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2025 Men's Soccer Roster

Lucas Tang
Lucas Tang

15 Marco Bottene

  • Class Sophomore
  • Hometown Hermosa Beach, Calif.
  • Highschool Loyola and Mira Costa High Schools (Beach FC ECNL)

Biography

2025: Started in 14 of 17 matches this year for Penn … Made his first collegiate start in the battle with VCU (9/12) … Tallied a career-high ten points headed by four assists … Recorded first collegiate point in the 4-0 shutout over Loyola Maryland (8/29) … Scored three goals against Drexel (9/16) and in back-to-back Ivy League outings with Cornell (10/18) and Dartmouth (10/25) … Scored and dished out a goal in the Philly Soccer 6 contest with Drexel to net his first collegiate goal and post a career-high three points … Assisted two more goals in the wins over Villanova (9/23) and Harvard (10/4) …Played a career-high 1,029 minutes, including a career-high 85 minutes on the field in the 2025 Ivy League tournament semifinals against Cornell (11/13) … Attempted 40 shots on the season with 14 registering on goal, led by three shots on goal in the 2-0 shutout over Dartmouth (10/25).

2024: Appeared in eight matches for the Quakers, making his collegiate debut against Pitt (9/1) … Docked 131 minutes on the pitch … Played a career-high 32 minutes at Villanova (9/24) … Attempted seven shots on the year, registering three on net against Temple (9/6) and a pair against the Wildcats.

Club/Academy: Joined Beach FC ECNL in 2020 … Ranked in the TopDrawerSoccer IMG Academy Top 150 … ECNL All-American in 2023 … ECNL First Team All-Conference in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 … ECNL National Selection Game in 2021 and 2022.

High School: Played varsity soccer four years at Loyola (2020-21) and Mira Costa (2022-23) high schools … Made it to the CIF Southern Section Finals in 2020 with Loyola … Won the Mission League Championship in 2020 and 2021 with Loyola … First Team All-Mission League in 2021 at Loyola … Was captain of his team senior year at Mira Costa … Won the Bay League Championship in 2022 and 2023 with Mira Costa … First Team All-Bay league in 2022 and 2023 with Mira Costa … Bay League Offensive Player of the Year in 2023 at Costa … All-CIF SS Open Division his senior year with Mira Costa ... Holds the school record for most goals scored at Mira Costa.

Personal: Cousin Max swam at Yale … Will enroll in the Wharton School of Business.

Why Penn? "I chose the University of Pennsylvania because of it has one of the most prestigious business schools in the world and a highly competitive soccer program across the nation."

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Historical Player Information

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    2024Freshman

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    6'0"
    15
  • 15

    2025Sophomore

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    6'0"
    15