2022 Men's Soccer Roster
Jersey Number 4
Aaron Denk Gracia
- Position:
- Defender
- Height:
- 6-3
- Weight:
- 200
- Class:
- Fifth Year
- Hometown:
- Mannheim, Germany
- High School:
- Liselotte-Gymnasium Mannheim
- Prev School:
- Mercy College
2022 (Fifth Year)
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Second Team
- College Sports Communicators Academic All-District
- Started 17 games for the Mountaineers
- Logged 1,437 minutes
- Finished the year with one goal and one assist
- Scored a goal against American (Sept. 6)
- Tallied an assist in win at Old Dominion (Oct. 8)
- Contributed to six shutouts on the back line
2021 (Senior)
- CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
- Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award
- CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team
- Academic All-MAC
- Academic All-Big 12 At-Large First Team
- TopDrawerSoccer Team of the Week (Oct. 5)
- Played in all 21 games, with 20 starts
- Finished with 1,821 minutes played
- Collected two assists to go along with 13 shots (five on goal)
- Helped back line post nine clean sheets on the year
- Played 90 or more minutes 15 times
- Assisted on WVU’s first goal of the season on Aug. 26, at Robert Morris
- Also recorded a helper against Penn State on Sept. 3
- Posted a season-best four shots at Lehigh (Oct. 5)
2020-21 (Junior)
- Academic All-MAC Team
- Played in nine matches, all of them starts, in 815 total minutes
- Finished with one shot on the year
- Logged all 90 minutes in his WVU debut on Feb. 26, at Charlotte
- Played every minute of seven different matches
- Helped the Mountaineer back line tally six clean sheets on the season
2018-19 – Mercy College
- Named Second Team All-Region by United Soccer Coaches and D2CCA
- All-ECC First Team as a sophomore
- CoSIDA Academic All-District
- Earned ECC Men’s Soccer Elite 19 Award
- ECC Defensive Player of the Week (Sept. 19)
- Started all 21 games as a sophomore, recording one goal and one assist for a total of three points
- Also appeared in 17 games as a freshman, making 16 starts
- Named All-ECC Third Team as a freshman
High School
- Attended Liselotte-Gymnasium Mannheim
- Played his club soccer with the SV Waldhof Mannheim 07 for coach Serkan Secerli
Personal
- Son of Oliver Denk and Isabel Gracia
- Has one sister
- Birthday is August 5
- Earned bachelor’s degree in general business in May 2022
- Currently pursuing master’s degree in business administration
- President’s List
- Dean’s List
- Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll
- Garrett Ford Academic Honor Roll
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