Sebastian Stacey
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I have a strong and long track record, I have played club soccer since age 6, as a player and a team leader on a variety of different kinds of soccer teams: national teams, school teams, and regional club teams. I have been the captain or co- captain of five different teams, including my current high school team, as well as the Berlin club teams Hertha 03 and RSV Eintracht. I was one of the twenty two young players nationwide to be selected to play on the top roster of the Czech National team. Last year as well as this year I was named most valuable player for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons at the spring ceremony of 2013. In spring 2014 I was accepted to become a member of the Kaptiva Soccer Academy in Barcelona, Spain, where I will train under proffessional coaches for the whole of the 2014-2015 season. The more I play, the more I want to continue playing and improving my feet. I am a team player, well respected by my teammates, as evidenced by their repeated selection of me as their captain. My specific strengths on the field are passing, vision, tactical awareness, tackling and what my coaches have referred to as “football intelligence,� the ability to read the game and spot channels through which to play the ball. In recent years I have been working on speed and explosion and have enjoyed the experience of progressing and developing in those areas.
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Personal info & Academics
Date of birth: Citizen: Sex: Height: Weight: NCAA Clearinghouse No.
05.30.1996 Czech Republic Male 1.89m 165lbs 1308436641
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High school: Berlin Brandenburg International School Graduation: 2015
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SAT: Date of test is 07/06/2014 College education goals: My academic goals are to learn as much as I can about the body and mind, its functions. In the future I want to be a soccer player and I need to know what my body needs and how I can provide this to my body. I need to know what muscles are which and what helps them recover the best.I also need to know how to stay motivated and mentally strong as an athlete. This is why I would want to study either Sports psychology or Sports Physiotherapy, I would like to get a Masters in one of these fields.
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“I have been encouraged in recent years to witness soccer’s popularity and prominence in the US edge a little closer to the near-monopolistic level of popularity it enjoys in Europe. I am eager to take what I have learned from my 12 years of playing highly competitive club soccer in Europe and to apply it in the university context of the United States.”
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“While I have spent part of my life living in the Czech Republic, I have never resided in my other homeland, the USA. My hope is that the college experience, the soccer opportunities, and the world-leading level of university education available in the US could help me fulfill some or all of my life dreams, in particular that of becoming a physiotherapist (in sports medicine or otherwise) and even of playing soccer professionally in the US after college.�
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Sebastian Stacey
Athletic Information Sport:
Soccer
Current coach:
Mr. Marcus Gallinat Mr. Jay Randall
Achievements
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• Czech National Team: • Coca Cola Academy 2011 to 2013 ◦ One of forty players nationwide, and one of the top twenty two of those to be selected for the 2011 Coca Cola Czech National Youth Team, Top Roster. Trains once a month with national team candidates under Jakub Dovalil, Czech National Team Manager. • School Teams: ◦ Captain of 2013-2014 BBIS Varsity Football Team – 1st in GISST (German International School Sports Tournament) and 3rd in ESC(European School Competition). Most Valuable Player of the Season ◦ 2012-2013 BBIS Varsity Football Team, 7th in GISST (German International School Sports Tournament), starting CB. Most Valuable Player of the Season • Club Teams: ◦ Hertha 03 Under 96 (historically #2 club in Berlin Region) ■ 2012-2013 ◦ Sparta Prague Youth (historically, #1 club in Czech Republic) ▪ 2009-2010 – Champions of Czech Republic ▪ 2008-2009 – Champions of Czech Republic ▪ 2007-2008 – Champions of Czech Republic ◦ Co-Captain of 2011-2012 FK Motorlet, Under 96 ◦ 2013-2014 RSV EIntracht Under 94 ◦ 2006-2007 Aritma Praha under 94, under 95 and under 96 ◦ Under 95 Division Champions, First team Left Midfield, Captain ▪ Under 96, First Team Central Midfield, Captain ▪ Under 94, First Team Left Back ▪ Most Valuable Player, Stresovice International Tournament Athletes USA | Sebastian Stacey | 06
Interview
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What makes you different? My family background and personal history have motivated my decision to pursue a life studying and playing soccer as a college student in the United States of America. I have a complex intersectional identity--soccer player, student, brother, son, half-Czech, half-American, part German high school student--and one important “section� of that identity is my Americanness, instilled in me through my upbringing. My mother is Czech but my father is American.
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Why do you want to compete in college? I want to compete in college to be able to do what I love, to play soccer and study at the same time. I have been trying to balance these two areas from early on in my life.
 US colleges are unique in allowing athletes to do sports and study in one place. College goals?
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My college goals will be to be a successful and positive learner in class and try to take in as much as I can. While out on the sports field where I have more confidence I will want to show what I am made of and compete to be the number 1 athlete in the college. Life goals?
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My main life goal is to be a professional soccer player and one day either represent the Czech Republic or the USA, in a World Cup. I would also like to contribute to sport in the future as a sports psychologist or physiotherapist and perhaps as a coach.
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