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2016 Men's Soccer

15 Matt Poplawski

  • Height 5-10
  • Weight 170
  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Bellevue, Wash.
  • Highschool Lakeside School (Crossfire)

Biography

SOCCER
Career Matches/Matches Started: 57/47
Career Stats: 6 goals, 5 assists, 17 points

2016: First-team All-Ivy ... Honorable mention ECAC All-Star ... Team tri-captain ... Appeared in all 17 matches, starting each as a central midfielder ... Logged a team-high 1,581 minutes, including going the distance 11 times ... Tied for second on the team with four goals ... Assisted on a score in the season-opener against American (9/2) ... Scored on a penalty kick goal at Nebraska-Omaha (9/11) ... Registered a goal against Delaware (10/5) ... Netted a score at Dartmouth (10/15) ... Tallied an early equalizing goal at Princeton (11/5) ... Totaled 16 shots, including seven on target. 

2015: Team tri-captain ... Appeared in six matches, starting each ... Logged 500 minutes before suffering a season-ending injury against No. 23 Penn State (9/23) ... Had an assist at FIU (9/10) ... Took three shots against Drexel (9/15).

2014-15 Basketball: Played in 17 games, making three starts in Ivy League play ... Scored seven points including a pair of three-pointers at Dartmouth (2/21) ... Had five points and an assist vs. Brown (2/14) ... Scored four points and played career-high 16 minutes in first collegiate start, at Harvard (2/20) ... Hit a three-pointer and collected a steal against Princeton (3/10) ... Knocked down two free throws in Ivy win over Cornell (3/7).

2014 Soccer: Appeared in 16 matches, starting each ... Played 1,426 minutes at center midfield ... Went the distance in 12 of 16 appearances ... Picked up an assist against Saint Joseph's (9/30).

2013-14 Basketball: Joined the program for the final seven games from the JV program ... Scored his only points on a pair of free throws against Harvard (2/21) ... Also saw action against Dartmouth (2/22), Yale (3/1) and Cornell (3/8).

2013 Soccer: Honorable mention All-Ivy ... Appeared in 18 matches, making eight starts ... Started all seven Ivy matches ... Tied for sixth on team with six points ... Tied for fifth on team with two goals ... Tied for sixth on team with two assists ... Recorded first career point with an assist against FGCU (9/27) ... Notched an assist against Philadelphia Soccer Six rival Drexel (10/2) ... Scored first career goal against Yale (10/26) ... Scored against Princeton (11/9) to tie match in a game the Quakers would go on to win.

Before Penn: Played club full-time for Crossfire under the direction of Bernie James ... Five-year captain for Crossfire ... Reached Academy Playoffs in 2012 ... 2010 US Youth Soccer regional champions, advancing to national title game ... Lettered in basketball in high school, serving as team captain ... 2013 Metro Mountain division champions ... 2013 District champions ... 2013 state finalists ... Honorable mention All-Metro Mountain and second-team All-State Tournament in hoops ... Also ran one season of track, competing in hurdles.

Personal: Son of Kim and Eddie Poplawski ... Older brother, Danny, played baseball at Georgetown University from 2009-13 ... High school classmate of former Penn teammate Louis Schott ... Enrolled in Wharton School of Business.

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Historical Player Information

  • 7

    2013Freshman

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  • 7

    2014Sophomore

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    7
  • 15

    2015Junior

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    15
  • 15

    2016Senior

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    5'10" 170 lbs
    15