{"id":40465,"date":"2025-12-04T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=40465"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:38:39","slug":"hutzell-named-to-top-drawer-soccer-national-team-of-the-week-ahead-of-paladins-elite-eight-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/hutzell-named-to-top-drawer-soccer-national-team-of-the-week-ahead-of-paladins-elite-eight-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Hutzell named to Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week ahead of Paladins\u2019 Elite Eight match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furman University\u2019s Luke Hutzell<\/a> \u201928 was picked for the Top Drawer<\/a> Soccer National Team of the Week on Dec. 2 after leading the Paladins into the NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Soccer Championship quarterfinals this past weekend.<\/p>\n

No. 16 seed Furman bested Hofstra University<\/a> in penalty kicks Nov. 30, and will face No. 8 seed University of Portland in the Elite Eight on Friday. Kickoff is at 10 p.m. EST at Merlo Field in Portland, Oregon. Click here<\/a> to buy tickets, or watch online<\/a> through ESPN.<\/p>\n

Furman\u2019s players come from all backgrounds and have equally diverse futures ahead of them. Here are a few of the players who made waves in their last match against Hofstra University:<\/p>\n

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Diego Hernandez ’27<\/p><\/div>\n

Diego Hernandez \u2013 Midfielder<\/h3>\n

Hometown: Mesquite, Texas<\/p>\n

Class: Junior<\/p>\n

Major: Politics and International Affairs<\/p>\n

SoCon Player of the Year 2025<\/p>\n

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Luke Hutzell ’28<\/p><\/div>\n

Luke Hutzell \u2013 Midfielder<\/h3>\n

Hometown: Dacula, Georgia<\/p>\n

Class: Sophomore<\/p>\n

Major: Undeclared, pursuing major in Business Administration<\/p>\n

Second Team All-SoCon selection and SoCon All-Freshman choice in 2024<\/p>\n

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Wilfer Bustamante ’28<\/p><\/div>\n

Wilfer Bustamante \u2013 Forward<\/h3>\n

Hometown: Greenville, South Carolina<\/p>\n

Class: Sophomore<\/p>\n

Major: Undeclared, pursuing major in Business Administration<\/p>\n

Second team All-Southern Conference and selected to SoCon All-Freshman Team in 2024<\/p>\n

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Ivan Horvat ’28<\/p><\/div>\n

Ivan Horvat \u2013 Goalkeeper<\/h3>\n

Hometown: Bratislava, Slovakia<\/p>\n

Class: Redshirt freshman<\/p>\n

Major: Undeclared, pursuing dual major in Mathematics and Economics<\/p>\n

SoCon Goalkeeper of the Year 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Furman squares off against No. 8 seed Portland on Friday at Merlo Field in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":401,"featured_media":40421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,46,50,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-business-and-accounting","category-economics","category-mathematics","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40465"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40488,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465\/revisions\/40488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}