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2023 Men's Soccer Roster

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24 Ryan Wallace

  • Position Defender
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Senior
  • Weight 165
  • Hometown Beaverton, Ore.
  • High School Southridge (Yavapai College)
  • Previous Club Westside Timbers
  • College Columbia College

Biography

Honors & Awards: 
- 2022 Academic All-Ivy League

2023: Played in eight of the team's 14 matches this season, earning six starts ... Totaled 568 minutes of game time, playing the full 90 four times ... Assisted Joao Lima's 79th-minute equalizer at Yale (Oct. 22) ... Took a season-high two shots at Penn (Oct. 28) ... Started and played the full 90 in a 0-0 shutout against Cornell in the season finale (Nov. 4).

2022: Played in 11 of the team's 16 matches, starting six ... Accumulated 563 minutes on the field ... Saw the field for 11 minutes off the bench in a 1-0 win over St. John's (Sept. 12) ... Took a season-high three shots, two on goal, at Dartmouth (Oct. 22) ... Played the full 90 at La Salle (Oct. 25) ... Started and played 74 minutes of Columbia's shutout against Yale (Oct. 29).

2021: Appeared in 11 games in his first season playing for Columbia, earning nine starts ... Totaled 716 minutes of game time, ending the year with a goal and an assist on 10 shots, three of which were on goal ... Began the year primarily playing in the defensive half before transitioning into more of an attacking player ... Made his Columbia debut at Stony Brook, playing 27 minutes off the bench and taking one shot (Sept. 6) ... Appeared in the Starting XI for the first time the next game against Manhattan, playing 71 minutes of a 2-2 draw (Sept. 10) ... Started and played a season-high 92 minutes in a goalless draw at LIU (Sept. 18) ... Went the full 90 for the first time in a 1-0 loss to Drexel (Sept. 21) ... Started and saw 54 minutes in his Ivy League debut against Brown (Oct. 2) ... Scored his first goal as a Lion in the 18th minute to put Columbia up 1-0 on La Salle (Oct. 26) ... Assisted Sebastian Gunbeyi's 40th-minute strike to cut the lead in half against Yale (Oct. 30).

2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

2019 (Yavapai College): Scored two goals and tallied six assists to help Yavapai go 14-5 with an 8-2 record in the ACCAC ... Played in all 19 contests, starting 17 ... Scored his two goals in back-to-back outings against Paradise Valley and Chandler-Gilbert.  

Prior to College: Three-year letterwinner on the Southridge High School soccer team in Beaverton, Oregon ... Scored 15 goals in his high school career, which included a hat trick as a junior against Century ... Named First Team All-Metro and a Southridge Outstanding Senior Athlete his graduating year ... Competed for Westside Timbers 00 Boys ... Won the State Cup in 2019 and advanced to the Far West Regional Semifinals.

Personal: Born August 24, 2000 in Chandler, Arizona ... Son of Jennifer and Ed Wallace ... Has a younger sister, Katelyn, and a younger brother, Brady ... Sings in a band ... Enjoys making music.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

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    2021Sophomore

    Defender
    5'11" 160 lbs
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    2022Junior

    Defender
    6'0" 165 lbs
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  • 24

    2023Senior

    Defender
    6'0" 165 lbs
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