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2025 Men's Soccer Roster

5 JC Cortez

  • Position Defender
  • Height 6-0
  • Class Junior
  • Hometown Ridgewood, N.J.
  • High School Ridgewood
  • Major Sociology

Biography

Joined the Billikens for the spring 2025 season. Has two years of eligibility beginning with the 2025 season.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Spent three seasons at UCLA from 2022-24 ... appeared in 34 games across his freshman and sophomore seasons for the Bruins ... part of NCAA Tournament teams all three years at UCLA, including as a freshman when the Bruins advanced to the third round.

2024 • Redshirt | at UCLA
• Did not play due to injury.

2023 • Sophomore | at UCLA
• Played in 14 matches at center back with four starts.
• Helped the Bruins to their first Pac-12 title since 2012.
• Started the final three games of the year, including UCLA's NCAA Tournament match vs. LMU.
• Had two assists, both in wins at UC Irvine and at Stanford.

2022 • Freshman | at UCLA
• Played in all 20 games at center back, starting eight.
• Ranked No. 93 on Top Drawer Soccer's Men's Freshmen Top 100 rankings.
• Appeared in all three of UCLA's postseason games.

Previous
• Played club soccer with NY Red Bulls II.
• Ranked No. 31 in Top Drawer Soccer's IMG Academy 150 and was the 14th-ranked defender nationally.
• Also played with NY Red Bulls II in the USL.
• Part of USYNT U15 and Peru U17 national team camps.

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