COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula goalkeeper Max Woithe signs to play on pro team<\/p>\n
Published 4:30 pm Monday, March 23, 2026<\/p>\n
PORT ANGELES \u2013 Peninsula College goalkeeper Max Woithe is about to realize his childhood dream of becoming a professional soccer player.<\/p>\n
The North Region\u2019s Defensive Player of the Year will leave
\nApril 8 for Munster, Germany, where he will sign a contract to play for SC PreuBen Munster, a high-level U-23 professional men\u2019s soccer club.<\/p>\n
Woithe said his dream to one day play professional soccer was sidelined as a youth playing soccer in Germany, until he accepted an offer to come to Peninsula College.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came here, I never thought it would be this good,\u201d Woithe said of the level of soccer here. \u201cIt was a big impact. If I never played here, I would never have this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woithe will sign a professional contract and begin playing April 14. The level he expects to be at will pay a modest salary and will include housing. The SC Preuben Soccer facility itself is extraordinary, with a new stadium and high-level training facilities. He also plans to continue his college education.<\/p>\n
\u201cMax has made an immediate and lasting impact at our program,\u201d Peninsula men\u2019s soccer head coach Jake Hughes said. \u201cWe have a rich history of top goalkeepers coming through our program, and Max is amongst the best of them. He is the first player to come through PC and jump straight into the professional level after one successful year. His influence on the team this year was integral in our success.\u201d<\/p>\n
The freshman goalkeeper credited his coaches and teammates for his success.<\/p>\n
\u201cCoach Jake (Hughes) gave me the opportunity to continue my career,\u201d Woithe said. \u201cIt was also nice to have a goalkeeper coach. He (Andrew Cooper) instilled confidence in me. He would say, \u2018be you, just be yourself, you know what you can do.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
And what could he do? He led the Northwest Athletic Conference in fewest goals allowed with four, best goals-against average at 0.42 and best save percentage at .879.<\/p>\n
With Woithe in goal, the Pirates\u2019 only loss of the season came in the quarterfinals in a 1-0 setback to Columbia Basin.<\/p>\n
He also enjoyed playing with five fellow Germans, as well as and others on the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re with them, not just in training, but all day every day,\u201d he said, noting the players room together at Collegiate Housing International down the street from the PC campus. \u201cIt was such a fun experience. I am very grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n
Woithe said he\u2019s looking forward to the challenge of playing professional soccer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re older, more physical and now I won\u2019t be one of the best,\u201d he said. \u201cI will have to show up even more. I want to take the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Hildesheim, Germany, native who began playing soccer at the age of 5 plans to show off his Olympic Peninsula home to his family when they come for a visit in early April and then return home to pursue his dream.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy dream came one more step true,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re really proud that PC has been an important step into achieving Max\u2019s dream of becoming a professional soccer player,\u201d Hughes said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula goalkeeper Max Woithe signs to play on pro team Published 4:30 pm Monday, March 23,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,215554,561,82],"class_list":["post-556300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-peninsula-college","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556300","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=556300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}