BYU Announces 2010 PDL Roster
Jarom Jordan
BYU Men's Soccer Media Relations
jarom.jordan@byu.edu
BYU Men's Soccer tryouts
Head Coach-Chris Watkins Interview:
Provo, UTAH (Feb. 27, 2010) -- After three days of 8v8, 11v11, 2-mile runs, 100 yard dashes, and mental stress, the BYU men's soccer team announced its 2010 roster.
"We'll have a great team," said head coach, Chris Watkins. "There's a lot of good players. Special players? We'll find out. There's certainly more talent on this year's roster than we had last year.
On the flip side, we had to cut a lot of people that were very good and a lot of players that were on our roster in the past. That was very hard to do.
We know we have a good team and we look forward to the future."
The roster features 14 players from last year's Premier Development League team, five recently returned missionaries, two transfers, two freshman already enrolled at BYU, five high school seniors who will join the team following their high school graduations this summer, and one carry over from the fall roster.
The team held its first official practice March 1. The season begins May 8 on the road against the Orange County Blue Star.
Premier Development League Roster (25)
Tyler Arens
Connor Bassett
James Bindrup
Bryan Black
Tyler Christensen
Doug Clark
Cory Cosgrave
Kip Critchlow
Zach DeFrancis
Zach Dupaix
Trevor Henderson
Brent Jensen
Cameron Lamb
Brady Marshall
Toni Niccoli
Brit Osborne
Josh Patino
BJ Pugmire
Matt Rider
Jantzen Romney
Blake Tillotson
Drew Van Wagenen
Pedro Vasconcelos
KC Whitworth
Scott Whitworth
High School Seniors (4)*
Matt Kimball
Junior Lartey
Ethan Meyer
Nate Stoven
*Will join the team following their high school graduations this summer.
