November 6, 2025

Three Gents Earn 2025 All-SCAC Men's Soccer Honors

Three Gents - junior D Hayden McConnell (Flower Mound, Texas), junior MF Jacob Ramsey (Baton Rouge, La.), and junior F Carter Webb (Flower Mound, Texas) were named to the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Conference Men's Soccer Team, the league office announced on Thursday.

ROUND ROCK, Texas – Three Gents - junior D Hayden McConnell (Flower Mound, Texas), junior MF Jacob Ramsey (Baton Rouge, La.), and junior F Carter Webb (Flower Mound, Texas) were named to the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference All-Conference Men's Soccer Team, the league office announced on Thursday.

The trio combined for 12 goals, six assists, and 30 points and each proved to be one of the best players at their position in the conference this season. McConnell, Ramsey, and Webb all earned All-SCAC honors for the first time.

Colorado College student-athletes were recipients of each of the conference's three major individual awards for the 2025 season – a first-ever occurrence in the sport of men's soccer since the SCAC started recognizing an Offensive, a Defensive and a First-Year Player-of-the-Year in 2003. Complete Release

In exclusive voting by the league's head coaches and sports information directors, Teddy Opler was selected SCAC Offensive Player-of-the-Year, Rex Karjian was tabbed as the SCAC Defensive Player-of-the-Year and Ewen Robertson was named the league's First-Year Player-of-the-Year.

In that same balloting, the staffs at Colorado College and Texas Lutheran University split the vote to share SCAC Coaching Staff-of-the-Year honors.

A sophomore forward from Wilson, Wyoming, Colorado College's Teddy Opler is currently leading the SCAC in scoring with 31 points and he is second in the conference with 13 goals scored. The second-year sensation poured in 10 goals and finished with 25 points during conference play – both tops in the SCAC. His five assists in league play were good for third in the conference. A two-time SCAC Offensive Player-of-the-Week during the regular season, Opler recorded his first career hat trick in the Tigers' 10-1 victory over Dallas last Saturday which clinched the program's third-straight regular season SCAC title and the No. 1 seed in this weekend's conference tournament. Opler's selection as SCAC Offensive Player-of-the-Year represents the fourth time a Colorado College student-athlete has wont the award and the first since all-American Max Grossenbacher was so honored following the 2015 season.

Opler was the runaway choice in the balloting for Offensive Player-of-the-Year honors, receiving 21 first place votes. First-year forward Henry Shore of LeTourneau University received two first place votes and Texas Lutheran first-year forward Jesus Carrillo picked up the remaining first-place vote.

Rex Karjian, a senior defender from Seattle, Washington, exhibited outstanding work on both sides of the ball while playing close to 90 minutes a game for the Tigers over the regular season. The senior captain anchored a CC defense that led the league in goals against average as the Tigers allowed just 0.53 goals per 90 minutes during the regular season – a figure that ranks in the top 15 nationally. Arguably one of the best attacking left backs in the conference, Karjian has 20 assists in his last 36 games from his defensive position, including a league-high 11 this season. His 17 points over the regular season is currently ranked fourth in the conference. Karjian is the fifth different Colorado College student-athlete to earn SCAC Defensive Player-of-the-Year honors and his selection marks the fourth straight year a CC player has taken home the award as former all-American Curtis Hale earned top defensive honors three consecutive years from 2022 to 2024.

Karjian received 16 first-place votes in the Defensive Player-of-the-Year selection process, out-balloting senior midfielder Evan Bremauntz of Texas Lutheran, who received five votes. Junior goalkeeper Leonel Cuellar of Concordia University (Texas) picked up two votes and senior defender Jeth Flores of University of St. Thomas earned the remaining first-place vote.

Ewen Robertson, a first-year forward from Concord, Massachusetts, has made an immediate impact for Colorado College and leads the league in goals scored with 14 heading into the conference tournament. If he were to hold onto the scoring lead, Robertson would become just the eighth freshman in the league's 34-year history to lead the conference in goals scored and the first since Trinity's Michael Meese in 2021. He is currently second in the SCAC in points scored with 30. Possessing tremendous goal-scoring instincts with creative ideas in the final third, Robertson makes mature decisions with the ball around the goal for a first-year player. Robertson is the seventh CC student-athlete to earn SCAC First-Year Player-of-the-Year accolades, and the first since his current teammate Jack Hilliard took home the honor following the 2023 season.

Robertson was the clear favorite in the balloting for First-Year POTY, receiving 17 first-place votes from the coaches and sports information directors. First-year forward Henry Shore of LeTourneau University received four votes while first-year goalkeeper Patrick Bassett of Austin College earned two votes. First-year goalkeeper Ernesto Avila of Texas Lutheran picked up the remaining first-place vote.

In his 11th season at the helm at Colorado College, Scott Palguta, along with his assistants Kevin Doyle, Tomas Martinez and Dan Highstead, led this year's squad to an 8-0-3 conference mark and the program's third-straight SCAC regular season title. The Tigers will be the top seed at this weekend's conference tournament with an overall mark of 11-0-6 and are one of just 12 programs in Division III who have yet to suffer a loss this season. CC posted its fourth-straight unbeaten conference season as the Tigers ran the gauntlet in SCAC play and haven't dropped a league contest since October 29, 2021. Palguta currently sports a 134-41-30 career coaching mark, placing him second all-time among SCAC men's soccer coaches (with five or more years) in winning percentage (.727). He is currently fourth all-time in conference wins with 91 and his .818 conference winning percentage (91-14-16) ranks second all-time. The SCAC Coaching Staff-of-the-Year honor is the third consecutive and fourth all-time for Palguta.

Texas Lutheran head coach Eddie Salazar, along with assistants Jimmy Flores and Noel Pena, led the Bulldogs to an 8-1-2 league mark and an overall record of 10-4-3 as the team secured one of two first-round byes for this weekend's conference tournament. In his 20th year at the lead of the TLU program, Salazar is the program's all-time wins leader and has collected an overall record of 161-154-35 and an SCAC mark of 77-59-12. His 77 conference wins are the fifth-most in league history and his .561 winning percentage in conference play is 11th-best in SCAC history. Salazar led the program to a SCAC Championship in 2019 - the second conference championship in program history and first since 2002's American Southwest Conference Championship. The SCAC Coaching Staff-of-the-Year honor marks the second career accolade for Salazar, having taken home the same honor following the 2018 season.

This year's shared award marks just the third time in league history that two or more men's soccer staffs have been recognized in the Coach-of-the-Year balloting, and the first since the award was split in 2007 among the staffs of Southwestern University and Trinity University.

To view the entire 2025 All-SCAC Men's Soccer Team, click here.