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2012 Men's Soccer

5 Erik Munzer

5 Erik Munzer

  • Height:
    6-1
  • Weight:
    185
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Beverly Hills, CA
  • Highschool:
    Beverly Hills High School

Summary

Biography

At Pomona-Pitzer: Completed his senior season as a member of the Pomona-Pitzer Men's Soccer team, where he was a center back and a two-year captain...Helped the Sagehens to a pair of SCIAC championships as a starter, including in 2009 as a freshman and in 2012 as a senior...Also plays center field on the Pomona-Pitzer Baseball team.

2012: First-team NSCAA All-West Region...First-team All-SCIAC...Served as team captain...Started all 19 games he played in at center back (as well as two games at outside back early in the year)...Finished with three goals and an assist...Had two goals in the second half of a 2-1 comeback win over CMS in a battle of the top two teams in the SCIAC standings at the time...Assisted on the lone Sagehen goal in a 2-1 loss to Whitman...Added a goal against Caltech...Set up the only goal of the game in a 1-0 win over Redlands with a long throw-in, which put the Sagehens in the driver's seat for a SCIAC title.

2011: First-team All-SCIAC selection...Served as a team co-captain...Played in and started 16 games for the Sagehens as a center back, often with three freshmen around him...Assisted on a goal against Cal Lutheran with a long throw-in...Had a key defensive save off the goal line in a 2-0 road win over CMS...Had perhaps the most memorable "near goal" of the season when he hit the crossbar on a free kick from just under 50 yards in a home game against CMS.

High School: Attended Beverly Hills High School, where he was named the BHHS Male Athlete of the Year as a senior...Earned the Don Reynolds Memorial Scholarship Award and the Ellis Hecht Memorial Scholarship in 2009...Was an All-Ocean league baseball MVP, and a first-team defender in soccer...Named to the All-CIF third team in soccer as well...Also played on the football team, earning All-League and All-CIT Western Division honors...As a junior, was first-team All-Ocean League in baseball, second-team All-CIF in soccer, and All-Ocean League in football...Voted team's Best Offensive Player in baseball and Best Defensive Player in soccer...As a sophomore, was All-CIF third team in soccer, and first-team All-Ocean league...Was Co-MVP of the baseball team as a freshman and earned the football Co-Coaches Award...Won the Athlete of the Year award for his class in all four years.

Personal: Attends Pitzer College, where he majors in philosophy...Father is a professor at UCLA Law School and mother is a lawyer...Has one sister, who played volleyball for Amherst College...Grandfather on his father's side was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but did not play when he chose to fight in World War II...Hobbies include music and philosophy...Lists Ken Griffey, Jr. as his favorite athlete...Favorite book is Descartes Meditations and favorite movies are Forrest Gump and White Men Can't Jump...Lists "Knowledge, Mind, Existence" with Professor Brian Keeley as the most interesting course he has taken while at Pitzer...Plans to attend law school after graduation...Has volunteered for the ecological restoration of the Pitzer Outback...Chose Pitzer for "it's great academic tradition and because I was granted the opportunity to play both soccer and baseball"...Born February 4, 1991.

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Historical Player Information

  • 05

    2009Sophomore

    Forward
    6'1" 0 lbs
    05
  • 05

    2010Sophomore

    Defender/Midfielder
    6'1" 0 lbs
    05
  • 5

    2011Junior

    D
    6'1" 170 lbs
    5
  • 5

    2012Senior

    D
    6'1" 185 lbs
    5