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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

2025 • RS Junior
• Helped the Billikens capture A-10 regular-season and tournament championships and advance to the program’s first College Cup since 1997.
• Played in all 24 matches with 23 starts, including starting in all eight A-10 regular-season matchups.
• Played every minute in SLU’s five NCAA Championship matches.
• Contributed to a defensive effort that led the league and ranked among the top 20 nationally in goals against average (0.77).
• Converted his PK attempts in shootouts against Dayton (A-10 Championship match) and Bryant (NCAA 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 against 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
• Also played club soccer with NY Red Bulls II in the USL.
• Ranked No. 31 in Top Drawer Soccer's IMG Academy 150 and was the 14th-ranked defender nationally.
• Participated in USYNT U15 and Peru U17 national team camps.

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