Shawn McLaws

Shawn McLaws
Shawn McLaws in 2015
Personnel
birthday	March 9, 1993
place of birth	Edmond , Oklahoma ,  USA
size	178 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Edmond Soccer Club 93
	Celtic 93 Club Team
	Deer Creek High School
2011-2014	Coastal Carolina University
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013-2014	Ocean City Nor'easters	24 (5)
2015	New York Red Bulls	0 (0)
2015	New York Red Bulls II	23 (1)
2016–	Harrisburg City Islanders	9 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: May 24, 2016

Shawn McLaws (born March 9, 1993 in Edmond , Oklahoma ) is an American football player in the position of defensive player . Since February 2016 he has been part of the Harrisburg City Islanders squad with play operations in the third-rate North American United Soccer League .

Career

Career start at home

Shawn McLaws was born on March 9, 1993 in the city of Edmond, part of Oklahoma County and the metropolitan area of Oklahoma City , in the US state of Oklahoma. On a club basis, he began his football career at Edmond Soccer Club 93 , with which he won the 2005 Oklahoma State Championship . A year later he was with his team in the final of the Oklahoma State Championship , but could not win it. He also played, especially during his high school years, at club level for the Celtic 93 Club Team , with whom he was three times in the USYSA State Finals and even made it into the USYSA Regional Quarter Finals in 2010 . He was also a member of the Celtic 93 team, which won the Region III Championship in 2009 and became USYSA ODP National Runner-Up . He was also a member of an ODP that toured Argentina . He spent his high school years at the same time at Deer Creek High School in his birthplace and hometown, where he also belonged to the school's football department. Under his coach there, Zach Stephens, he was a four-time letterman and achieved various individual successes, mainly due to his offensive strength. In his freshman year with the Deer Creek Antlers , he contributed ten goals and two assists to make it into the Oklahoma State semifinals and was voted Deer Creek High School Rookie of the Year at the end of the season. A year later he became one of the most dangerous players and was voted Deer Creek High School Offensive Player of the Year with 24 hits in his sophomore year and was in the all-district selection. With a further 24 goals and ten assists in his junior year, he again won the award for Deer Creek High School Offensive Player of the Year and was again in the all-district selection. That year he also won the District 2 Championship with the Antlers . Also in his final senior year, McLaws made another strong attack.

Transfer to Coastal Carolina University

Game year 2011

In 2011 he enrolled at Coastal Carolina University in Conway , South Carolina , not far from the Atlantic coast . He also joined the men's soccer team of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers sports department , where he was transformed into a defensive force. Under Shaun Docking , who has been coaching since 1998 and is only the fourth coach in the football team's history since 1978, he was used in 20 championship games in his freshman year, of which he started in 15. He remained goalless himself, but prepared six goals for his teammates, including assists for two game- winning goals scored by the future Brazilian professional Pedro Ribeiro . Because of his performance, he was on the 2011/12 Big South Presidential Honor Roll , the list of honor for the best students of the Big South Conference . In the 2011 game year, the Chanticleers finished the regular season in first place and moved into the subsequent Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament 2011 , where the team, however, lost in the semi-finals of Liberty University . In the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2011 , the team did not get past the second round of Regional 1 , although they had the most dangerous player in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Season 2011 with the Jamaican Ashton Bennett .

Game year 2012

Also in his sophomore year, McLaws, who achieved a 3.0 GPA , was on the Big South Presidential Honor Roll . This year he and his team were voted nationwide best team of the week (week 43) by Top Drawer Soccer, among others . This year he was mostly used as a right winger and contributed five assists in 25 championship appearances, including a game-winning goal from future professional Ricky Garbanzo . He gave a total of 28 shots on the opposing goal, whereas he made only three shots on goal in 2011; another record in his college career. In his team he was only one of three players who started in all 25 league games from the start; he himself played in 19 games over the full length of the game. Unbeaten in the Conference which took Chanticleer at Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament 2012 in part in November 2012, where it only in the final 1: 2 against the Winthrop Eagles from Winthrop University were eliminated. In the subsequent NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2012 , which was played between November and December 2012, the team did not get past the third round of Regional 4 , when the Maryland Terrapins from the University of Maryland, College Park with 1: 5 was subject.

Game year 2013

He rose to become one of the most successful players at the Conference in the following 2013 game year, when he was even named Big South Defensive Player of the Year . Here he was in all 23 championship games from the start, in which he contributed two assists and was voted twice for the Big South Defensive Player of the Week and once for the College Soccer News National Team of the Week . The consistently strong defensive line allowed only 20 goals against in a total of 24 games; Furthermore, the team had twelve shutouts , i.e. twelve games without conceding, which is the third highest number in the history of the football program. In the regular season alone, the Chanticleers received only five goals. After he had already emerged with the team first in regular time, he won with the team even the Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament in 2013 and came in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in 2013 until the third round, where he met the Team led by Shaun Docking was eliminated in the third round against the California Golden Bears from the University of California, Berkeley . In addition to the aforementioned election for Big South Defensive Player of the Year , his individual successes this season also included elections for the NSCAA All-South Atlantic Region Second Team , the All-Big South First Team , the Big South All-Tournament Team , as well as the CollegeSportsMadness.com All-Big South Second Team . In the free time at the university he was active with the Ocean City Nor'easters with game operations in the USL PDL , where he scored twice in eleven league games. With the team he came in the final standings to the first place of the Mid Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference and came, after winning the two games of the Eastern Conference Championship , to the semi-finals of the champions play-offs, where the team against 0: 1 the later master Austin Aztex was defeated.

Game year 2014

In his last year of study, the senior year, Shawn McLaws showed his defensive strength and was often used by the coach in various positions during a game, which made him the most versatile player of the Chanticleers . As in previous years, he started in all championship games of his team in 2014. In the 21 games he also managed his only competitive goal in his college career, which he scored with a penalty in a game against the High Point Panthers from High Point University , and contributed a total of four assists. With two points behind the Radford Highlanders from Radford University , he finished the regular season with the team in second place in the table. After that, he and the team also won the Big South Conference Men's Soccer Tournament 2014 , after which he and the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers were eliminated in the second round of Regional 4 of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2014 against the Clemson Tigers from Clemson University . The individual successes of the defensive player, who was used again for the Ocean City Nor'easters in the USL PDL during the free time at the university and scored three goals in 13 league games as team captain and prepared another, counted this year among others the elections for the NSCAA All-South Atlantic Region First Team , the All-Big South First Team , and the CollegeSportsMadness.com All-Big South First Team . He was also named College Soccer News Third Team All-American and again named Big South Defensive Player of the Year . Furthermore, McLaws, who was voted Big South Preseason Defensive Player of the Year early on , was, as in the previous year, also in 2014 in the Big South All-Tournament Team .

The Chanticleers regular player has played a total of 89 championship games over the course of his college career, making him the second-most-appearances player in Coastal Carolina University's football history. Of the 89 games, he was in the starting line-up in 84, which made him the third-largest player from the start in the history of the university. He missed only three games in the course of his college career due to injury and was in all the remaining games with the game. He completed his studies with a bachelor's degree in sports management .

Start into professional football

In the third round of the 2015 MLS SuperDraft , he came to the New York Red Bulls as the 59th pick . He made his first appearance for the MLS franchise on February 21, 2015 in a preparatory game for the 2015 game year against Oklahoma City Energy . McLaws was then officially signed on March 5, 2015. In order to collect match practice, the defensive player was awarded to the newly formed reserve team New York Red Bulls II with play in the third-rate North American professional league United Soccer League . He made his professional debut on April 4, 2015 in the second game of the season, a 4-1 win over Toronto FC II , when he was on the pitch right from the start and scored the goal to take the 2-0 lead in the 39th minute of the game. In the United Soccer League 2015 he was used by ex-professional John Wolyniec in 23 of the 28 possible league games and acted exclusively as a regular player, in 20 of these games he was on the lawn for the full game. At the end of the season, the New York Red Bulls II ranked fourth in the Eastern Conference and thus made it into the final play-offs . In these, McLaws was also in all games of his team in action, the team made it to the Conference semifinals, where it was defeated by the Rochester Rhinos 2-0. A week before his professional debut, he was in the third round of Major League Soccer on the bench of the MLS franchise, but was without a job. Between the beginning of July and the beginning of August 2015, he was five more times in a row unused on the bench in the highest North American football league.

Switch to the Harrisburg City Islanders

After the New York Red Bulls announced the dismissal of Shawn McLaws on February 12, 2016, he was subsequently placed with the Harrisburg City Islanders from the USL. With the Islanders, he made his competitive debut in the first game of the season of 2016 , when he was on the field for the full game in the 1: 3 away defeat against the Richmond Kickers . To date (as of May 25, 2016) he was a regular player in all nine championship games under coach Bill Becher and played for the full duration of the game.

Web links

• Shawn McLaws on the official website of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
• Shawn McLaws on the official Ocean City Nor'easters website
• Shawn McLaws on the official Harrisburg City Islanders website
• Shawn McLaws in the MLSSoccer.com database
• Shawn McLaws in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shawn McLaws Named Nor'easters Captain For 2014 Season ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on May 25, 2016 
2. ↑ Shawn McLaws Selected By NY Red Bulls in MLS Supplemental Draft , accessed May 25, 2016
3. ↑ MATCH RECAP: Red Bulls 1, OKC FC 0 (English), accessed on May 25, 2016
4. ↑ New York Red Bulls add trio to initial 2015 roster , accessed on May 25, 2016
5. ↑ Red Bulls II Earn First Victory, Down TFCII ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on May 25, 2016
6. ↑ New York Red Bulls Waive Defender Shawn McLaws (English), accessed on May 25, 2016