IU Men's Soccer 2017 Recruiting Class

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Final College Soccer News Rankings. Everyone moved up from August.

http://collegesoccernews.com/index.php/recuiting/high-school-prospects/1036-class-of-2017-high-school-seniors-2

#16 F Griffin Dorsey +4

#18 F Justin Rennicks +3

#49 F Mason Toye +1

#119 D Jacob Meier +3

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Hopefully we can keep Rennicks. He was suspended from the New England Revolution Academy for practicing with a pro team overseas. '18 D Jack Maher on the roster as well.

@ussoccer_ynt: The U-18 #USMNT begins its quest for back-to-back Slovakia Cup titles on April 24. Check out the full roster here: http://ussoc.cr/2pz71tD

GOALKEEPERS (3): Brandon Austin (Tottenham Spurs; U.S. Virgins Islands) Trey Muse (Seattle Sounders; Tukwila, Wash.), Brady Scott (DeAnza Force; Petaluma, Calif.)

DEFENDERS (8): Jonathan Esparza (Club Tijuana: Chula Vista, Calif.), Kyle Gruno (Leicester City; Wyckoff, N.J.), Daniel Jones (New England Revolution Academy; West Hartford, Conn.), Jack Maher (Scott Gallagher; Caseyville, Ill.), Mark McKenzie (Philadelphia Union; Bear, Del.), Aedan Stanley (St. Louis Scott Gallagher; Columbia, Ill.), Angel Uribe (Club Tijuana; San Diego, Calif.)

MIDFIELDERS (6): Paolo Belloni (Genoa FC; Delray Beach, Fla.), Koby Carr (Texas Rush; San Antonio, Texas), Jose Carranza (North Carolina FC; Manassas, Va.), Brian Perez (Club Tijuana; San Diego, Calif.), Paxton Pomykal (FC Dallas; Highland Village, Texas), Brandon Servania (FC Dallas; Birmingham, Ala.)

FORWARDS (7): Shaft Brewer (FC Dallas; Sacramento, Calif.), Lucas del Rosario (CASL; Durham, N.C.), Griffin Dorsey (Colorado Rush; Evergreen, Colo.), Jonathan Gonzalez (FC Monterrey; Santa Rosa, Calif.), Will Inalien (Portland Timbers; Tamarac, Fla.), Emanuel Perez (CASL; Garner, N.C.), Justin Rennicks (New England Revolution Academy; Hamilton, Mass.)

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@ussoccer_ynt: U-18 #USMNT Starting XI vs Hungary: Scott, Uribe, McKenzie, Jones, Del Rosario, Carr, Pomykal, Carranza, Dorsey, Gonzalez, Rennicks (c)

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Late addition yesterday for #10. GK Trey Muse from Louisville, KY(Male). Played with Dorsey, Rennicks and Maher ('18) on the U-18 USMNT last month. TDS

@trey_muse: Grateful to say I've committed to Indiana University. Thanks to all who's gotten me to this point. #iusoccer

Final College Soccer News Rankings from February

#16 F Griffin Dorsey 

#18 F Justin Rennicks 

#49 F Mason Toye 

#88 GK Trey Muse

#119 D Jacob Meier 

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Looks like a great recruiting class.


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Hopefully there's a couple of goal scorers in the group.

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Indiana Adds Muse to 2017 Recruiting Class

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University head men's soccer coach Todd Yeagley announced the addition of Trey Muse to the program's 2017 recruiting class.
 
Muse joins a highly-touted 2017 group for the Hoosiers that was ranked the fourth-best recruiting class in the nation by Top Drawer Soccer. Along with Muse, the class includes John Bannec, Kyle Barks, Griffin Dorsey, Jacob Gruber, Jacob Meier, Justin Rennicks, Joe Schmidt, Mason Toye and Thomas Warr.
 
"We are very excited to have Trey join our soccer program," coach Yeagley remarked. "He has been a standout with the U-18 National Team establishing himself as one of the top goalkeepers in his age group.  Trey has also had the opportunity to train with the Seattle Sounders first-team while playing for the U-18 the Sounders Academy squad. Trey is long and athletic with very good distribution. Trey completes a very special recruiting class."
 
The 10-member class will join a talented Indiana squad that posted a record of 12-2-7, ending the season ranked No. 9 in the country in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll.
 
IU reached the NCAA Tournament for the 30^th-straight season in 2016 and for the 41^st overall time in program history. The Hoosiers earned a national seed for the 12^th time in the last 14 years, beating Akron before falling to Virginia Tech in the NCAA Tournament Round of 16.
 
A complete bio for Muse can be found below, as well as a video of coach Yeagley discussing the Louisville, Ky. native.

Trey Muse
Goalkeeper | 6-4 | 195
Louisville, Kentucky | Roosevelt (WA)
Member of the U.S. U18 Men's National Team … ranked the No. 88 recruit in the nation by College Soccer News … played and trained with both the Seattle Sounders FC 2 (S2) in the United Soccer Leagues and for the Seattle Sounders FC in the US Soccer Development Academy, where he made 32 starts for the Academy over two seasons … son of Dave Muse and Rachel Hall … has two siblings, Houston and Alexis.
 

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Nice piece from Daniel Karell at the Louisville Courier-Journal on Trey Muse.

Louisville native Trey Muse earns rave reviews following US U-18 appearance

Trey Muse isn’t your typical goalkeeper. 

The Louisville native, who is a member of the U.S. Under-18 Men’s National Team and recently committed to play at Indiana University, was always destined to be a goalkeeper. At 6-foot-4 and 195 pounds with long arms and quick reactions, Muse has all the physical tools professional teams drool over. 

His father, David Muse, who is a former goalkeeper and won the Kentucky Boys Soccer Gatorade Player of the Year award in 1992-93 before starring at the University of Kentucky, wanted to give his son the best chance of making a professional career for himself. 

So he barred Trey from playing in goal. 

From a young age, Trey Muse learned his craft in soccer as a field player, picking up the crucial skills of controlling the ball to pass, shoot and dribble. Once he was 12 years old, David Muse let him move into the net. 

“That’s one of the biggest things as a goalkeeper to have,” Trey Muse said of having good control of the ball. “I think that’s very helpful and that allows me to fit into a lot of systems in the goalkeeping position because I’m almost like the 11th field player because they can play through me. It’s very helpful as well with the national team because they want goalkeepers with good feet.”

Like so many other cases of misjudging talent and potential, Trey Muse was cut from the U.S. Soccer Region 2 Olympic Development Program team at 13. Months later, after Derby City Rovers Technical Director and coach Nathan Pitcock recommended Trey Muse participate in a national identification program, he was picked up by then-U.S. Under-14 coach Hugo Perez, known in soccer circles for his eye for talent as well as developing young players. 

“I knew those (Region 2) coaches and reached out and asked for some feedback,” Pitcock said. “They were very focused on the things Trey couldn’t do. And I said of course but look at what he can do. The things he can’t do we can fix, and the things he can, there’s few players that can do that. If we’re talking about talent identification and not just roster selection, there was no doubt Trey belonged at a very high level.”

As Trey Muse’s stock began to rise, it was clear that playing his club soccer in the Rovers academy and for Male High School wasn’t enough of a test. A pair of opportunities came up to join Major League Soccer academies, and the Muse family chose the Seattle Sounders, with Trey Muse relocating to Tukwila, Washington, at 16, shortly into his junior year of high school. 

With the Sounders, Trey Muse was able to train with and play against other top prospects in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy system as well as at times train or mingle with first-team players playing in the MLS. 

“Yeah, it’s a good experience,” he said. “Getting to be more consistent in training is really good and it helps me as a player. I really get pushed in first- and second-team training and it helps me to develop my overall player as well because of all the really good players they have in Seattle.”

After some time out of the U.S. Soccer system, Trey Muse returned when U.S. Under-18 Men’s National Team coach Omid Namazi brought Trey Muse into a training camp last January. Namazi, a former goalkeeper himself, liked what he saw and brought Trey Muse over to Europe for the 2017 Slovakia Cup, where the U.S. finished runners-up, losing to Russia on penalty kicks. 

Trey Muse started one game, a 2-1 victory over Belarus, and earned rave reviews after the tournament from Namazi. 

“I thought the game he played in goal versus Belarus, he looked the sure thing,” Namazi said, adding that Muse is at the top of the U.S. U-18 goalkeeping depth chart. “I think he’s got great upside. He’s a good-sized kid, he’s very athletic and a good shot stopper. 

“In order to make it to the next level he’ll have to be more vocal and improve his play with his feet but the ceiling for him is unlimited, he can really get to the highest level if he works at his game. He’s got all the tools and I feel like he’s a goalkeeper for the future.”

This spring, Trey Muse entertained the possibility of moving to Europe before deciding on attending Indiana, choosing the Hoosiers over Kentucky. At Indiana, Trey Muse joins a pair of his U.S. U-18 teammates, forwards Justin Rennicks and Griffin Dorsey, giving the Hoosiers a top-five recruiting class this fall. 

“I would have loved to see him at Kentucky, but Indiana has a shot to win it all next year,” Dave Muse said. “It’s the best opportunity for him. He’ll go in and compete from day one, hopefully win the (position) and hopefully bring IU their ninth national title. I love seeing that (on our official visit), it’s about a ninth star and that’s their focus.”

 

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U.S. Under-18 Men’s National Team head coach Omid Namazi has named a 20-player roster for the team’s third gathering and second international tournament of 2017, taking place from June 8-19 in Lisbon, Portugal.

During the 2017 U-18 Lisbon International Tournament, the USA will face Japan on June 14, followed by Norway and Portugal on June 16 and 18. The team with the most points in the four-team group at the end of the tournament will be crowned 2017 champions.

GOALKEEPERS (2): Trey Muse (Seattle Sounders; Tukwila, Wash.) Gabe Rosario (Reading FC; Charlotte, N.C.)

DEFENDERS (7): Gideon Davis (CE Europa; Barcelona, Spain.) '18 Jack Maher (Scott Gallagher; Caseyville, Ill.), Mark McKenzie (Philadelphia Union; Bear, Del.), Matthew Real (Philadelphia Union; Drexel Hill, Pa.), Aedan Stanley (St. Louis Scott Gallagher SC; Columbia, Ill.), Christian Takaki (PA Classics; Dover, Pa.), Carson Vom Steeg (Real So Cal; Santa Barbara, Calif.)

MIDFIELDERS (7): Faris Abdi (IMG; Bradenton, Fla.), Raul Aguilera (Orlando City S.C.; Sanford, Fla.), Christian Cappis (Texans SC Houston; West Chicago, Ill.), Koby Carr (Texas Rush; San Antonio, Texas), Jose Carranza (North Carolina FC; Manassas, Va.) Andrew Paoli (San Jose Earthquakes; San Jose, Calif.) Brandon Servania (FC Dallas; Birmingham, Ala.)

FORWARDS (4): Lucas Del Rosario (CASL; Durham, N.C.), Griff Dorsey (Colorado Rush; Evergreen, Colo.) Emanuel Perez (CASL; Garner, N.C.), Justin Rennicks (New England Revolution Academy; Hamilton, Mass.)

https://www.topdrawersoccer.com/club-soccer-articles/u18-mnt-roster-named-for-portugal-trip_aid41958

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Congrats to incoming 2017 recruit Mason Toye on being named the state of New Jersey's Gatorade Player of the Year!

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More accolades for Toye. He's the one I'm interested in. Hopefully his game translates at the next level.

@usatodayhss: Meet the 2016-17 @amfam ALL-USA Boys Soccer First Team https://usat.ly/2sTZlaj

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Really seems like a stacked class. Encouraging.


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@IndianaFireDA: Indiana wins!!  2-0 Warr scores both... Assisted by Ingram and Logan Lee

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2017 IU Men’s Soccer Recruiting Class Update

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Since announcing the team's 2017 recruiting class in February, the 10-member group has added quite a few accomplishments to the resume.
 
The Hoosiers' recruiting haul was ranked the fourth-best in the nation for 2017 by both Top Drawer Soccer and College Soccer News. Below are updates to each member of the team's 2017 class.
 
John Bannec
Attending summer school at Indiana this summer and is training on campus.
 
Kyle Barks
Played and trained with the Scott Gallagher Academy team.
 
Griffin Dorsey
Named to the U.S. U18 Men's National Team … played with team in their tournaments in Slovakia and Portugal … also trained with T2 in the USL.
 
Jacob Gruber
Helped lead the Indiana Fire Academy to the playoffs.
 
Jacob Meier
Played in the summer with the Minnesota Thunder Academy … enrolled in summer classes at Indiana and is training on campus.
 
Trey Muse
Named to the U.S. U18 Men's National Team … played with team in their tournaments in Slocakia and Portugal … U.S. Soccer Development Academy West Conference U-17/18 Player of the Year … trained with Seattle 2 in the USL, helping his academy team qualify for playoffs and advance to semifinals.
 
Justin Rennicks
Named to the U.S. U18 Men's National Team … played with team in their tournaments in Slovakia and Portugal … trained in Germany … played PDL with the Boston Bolts.
 
Joe Schmidt
Attending summer school at Indiana this summer and is training on campus.
 
Mason Toye
Named First-Team All-America by USA Today … also named Gatorade Player of the Year in New Jersey … named to the U.S. U19 National Team … also trained with the U.S. U20 National Team in London … named All-East Region and a New Jersey All-Star by Top Drawer Soccer … also trained with Orlando City B in the USL … helped PDA Academy team qualify for playoffs … enrolled in summer classes at Indiana and is training on campus.
 
Thomas Warr
Named to U.S. Soccer Development Academy Best XI Central Conference U-17/18 Team … helped lead the Indiana Fire Academy to the playoffs … finished fifth in the entire country in goals per game.
 

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Seems like a fantastic class. Excited to see them in action.


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