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When it comes to talented goalkeepers, it’s hard to imagine Marcus Hahnemann being at the bottom of anyone’s list.
But as he entered his freshman year at Seattle Pacific in the late summer of 1990, that’s precisely where he was in the Falcons’ pecking order.
To no one’s surprise, Hahnemann didn’t stay there for long. By the fifth game of that season, he was the starter, and he stayed there through his acclaim-filled career that culminated as a senior with a 1-0 victory against Southern Connecticut State in the NCAA Division II national championship game.
Through his four seasons in maroon, Hahnemann played in 78 of 83 games, totaling nearly 7,500 minutes of action. Of those 78 games, he kept the other team off the board in 46 of them.
That was just the beginning, Hahnemann went on to a distinguished 20-year pro career that started in 1994 with the A-League Seattle Sounders, finished in 2014 with the MLS edition of the Sounders, and in between included 14 years in England and nine appearances with the U.S. Men’s National Team.
“Dogged, dedicated without any necessary tension or the usual semblance or expression of someone who is that determined,” legendary SPU coach Cliff McCrath once said of Hahnamann. “He was always the joy of the team.”
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (1990-93)
• King of the shutout at SPU, with 46 for his career, a streak of 10 in a row in 1991, and a stretch of 944 straight minutes, also in 1991.
• Three-time All-America, All-Region, and All-Conference player.
• Intercollegiate Soccer Association of America Defensive MVP in 1993.
• First professional team was the Seattle Sounders of the A-League from 1994-96, helped team win league titles in 1995 and 1996.
