When the Georgetown men’s soccer team opened training camp in August, Coach Brian Wiese told his top two goalkeeping prospects they would share the starting job until one nosed ahead.
That never happened, and over the course of a one-loss season, they have continued to alternate, victory after victory, shutout after shutout.
In Charlottesville, there was never any question about the starter: Colin Shutler, whose 2018 postseason was cut short by a concussion, has played every minute of every match during Virginia’s nearly immaculate campaign, even though his older, more experienced brother joined the squad this fall and an ankle injury threatened to shelve him last weekend in the NCAA tournament quarterfinals.