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Gatorade 2024 - 2025: Player of the Year

Boys Soccer - Maryland

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BOYS SOCCER

Dan Klink

Midfielder/Forward
LOYOLA BLAKEFIELD SCHOOL
TOWSON, MARYLAND
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-3
Press Release

Peak Performance

17

Goals

8

Assists
“Dan has good size, a good work rate, is good with his feet and good in the air. He’s the total package.”
Mike St. Martin
Head Coach - Mount St. Joseph High
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Athletic Excellence

The state’s returning Gatorade Player of the Year, the 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior midfielder and forward led the Dons to a 17-2-2 record and a second straight Maryland Independent Athletic Association A Conference tournament championship this past season. Klink scored 17 goals and passed for eight assists. He is a two-time Maryland Association of Coaches of Soccer State Player of the Year and was the 2024 United Soccer Coaches National High School Player of the Year.

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Academic Achievement

Klink has maintained a 3.89 weighted GPA in the classroom. He has signed a written letter of athletic aid to play soccer at the University of North Carolina this fall.

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Exemplary Character

The founder and president of the Sports Analytics Club at Loyola Blakefield, Klink has participated in the Arrupe Leaders Summit, which promotes social justice. He has volunteered locally with Beans and Bread and the Francis X. Gallagher Services, while also donating his time with multiple community service initiatives through his church youth group in addition to coaching youth soccer.