Jacob VanCompernolle

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Jacob VanCompernolle
Personnel
Surname Jacob Leon VanCompernolle
birthday 2nd August 1993
place of birth Dallas , Texas ,  USA
size 180 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
2008-2011 Dallas Texans Soccer Club
2008-2011 RL Turner High School
2011-2014 UNC Wilmington
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2013 Ottawa Fury 14 (0)
2014 GPS Portland Phoenix 10 (0)
2015 Oklahoma City Energy 23 (0)
2016– Swope Park Rangers 7 (0)
2016 → Oklahoma City Energy (loan) 15 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of October 24, 2016

Jacob Leon VanCompernolle (born August 2, 1993 in Dallas , Texas ) is an American football player in the position of defender . Since 2016 he has been playing for Swope Park Rangers , the second professional team of the major league soccer franchise Sporting Kansas City , with play in the third-rate North American United Soccer League .

Career

Career start

Jacob VanCompernolle was born on August 2, 1993 as the son of Mary and Paul VanCompernolle in the metropolis of Dallas, Texas, and grew up here and in the vicinity of the city. At an advanced age, he attended RL Turner High School in Carrollton , a northern suburb of Dallas, from 2008 , and was also active in the school's football team. In the high school team, under coach Marshall Huston, he came to his missions as a regular player from his freshman year. In all four seasons he was elected to the All District First Team because of his achievements and helped the Turner Lions , as the sports department was called, to the District 18 AAAA championship titles in 2009 and 2011 (his sophomore and Senior year). In his final senior year in 2011, he was also honored individually, including as a Dallas Morning News All Area player and as a District MVP . From his second year in the team, he appeared as their team captain and worked in this position until he graduated from school. Parallel to his high school career, he also worked for the youth training club Dallas Texans Soccer Club between 2008 and 2011 . With its U-14 team, he took part as captain in the finals of the Helsinki Cup , the Gothia Cup and Manchester United Premier Cup , where the team made it to the quarter-finals. In 2009 he made it with the U-16 team to the semi-finals of the Gothia Cup and took part in the Copenhagen Tivoli Cup . In 2010/11 he appeared for the U-18 US Soccer Development Academy team, with whom he remained undefeated for the entire season and ended this season in third place nationwide. In his final year 2011, he played with his team in the Dallas Cup Super Group , another important international youth tournament.

Change to UNC Wilmington

In the academic year 2011, VanCompernolles moved to the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in Wilmington , North Carolina , where, in addition to his studies, he was also active in the men's soccer team of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks sports department . In his first year under the former professional Aidan Heaney , VanCompernolle acted, as he was used to from high school times, as a regular player in the defense line. In his freshman year he was used in 16 of his 18 championship appearances right from the start and this year contributed two goals and as many assists. An individual honor this year was, among other things, the election for the CAA -Rookie-of-the-Week in week 37 and the presentation of the Johnny Miller Memorial Award . In his sophomore year 2012 he started from the beginning in all of his 19 championship appearances; he got three hits. Other honors the 1.80 m wide defender mainly came from his junior year in 2013 when he, among others, the All-CAA First Team and the All- NCCSIA team -First was chosen and also the tournament Wolstein Soccer Classic was honored. In all of his 17 games he was a starter and only missed 19 minutes of action in this game year, in which he also contributed one goal and three assists.

Especially his senior year 2014, in which he started from the beginning in all 20 of his missions and scored two goals, as well as prepared another four for his teammates, was characterized by individual successes. With the team he made it to the second round of the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship after defeating Bucknell University in the first round game . In round two, however, the team was eliminated 1: 3 against the team from the University of Virginia from the current tournament. VanCompernolle was again elected to the All-CAA-First-Team and the All-NCCSIA-First-Team this year and was also named CAA-Defensive-Player-of-the-Year . Other significant honors were the elections for the NSCAA Scholar All America selection, the Capital One Acedmic All District selection and the NSCAA Midwest All Region First Team . He was a letterman for all of his four years at college and was named one of TopDrawerSoccer.com's 100 best players of the year (postseason) nationwide . In addition to his college career, VanCompernolle was also used in North American amateur football during the free time at the university and, among other things, completed 14 championship games for Ottawa Fury in the USL PDL , as well as another ten league games for GPS Portland Phoenix the following year in the same year League. In 2013 he helped the Canadians to the championship title in the USL-PDL-Northeast Division .

Start into professional football

After unsuccessful trial training at the two major league soccer franchises New England Revolution and Colorado Rapids , VanCompernolles' path led to Oklahoma City , where he was signed by Oklahoma City Energy on February 11, 2015. He then made his competitive debut in professional football on March 29, 2015 in a 1-1 away draw against the Tulsa Roughnecks , when he was on the lawn from the start and for the full game. Subsequently, he acted under coach Jimmy Nielsen exclusively as a regular in the defense line, where he had made 23 championship appearances by the end of the season and - little for a defender - received only one yellow card . He finished the 2015 game year with the team in regular time in second place in the Western Conference - tied with the first place, Orange County Blues FC . As a result, the team was qualified for the subsequent conference semifinals , in which they only made it to the conference finals on penalties . There, the team trained by the former Danish junior national player finally lost 2-1 to LA Galaxy II and thus did not make it into the final of the season for the championship title. Before the start of the 2016 game year , VanCompernolle moved to one of the league's five new franchises, the Kansas City , Missouri- based Swope Park Rangers . With the second professional team from Sporting Kansas City , which is used by the same as a farm and development team, he was then also used as a regular player until mid-June 2016. Right at the start of the season he was able to convince with his defensive work, which is why he was elected to the USL Team of the Week in the second week of the game . He then switched back to his former franchise in Oklahoma City on loan at the end of June 2016, where he again acted as a regular under Nielsen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Men’s Soccer Honors and Awards , accessed on October 25, 2016
  2. ↑ More honors for Dell, VanCompernolle , accessed October 29, 2016
  3. ↑ College Soccer Player Rankings - National || Men's National Top 100 || Postseason , accessed October 29, 2016
  4. ↑ Defender Jacob Van Compernolle to Join the Revolution for Preseason , accessed October 29, 2016
  5. ^ Oklahoma City Energy FC signs Jacob VanCompernolle , accessed October 29, 2016
  6. ↑ VanCompernolle Highlights Rangers' New Additions ( Memento of March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 29, 2016
  7. ↑ Energy FC Acquires VanCompernolle on loan from Rangers , accessed October 29, 2016
personal data
SURNAME VanCompernolle, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES VanCompernolle, Jacob Leon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Dallas , Texas , United States