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Jersey Number 29
Bjarki Aðalsteinsson
- Year:
- Senior
- Position:
- Defense
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-4 / 194
- Hometown:
- Kópavogur, Iceland
- High School:
- Menntaskólinn í Kópavogi
- Previous:
- Breidablik
- Major:
- Sport and Recreation Management
Career Highlights:
2015 as a Senior:
2014 as a Junior:
2013 as a Sophomore:
2012 as a Freshman:
High school and club:
Personal:
- Started all 74 games he played in
- Scored three goals and two assists for eight points
- Earned First Team All-CAA as a freshman and junior
- Named Second Team All-CAA after his sophomore year
- Took home All-CAA Third Team as a senior
- College Soccer News' All-Freshman Second Team after 2012 season
2015 as a Senior:
- Preseason All-CAA selection
- Third Team All-CAA
- CAA All-Tournament Team
- Started in all 19 games this season
- Played a total of 1,791 minutes on the season
- Scored one goal which came in JMU's 3-1 victory over William & Mary on Oct. 14
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Award
- JMU Athletic Director Scholar-Athlete Award
2014 as a Junior:
- Started all 21 games he played in
- Notched one assist for one point
- Assisted on JMU’s lone goal Oct. 18 in a 2-1 loss to Hofstra
- Played every minute in 20 of the 21 games he played in
- Earned First Team All-CAA honors
- Named to the CAA All-Tournament Team
- Notched Co-CAA Player of the Week honors Oct. 13
- Earned Preseason All-CAA honors
- Named a VaSID First Team All-State performer
- Named to the preseason and midseason editions of TopDrawerSoccer.com’s Top 20 in the CAA (#6)
- Named to the postseason edition of TopDrawerSoccer.com’s Top 20 in the CAA (#7)
- Named Most Outstanding Player at the Belmont Invitational Sept. 14
- Named to the Belmont Invitational All-Tournament Team
- JMU Athletic Director Scholar-Athlete Award
2013 as a Sophomore:
- Started all 15 games he played in
- Second Team All-CAA
- JMU Invitational All-Tournament Team
- Scored a goal in a 6-1 win over VMI
- JMU Athletic Director Scholar Athlete
- CAA Commissioner's Academic Award
2012 as a Freshman:
- Started all 19 games he played in
- College Soccer News All-Freshman Second Team
- All-Conference (CAA) First Team
- CAA All-Rookie Team
- CAA All-Tournament Team
- ECAC Player of the Week and CAA Rookie of the Week Sept. 16 (defensive play in shutout against UNC and win over Hofstra)
- Hokie Invitational All-Tournament Team (Aug. 24 & 26)
- JMU Athletic Director Scholar Athlete
- JMU Team's Co-Most Valuable Defensive Player
- JMU Team's Co-Rookie of the Year
High school and club:
- Played for Breidablik team that won the national championship of ages 17-19 in 2008 and was runner-up in 2010
- Breidablik won PEPSI League national championship in Iceland 2010
- Team captain of Breidablik in 2010
- Breidablik player of the year in 2009 and 2010
- Honored for top score in social sciences and history at his high school
Personal:
- Bjarki Aðalsteinsson
- Majoring in sports and recreation management
- His father, Aðalsteinn, is a former professional team handball player in Germany and former member of the Iceland National Team (team handball is the national sport of Iceland)
- His brother, Arnór, is a right back who is currently a professional soccer player in Norway (playing for Honefoss in the Norwegian Tippeliga) and has played for the Iceland National Team and Iceland national youth teams
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