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Highfield Adds to Honors, Named United Soccer Coaches All-American

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Portland Pilots forward Joe Highfield was named a United Soccer Coaches All-American on Friday, making the third team. He becomes the 12th Pilot in program history to earn United Soccer Coaches All-American honors and the ninth to earn any kind of All-American honors since Nick Carlin-Voigt took the helm in 2016.
 
Highfield adds to the long list of honors he's received this year, having been named an All-West Region First Team selection by United Soccer Coaches earlier this year – a first for the striker – and All-WCC First Team honors. Highfield also made the WCC All-Academic First Team and was a CSC Academic All-District selection, becoming the first Pilot ever to win all four honors in the same season.
 
Highfield led the offense for Portland, scoring a team-high 11 goals with five assists for 27 points. He ranked second in the conference this year in both goals and points, ranking 19th and 18th nationally in those respective categories. His four game-winning goals also ranked 15th nationally. He's posted 18 goals in two years with the Pilots, the most in the first two years of play for a Portland player since Benji Michel (2016-17).
 
Portland put together one of the best seasons in program history this year. Their 14-2-4 record gave them their best winning percentage since 1988 (.800) and helped them earn the 8-seed in the NCAA Tournament. It's the third time in program history the Pilots have earned the first-round bye and the second time under Carlin-Voigt. They advanced to the Elite Eight for the second time under Carlin-Voigt and third time since 1995.
 
The Pilots ranked as high as first in the United Soccer Coaches Top 25 poll, their first time atop those rankings and the first time atop any poll since 1992. They were one of the best teams statistically this season, third in assists (56), fourth in assists per game (2.75), fifth in goal differential (31), sixth in win-lost-tied percentage (.800) and team goals-against average (.624), seventh in points (142) and points per game (7.05), 12th in total goals (43) and 13th in goals per game (2.15). Their 56 assists broke a program record set two years prior. 
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