Ryan Melink Season 2016

PositionM
ClassRedshirt Freshman
HometownLoveland, Ohio

2018: Saw action in all 18 matches, starting 11 ... Scored two goals and dished out a pair of assists ... Added a pair of scores on Senior Night vs. USF (10/27) ... Totaled 30 shots, including 11 on goal, on the year ... Logged more than 1,000 minutes of play in 2018.

2017: Saw action in 17 games with 14 starts ... Notched two goals and an assist on the year ... Both goals scored during the season were game-winners: the opening goal in a 4-0 win over Fort Wayne (10/18) and the tiebreaker in a 2-1 triumph against Cleveland State (10/24) ... Totaled nine shots including five on goal in 2017 ... Logged 1,142 minutes of play during the season.  

2016: Named to the American Athletic Conference All-Rookie team ... Played in 16 matches with 14 starts ... Tied as the team’s leading goal scorer with five on the year – including two match-winners -- while also dishing out three assists ... His six points over two matches against IUPUI and Temple in mid-October led to him being named league Offensive Player of the Week on Oct. 17.

2015: Saw the pitch in three matches during the season, playing a total of 62 minutes.

Prior to UC: Product of Loveland High School ... Lived overseas in Ankara, Turkey, before returning to the United States as a high school sophomore ... Named Loveland's rookie of the year as a sophomore ... Ranked fourth in the Eastern Cincinnati Conference with 10 goals as a junior, earning second team all-league honors ... Led the ECC in goals and assists as a senior, earning first team all-conference, first team all-city and second team all-state accolades ... Selected to Southwest Ohio All-Star Game as a senior ... Played club for Ohio Elite Soccer Academy, helping club team to a 17-2 mark ... helped club team to a pair of CASL Showcase Championships, as well as the 2013 Disney Showcase Championship where they beat the third-ranked club team in the nation, FC Dallas ... Helped OESA achieve a top 25 national ranking.

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Redshirt Junior
2018

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Redshirt Sophomore
2017

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Freshman
2015

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