University of California Athletics

Lekressner Drafted By New England Revolution
Lekressner Highlights (RevolutionSoccer.net)

2019: Right back had his best year as a Golden Bear in his final season…graduated with a degree in economics in December after earning the Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award, selection to the Pac-12 Fall Academic Honor Roll, a spot on the All-Pac-12 first team and a berth on the United Soccer Coaches All-Far West Region second team…posted career highs in starts (18), games played (18), goals (5), points (12) and gamewinning goals (2)…his first gamewinner came just 45 seconds into an eventual 3-0 rout of UC Santa Barbara on Sept. 7…Lekressner scored the winner in the next game, with a 16th-minute strike in an eventual 2-0 blanking of American on Sept. 13…in January, the New England Revolution selected Lekressner with the fourth pick of the second round (30th overall) in the 2020 MLS SuperDraft.

2018: Battled injuries throughout the season but still started 16 of 18 games. ...Logged 1,411 minutes with 13 shots. ...Had a season-high four shots during 1-0 overtime loss to Oregon State. ...Had three shots during 1-1 tie against No. 15 UMass Lowell. ...Named to the Pac-12 All-Academic First Team for the second year in a row.

2017: Appeared in 18 games for the Bears including one start… Recorded 658 minutes of playing time with a season-high 55 minutes against Yale on 9/15… Scored two goals on the season including an insurance goal against Oregon State on 10/12 and the game-winning goal in the second overtime at Portland on 9/9… Earned five points with the pair of goals and one assist at San Francisco on 9/17… Recorded 12 shots, five on goal this season with his season-high pair of shots on three occasions at San Francisco on 9/17, at Washington on 10/22 and against SDSU at 11/2.

2016: Came in for 35 total minutes against Saint Mary’s on 8/26 recording one shot... Played for 26 total minutes against Penn. St 8/28 ending the game with one shot ... Totaled 32 minutes vs Notre Dame 9/4 ... Played for a total of 22 minutes on 9/16 against Omaha … Tallied two assists in 30 minutes against Harvard on 9/18 … Recorded 18 minutes played in the Bears win against No. 25 ranked Santa Barbara on 9/24 ... Tallied two total shots in 31 minutes of play on 10/2 against Stanford ... Came into the game for 49 total minutes on 10/6 against Oregon State … Played a total of ten minutes for the Bears on 10/9 against No. 16 Washington ... Tallied his first goal of the season on 10/27 against No. 16 Washington in 41 total minutes of play … Attempted two shots for the Bears on 10/30 against Oregon State in 54 minutes ... Saw 30 minutes of play against No. 8 Stanford on 11/11.

Personal/Previous: Graduated from Cal with a degree in economics...ranked as a four-star player by TopDrawerSoccer.com and is No. 38 player on the IMG Academy Top 150...member of the U.S. U-19 player pool and was invited to a camp in the Canary Islands...team captain scored 31 goals in 29 games on the U-15/16 USSD Academy team...named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Youth All-American team in 2015...named United States Development Academy Player of the Year for the West region and was also named to the Best XI in 2014/15.
 

Year	GP	GS	Shots	Goals	Assists	Points
2016	13	0	7	1	2	4
2017	18	1	12	2	1	5
2018	16	16	13	0	0	0
2019	18	18	18	5	2	12
Total	65	35	50	8	5	21