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Former SU soccer player Gabriel Gervais became the USL's first three-time Defender of the Year
Gervais Named USL Defender of the Year for Record Third Time
10/2/2006 6:02:17 PM | Men's Soccer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Former Orange men’s soccer star and current member of the United Soccer League’s (USL) Montreal Impact Gabriel Gervais became the first player to win the league’s Defender of the Year honor three times, having previously received the award in 2003 and 2004. Former Rochester Rhino Scott Schweitzer is the only other player to have received the honor multiple times, winning it in 1998 and 1999.
The 30-year-old veteran, who is into his seventh season in the USL First Division and his fifth with the Impact, helped Montreal post the best defense in the league for a fourth straight year, as well as tie a club record by allowing, for a third consecutive season, only 15 goals in 28 regular season games. He started all 23 games he played in for a total of 1,988 minutes spent on the field.
Two weeks ago, he joined an exclusive group of nine other players as the 10th individual to earn All-League honors five times in the USL First Division having been selected to the First Team for a fifth consecutive season.
At Syracuse, Gervais was a two-time captain and ranks third on SU’s career scoring list with 71 points. He averaged 1.25 points per game during his career, the third-best mark in school history. Gervais competed for the Orange from 1997-1999 and was a two-time All-BIG EAST First Team honoree. He also earned NSCAA All-Region first-team accolades in 1999 and second-team all-region honors in 1998.
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