 1987 season with Cal State, scoring nine goals and assistant on four others en route to earning second team Division II All American honors. He was inducted into the Sac State Honor Roll in 2002.

Professional

In 1989, Corpening signed with the expansion San Francisco Bay Blackhawks of the Western Soccer League (WSL). That season, he led the WSL in goals with eleven, earning second team All Star honors. In 1990, the WSL merged with the American Soccer League to form the

. That year, Corpening moved to the midfield which brought a reduction in goals to nine. In 1991, because of injury, he played only five games, scoring no goals. In 1992, he joined the

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in the semi-professional California Super League. He continued to play for the Oaks through at least 1996. In April 1993, the

Sacramento Knights Sacramento Knights were an indoor soccer team that played from 1993 to 2001 in ARCO Arena and were owned by the NBA's Sacramento Kings. The team played in the Continental Indoor Soccer League from 1993 to 1997. The team then moved to the Wo ...

of the

(CISL) drafted Corpening.''DRAFT EXCITES KNIGHTS - SOCCER TEAM CLAIMS "BEST PLAYER AVAILABLE SACRAMENTO BEE - Thursday, April 29, 1993 He played for the Knights through the 1995 season.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Corpening, Steve American soccer players Western Soccer Alliance players American Professional Soccer League players Continental Indoor Soccer League players Sacramento Knights players Sacramento State Hornets men's soccer players San Francisco Bay Blackhawks players San Jose Oaks players Living people 1965 births People from Dixon, California People from Rantoul, Illinois Association football forwards