Joe Ulrich

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Joe Ulrich
Personal information
Full name Joseph Ulrich
Date of birth January 9, 1961 (1961-01-09) (age 47)
Place of birth    Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position Defender
Youth clubs
1979-1980
1981-1982
Ulster Community College
Duke
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1982-1984
1984-1985
New York Arrows (indoor)
Dallas Sidekicks (indoor)
65 (8)
16 (2)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Joe Ulrich is a retired U.S. soccer defender. He won the 1982 Hermann Trophy as that year's top collegiate soccer player. He also played three seasons with in the Major Indoor Soccer League.

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[edit] Youth and college

Ulrich attended Arlington High School. After graduating from high school, Ulrich played soccer at Ulster County Community College in New York for two years before transferring to Duke University in 1981. While at Duke, he played on the school’s men's soccer team in 1981 and 1982. In 1981, he was named the ACC Player of the Year. In 1982, the Blue Devils went to the NCAA Championship game where it lost to Indiana in eight overtimes. That year, Ulrich won the Hermann Trophy as the top collegiate player of the year. In his two years at Duke, he scored 13 goals, despite playing as a defender.

[edit] MISL

In 1982, the New York Arrows of Major Indoor Soccer League drafted Ulrich in the first round (12th overall) of the league’s college draft. The Arrows signed Ulrich for $28,000 per year for two years. He spent two seasons with the Arrows, until they folded at the end of the 1983-1984 season. He then signed as a free agent with the Dallas Sidekicks on September 11, 1984. He appeared in only sixteen games with the Sidekicks during the 1984-1985 season before the team released him on March 7, 1985.

[edit] Post playing career

After retiring from playing professionally, Ulrich was hired by IBM.

In 1999, Duke inducted Ulrich into its Athletic Hall of Fame.[1]

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