UC Irvine Anteaters Overall: 0-0 Big West: 0-0 Away / Neutral: 0-0 Goals / Allowed: 0 / 0

Soccer Contact: Alex Croteau | Office: (949) 824-8934 | Cell: (714) 397-6310 | Email: [email protected] Intercollegiate Athletics Building · 625 Humanities Quad · Irvine, CA 92697-4500

Bakersfield Roadrunners #9 Louisville Cardinals Saturday, August 19, 2017 - 7:00 PM Friday, August 25, 2017 - 4:30 PM Main Soccer Field - Bakersfield, Calif. Dr. Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium - Louisville, Ky.

2016 6-13 2016 14-6-2 #TogetherWeZot | #RipEm WAC 4-6 ACC 4-3-1 Home 4-6 Home 10-3-1 Projected Anteater Formation Postseason WAC 1st Round Postseason NCAA 3rd Round

(4-4-2) Series UC Irvine leads 5-1 Series Series tied, 1-1

Last meeting Sept. 27, 2013 at CSUB - W, 3-1 Last meeting Sept. 13, 2013 at UL - W, 1-0 7 17 Godoy Carrillo Ranking NR Ranking NR Head Coach Richie Grant (4th season) Head Coach Ken Lolla (12th Season) Conference Western Athletic Conference Conference Atlantic Coast Conference 10 8 25 M. Ortiz Leon Canales First Touches

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5 4 23 11 Schramm Soto Falck Perez 14 88 2 The Anteaters got it together The Anteaters’ non-conference Anteater sophomore keeper 1 offensively toward the tailend opponents boasted 88 wins Alex Waldron has won his last Waldron of 2016 scoring 14 goals in Big in 2016 and a .549 winning 2 matches which included a

West play, 3rd-most in the percentage that includes shutout at Cal Poly and five

Primary Reserves conference. UCI also ended three schools that finished saves in a home victory vs. FWD 13 J. Ortiz 21 Yamaguchi 22 Acosta 2016 near the top in conference 2016 in the top 21 in RPI such UC Riverside in 2016. The MID 12 Silva 14 Quezada 19 Gallinar play with 17 assists (2nd), as 20-win Denver ‘Eaters as a team were DEF 26 Dankovich 6 Heltne 3 Bond-Flasza 16.5 shots per game (1st), unbeaten in their last 2 GK 0 Patenaude 18 Contreras and 55 corner kicks (1st). matches going 1-0-1

Date Opponent Location Result Shots On Goal Saves Corners Fouls Offside Goals Aug. 19 at Bakersfield (Exh.) Bakersfield, Calif. 7:00 PM Aug. 25 at Louisville Louisville, Ky. 4:30 PM Aug. 27 at Northern Kentucky Highland Heights, Ky. 10:00 AM Sept. 1 Penn State Anteater Stadium 7:00 PM Sept. 3 UNC Asheville Anteater Stadium 7:00 PM Sept. 8 vs. Denver Albuquerque, N.M. 3:00 PM Sept. 10 at New Mexico Albuquerque, N.M. 6:00 PM Sept. 18 Lipscomb Anteater Stadium 7:00 PM Sept. 21 at Loyola Marymount Los Angeles, Calif. 7:00 PM Sept. 24 Anteater Stadium 11:00 AM Sept. 28 at UC Davis Davis, Calif. 4:00 PM Sept. 30 at Sacramento State Sacramento, Calif. 4:00 PM Oct. 5 Cal Poly Anteater Stadium 4:30 PM Oct. 7 UC Santa Barbara Anteater Stadium 7:00 PM Oct. 11 UC Riverside Anteater Stadium 7:00 PM Oct. 14 at CSUN Northridge, Calif. 7:00 PM Oct. 18 Cal State Fullerton Anteater Stadium 7:00 PM Oct. 21 CSUN Anteater Stadium 7:00 PM Oct. 25 at UC Riverside Riverside, Calif. 7:00 PM Oct. 28 at Cal State Fullerton Fullerton, Calif. 7:00 PM

Home matches in BOLD Neutral matches in italics All times listed in Pacific Time Zone FIELD PLAYER NOTES ## Player Note Height / Weight—Year—Position Hometown—Previous College—High School—Club team—Major Games (starts) - Goals - GWG - Assists - Points 2 Ben Reveno Spent three seasons with the Academy 6-0 / 161—Freshman—Defender San Jose, Calif.—Leigh HS—San Jose Earthquakes Academy—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 3 Christian Bond-Flasza Champion with 2014 Cal South ODP regional team 5-10 / 154—Freshman—Def / Fwd Laguna Niguel, Calif.—Aliso Niguel HS—Irvine Strikers—Major: Computer Game Science No UC Irvine stats 4 Jose Soto 7 goals, 3 assists in two seasons at Peninsula College 6-1 / 169—Junior—Defender Ontario, Calif.—Peninsula College—Ontario HS—Major: Criminology, Law, and Society No UC Irvine stats 5 Corey Schramm Played in 6 of the final 8 matches in 2016, started vs. Cal Poly, at CSUN 5-7 / 159—RS-Junior—Midfielder Lakewood, Calif.—Artesia HS—Pateadores Academy—Major: Education Science 7 (2) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 0 A - 0 PTS 6 Haakon Heltne 1 assist in eight matches last year for Hofstra 6-4 / 196—Sophomore—Defender Sandvika, Norway.—Hofstra Univ.—Norges Toppidrettsgymnas—Baerum SK Jr.—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 7 Giovanni Godoy 6 of 8 points in 2016 came at home (Goal at Portland) 6-0 / 162—Senior– Midfielder Watsonville, Calif.—CSU Bakersfield—Watsonville HS—Santa Cruz Breakers—Major: Sociology 18 (13) - 3 G - 1 GWG - 2 A - 8 PTS 8 Luis Leon Sidelined with injury in final 8 matches of 2016 5-7 / 151—Junior—Midfielder Santa Ana, Calif.—Santa Ana HS—Pateadores Academy—Major: Sociology 30 (22) - 6 G - 1 GWG - 3 A - 15 PTS 9 Daniel Crisostomo Leads all returners in minutes played (1,364) from 2016 5-9 / 156—Junior—Midfielder Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.—The Webb Schools—FC Golden State—Major: Sociology 35 (20) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 1 A - 1 PTS 10 Mario Ortiz Named Top Drawer Soccer Top 100 player as a sophomore 5-7 / 136—RS-Senior—Midfielder Los Angeles, Calif.—CSU Bakersfield—Leuzinger HS—Chivas Academy—Major: Sociology 35 (17) - 4 G - 3 GWG - 3 A - 11 PTS 11 Alda Perez Made 2 starts in 2016 (vs. Indiana, at UC Santa Barbara) 6-0 / 165—Senior—Midfielder Shafter, Calif.—Taft College—Shafter HS—Roadrunner Bakersfield— Major: Crim. Law & Society 13 (2) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 0 A - 0 PTS 12 Felipe Silva Recorded first career assist, point in win vs. CSUN 5-10 / 160—RS-Junior—Forward Corona, Calif.—Servite HS—West Coast FC—Major: Political Science 24 (0) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 1 A - 1 PTS 13 Jose Ortiz 2 goals as a freshman came vs. Indiana, vs. CSUN 5-9 / 133—Sophomore—Forward Los Angeles, Calif.—Leuzinger HS— Rush—Major: Undeclared 18 (7) - 2 G - 1 GWG - 1 A - 5 PTS 14 Alvaro Quezada Spent four seasons with club LA Premier FC 5-8 / 141—Freshman—Midfielder Lancaster, Calif.—Highland HS—LA Premier FC—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 15 Nick Lagotta Started 67 of 70 matches for primarily as a defender 5-9 / 151—Freshman—Def / Mid San Diego, Calif.—Cathedral Catholic HS—San Diego Surf—Major: Undeclared 72 (72) - 3 G - 0 GWG - 10 A - 16 PTS 16 Axel Adler Played briefly with club’s top flight team, Biu Chun Glory Sky 6-0 / 147—Freshman—Midfielder Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong—Victor Segalen School—Biu Chun Rangers—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 17 Christian Carrillo 18 goals, 12 assists in 2 years at Cerritos College 6-0 / 168—Senior—Forward Santa Ana, Calif.—Cerritos JC—Katella HS—Pateadores Academy—Major: Public Health Policy 14 (3) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 0 A - 0 PTS 19 Erick Gallinar Had previously committed to join the program for the 2016 season 5-9 / 144—Freshman—Def / Mid Los Angeles, Calif.—Animo South Los Angeles HS—LA Galaxy Academy—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 20 Andrew Guerrero Led team in shots and shots on goal in season-opener vs. Notre Dame 6-0 / 178—RS-Sophomore—Midfielder Colton, Calif.—Rialto HS—Fullerton Rangers—Major: International Studies 4 (0) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 0 A - 0 PTS 21 Lawrence Yamaguchi Played three seasons each for clubs FC Toripletta and Verdy S.S. Ajunt 5-10 / 182—Freshman—Forward Tokyo, Japan—Christian Academy Japan HS—FC Toripletta—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 22 Manny Acosta Played in each of the last 7 matches of 2016 with 1 start (vs. UCR) 5-10 / 152—Sophomore—Forward Stanton, Calif.—Magnolia HS—West Coast FC—Major: Undeclared 7 (1) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 0 A - 0 PTS 23 Victor Falck 1 assist in three matches (two starts) last year for Virginia 6-1 / 172—Sophomore—Midfielder Landvetter, Sweden.—Univ. of Virginia—Cox HS—Richmond United & Orgryte IS—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 24 Ateno Ajeakwa Attended Bishop Montgomery HS his first 2 years of HS 5-7 / 157—Freshman—Midfielder Gardena, Calif.—Connections Academy Capistrano—LA Galaxy Academy—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats 25 Ivan Canales Returning pts leader (10), two-time All-Big West Honorable Mention 5-9 / 164—Junior—Midfielder Santa Ana, Calif.—JSerra HS—West Coast FC—Major: Sociology 38 (35) - 7 G - 0 GWG - 11 A - 25 PTS 26 Guy Dankovich Served in the Israeli military for the past three years 5-10 / 163—Freshman—Defender Ramat-Gan, Israel—Maccabim Reut Mor HS—Ironi Modi’in—Major: Computer Science Engineering No UC Irvine stats 27 Christian Gutierrez Will miss 2017 season (Torn ACL) 5-5 / 168—Sophomore—Midfielder Bell, Calif.—Bell HS—Arsenal FC—Major: Criminology, Law, and Society 14 (1) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 0 A - 0 PTS 30 Ignacio Ramirez Two career appearances (2015 at UCR, 2016 at CSF) 6-2 / 164—RS-Junior—Defender Anaheim, Calif.—Western HS—Strikers FC—Major: Psychology and Social Behavior 2 (0) - 0 G - 0 GWG - 0 A - 0 PTS

KEEPER NOTES 0 Greg Patenaude NSCAA All-West Region in 2015 with 0.91 goals-against-average 6-1 / 190—RS-Junior—Goalkeeper Folsom, Calif.—Yavapai CC—Folsom HS—San Juan Academy—Major: Political Science No UC Irvine stats 1 Alex Waldron Stopped game-tying PK in first career win, shutout at Oregon State 6-3 / 193—RS-Sophomore—Goalkeeper Orangevale, Calif.—Bella Vista HS—San Juan Academy—Major: Business Economics 8 (7) - 3-4-0 - 1 SHO - 21 SV - 1.58 GAA 18 Carlos Contreras Split time between forward and keeper in high school 6-0 / 169—Freshman—Goalkeeper North Hollywood, Calif.—Birmingham HS—LA Premier LAFA—Major: Undeclared No UC Irvine stats

STAFF NOTES Head Coach Yossi Raz 54 wins in 4 years at Cal Poly Pomona, 2015 NCAA D-II National runner-up 1st season (0-0-0) Assistant Coach Matt O’Sullivan Assistant since 2006 at Incarnate Word (4 years) and St. Edward’s (7 years) 1st season Assistant Coach Cale Rodriguez Head coach at Peninsula College (2015-16), assisted at UNLV, Redlands 1st season Volunteer Coach Brian Lanoye Assistant at Cal State Fullerton (9 years) and Cal Poly Pomona (2 years) 1st season QUICK FACTS EMERGING ‘EATERS GENERAL UC Irvine men’s soccer is looking for a turnaround after a five-win season in 2016 and missing School ...... UC Irvine (University of California, Irvine) out on the Big West Tournament for the first time since 2012. That led to new leadership with Location ...... Irvine, Calif. the hiring of Yossi Raz, an assistant coach at CSUN for nine years and head coach at Division II Nickname ...... Anteaters (‘Eaters) Cal Poly Pomona for four makes his first venture into the Division I level after 54 wins and a Colors ...... Blue and Gold trip to the National Title game in his CPP run. Founded (Opened) ...... 1962 (1965) Enrollment ...... 32,000 He inherits 16 Anteaters from last year’s squad including four seniors, three redshirt juniors Chancellor ...... Howard Gillman, Ph.D. that have grinded out the five-win seasons along with the Sweet Sixteen runs, a slew talented Athletic Director...... Mike Izzi third-year class including Preseason All-Big West honoree Ivan Canales, and a blossoming core Home Field (Capacity) ...... Anteater Stadium (2,500) of sophomores that were thrown into the fire of 2016, but showed their capability including Affiliation ...... NCAA Division I the emergence of keeper Alex Waldron ready to be a force between the posts. Conference ...... Big West “We inherited a bright group, lots of talent, hungry, focused, dedicated,” boasts coach Raz HISTORY “Our 12 returning upperclassmen are hungry to develop success and show their talent at Ir- First season ...... 1984 vine. A very fun, talented group. We have a lot to show for, great leadership internally that All-time record ...... 287-315-68 have given us some nice direction. We’re hoping to mix the talent and creativity with the NCAA Tournament berths / Last ...... 5 / 2014 toughness and be balanced, and hopefully the mix will be successful in the Big West” Big West titles- Season / Tourney ...... 4 / 4

MAC Hermann Semifinalists ...... 1 (Iwasa) What Coach Raz brings with him is a talented staff from around the collegiate soccer world All-Americans ...... 6 spanning all divisions including some Southland roots. He has also assembled an incoming All-Far West Region ...... 18 class of 13 newcomers. Big West Players of the Year ...... 14

Academic All-Americans ...... 1 “We brought a large group of newcomers. We brought some dynamic, very, very interesting

COACHING STAFF players to watch.” Head Coach ...... Yossi Raz (1st season, 5th overall) Alma Mater ...... CSUN (2004) Many of those players will be instrumental in 2017 led by the three transfers Jose Soto, Victor Career record ...... 54-17-12 at CPP Falck, and Haakon Heltne, all vital in the defensive backfield. Assistant Coach ...... Matt O’Sullivan (1st season) Assistant Coach ...... Cale Rodriguez (1st season) The class also features three freshmen academy members including Erick Gallinar and Ateno Volunteer Assistant Coach ...... Brian Lanoye (1st season) Ajeakwa from L.A. Galaxy and Ben Reveno from up north with the San Jose Earthquakes. Office phone ...... (949) 824-1096 The Anteaters will experience an international influx with Falck, originally from Sweden, and MEDIA RELATIONS Heltne, a native of Norway, joined by Lawrence Yamaguchi from Japan, Guy Dankovich from Associate AD / Media Relations ...... Bob Olson Israel, and French-born Axel Adler from Hong Kong to bring diverse styles to UCI. Assistant Director / Men’s Soccer contact ...... Alex Croteau Mailing Address ...... Intercollegiate Athletics Building Team Rankings Individual Rankings ...... Irvine, CA - 92697-4500 (Out of 203 programs)

Office Phone ...... (949) 824-8934 Stat Total Big West National Player Stat Total Big West National Cell ...... (714) 397-6310 Yellow Cards ...... 37 ...... 4th ...... 13th Godoy SOG per game ...... 1.39 ...... 1st ...... 55th Shots on Goal per game ...... 6.16 ...... 1st...... 29th Canales Assists ...... 6 ...... 3rd ...... 62nd Email ...... [email protected] Shots per game ...... 13.26 ...... 3rd ...... 67th Canales Assists per game ...... 0.33 ...... 3rd ...... 66th Assists ...... 23 ...... 5th ...... 87th Farmer Saves per game ...... 3.92 ...... 4th ...... 74th Saves per game ...... 3.89 ...... 4th ...... 91st Janjigian Assists ...... 5 ...... 6th ...... 112th SCHEDULE OUTLOOK Points ...... 63 ...... 7th ...... 125th Godoy Shots per game ...... 2.50 ...... 4th ...... 121st Goals ...... 20 ...... 7th ...... 138th Farmer Saves ...... 51 ...... 5th ...... 141st Goals per game ...... 1.05 ...... 7th ...... 151st 2016 RPI .4466 RPI Nat’l Rank 140th Goals-Against-Average ...... 1.98 ...... 8th ...... 188th SOS Nat’l Rank 59th NC SOS Nat’l Rank 27th Fouls per game ...... 15.00 ...... 8th ...... 199th

vs. Top 50 0-5-0 vs. 51-100 2-4-0

School Result 2016 Record RPI Louisville Aug. 25 14-6-2 6 Denver Sept. 8 20-1-3 7 New Mexico Sept. 10 12-7-3 21 AROUND THE BIG WEST Lipscomb Sept. 18 10-6-2 47 2016 Standings Exhibitions Loyola Marymount Sept. 21 10-8-0 66 North Points Big West Overall Preseason Poll UC Riverside 1-2 San Diego Penn State Sept. 1 8-8-2 70 1 UC Santa Barbara 21 6-1-3 10-6-3 1st Cal 2-0 Cal State Fullerton UC Riverside 0-7 Cal Baptist CSUN Oct. 14 | Oct. 21 9-7-5 74 2 Sacramento State 13 4-5-1 9-8-2 4th Fresno Pacific at Cal Poly (Wed.) San Francisco Sept. 24 7-9-0 76 3 UC Davis 12 4-6-0 8-9-3 3rd UC Santa Barbara Oct. 7 10-7-3 83 Santa Clara at Sac State (Thurs.) 4 Cal Poly 11 3-5-2 5-9-3 2nd Westmont at UCSB (Sat.) Sacramento State Sept. 30 9-8-3 100 LMU at CSUN (Sat.) Cal State Fullerton Oct. 18 | Oct. 28 10-9-4 102 South Points Big West Overall Preseason Poll UNLV at UC Riverside (Sat.) UC Davis Sept. 28 8-9-3 112 1 CSUN 18 5-2-3 8-6-4 T2nd Chico State at UC Davis (Sun.) Cal Poly Oct. 5 5-9-3 116 2 Cal State Fullerton 15 4-3-3 9-8-4 1st San Francisco at Sac State (Sun)

UC Riverside Oct. 11 | Oct. 25 8-10-2 133 3 UC Riverside 13 4-5-1 9-10-1 4th Openers (August 25) Bakersfield Exhibition 6-13-0 164 4 UC Irvine 10 3-6-1 5-13-1 T2nd UNC Asheville Sept. 3 6-13-0 178 Saint Mary’s at UCSB Siena at CSUN Northern Kentucky Aug. 27 1-13-4 205 Preseason All-Big West: Cal Poly vs. Indiana MF Michael Sperber, D Pacific at Sac State Matches: Home Away Neutral Cal State Fullerton at Clemson UC Riverside at Bakersfield UC Davis at SMU BY THE NUMBERS SCOUTING THE SCHEDULE SCORING BY MINUTE Overall 5-13-1 The Anteaters won’t miss a step in 2017 with another challenging slate 1’ - 46’ - Home 3-5-1 to work through. The 2016 Anteaters played through the 27th-toughest 2’ - 47’ - non-conference ledger in the nation and an overall schedule that ranked Away 2-7-0 3’ - 48’ - Neutral 0-1-0 59th in difficulty. 4’ - 49’ - Outside California 1-3-0 Right off the bat, three ranked teams show up prominently, and all on 5’ - 50’ - the road into hostile territory. vs. Big West 3-6-1 6’ - 51’ - 7’ - 52’ - vs. Non-conference 2-7-0 No. 9 Louisville will open the ‘Eaters’ season on Aug. 25, a team that has vs. ACC 0-1-0 hosted the Anteaters twice already and is coming off a respectable run in 8’ - 53’ - vs. Big Ten 0-1-0 the NCAA Tournament last year. 9’ 1 54’ - vs. WAC 1-0-0 10’ 1 55’ 2 vs. Atlantic Sun 0-1-0 UCI heads to New Mexico for a tournament in early September starting 11’ - 56’ 1 vs. WCC 0-3-0 off with a 2016 College Cup team in No. 3 Denver. The tournament fin- ishes off with the host Lobos also ranked in the top 25. 12’ - 57’ 1 vs. Conference USA 0-1-0 13’ - 58’ - vs. Pac-12 1-0-0 Anteater Stadium will host some formidable opponents such as Penn 14’ - 59’ - vs. Ranked teams 0-2-0 State and a talented San Francisco squad. The underrated Lipscomb pro- 15’ - 60’ - gram comes into 2017 as a top-50 RPI program from the year before. 16’ - 61’ - August 0-2-0 September 2-6-0 The daunting Big West is always on everyone’s minds beginning with a 17’ - 62’ - October 3-5-1 trip to UC Davis and Sacramento State before a visit to Anteater Stadium 18’ - 63’ - Day 1-3-0 from powers UC Santa Barbara and Cal Poly. Each South Division squad 19’ - 64’ 1 Night 4-9-1 comes to Irvine in a fight for entrance to the Big West Tournament. 20’ - 65’ -

Midweek 3-6-0 21’ - 66’ - Weekend 2-7-1 The season will begin with an exhibition trip to Bakersfield on Saturday. The Runners also had a down year in 2016 with six wins and are picked 22’ - 67’ -

to finish sixth in the WAC in 2017. There is a lot of pride and familiarity 23’ - 68’ - Wearing white 0-3-0 between the program as a pair of Anteaters in Giovanni Godoy and Mar- 24’ 1 69’ - Wearing blue 4-4-1 io Ortiz are transfers from the program. Wearing grey 1-6-0 25’ - 70’ 1 THROW-INS 26’ - 71’ - In one-goal matches 4-6  UC Irvine did not play its first overtime match in 2016 until the sea- 27’ - 72’ - son finale which resulted in a 1-1 draw with Cal State Fullerton 28’ 1 73’ - When scoring in 1st Half 3-1-1  The ‘Eaters fired 13.26 shots per game and put 6.16 on goal per 29’ 1 74’ - When scoring in 2nd Half 4-7-0 match which led the conference 30’ - 75’ 1 When leading at halftime 3-1-0  Giovanni Godoy led the conference with 2.5 shots per game and 31’ - 76’ - When tied at halftime 2-2-1 1.39 shots on goal per game  Ivan Canales has eight points good for a tie for sixth in Big West 32’ - 77’ - When trailing at halftime 0-10-0 33’ 1 78’ 1 Overtime matches 0-0-1 matches, and his four Big West assists tie him for first. He’s the only player to have a five-point match in Big West play 34’ 1 79’ - Goals off corners ...... 3  In 2016, Alex Waldron and Elliot Farmer split time in net with each 35’ - 80’ - Goals off free kicks ...... 0 starting at least seven matches and putting in over 600 minutes. The 36’ - 81’ 1 Kicked goals ...... 16 last time two keepers played as much in a season was 2009 when Andrew Fontein and Victor Chinchilla each started 11 matches and 37’ - 82’ - Header goals ...... 4 38’ - 83’ - Inside the box ...... 17 logged nearly 1,000 minutes 39’ - 84’ 2 Outside the box ...... 3  The Big West South has a very connected coaching tree. Head Coach Yossi Raz spent nine years as an assistant coach at CSUN in 1v1 goals ...... 0 40’ - 85’ - addition to his time as a student-athlete for the program. Assistant 41’ - 86’ 1 Penalty kick attempts ...... 1-1 Brian Lanoye spent eight years with Cal State Fullerton as an assis- tant coach along with an grad and undergrad assistant. Cal State 42’ 1 87’ - Forwards ...... 7 Fullerton’s head coach, George Kuntz, spent 19 seasons as head 43’ - 88’ - Midfielders ...... 9 coach for the Anteaters and is joined by former Anteater coach and 44’ - 89’ - Defenders ...... 4 player, Carlos Aguilar, and another fellow player, Kyle Schmid. UC 45’ - 90’ - Riverside recently hired Chris Volk as its assistant coach after Volk spent 20 years as a coach with the UC Irvine program which includ- Seniors ...... 6 1st OT 2nd OT Juniors ...... 8 ed 17 years as an assistant coach and the last three years as the head coach. Sophomores ...... 6 None None Freshmen ...... 2 Raz takes over guidance of the Anteater program in 2017 as the fourth RAZ WORKSHEET head coach in UCI men's soccer history after four seasons as head coach at YOSSI Cal Poly Pomona. He was named California Collegiate Athletic Association Season School Overall NCAA Coach of the Year in 2014 after leading the Broncos to conference regular- 2016 Cal Poly Pomona 13-6-3 3rd Round season and tournament championships. 2015 Cal Poly Pomona 17-3-3 Runner-up 2014 Cal Poly Pomona 17-1-2 (CCAA title) His Cal Poly Pomona team followed up in 2015 with a second consecutive RAZ 2013 Cal Poly Pomona 7-7-4 - 17-win season and the program's second-ever trip to the NCAA Tourna- ment that led to the championship match. Totals 4 seasons 54-17-12 HEAD COACH FIRST SEASON The Broncos returned to the NCAA tourney again in 2016, reaching the third round. In four seasons at Cal Poly Pomona, Raz compiled a record of THE RAZ FILE 54-17-12.

EDUCATION Raz is no stranger to the Big West Conference mentality as he was part of College: CSUN, 2004 the soccer program at CSUN for 13 years, four as a student-athlete and nine more as an assistant coach. Raz was named First Team All-Big West in ATHLETICS NOTES COACHING EXPERIENCE each of his four seasons competing for the Matadors, earning Big West UCI has won 28 national championships in 2004-12 CSUN (Assistant Coach) Freshman of the Year honors and Scholar-Athlete of the Year distinction nine different sports, the most recent in men’s 2013-16 Cal Poly Pomona (Head Coach) from CSUN and the Big West. volleyball in 2013 2017- UC Irvine (Head Coach) Raz joined the Matadors' coaching staff in 2005 and made an immediate AWARDS UCI has finished in the top five in the Division I impact, helping CSUN amass a 15-4-3 record and a Big West champion- -AAA Athletics Directors Association All-Sports 2004 California Collegiate Athletic Association ship. The Matadors reached the Round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament, Coach of the Year rankings of the 95 Division I schools that do defeating league rival UC Santa Barbara in the program's lone Division I not sponsor football six of the last seven 2002 Big West Scholar-Athlete of the Year Tournament victory. years, including runner-up showings three

times and first in 2007 Off the pitch, Raz was President of the Student-Athlete Advisory Council

COACHING STAFF and was selected for the NCAA Leadership Conference. His interest in academics continued on as an assistant coach at CSUN, as he was involved UC Irvine has captured 80 conference regular season titles since moving to NCAA Division I Assistant Coach: Matt O’Sullivan in the academic and social progress of his student-athletes and later at Cal Poly Pomona, consistently recognized by the Division of Student Affairs for in 1977 1st season (CSU Bakersfield, 2005) his program's 100 percent graduation rate. Email: [email protected] Since 1980, 97 UCI student-athletes have been Raz's coaching circle includes the youth level, where he has recruited talent named Conference Athlete of the Year in Assistant Coach: Cale Rodriguez for the U.S. Youth National Team as a scout and coach. He has participated addition to 89 Conference Coaches of the Year 1st season (Univ. of Redlands, 2009) globally in coaching clinics in countries such as Guatemala, Brazil, and Email: [email protected] Spain, as well as being a training participant in Israel where he was born UCI student-athletes have accounted for 499 and raised. Raz previously spent time with the Israeli Youth National Team. All-America honors

Volunteer Assistant Coach: Brian Lanoye The University has had 57 representatives Office Phone: (949) 824-1096 participate in the Olympics and Paralympics NEXT LEVEL ‘EATERS - Defender - Seattle Sounders FC Miguel Ibarra - Midfielder - Minnesota United FC

Evans has captained the Sounders since 2014 culmi- Miguel Ibarra returned to the U.S. signing with his own nating in an MLS Cup title in 2016, the second of his club and new member of , Minne- career. Seattle has won an MLS Supporters Shield and sota United FC. Ibarra has scored two goals and earned U.S. Open Cup title under Evans’ captaincy. He has 16 starts in 21 matches played with his club in their recorded 34 goals and 35 assists in his career span- inaugural MLS season. Prior to 2017, he spent two ning 10 seasons and 249 matches in MLS. seasons in Liga MX in Mexico with León where he scored four goals in 37 matches. He earned that call Evans earned a spot on the 30-man preliminary after earning the NASL Golden Ball Award winner as the roster for the U.S. national team headed to the 2014 league’s MVP with Minnesota in 2015 capping off a World Cup, and has played 27 matches with the four-year run where he played 92 matches registering National Team including five World Cup Qualifiers 18 goals and 25 assists. That play was enough to earn a highlighted by his lone international goal coming on a call-up to the U.S. Men’s National Team, the second stoppage time-tally to defeat Jamaica, 2-1, in a 2013 player ever to earn a call-up from a lower division, and World Cup Qualifier. He was present in the unprece- first since 2005, in October 2014. He earned his first dented comeback wins over Netherlands and Germany in the summer of 2015 including cap as a sub against Honduras on Oct. 14, 2014 and first flicking on the game-winning assist to Bobby Wood in the 87th minute to down Germany start shortly following against Panama, Feb. 8, 2015. He’s continued to train with the in friendlies. squad in World Cup Qualifiers and CONCACAF matches totaling 3 appearances in friendlies.

Current professional players

Cameron Iwasa - Forward - Swope Park Rangers (USL) / Sacramento Republic FC (USL-Pro) Mats Bjurman - Midfielder - Saint Louis FC (USL) | OC Blues FC (USL-Pro) Career: 64 matches - 39 starts - 15 goals (2 in 2017) Career: 44 matches - 32 starts - 2 goal (1 goal in 26 matches played in 2017)

Marco Franco - Midfielder- Indy Eleven (NASL) / Chicago Fire (MLS) / OC Blues (USL-Pro) Thomas Janjigian - Defender - Reno 1868 FC (USL) | San Jose Earthquakes Career: 81 matches - 72 starts | Entered for Chicago in 77th minute vs. Tottenham Career: 5 matches - 4 starts | Entered for San Jose in 73rd minute of U.S. Open Cup match

Tarek Morad - Defender - Louisville City FC (USL-Pro) / OKC Energy FC (USL-Pro) Gerardo Gonzalez - Midfielder - Cuervos JAP (Mexico) Career: 81 matches - 72 starts - 3 goals (0 in 17 matches played in 2017)

Recent professional players Amani Walker - Forward - Orange County Blues FC (USL-Pro) / Tampa Bay Rowdies Christopher Santana - Forward - Orange County Blues FC (USL-Pro) (NASL) / Minnesota United FC (NASL) | Career: 74 matches - 33 starts - 15 goals Career: 51 matches - 37 starts - 5 goals Andrew Fontein - Keeper - Minnesota United FC (NASL) / Tampa Bay Rowdies (NASL) / Jimmy Turner - Defender - Orange County Blues FC (USL-Pro) Vancouver Whitecaps FC (MLS) Enrique Cardenas - Midfielder- Nadi-NZ (Fiji) / OC Blues FC (USL-Pro) / Atlante FC (Mexico) Irving Garcia - Forward - II (USL) / Rosario FC (Guatemala) / L.A. Blues Gor Kirakosyan - Midfielder- (PDL) (USL-Pro) / Antigua GFC (Guatemala) / (MLS) 0 | Greg Patenaude 1 | Alex Waldron 2 | Ben Reveno 3 | Christian Bond-Flasza 4 | Jose Soto 5 | Corey Schramm 6 | Haakon Heltne 6-1, 175 - RS-Junior - GK 6-3, 193 - RS-Soph - GK 6-0, 161 - Freshman - DEF 5-10, 154 - Freshman - DEF 6-1, 169 - Junior - DEF 5-7, 159 - RS-Junior - MF 6-4, 196 - Sophomore - D Folsom Orangevale San Jose Laguna Niguel Ontario Lakewood Sandvika, Norway Yavapai CC Bella Vista HS Leigh HS Aliso Niguel HS Peninsula College Artesia HS Hofstra University

7 | Giovanni Godoy 8 | Luis Leon 9 | Daniel Crisostomo 10 | Mario Ortiz 11 | Alda Perez 12 | Felipe Silva 13 | Jose Ortiz 6-0 - Senior - MF 5-7, 151 - Junior - FWD 5-9, 156 - Junior - MF 5-7, 136 - RS-Senior - MF 6-0, 165 - Senior - MF 5-10, 160 - RS-Junior - F 5-9, 133 - Sophomore - F Watsonville Santa Ana Rancho Cucamonga Los Angeles Shafter Corona Los Angeles CSU Bakersfield Santa Ana HS The Webb Schools CSU Bakersfield Taft College Servite HS Leuzinger HS

14 | Alvaro Quezada 15 | Nick Lagotta 16 | Axel Adler 17 | Christian Carrillo 18 | Carlos Contreras 19 | Erick Gallinar 20 | Andrew Guerrero 5-8, 141 - Freshman - MF 5-9, 151 - Freshman - D/M 6-0, 147 - Freshman - MF 6-0, 168 - Senior - FWD 6-0, 169 - Freshman - GK 5-9, 144 - Freshman - D/M 6-0, 178 - RS-Soph. - MF Lancaster San Diego Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong Santa Ana North Hollywood Los Angeles Colton Highland HS Cathedral Catholic HS Victor Segalen School Cerritos College Birmingham HS Animo So. Los Angeles HS Rialto HS

21 | Lawrence Yamaguchi 22 | Manny Acosta 23 | Victor Falck 24 | Ateno Ajeakwa 25 | Ivan Canales 26 | Guy Dankovich 27 | Christian Gutierrez 30 | Ignacio Ramirez 5-10, 182 - Freshman - F 5-11, 152 - Sophomore - F 6-1, 172 - Sophomore - MF 5-7, 157 - Freshman - MF 5-9, 164 - Junior - MF 5-10, 163 - Freshman - DEF 5-5, 168 - Sophomore - MF 6-2, 164 - RS-Junior - DEF Tokyo, Japan Stanton Landvetter, Sweden Gardena Santa Ana Ramat-Gan, Israel Bell Anaheim Christian Academy Japan Magnolia HS University of Virginia Connections Acad. Capistrano Junipero Serra HS Maccabim Reut Mor HS Bell HS Western HS

Yossi Raz Matt O’Sullivan Cale Rodriguez Brian Lanoye Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Assistant GK Coach First Season First Season First Season First Season STATS

KEEPER HISTORY

1 - Alex Waldron 6-3, 193, RS-Soph. 2015 W/L GA Saves Mins Utilized Redshirt season 2016 W/L GA Saves Mins Sept. 17 vs. New Mexico - 0 0 25 Sept. 22 at Oregon State W 0 4 90 Sept. 25 at Portland L 4 3 90 Sept. 29 vs. Sac State L 2 3 90 Oct. 1 vs. UC Davis L 3 3 90 Oct. 6 at UCSB L 1 2 90 Oct. 8 at Cal Poly W 0 1 60 Oct. 26 vs. UC Riverside W 1 5 90 2017 W/L GA Saves Mins

0 - Greg Patenaude 6-1, 175, RS-Junior 2016 W/L GA Saves Mins Utilized Redshirt season 2017 W/L GA Saves Mins

18 - Carlos Contreras 6-0, 169, Freshman 2017 W/L GA Saves Mins

GAME-BY-GAME STARTERS (2016) Opponent Keeper Defense Midfield Forwards at (9) Notre Dame Farmer Janjigian Ojuola Lara Gaines Leon M. Ortiz Ojuola Canales Godoy Carrillo vs. (15) Indiana Farmer Janjigian Tilley Lara Gaines Leon Perez Crisostomo M. Ortiz Canales Carrillo Grand Canyon Farmer Janjigian Tilley Lara Gaines Leon Sperber M. Ortiz Crisostomo J. Ortiz Godoy FGCU Farmer Janjigian Tilley Lara Gaines Leon Sperber M. Ortiz Crisostomo McDermott Carrillo at Santa Clara Farmer Janjigian Tilley Sperber Gaines Leon Ojuola M. Ortiz Crisostomo Canales J. Ortiz LMU Farmer Janjigian Tilley Ojuola Gaines Canales Sperber M. Ortiz Crisostomo Leon McDermott New Mexico Farmer Janjigian Tilley Ojuola Gaines M. Ortiz Sperber Crisostomo Canales McDermott Godoy at Oregon State Waldron Janjigian Tilley Ojuola Gaines Leon Sperber Canales Crisostomo McDermott Godoy at Portland Waldron Janjigian Tilley Ojuola Gaines Leon Sperber Canales Crisostomo McDermott Godoy Sac State Waldron Ojuola Tilley Lara Janjigian Sperber Canales Crisostomo Gaines Leon M. Ortiz UC Davis Waldron Ojuola Tilley Lara Janjigian Sperber Canales Crisostomo Gaines Leon M. Ortiz at UCSB Waldron Ojuola Tilley Lara Janjigian Crisostomo Canales Perez McDermott M. Ortiz Godoy at Cal Poly Waldron Ojuola Tilley Lara Janjigian Crisostomo Canales Wyner Schramm J. Ortiz Godoy at UC Riverside Farmer Ojuola Tilley Lara Janjigian Crisostomo Canales Wyner McDermott J. Ortiz Godoy CSUN Farmer Schramm Tilley Lara Janjigian Crisostomo Canales Sperber McDermott J. Ortiz Godoy at CS Fullerton Farmer Ojuola Tilley Lara Janjigian Crisostomo Canales Sperber McDermott J. Ortiz Godoy at CSUN Farmer Ojuola Tilley Gaines Janjigian Crisostomo Canales Sperber McDermott J. Ortiz Godoy UC Riverside Waldron Ojuola Tilley Gaines Janjigian Sperber Canales Wyner McDermott Godoy Acosta CS Fullerton Farmer Janjigian Ojuola Tilley Gaines Godoy Sperber Canales McDermott Molina Gutierrez