Michael Nanchoff

Height:
5-8
Weight:
150
Class:
Redshirt Junior
Hometown:
North Royalton, Ohio
High School:
Walsh Jesuit

as a Junior (2010): All-Great Lakes Region Second Team ... College Cup All-Tournament Team ... team tri-captain ... All-MAC First Team ... Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Season Third Team ... started all 25 games ... career high 10 goals, including three game-winners ... netted the decisive strike in back-to-back contests at Penn State (Oct. 13) and against Buffalo (Oct. 16) ... also recorded the game-winner at Hartwick (Nov. 6) ... ranked third among active UA players with 52 career points (15 goals, 22 assists) ... assisted the game-winning goal in UA's 2-1 victory over Michigan (Dec. 10) in the NCAA semifinals ... also assisted the game-winner in the Zips' 3-0 win against Florida Atlantic (Oct. 1).

as a Redshirt Sophomore (2009): All-Mid-American Conference First Team ... finished with five goals and 11 assists on the season, both representing career highs ... 11 assists were seventh-most on the school’s single-season list ... was named Soccer America National Player of the Week on Sept. 26 after tying a school record with four assists in a win against Bowling Green (Sept. 26) … College Soccer News National Team of the Week (Oct. 5) ... forced to miss the final four games of the season after sustaining a leg injury in the first half of UA's NCAA Second Round match against South Florida (Nov. 22) ... scored game-winning goals versus Indiana (Sept. 18) and Northern Illinois (Nov. 13).

as a Sophomore (2008): Redshirted.

as a Freshman (2007): Appeared in 17 games ... assisted the game-winning goal in his first collegiate game, a 1-0 decision over UAB (Sept. 2) ... added another assist in a 4-0 win over St. Francis (Sept. 16) ... his first career goal helped the Zips edge Northern Illinois (2-1, 2OT) in the first round of the MAC Tournament (Nov. 16).

at Walsh Jesuit High School: Helped lead Walsh Jesuit to the Ohio Division II state title in 2006 with a 21-2 record ... earned NSCAA All-America honors ... Cleveland Plain Dealer Player of the Year ... recorded nine goals and a school-record 31 assists ... in the Warriors’ 2-0 win over Kettering Alter in the state title game, Nanchoff assisted on the game-winning score before putting home the second goal of the night ... first-team All-Ohio as a senior.

Personal: Parents are George and Marian Nanchoff ... has one brother, Georgie (25), and one sister, Nicole (22) ... both Georgie (Dayton) and Nicole (Duquesne) played soccer collegiately ... both his father, George, and his uncle, Louie, were four-year letter winners and a two-time All-Americans (George from 1975-76; Louie from 1976-77) at Akron and were slated to play for the 1980 Olympic soccer team (U.S. boycotted the Moscow Olympics that year in a political protest) ... George played professionally with the Cleveland Force from 1981-85 and alongside Louie from 1982-85 ... Michael played his club soccer with the five-time state champion Cleveland Internationals ... majoring in sport and exercise science.