With 10 days to go before the start of the collegiate men’s soccer season, the Big East announced the 2016 preseason awards on Wednesday afternoon.
The big news for Marquette fans is redshirt senior center back John Pothast was named to the 12 man preseason all-Big East team. In addition to that, Marquette finished tied with St. John’s for seventh place in the poll of the league’s coaches on the expected order of finish this season.
Pothast has started every single match he’s appeared in for Marquette in his three active seasons for Marquette, and he’s just missed one contest in that time.