{"id":325194,"date":"2025-12-04T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325194\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:53:12","slug":"hutzell-named-to-top-drawer-soccer-national-team-of-the-week-ahead-of-paladins-elite-eight-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325194\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutzell named to Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week ahead of Paladins\u2019 Elite Eight match"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Furman University Men\u2019s Soccer team celebrates in Stone Stadium Sunday afternoon after beating Hofstra University to secure a place in the NCAA quarterfinals. Photo by Jeremy Fleming.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Furman University\u2019s Luke Hutzell<\/a> \u201928 was picked for the Top Drawer<\/a> Soccer National Team of the Week on Dec. 2 after leading the Paladins into the NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Soccer Championship quarterfinals this past weekend.<\/p>\n

No. 16 seed Furman bested Hofstra University<\/a> in penalty kicks Nov. 30, and will face No. 8 seed University of Portland in the Elite Eight on Friday. Kickoff is at 10 p.m. EST at Merlo Field in Portland, Oregon. Click here<\/a> to buy tickets, or watch online<\/a> through ESPN.<\/p>\n

Furman\u2019s players come from all backgrounds and have equally diverse futures ahead of them. Here are a few of the players who made waves in their last match against Hofstra University:<\/p>\n

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Diego Hernandez \u201927<\/p>\n

Diego Hernandez \u2013 Midfielder<\/p>\n

Hometown: Mesquite, Texas<\/p>\n

Class: Junior<\/p>\n

Major: Politics and International Affairs<\/p>\n

SoCon Player of the Year 2025<\/p>\n

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\"A<\/p>\n

Luke Hutzell \u201928<\/p>\n

Luke Hutzell \u2013 Midfielder<\/p>\n

Hometown: Dacula, Georgia<\/p>\n

Class: Sophomore<\/p>\n

Major: Undeclared, pursuing major in Business Administration<\/p>\n

Second Team All-SoCon selection and SoCon All-Freshman choice in 2024<\/p>\n

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Wilfer Bustamante \u201928<\/p>\n

Wilfer Bustamante \u2013 Forward<\/p>\n

Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina<\/p>\n

Class: Sophomore<\/p>\n

Major: Undeclared, pursuing major in Business Administration<\/p>\n

Second team All-Southern Conference and selected to SoCon All-Freshman Team in 2024<\/p>\n

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\"A<\/p>\n

Ivan Horvat \u201928<\/p>\n

Ivan Horvat \u2013 Goalkeeper<\/p>\n

Hometown: Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n

Class: Redshirt freshman<\/p>\n

Major: Undeclared, pursuing dual major in Mathematics and Economics<\/p>\n

SoCon Goalkeeper of the Year 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Furman University Men\u2019s Soccer team celebrates in Stone Stadium Sunday afternoon after beating Hofstra University to secure…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-325194","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\/325194","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=325194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}