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2025 Men's Soccer Roster

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9 Dereck Espinal

  • Position Forward
  • Ht./Wt. 6-0 /
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Austin, Texas
  • Prev School Kipp Austin Collegiate (Texas A&M International)

Biography

At Midwestern State

Individual Honors

All-Lone Star Conference (1): 2023 (2nd)

Redshirt Senior (2025)

Scored five goals and provided four assists over 17 games… Recorded 34 shots, with 15 on goal… Scored a goal from a free kick against Southern Nazarene on Sept. 20… Registered a goal and an assist in the match against Stanislaus State on Nov. 30 in the third round of the NCAA tournament… Scored the game-winning goal and added an assist against Point Loma on Dec. 6 in the NCAA Quarterfinals… Tallied a goal in the match against Southern New Hampshire on Dec. 12 in the NCAA national semi-final… Contributed an assist in the game against Rollins on Dec. 14 in the NCAA national championship… Accumulated 725 minutes on the field

Sophomore (2023)

started 16 of the 20 matches in which he appeared… finished the season with three goals and one assist… scored game-winning goal in the 26th minute of a 3-0 win over Oklahoma Christian, assisted by Max Gonzalez (10/7)… scored a goal in the fourth minute of a 5-1 win over Lubbock Christian, assisted by Maycol Reyes and Daniel Yu (10/18)… scored a goal in the 60th minute of a 4-2 victory over West Texas A&M, assisted by Gabriel Gacovicaj and Anthony Perea (10/28)… assisted on Maycol Reyes goal in the 27th minute of 4-0 win over St. Edward’s (10/25)… 11 of his 23 shots were on goal (.478)… shown yellow card four times during the season… played 1,038 minutes and averaged 52 minutes per match…

Redshirt Freshman (2022)

appeared in nine games with one start… played a season-high 47 minutes in a 1-0 loss at Eastern New Mexico (10/5)… three of his eight shots during the season were on goal… played 220 minutes for the season… averaged 24.4 minutes per appearance…

Freshman (2021)

served redshirt season...

At Kipp Austin Collegiate

letter winner under Eddie Lett and Anthony Martin at Kipp Austin Collegiate in Austin, Texas... named MVP in his sophomore and junior years... helped the Cardinals to a State Championship in 2018...

Personal

son of Jose and Alba... has two brothers, Edgardo and Alessandro... cousin, Jecsi, also plays on the team at MSU...

Statistics

Season Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 33

    2021Freshman

    Midfielder
    6'0" 160 lbs
    33
  • 17

    2022Redshirt Freshman

    Midfielder
    6'0" 160 lbs
    17
  • 7

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    Midfielder
    6'0" 160 lbs
    7
  • 9

    2025Redshirt Senior

    Forward
    6'0" 0 lbs
    9