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UC IRVINE MEN’SMEN’S SOCCERSOCCER POSTSEASON GUIDE 2011 UCI ROSTER No. Name Pos. Yr. Ht. Wt. Hometown Previous School 1 Andrew Fontein GK Sr. 6-1 180 Las Vegas, Nev. Sierra Vista HS 2 Jonathan Rivas D Sr. 5-11 175 Norwalk Cerritos College 3 Marco Franco D/M So. 5-11 155 Chino Hills Chino Hills HS 4 Bello Alhassan M Sr. 5-4 160 Ghana Arizona Western College 5 Syd Tom F Sr. 5-7 135 Wahiawa, Hawaii Leilehua HS 6 Jimmy Turner M/D Sr. 6-0 160 Mission Viejo Mission Viejo HS 7 Christopher Santana F So. 5-10 165 Bishop Bishop Union HS 8 Norby Rodriguez M/F Sr. 5-10 155 Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks HS 9 Christian Hernandez M/F Sr. 5-8 155 Palmdale Taft College 10 Miguel Ibarra M/F Sr. 5-7 135 Lancaster Taft College 11 Enrique Cardenas M/F So. 5-6 150 Coachella Coachella Valley HS 12 Jake Marcon D So. 6-2 180 Dana Point Dana Hills HS 13 Tarek Morad D/MF So. 6-2 161 Chino Hills Mt. San Antonio College 14 Joel vom Dorp D So. 6-4 185 Stockholm, Sweden Enskilda Gymnasiet 15 Everett Pitts D Jr. 6-2 170 Chino Hills Ayala HS 16 Bryan Breslin MF Fr. 6-1 172 Las Flores Tesoro HS 18 Michael Breslin GK Fr. 6-2 168 Las Flores Tesoro HS 19 Henry Rios F Fr. 5-8 161 Norwalk St. John Bosco HS 20 Memo Licona M So. 6-0 170 Lake Forest Laguna Hills HS 21 Lester Hayes III F Fr. 6-5 191 Alexandria, Va. DeMatha Catholic HS 22* Irving Ventura-Rafaela D Fr. 6-3 219 Sonoma Sonoma HS 23 Dennis Martinez M/F RS Fr. 5-10 164 Palmdale Knight HS 27* Daniel Coates D Fr. 6-1 199 Orange Servite HS 28 Victor Calderon D Fr. 5-9 149 San Jacinto San Jacinto HS 29 Juan Gutierrez F Fr. 5-11 151 Santa Ana Junipero Serra HS 31 Cameron Iwasa F Fr. 5-10 175 Sacramento Jesuit HS 32 Mitchell Alvarez M/F Fr. 6-1 156 Huntington Beach Edison HS 33* Cody Thompson GK Fr. 6-0 171 Westlake Village Oaks Christian HS * - Inactive Head Coach: George Kuntz - 17th Season (Arizona State, ‘89) Assistant Coach: Chris Volk - 15th Season (San Diego State, ‘91) Assistant Coach: Mike Ditta - 3rd Season (Azusa Pacific, ‘04) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Carlos Aguilar - 1st Season Director of Operations: Curt Bauer - 1st Season Trainer: Carrie Chamberlain PRONUNCIATION GUIDE 1 - Andrew Fontein............................fawn-TAYNE 4 - Bello Alhassan ............................ all-ha-SAWN 10 - Miguel Ibarra................................ ee-BAR-uh 12 - Jake Marcon .................................mar-CONE 13 - Tarek Morad...................... TAR-ek MORE-ad 20 - Memo Licona .............. MEM-oh lie-CONE-uh 22 - Irvine Ventura-Rafaela .............ra-fa-YELL-uh 28 - Victor Calderon ........................ call-dur-OWN 31 - Cameron Iwasa............................ eye-WA-sa HC - George Kuntz................................. KOONTZ TV/RADIOTV/RADIO ROSTERROSTER 1 2 3 4 5 6 ANDREW FONTEIN JONATHAN RIVAS MARCO FRANCO BELLO ALHASSAN SYD TOM JIMMY TURNER Sr. - D - 6-1 - 180 Sr. - D - 5-11 - 175 So. - D/M - 5-11 - 155 Sr. - M - 5-4 - 160 Sr. - F - 5-7 - 135 Sr. - M/D - 6-0 - 160 Las Vegas, NV / Sierra Vista HS Norwalk, CA / Cerritos College Chino Hills, CA / Chino Hills HS Ghana / Arizona Western College Wahiawa, HI / Leilehua HS Mission Viejo, CA / Mission Viejo HS 7 8 9 10 11 CHRISTOPHER SANTANA NORBY RODRIGUEZ CHRISTIAN HERNANDEZ MIGUEL IBARRA ENRIQUE CARDENAS So. - F - 5-10 - 165 Sr. - M/F - 5-10 - 155 Sr. - M/F - 5-8 - 155 Sr. - M/F - 5-7 - 135 So. - M/F - 5-6 - 150 Bishop, CA / Bishop Union HS Thousand Oaks, CA / Thousand Oaks HS Palmdale, CA / Taft College Lancaster, CA / Taft College Coachella, CA / Coachella Valley HS 12 13 14 15 16 18 JAKE MARCON TAREK MORAD JOEL VOM DORP EVERETT PITTS BRYAN BRESLIN MICHAEL BRESLIN So. - D - 6-2 - 180 So. - M/D - 6-2 - 161 So. - D - 6-4 - 185 Jr. - D - 6-2 - 170 Fr. - M/F - 6-1 - 172 Fr. - GK - 6-2 - 168 Dana Point, CA / Dana Hills HS Chino Hills, CA / Mt. San Antonio College Stockholm, SWE / Enskilda Gymnasiet Chino Hills, CA - Ayala HS Las Flores, CA / Tesoro HS Las Flores, CA / Tesoro HS 19 20 21 22 23 HENRY RIOS MEMO LICONA LESTER HAYES III IRVING VENTURA-RAFAELA DENNIS MARTINEZ Fr. - F - 5-8 - 161 So. - M - 6-0 - 170 Fr. - F - 6-5 - 191 Fr. - D - 6-3 - 219 RS-Fr. - M/F - 5-10 - 164 Norwalk, CA / St. John Bosco HS Lake Forest, CA / Laguna Hills HS Alexandria, VA / De Matha Catholic HS Sonoma, CA / Sonoma HS Palmdale, CA / Knight HS 27 28 29 31 32 33 DANIEL COATES VICTOR CALDERON JUAN GUTIERREZ CAMERON IWASA MITCHELL ALVAREZ CODY THOMPSON Fr. - D - 6-1 - 199 Fr. - D - 5-9 - 149 Fr. - F - 5-11 - 151 Fr. - F - 5-10 - 175 Fr. - M/F - 6-1 - 156 Fr. - GK - 6-0 - 171 Orange, CA / Servite HS San Jacinto, CA / San Jacinto HS Santa Ana, CA / Junipero Serra HS Sacramento, CA / Jesuit HS Huntington Beach, CA / Edison HS Westlake Village, CA / Oaks Christian HS GEORGE KUNTZ CHRIS VOLK MIKE DITTA CARLOS AGUILAR CURT BAUER Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Volunteer Assistant Coach Director of Operations 17th Season 15th Season 3rd Season 1st Season 1st Season HEAD COACH GEORGE KUNTZ George Kuntz enters his 17th season as the men's head soccer coach at UC Irvine in 2011 and has been a NCAA/NAIA colle- giate head coach for 24 years. He has been named NSCAA/adidas Far West Region Coach of the Year in (2006 & 2008). 2010 saw Kuntz lead the Anteaters to a 14-3-3 record and a Big West regular season title. The 14 wins marked the second most for Kuntz behind only 2008's 15 wins. The team's seven conference wins tied a school conference mark, as well. In 2009, UCI won the Big West Tournament and received an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament and a first round bye by virtue of a 4-1 win on the road against No. 4 UCSB. UC Irvine was rewarded for a historic 15 win season by receiving the 16th seed for the NCAA Division I Tournament and played host to Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Tournament in front of 17th Season 2000 fans. The team finished No. 3 in the West region and No. 11 in the nation. UCI Record Kuntz led the 2008 Anteaters to their first ever Big West championship with a 5-1-4 record, their first Big West Tournament title (16 years) and first trip to the NCAA Tournament. In the NCAA tournament he guided the team to the Round of 16 after earning the No. 14 149-140-46 national seed to start the tourney. Kuntz was named Big West Conference Coach of the Year. The 2008 squad had four players earn All-American honors. The 'Eaters were ranked as high as seventh nationally at the end of the regular season and con- Big West W-L cluded with a school best 15-2-6 record. (16 years) 47-35-20 Kuntz came to UCI from Pepperdine where he was the first women's soccer head coach; recording a 23-11-2 record in the first two seasons of the program's existence including historic wins over UCLA and USC. Kuntz began his collegiate coaching ca- 2008 reer at California Lutheran University in 1988 and compiled a five-year record of 60-27-10 (.670). The Kingsmen won the South- NSCAA Far West Coach of the Year ern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) titles in 1991 and 1992 and advanced to the NCAA Far West Re- 2008 gional title game. In 1989 founded the women's soccer program at California Lutheran University and recorded a 51-24-1 (.678) Big West Coach of the Year record from 1989-1992. California Lutheran's women's team was ranked No. 1 in the Far West region and No. 3 in the nation in 2006 1992 with a 17-4 record. Kuntz led the team to SCIAC championships in 1991 and 1992. The team went to the NCAA Far West NSCAA Far West Coach of the Year final in 1992. 2006 Big West Coach of Kuntz coached four National Championship teams in the Donnelly Cup (Amateur Adult Division National Championships) as the the Year 2006 California Soccer Association Head Coach for both the men and women. The California State Select Men's Team won National Inducted into the Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2005. His women's California State Select won the national title in 2006, the regional title in California Lutheran University Hall of 2004 and, participated in the National Final Four in 2005. Fame (Men's and Women's Kuntz is a 1989 graduate of Arizona State University and holds a bachelor's degree in communication arts. He graduated with a Soccer) 2005, 2004, 2003 Master's degree in education with an emphasis in curriculum and instruction from California Lutheran University. He holds a Big West Conference United States Soccer Federation "A" license, National Youth License, and the National Soccer Coaches Association Advanced (UC Irvine) Sports- manship Award National Diploma. (team) 2004 The Outstanding Coach Kuntz has spent a large part of his coaching career studying the development of the youth soccer player and is nation- Supporter of Preven- ally recognized as the one of the longest serving United States State Association (USYSA) Directors of Coaching in the United tion Award, Irvine Prevention Coalition States.