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2024 Men's Soccer Roster

9 Sam Eccles

  • Position Forward
  • Height 6-1
  • Weight 180
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Major Chemistry
  • Hometown Sheffield, England
  • Highschool Wales

Biography

2023 - 2nd Team All-Ohio Valley Conference (Forward)

2024 (GR.): OVC Academic Medal of Honor

2023 (SENIOR):
Named Ohio Valley Conference Player to Watch prior to the start of the season… played in all 19 matches making eighteen starts during the 2023 season… earned All-Ohio Valley second team honor at forward after leading EIU in points with eleven (4 goals and 3 assists)… scored first goal of the season against IUPUI… scored a winning goal over Lindenwood during 2-1 conference opener home win… tied for second in assists with three… fifth player with most minutes on the pitch with 1,378 minutes played… finished the season leading the Panthers in shots with 45 total, twenty-four being on goal... Academic All-District as selected by College Sports Communicators… OVC Academic Medal of Honor...

2022 (JUNIOR): Played in and started all 16 matches... logged 1,024 minutes of action, including a season-high 82 at St. Thomas... Led the team with five goals on the season, including two vs. Southern Indiana... His five goals scored and 11 points accumulated were the most in a season by an EIU Panther since 2014... Led the team with 40 shots, including a season-high seven at Lindenwood... Led the team with 17 shots on goal, including a season-high four vs. Kansas City... Recorded an assist on the game-winning goal at Purdue Fort Wayne... 

HOFSTRA: Played two seasons at Hofstra... in 2021-22, saw action in four games... took one shot vs. Albany... in 2020-21, played in nine games... took five shots... Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Hofstra Athletic Director Scholars Academic Honor Roll selection...Named to Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Hofstra Dean's List...Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll selection...

HIGH SCHOOL:  Attended Wales High School in Sheffield, England…Played soccer for five years for Coach Dan Riches…Also played tennis, athletics, cricket and badminton…Three-time Athlete of the Year Award winner…Two-time Sportsman of the Year…Was named Footballer of the Year in ninth grade…Earned numerous championship in track and field events and tennis…Earned prize for excellence in geography and sports studies in 11th grade…Helped his team to four Rotherham Schools football championships and one South Yorkshire football championship…

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Historical Player Information

  • 9

    2022Junior

    Forward
    6'1" 180 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2023Senior

    Forward
    6'1" 180 lbs
    9
  • 9

    2024Graduate Student

    Forward
    6'1" 180 lbs
    9
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