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Boys Soccer - Michigan

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BOYS SOCCER

Nick Cassiday

Midfielder
GRAND RAPIDS CHRISTIAN HS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-9
Press Release

Peak Performance

36

Goals (Season)

10

Assists (Season)

74

Goals (Career)

41

Assists (Career)
“Nick makes you change the way you play. The entire season you could play a certain way, but against him you have to alter it or at the end of the game he will have three goals and two assists. Nick is the perfect package of technical ability, athleticism and soccer smarts.”
Mike Vollmer
Head Coach - head coach of East Grand Rapids High
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-9, 155-pound senior midfielder led the Eagles to a 17-7-2 record and the Division II state championship this past season. Cassiday tallied 36 goals and 10 assists. A two-time member of the Michigan High School Soccer Coaches Association Dream Team, he is a 2021 United Soccer Coaches High School All-American selection and concluded his prep soccer career with 74 goals and 41 assists.

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Academic Achievement

Cassiday has maintained a weighted 4.14 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to play soccer on scholarship at the University of Michigan this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Cassiday participated in a service trip to South Africa where he volunteered at an orphanage. He has also donated his time as a youth soccer and basketball coach.