John Stollmeyer

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John Stollmeyer
Personal information
Full name	John Stollmeyer
Date of birth	October 25, 1962 (age 44)
Place of birth	, Indiana, United States
Height	5 ft 9 in
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Retired
Youth clubs
1982-1985	Indiana
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-1988 1989-1990 1990	Cleveland Force Arizona Condors Washington Stars
National team
1986–1990	United States	31 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

John Stollmeyer is a retired United States soccer player.

Stollmeyer, a native of Indiana, attended Thomas Jefferson High School.

He played on the 1981 U.S. FIFA U-20 World Cup team in Australia. That year, he also earned National Amateur Soccer Athlete of the Year honors.

After high school he attended Indiana University Bloomington from 1982 to 1985. While at Indiana, he was a member of the school's NCAA Men's Soccer Championship teams of 1982 and 1983, as well as the 1984 second-place team. In 1982, he was the NCAA Defender of the Year.

In the early 1980s, the U.S. Olympic organization initiated the Olympic Sports Festival as a means of identifying and training prospective olympians. In soccer, the organization divided prominent amateur players into four teams, north, south, east and west. Stollmeyer was a member of the East Regional Team for the 1982, 1983 and 1985 Olympic Sports Festivals.

In 1985, Stollmeyer was drafted by the Cleveland Force of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). He was the MISL rookie of the year in 1986-1987. Stollmeyer's second season with the team, 1987-1988, was his last as the team folded at the end of the season.

During his time with the Force, Stollmeyer In 1987, he was a member of the 1987 Pan American Games soccer team, which was held in Indianapolis, Indiana. The U.S. defeated Trinidad&Tobago 3-0, tied El Salvador 0-0, but lost to Argentina 0-2. The 1-1-1 record was not good enough for the U.S. to advance out of group play. This gave the US 2nd place in their pool, not enough to advance.

That year he was also a member of the U.S. World University Games soccer team.

The following year, 1988, Stollmeyer played for the U.S. Olympic team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in South Korea. That team tied Argentina and South Korea, then lost to the Soviet Union. Once again, Stollmeyer's team failed to exit group play.

When the Cleveland Crush, Stollmeyer's first professional team, folded in 1988, he moved to the Arizona Condors of the outdoor American Professional Soccer League. Stollmeyer played with the Condors for its two seasons of existence: 1989 and 1990. Once again, Stollmeyer was left without a team when the Condors folded at the end of the 1990 season. He was briefly associated with the Washington Stars, but that team also folded in 1990.

Despite the professional disappointments, Stollmeyer still made the 1990 FIFA World Cup team. However, in this last major international tournament of his career, Stollmeyer's team again failed to exit group play, losing to both Italy and Czechoslovakia and earning a tie with Austria.

Stollymeyer works in investing in Indianapolis where he also coaches youth soccer.

In 1999, he was elected to the Indiana University Hall of Fame.

	United States squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 Meola | 2 Trittschuh | 3 Doyle | 4 Banks | 5 Windischmann | 6 Harkes | 7 Ramos | 8 Bliss | 9 Sullivan | 10 Vermes | 11 Wynalda | 12 Krumpe | 13 Eichmann | 14 Stollmeyer | 15 Armstrong | 16 Murray | 17 Balboa | 18 Keller | 19 Henderson | 20 Caligiuri | 21 Covone | 22 Vanole | Coach: Gansler