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Jersey Number 12
Melker Anshelm
- Year:
- Redshirt Senior
- Position:
- Defender
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-2 / 180
- Hometown:
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Previous:
- Oestra Reals Gymnasium
- Major:
- Media Arts & Design and Communications
As a Redshirt Senior (2022):
- All-State Second Team
- Sun Belt All-Tournament Team
- Ranked 45th in TopDrawerSoccer's Midseason Top 100
- Sits sixth in all-time career starts at 77 in JMU history
- Eclipsed 6,000 career minutes at 6,441
- Played in and started in 20 matches
- Recorded an assist against Gardner-Webb (10/8)
- Logged a season-high 1782 minutes
- Took seven shots with three on goal
- JMU Athletic Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2022)
- CAA Preseason Defensive Player of the Year
- MAC Hermann Trophy Watch List
- All-CAA First Team
- VaSID All-State First Team
- All-Atlantic Region Second Team
- Ranked 61st in TopDrawerSoccer's Preseason Top 100
- Ranked 1st in TopDrawerSoccer's Preseason CAA Top 20
- Ranked 63rd in TopDrawerSoccer's Midseason Top 100
- CAA Defensive Player of the Week (9/20 & 9/27)
- College Soccer News National Team of the Week (9/27)
- TopDrawerSoccer National Team of the Week (9/28)
- Appeared and started in 12 games.
- Recorded an assist vs. Elon and scored against George Mason (9/7) and Virginia (9/21) for five points.
- The overtime game-winner against Virginia gave JMU its first win over UVA in 40 years.
- Took six shots during the season with four on goal.
- Dean's List (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall 2021, Spring 2022)
- All-CAA First Team
- All-VaSID First Team
- United Soccer Coaches All-Atlantic Region First Team
- CAA All-Tournament Team
- Ranked 79th in TopDrawer Soccer's Postseason Top 100
- CAA Co-Defensive Player of the Week (4/12)
- TopDrawer Soccer Team of the Week (4/12)
- Started and played in all nine games.
- Scored a goal and recorded an assist.
- Took five shots with two on goal.
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Honor Roll (Fall '20, Spring '21)
- Dean's List (Fall '20 & Spring '21)
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall '20, Spring '21)
- Second Team All-CAA
- 2019 CAA All-Tournament Team
- Played in 21 games and earned the start in 19
- Scored his first goal of the season against Drexel [9/28]
- Recorded 1718 minutes played this season
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Fall '19, Spring '20)
- Named to the CAA All-Rookie Team
- Scored his first collegiate goal against Navy on 10/17 which was also a game-winning goal
- Notched his first collegiate assist against Delaware on 9/26
- Named CAA Rookie of the Week on 9/17, 10/15, 10/22
- Honorable Mention on Top Drawer's Team of the Week (10/22)
- Made his first collegiate start against Gardner-Webb on 8/24
- JMU Athletics Director's Scholar-Athlete (Spring '19)
- Played for Sundbybergs IK (2016-2018)
- Competed for Brommapojkarna IF's U17 and U19 teams (2011-2016)
- Melker Ingeman Anshelm
- Son of Magnus and Rigmor Ingemansson Anshelm
- Majoring in Marketing
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