Brian McBride

Brian McBride

Player Profile

Hometown:
Arlington Heights, Ill.

High School:
Buffalo Grove

Position:
Forward

Graduated:
1993

1993 • Senior
Named The Great Midwest Conference MVP and first team All-Conference for the third-consecutive year ... First-team All-American ... adidas Senior Player of the Year ... one of the final 10 for the Missouri Athletic Club's national player of the year award for the third-consecutive year ... also one of ten finalists for the Hermann Trophy, recognizing college soccer's top player ... scored twice vs. Dayton in GMW semifinal ... goal and assists vs. Cincinnati broke the career goals and assist marks; now holds all the career individual scoring marks; his 40 career assists and 72 career goals top the charts and is firmly entrenched as the Bills' all-time leading scorer with 184 points ... enjoyed a three-game, 11-point explosion with a hat trick vs. Tulsa, two goals at DePaul in his final appearance in his native metro Chicago area and an assist on Brad Wilson's game winner at Marquette ... leads the GMW and the Midwest Region in scoring while holding down the fourth spot among the nation's top ten scorers ... his goal and assist vs. UAB allowed him to surpass Carl Gentile's (1963-65) previous career points record of 160; that feat earned his second consecutive Soccer America Tem of the Week honor ... scored four goals and three assists in three games to earn his second consecutive GMW Athlete of the Week award for the period of 9/27 - 10/3 and also was named to Soccer America's Team of the Week ... scored two goals, including the game winner, and assisted on Chris Santel's goal vs. Stanford ... assisted on both Billiken goals vs. San Francisco and was named to the Cardinal Classic All-Tournament team ... has nine multiple-goal games this season ... scored twice vs. SIUE and earned the Bronze Boot MVP for the second time in his career joining Tom Hayes (1983-84) as the only two-time Boot MVP's; that performance earned the GMW's Athlete of the Week honor for the week of 9/20-26 ... followed that with two goals vs. Quincy ... opened the season with 10 points (4G, 2A) in two games with first career hat trick vs. Dayton and a goal and two assists at Loyola ... has 17 career multiple-goal games ... leads the team in shots (100), goals (24), points (57) and tied for the club lead in game winners (5) ... spent time during the spring and summer with the U.S. National "B" team and made a South America tour with the U.S. National squad ... also participated in the World University Games in Buffalo, N.Y.

1992 • Junior
Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year Nominee, Second Team All-America, First Team All-Conference, team MVP as voted by the players ... among top ten scorers in the nation and No. 2 scorer in the Midwest Region .. in conference tournament, scored the game winner vs. Cincinnati in the semifinal and assisted on the game winner in the title match vs. Memphis St. as he totalled 10 pints (3G, 4A) for the two games ... single-season career high in assists with 17, which tied the Bills single-season record ... named conference athlete of the week three times.

1991 • Sophomore
Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year Nominee, Soccer America MVP, Great Midwest Most Valuable Player, Great Midwest First Team, Great Midwest Player of the Week for 9/30 and 11/4, All-Tournament at Soccer Master-Umbro Classic ... led conference in goals scored and total points ... led team in shots, goals, points and game winners ... tied for second on team with nine assits with Scott McDaniel ... had five two-goal games ... did not go more than two games without scoring a goal ... scored 13 goals in his last 10 games ... tied for sixth on SLU single-season goal total ... total of 49 points tied for seventh on SLU's single-season scoring chart ... 13th on SLU carer list with 78 points.

1990 • Freshman
Led Bills in points, goals and shots ... tied Mark Santel for team lead in assists with five ... tied Jason Huber and Dan Merlo for team lead in game winners with three ... first team All-Midwest, First Team All-MCC, member MCC All-Newcomer squad ... Bronze Boot MVP ... missed last five games with a broken foot.

Prep • Buffalo Grove HS
Parade All-American ... 33 goals in senior year, 80 in four years ... All-State, All-Midwest ... member of U.S. Under 20 team.

McBRIDE'S CAREER STATS

YearG/GS Shots Goals Asst.Pts.GW
1990 20/20 83 12 5 29 3
1991 24/24 97 20 9 49 7
1992 23/23 117 16 17 49 5
1993 22/22 107 24 9 57 5
Totals 89/89 404 72 40 184 20
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