BERKELEY – The California men's soccer team had three talented Golden Bears earn United Soccer Coaches All-Far West Region honors, with Taylor Davila on the first team, Simon Lekressner on the second team and Drake Callender on the third team, after a strong 2019 season.
 
The three Bears were instrumental to Cal's run to the postseason, with Cal upsetting No. 1 Washington and No. 4 Stanford late in the regular season to claim a berth in the NCAA Championship.
 
Davila, a sophomore from Sherman Oaks, California, was a calming presence in central midfield for the Bears in 2019. He collected a point when he assisted Lekressner on the gamewinner against American on Sept. 13 and more recently joined Lekressner on the All-Pac-12 first team. Davila has started all 36 games – including 18 this year – Cal has played over the past two seasons.
 
A senior right back from Bellevue, Washington, Lekressner posted career highs in goals (5), points (12), gamewinning goals (2) and starts (18). Lekressner scored his second gamewinner just 45 seconds into an eventual 3-0 rout of UC Santa Barbara. The economics major also claimed this season's Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award for his work in the classroom and on the field.
 
Callender, a senior goalkeeper from Fair Oaks, California, who trained with the U.S. U-23 Men's National Team this fall, was on the regional second team the previous two years. In 2019 he tied a career high with six shutouts to rank second in the Pac-12, posted a 0.743 save percentage (ranking third in the conference), compiled a 1.12 goals-against average (ranking fourth in the Pac-12) and earned All-Pac-12 second-team status. Also accomplished in the classroom, the legal studies major is a Senior CLASS Award finalist who garnered Athletic Study Center Scholar-Athlete of the Week recognition this fall.
 
The regional teams are selected through voting by member coaches in those respective divisions. Student-athletes earning first-team all-region honors are eligible to earn All-America status. The NCAA Division I Men's All-America Team will be announced on Thursday.