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CLUB
Played with the nationally-recognized Irvine Strikers Soccer Club of the Coast Soccer Premier League...Selected as team captain and led the club to the Pateadores Cup Championship in 2005 and then back to the title game in 2006...ISC also won the Pateadores Cup in 2003...In 2004 the Strikers won the Nomads Showcase and Nomads Thanksgiving tournaments...Also selected for the 2004 Cal South PDP State Team...Noteworthy opponents with the Strikers included Arsenal, Surf, and Pateadores...Current teammates Jordan Kaplan and David Walker were both members of the Strikers.
HIGH SCHOOL
Was a four-year letterwinner at El Toro High School where he played in goal and up front...Was elected team captain his senior season and went on to have a tremendous year, allowing just four goals in 26 games...Honored as the team's Defensive Player of the Year and was given the Charger of the Year Award for his performance...An All-South Coast League, All-Orange County, and All-CIF selection as a junior and senior...Named Most Inspirational Player following his first three seasons at ETHS...Also played two years of baseball for the Chargers.
PERSONAL
Kristopher Taylor Minton was born September 16, 1988 in Houston, Texas...Enters his freshman year at UCSB as an undeclared major...Aspires to play soccer professionally one day...When he is not playing soccer he is usually hanging out with friends...Cannot do without his cell phone...Before a game he likes to listen to music...Roots for Manchester United...Would love to play with his favorite athlete Brad Friedel...Defeating the top-ranked high school team in the nation in PKs is his most memorable sporting moment...The Home Depot Center is his favorite venue to play in... "Dumb and Dumber" is his favorite flick...Enjoys watching "The Simpsons" on television...Brave New World tops his list of good reads...Can be found playing "FIFA"...Can best be described as confident and outgoing...Would like people to know that `I'm always optimistic'...Prefers to go by Kris...Has an older brother, Joshua...Son of Steve and Patti Minton.
