Winning its fifth regular season title in six years, Judson has now won 20 conference championships under Steve Burke. This was his seventh CCAC regular season title at Judson. Judson has won six CCAC tournament championships along with seven NIIC championships.

Judson claimed the 2009 regular season championship with an 8-2 record. They finished with 24 points and were two points ahead of St. Xavier.

For the sixth time in the history of the men's soccer program at Judson, they claimed a NCCAA National Championship. Judson went 2-0-1 in the national tournament and held off Indiana Wesleyan, 4-3, for the national championship. Judson started off the tournament with a 1-1 tie to Palm Beach Atlantic but advanced with a 5-3 shootout win. They then defeated Mid-America Christian, 2-0, and moved onto the championship game for the 4-3 win over Indiana Wesleyan.

Judson has now won NCCAA National Championships in 2009, 2002, 1997, 1995, 1992, 1991. Judson is now 29-9 in the NCCAA National Tournament and has won eight-straight matches that date through the 2002 and 1999 seasons. Judson has played in 13 NCCAA National Tournaments in Steve Burke's 26 years.

Two players earned academic awards for the 2009 season in Sven Moeller and Gustavo Oliveira. Moeller was a NAIA and NCCAA scholar-athlete along with being on the CCAC All-Academic team. Oliveira earned a spot on the CCAC All-Academic team.

For the third year in a row, Gustavo Oliveira was named a NAIA All-American. He is now only the second men's soccer player to earn three NAIA All-American awards. He joins Kelly Findley as the only three-time NAIA All-American. It was also the sixth year in a row that Judson has had somebody named to the NAIA All-American list.

He led the team with 16 assists and 36 points and was second on the team with 10 goals. He played in 21 matches starting 14 and had a season-high two goals against Taylor University and Robert Morris.

Picking up his first All-American award, goalie Alex Tyton was a NCCAA All-American first-team selection. In the 23 matches played, he came away with nine shutouts and had 98 saves with a 0.89 goals against average. Judson won 13 of their last 15 matches with six of the matches being shutouts. He now has 15 career shutouts at Judson in two years.

By winning the NCCAA National Championship, Judson brought home several individual awards. Judson had three players on the All-Tournament team and two named the most valuable player. Gustavo Oliveira, Alex Tyton, and Rafa Heck were all named to the All-Tournament team. Oliveira was then named the Tournament MVP and Tyton was the Tournament Defensive MVP.

Three players earned NCCAA All-Region honors for their play in Alex Tyton, Sven Moeller, and Rafa Heck. It is the second time that Tyton has received the award as Moeller and Heck are on the team for the first time. Heck played and started in 19 matches and had nine goals and six assists. Moeller led the team with 11 goals and finished with 10 assists while being second on the team in points (32).

Two players earned the NCCAA National Player of the Week in Alex Tyton and Sven Moeller. Tyton won the award first on September 1st and then Moeller took the award on October 19th.

Tyton had a combined nine saves in two matches with six against Northwestern College and three vs. Spring Arbor. Judson defeated Northwestern, 1-0, on Friday, and the Spring Arbor, 3-0, on Saturday in the Judson Invitational. Moeller earned the award by kicking in the security goal in a key CCAC win over Cardinal Stritch, 3-1. In a 3-0 win over Holy Cross, he provided two of the three goals scoring both of them in the first 10 minutes of the match.

CCAC Players of the week

Gustavo Oliveira finished his career with 50 assists which put him at 5th all-time at Judson. He had 16 assists in his final year at Judson and provided 21 in his first year and 13 last year. He finished three assists in front of Kelly Findley. Oliveira is also in the single season top 10 for assists as he had 21 in the 2008 season. He finishes his career with 29 goals and 108 points.

Individually, Judson had five players finish in the top five of several different categories. Gustavo Oliveria was first in assists (16), second in shots (73) and points (36), and fourth in goals (10). Sven Moeller was third in goals (11) and goals per game (0.50), fourth in shots (71), and fifth in assists (7). Rafa Heck finished fifth in goals (9) and sixth in assists (6) while Martin Khoshaba was second in assists (8). Alex Tyton was second in shutouts (9) and third in goals against average (0.89), save % (.831), and saves (98).

Individually, Gustavo Oliveira was in three categories being top five in two of them. He was third in assists (16), fifth in assists per game (0.76), and 22nd in points (36).

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