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Paul Clark

Paul Clark

  • Organization:
    Men's Soccer
  • Year:
    Class of 2009

Clark (1985-89), a native of Plymouth, England, earns the honor after setting a then-CSU career record by playing in 77 matches. The Vikings were 46-27-7 (.619) during his four seasons, including a school record-tying 14-5-2 mark in 1989.

His contributions to the program are still apparent. Clark's 77 games are still second in CSU history and he is tied for third with 74 starts. He is also tied for ninth with 80 career points, and 20 career assists and is 12th with 30 career goals.

As a sophomore, Clark led the Vikings with 10 goals and 23 points, scoring all of his goals in the last 11 games of the 1986 season. As a junior in 1988, he led the team with eight assists and 24 points while tying for the team lead with eight goals. In a game against Western Illinois in 1988, he tied a Krenzler Field record by scoring a career-high three goals. During his senior season in 1989, he was second on the team in goals (7), assists (5) and points (19). He received a medical redshirt for the 1987 season after being sidelined with a knee injury.

Clark earned all-conference honors three times in his career, picking up first-team honors in 1986, 1988, and 1989 while helping the Vikings to Association of Mid-Continent Universities (AMCU) league championships in both the 1986 and 1988 (co-champion) campaigns. A two-time AMCU Player of the Week in 1998, he also earned academic honors twice during his career when he was named a first-team All-Conference Academic selection and a first-team All-Ohio Academic pick in 1989.

He was also recognized multiple times at the state and regional levels. After earning second-team All-Mideast honors in 1986, Clark was a third-team selection in both 1988 and 1989. He also earned first-team All-Ohio honors three times (1986, 1988, 1989). During his career, he picked up all-tournament honors twice, at the Cleveland State Tournament in 1988 and the Akron Tournament in 1989.

A four-time letter winner, Clark earned his degree in Business Administration in 1989.