#11 -
Brian Rogers
Position: Forward
Year: Freshman
Hometown: Bronxville, N.Y.
High School: Bronxville
Height: 6-2
Weight: 178
Freshman (2009):
Played in all 19 games, starting 15 ... Selected to Soccer America
All-Freshman second team ... Tabbed to College Soccer News
All-Freshman second team ... Named to NSCAA All-Northeast Region
third team ... Honored as Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... Earned
All-Ivy League second team honors ... Ranked fifth in the Ancient
Eight and second on the Crimson in points and goals ... Named as
one of the “100 Freshmen to Keep and Eye On” for 2009
by College Soccer News ... Scored first collegiate goal in win over
Stony Brook (Sept. 4) ... Had an assist in victory at Boston
College (Sept. 7) ... Named Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week (Sept.
14) after scoring a goal and handing out two assists in two games
... Had an assist on game-winning goal against No. 14 Boston
University (Sept. 11) ... Netted a tally and earned an assist for
three-point effort against Army (Sept. 13) ... Tallied the
game-winning goal at Fairfield (Sept. 19) ... Scored the game
winner for second straight game at New Hampshire (Sept. 23) ...
Netted the golden goal in double overtime in 1-0 victory at Yale
(Oct. 3) ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week and COOP
Student-Athlete of the Week Oct. 5 ... Assisted on game-winning
goal in 1-0 victory over Brown (Oct. 17) ... Scored an unassisted
goal at Columbia in 79th minute and later assisted on game-winning
tally in overtime (Nov. 7) ... Tabbed Ivy League Rookie of the Week
and named to Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week Nov. 9 ...
Assisted on a goal in win over Monmouth in NCAA second round (Nov.
22).
Before Harvard:
Starting forward on the varsity soccer team eighth through 12th
grade ... Soccer co-captain senior year ... Was nation's sixth
leading scorer with 44 goals in 2008, leading team to state
championship ... Gatorade New York State Player of the Year 2008-09
... NSCAA All-American in 2008 ... ESPN Rise All-American 2008-09
... USSF U-18 Northeast Conference Starting XI in 2008 ... NSCAA
All-Region 2007-08 ... NSCAA first-team All-State 2007-08 ...
Journal News Athlete of the Season for all fall sports as
well as soccer in fall 2008 ... New York State Championship
tournament MVP in 2008 ... Section I Player of the Year 2007-08 ...
All-Section 2006-08 ... Conference 4 Central League MVP 2007-08 ...
All-League 2004-08 ... Mt. Markham Optimist Tournament Offensive
MVP 2007-08 ... New York State leading goal scorer in 2007 and 2008
... Starting point guard on the basketball team freshman and
sophomore years ... AP Scholar With Distinction ... Honor roll each
quarter in high school ... Con Edison Westchester Scholastic
Athlete of the Week Nov. 5, 2008 ... Class president 2007-08 ...
President of High School Athletic Council 2008-09 ... Sports editor
of the school newspaper, The Mirror ... Meals on Wheels
volunteer.
Personal:
Father, David '77, was a member of the varsity basketball
team ... Mother, Christine Duffy '77, and brother, Joshua '07, both
went to Harvard ... Uncle, Brad, played basketball and graduated in
1973 from Wesleyan.