Milwaukee Wave
in the MISL archive.

The Milwaukee Wave hold more individual honours in this archive than any other club. Three of the fourteen awards the collection preserves went to Milwaukee: Keith Tozer as Coach of the Year for 2002-03, and Greg Howes as Most Valuable Player in both 2003-04 and 2004-05. Howes is the only repeat MVP in the recovered record.

Twenty reports name the club, second only to Baltimore, and the corpus carries 94 Wave mentions. The coverage opens on 17 April 2003 with the Tozer award and closes on 18 October 2010 — like Baltimore, the Wave are one of the few clubs whose reports reach past the revival era into the last league.

The 2005 dispersal draft was the club's largest single intake in the archive: eleven players, tied with Kansas City and behind only Cleveland's twelve. Milwaukee's list leans heavily on San Diego — nine of the eleven — and includes Martin Nash, Vitalis Takawira and John Menyongar. The first pick of the eleven, Richardinho, came from Monterrey.

The archive also records the losses. The Blast report of April 2004 is a Milwaukee defeat, 6-2 in Game 3 of the championship series. A year later the Wave were on the other side of it, beating Cleveland 10-9 in double overtime of Game Two — the league's own report of that night is preserved here in full, down to the attendance of 9,279.

The Wave's wider record sits partly outside the recovered files: founded in 1984, the longest-running club in indoor soccer, six championships, the first of them in the 1997-98 National Professional Soccer League season. The archive holds the middle of that story, not its start.

The archive index lists all 50 recovered reports by year. The records page holds every league honour and the complete 2005 dispersal draft; the players record sets the draft out club by club. The fixture list preserves the 2010-11 season, and the three eras explains how one league name covered three separate competitions between 1978 and 2014.

June 23, 2026 · MISL.net staff report