Photo: David Kadlubowski<\/p>\n
By Sebastian Quiroz \u2013 @SebastianQuir0z<\/p>\n
We are halfway through the 2025 college soccer season, and a few goalscoring leaders are starting to emerge among the freshmen. Here is a list of the top goal scorers so far in the 2025 men\u2019s soccer freshman class:<\/p>\n
1. Junior Diouf, Grand Canyon (pictured above) \u2014 6 goals, 14 points\u00a0<\/p>\n
Diouf has wasted no time making his mark for GCU. With six goals in as many appearances, he\u2019s given the Lopes a major offensive boost early in his college career. His hot start has already earned him national and conference recognition, including a spot on the TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week and WAC Co-Offensive Player of the Week honors.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2. Andres Escudero, Evansville \u2014 5 goals, 10 points<\/p>\n
Escudero started the season as a rotational player off the bench but earned his first start against Xavier a couple of weeks ago and scored his debut goal in that game. Since then, he has been a starter, earning four starts and scoring all five of his college goals in that time with two braces.<\/p>\n
3. Royie Rahamim, Robert Morris \u2014 4 goals, 10 points\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rahamim has quickly become a go-to option for RMU, displaying composure in front of the goal and providing key moments in tight matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
4. Martin Rodriguez, Manhattan \u2014 4 goals, 9 points\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rodriguez made an early impact for Manhattan, bagging a hat-trick against NJCU. Scoring four times in just six games, His efficiency has been a bright spot for Manhattan as the season unfolds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
5. Vance Sheffield, Northern Illinois \u2014 4 goals, 9 points\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sheffield\u2019s athleticism and attacking instincts have allowed him to be a reliable goalscorer for the Huskies, already notching four goals and tallying one assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Honorable Mentions: Prosper Adagani (HPU), Guilherme Gomes (St. John\u2019s), Javan Ochieng (Gardner-Webb), Antonio Pinto (Loyola Chicago), Jaime Amaro (Bryant), Nicholas Simmonds (Virginia) \u2014 4 goals each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: David Kadlubowski By Sebastian Quiroz \u2013 @SebastianQuir0z We are halfway through the 2025 college soccer season, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-170388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}