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| 2009 season stats |
| GP | Goals | Assists |
| 30 | 0 | 3 |
name: Chris Wingert
position: D
height: 5-10 weight:155
Birthdate: June 16, 1982
Hometown: Babylon, NY
last club: Colorado (MLS)
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| year | club | gp | gs | min | g | a | sht | sog | fc | fs | c | ej |
| 2009 | Real Salt Lake | 30 | 27 | 2,432 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 31 | 22 | 3 | 0 |
| Career | 140 | 112 | 10,441 | 0 | 10 | 44 | 16 | 165 | 89 | 24 | 1 |
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Chris Wingert came to the Rapids in a draft day trade with the Crew in 2006. Wingert played 10 games for the first team and nine for the reserves. A mid-season injury took away some playing time from the former Herman Trophy winner. Wingert also appeared in all three Rapids playoff matches recording 272 minutes on the field.
MLS Experience
2006: Made his Rapids debut playing all 90 minutes on April 2 at Houston…
2006 Playoff Highlights: Played 62 minutes in WCSS Game 1…Played 120 minutes in WCSS Game 2…Played 90 minutes in Conference Final…
2005: Started 20 of 27 appearances for Columbus earning eight cautions…
2004: Appeared in 22 games, 16 of them starts, after working his way into the lineup as a rookie…Made his MLS debut on 5/1 vs. Dallas, coming on as a sub and playing 33 minutes…Made his first MLS start on 7/3 vs. Chicago…Started The Crew's last 14 games… Collected two assists, both on Edson Buddle goals, 7/28 vs. Dallas (GWA) and 9/18 vs. the MetroStars…2004 MLS Playoffs: Started both games of the Eastern Conference Semifinal series vs. N.E.…2004 U.S. Open Cup: Started both games of The Crew's Open Cup campaign…Assisted on Frankie Hejduk's goal in the 2-1 OT loss to Chicago on 7/20 in the Round of 16.
International
Represented the U.S. at the Under-23 level between 2002 and 2004. Appearing in all five games of the 2004 CONCACAF Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Mexico.
Other Experience
Capped a highly decorated career at St. John's by winning the 2003 M.A.C. Hermann Trophy, which is college soccer's equivalent of the Heisman Trophy…Played in two NCAA Men's College Cups in 2001 and '03…The team's 2003 captain, he started all 23 games in which he appeared…Missed the only game of his career, while playing for the U.S. U-23 National Team…The missed start against Connecticut on 10/15 broke a streak of 75-straight starts…Became the first player in Division I men's soccer history to win the Hermann Trophy and the NSCAA Scholar-Athlete Award in the same season.
Personal
The son of Norman and Noreen Wingert…Has one sister, Kerri…His grandfather, Warren Mehrtens, won horse racing's triple crown as a jockey with his horse, named Assault…His father, Norm, was also a professional soccer player, a goalkeeper for the NASL Philadelphia Atoms in the 70's…Was a member of the prestigious President's Society, recognizing the top students at St. John's, where he was a communication arts major…Spent the summer of 2003 in Chicago training with the Chicago Fire reserves of the PDL…Enjoys playing the guitar and his favorite genre is rock and favorite band is Led Zeppelin…Named All-State as both a junior and a senior at St. John the Baptist high school, where he also lettered in tennis, his favorite sport after soccer.
Chris Wingert gets sent off
