Men’s Finalists’ Bios
Brandon Allen
Georgetown
Senior Forward
Old Bridge, N.J.
Unanimous First Team All-BIG EAST … Became the program leader in career goals with 50 and also ranks third in career points … Led the Hoyas with 12 goals and seven assists for 31 points … Went 5-for-5 on penalty kicks … Tallied five game winners … Started all 20 games for the Hoyas … Ranked second in the league in points, third in goals and fourth in assists … Had two goals and one assist in Radford victory … Scored two goals in the win over Seton Hall … Scored a point in seven-consecutive games to close out the season … Team won the BIG EAST Regular Season and the BIG EAST Tournament … Squad has been on a 17-game unbeaten streak and 14-game win streak … Two-time BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week … Two-time BIG EAST Honor Roll … Two-time CollegeSoccerNews Team of the Week … Preseason All-BIG EAST…NSCAA named him 2015 First Team All-American and First Team All-Great Lakes Region.
Fabian Herbers
Creighton
Junior Forward
Ahaus, Germany
Herbers, the nation’s leading point scorer, recorded a point in 20 of Creighton’s 23 matches, helping the Bluejays to one of the best seasons in program history. Creighton, which topped the NSCAA Top 25 poll for a program-best eight consecutive weeks (Sept. 8-Oct. 27), got off to a 15-0-0 start this season, marking the best start for a Creighton team since 1993 (19-0-0) and best start by any team since Akron began 23-0-0 in 2009. The only player in NCAA Division I to rank among the nation’s top ten for goals (15) and assists (17), Herbers was unanimously selected as the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Year, marking the second-consecutive season in which he earned the accolade. He scored a point in each of the Bluejays’ first ten matches, becoming the first player in program history to do so since the program was relaunched in 1990. Former Creighton star and current MLS All-Star Ethan Finlay had a run of nine-straight such games in 2010. Herbers led Creighton with five game-winning goals, and was a perfect 4-for-4 on penalty kicks this season, becoming the first player in program history to convert four penalty kicks in a single season since Mike Tranchilla did so in 2002. With his two assists in Creighton’s national quarterfinal match versus Akron, Herbers set a new program record for single-season assists (17), surpassing Richard Mulrooney’s mark of 16 set in 1996 and 1998. His 47 points were fourth-most in Creighton single-season history. In just three seasons at Creighton, Herbers’ 85 career points rank fourth among active players in NCAA Division I.
Jordan Morris
Stanford
Junior Forward
Mercer Island, Wash.
NSCAA First Team All-American … NSCAA All-Far West Region First Team … Pac-12 Player of the Year … Stanford’s third-ever Pac-12 Player of the Year and first since 2001 … All-Pac-12 First Team … Pac-12 All-Academic Second Team … Has a career-high 11 goals in 16 appearances for Stanford in 2015 … Leads Stanford in goals (11) and points (25) … In his last 12 games with the Cardinal, has 10 goals, three assists and 23 points … Ninth in the country in game-winning goals (5), 12th in goals per game (0.69) and 13th in points per game (1.56) … Earlier this season, scored in five straight matches, becoming just the second Stanford player to do that since 1987 … Missed five collegiate matches due to responsibilities with U.S. Soccer … Split time between the senior team, making six appearances with the MNT in 2015, while also earning 11 caps with the U-23s, scoring six goals and tallying four assists … With the USMNT, scored against Mexico on April 15 and assisted on the game-winning goal against the Netherlands on June 5 … A Type 1 diabetic, also lent his support to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) “T1D Looks Like Me Campaign” for National Diabetes Awareness Month (NDAM) in November.