Seniors
1. Nathanael Sallah (Omaha, Germany)
2. Luke Pruter (UC Irvine)
3. Trace Alphin (Wake Forest)
4. John Harms (Indiana)
5. James Lowell (Marist)
6. Khamari Hadaway (Princeton)
7. Erik Lauta (New Hampshire)
8. Carter Abbott (Fordham)
9. Djibril Doumbia (San Diego State)
10. Grant Calvert (Belmont)
11. Blake Franzen (Liberty, South Africa)
12. Enzo Carvalho (NC State)
13. Will Watson (Princeton)
14. Alex Lopez (Tulsa, Spain)
15. Oliver Townend (Colgate)
16. Tristian Himes (Coastal Carolina)
17. Eoin Gawronski (Long Island)
18. Harry Townsend (Missouri State, England)
19. Javier Ramirez (UCA, Spain)
20. Andrew Cooke (Penn State)
One to Watch: Erik Lauta. Lauta barely scraped out of college with twenty starts to his name but the senior goalkeeper has taken his opportunity and ran with it. Depsite having less than 300 minutes played going into this fall, Lauta and New Hampshire have anchored a 0.76 GAA defense, which has propelled the Wildcats into a top 50 spot in the RPI. Although a run in the NCAA tournament is out of the cards for New Hampshire, it’ll be curious to see if Lauta can continue his traction. Lauta is a little reminiscent of John McCarthy in that he will break from traditional passive “rule of thumbs” and instead trust his gut through aggression and taking forward space. With a short resume and loose play style, it’s anyone’s guess what will become of Lauta’s professional chances.
Juniors
1. Logan Erb (NC State)
2. Alec McLachlan (St. John's, England)
3. Freddie Lapworth (Bucknell, England)
4. Cabral Carter (Pittsburgh)
5. Andrew Cordes (North Carolina)
6. Zac Kelly (Michigan State)
7. Devin Armstrong (NJIT)
8. Tenzing Manske (Georgetown)
9. Joseph Andema (Clemson, Ghana)
10. KyMani Dade (Loyola Marymount)
11. Casper Mols (Kentucky, Denmark)
12. Leonard Stritter (Charlotte, Germany)
13. Eryk Dymora (Monmouth)
14. Valentin Kneis (La Salle)
15. Ciaran Dalton (Rutgers)
One to Watch: Devin Armstrong. The Wake Forest-to-NJIT pipeline has been bone dry over the last few years but Armstrong has done well to get out from under Trace Alphin’s shadow. You always have to respect someone who is willing to give up the prestige of a top school in favor of betting on themselves with a smaller stage. So after only 33 minutes with Wake Forest, Armstrong became the clear starter for New Jersey’s most technical institution and showed why he wasn’t just a perennial number two. However, if Armstrong has any professional aspirations, he’ll need to break the stigma of going to a smaller school by proving he’s still a big-time goalkeeper who can stand on his head when called upon, which he could have used more this year.
Sophomores
1. Wyatt Nelson (UCLA)
2. Nigel Van Haveren (FIU, Netherlands)
3. Aidan Crawford (Loyola-Chicago)
4. Rowan Schnebly (Stanford)
5. Jonathan Munteanu (UAB)
6. Alex Shields (UC Irvine)
7. Thomas MacAuley (George Washington, England)
8. Andrew Samuels (Princeton)
9. Viktor Sulc (Detroit, Czech Republic)
10. Dorian Drucks (Cal State Northridge, Germany)
11. Atahan Arslan (Northern Illinois, Turkey)
12. Aaron Salinas (Furman)
One to Watch: Nigel Van Haveren. The 6’6” Dutch goalkeeper is one of the few goalkeepers who make people ask “Why are you playing at this level?” Van Haveren clearly has top-end abilities but there were some clunky goals conceded against UAB and Tulsa this year, so properly evaluating his potential is difficult. The head-scratching question for Van Haveren is if he’ll be able to play at a top level consistently or if he’ll continually be a “what could have been…” story at the end of the day.
Freshmen
1. Blake Kelly (Notre Dame)
2. Marten Brink (Marquette, Germany)
3. Max Kerkvliet (Connecticut)
4. Leo Ledin (Wofford, Sweden)
5. Filip Versterre (South Carolina, Denmark)
6. Carlito Saylon (Tulsa)
7. Declan Finnegan (IUPUI)
8. Matisse Hebert (Wisconsin, Canada)
9. Jonah Mednard (Wake Forest, Haiti)
10. Alexander Yagudayev (Villanova)
One to Watch: Carlito Saylon. Let’s get it out of the way: he’s not the tallest goalkeeper. But fortunately for the SKC product, Tulsa has welcomed undersized goalkeepers if they can provide a service elsewhere on the field. Senior goalkeeper Alex Lopez has arguably the best distribution in the game for college goalkeepers, so filling his shoes will be tricky for Saylon but it’s been a good sign that Tulsa has already given the freshman goalkeeper minutes. Saylon will need to continue to develop if he doesn’t want to split time again for the next three years.
Past Collegiate Goalkeeper Rankings
2024: Preseason
2023: Preseason and Final
2022: Preseason and Final
2021: Preseason and Final
2020: Preseason and Final
2019: Preseason and Final
2018: Preseason and Final
2017: Preseason and Final
2016: Preseason and Final
2015: Preseason and Final
2014: Preseason and Final