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Georgetown University Athletics

Big East Conference Hoya Saxa

2015 Men's Soccer Roster

5 Joshua Yaro

  • Height 5-11
  • Weight 163
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Santa Barbara, Calif.
  • High School Cate School

Biography

2014: A First Team NSCAA/Continental Tire Men's All-America honoree ... Named a MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalist ... The TopDrawerSoccer.com Player of the Year and selected to the site's Postseason Best XI First Team ... Earned a spot on the Soccer America Men's MVPs First Team ... Earned NSCAA/Continental Tire First Team All-Great Lakes Region honors ... The BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year and a unanimous First Team All-BIG EAST selection ... Named team MVP ... Won the PNC Bank Student-Athlete Achiever Award ... Started all 23 games for the Blue & Gray ... Scored his first-career point with an assist at Princeton ... Played an important role on a defense that posted 10 shutouts ranking second in clean sheets in Hoya history ... Team ranked eighth in the nation in team GAA ... Preseason All-BIG EAST ... Named to the MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List and the TopDrawerSoccer.com Preseason Best XI First Team ... Selected the BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Week on Sept. 1, Oct. 6 and Oct. 27 ... BIG EAST All-Academic.

2013: Earned a nod to the NSCAA/Continental Tire All-Northeast Region Second Team ... Named to TopDrawerSoccer.com's Freshmen Best XI and to the CollegeSoccerNews.com All-American First Team ... A member of the BIG EAST All-Rookie Team ... Started all 17 games he was available for ... A broken arm sidelined him for a portion of the season ... Scored the game winner at American for two points on the season ... Helped the Hoyas to leading the nation in shutout percentage (0.67) ... Georgetown was 11-4-2 with Yaro on the pitch including 12 shutouts ... BIG EAST All-Academic Team.

Prior to Georgetown: A defender from Santa Barbara, Calif., and originally from Ghana ... Played club soccer with the Santa Barbara Soccer Club and spent two years with the Right to Dream Academy ... 2011 Milk Cup in Northern Ireland and represented the Right to Dream Academy in the 2009 Manchester United Premier Cup ... Attended the Cate School where he was a team captain and four-year letterwinner ... An All-American as a junior and a two-year member of the D7 All-Star Team as well as earning MVP honors ... The recipient of the 2012 Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award and the 2011 Cate School Redington Cup ... Ran track & field at the Cate School earning three varsity letters, serving as team captain and holds records in both the long and triple jumps ... Ranked No. 126 overall by TopDrawerSoccer.com and No. 45 by CollegeSoccerNews.com.


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Historical Player Information

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    2013Freshman

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    5'11" 160 lbs
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    2014Sophomore

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    5'11" 163 lbs
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    2015Junior

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    5'11" 163 lbs
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