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Colin Jacques

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COLIN JACQUES

SOCCER

SCHOOL: R.A. McMath (Richmond)

FRESHMAN’S FUTURE: Simon Fraser

Colin Jacques of Richmond's RA McMath Wildcats. (Arlen Redekop, PNG)

Colin Jacques of Richmond’s RA McMath Wildcats. (Arlen Redekop, PNG)

RICHMOND — Colin Jacques stares into the camera and starts his on-line recruiting video with a simple statement: “I love scoring goals.”

Then, for the next eight minutes, he takes potential suitors at university programs around North America on an awesome adventure. With the samba beat of the Black-Eyed Peas song Mas Que Nada providing the soundtrack, he proceeds to feather passes, dance by opponents and leave the pitch while craning his head to nod thru-balls into the scoring areas.

And of course, Jacques saves his goal-scoring highlights to the very end, closing the video with a series of wow-factor moments that have become his trademark.

“I describe myself as quick,” explains Jacques, who finished his high school career at McMath in November by winning the prestigious Golden Boot award, presented to the leading goal scorer at the B.C. Triple A championship tournament, for the second straight season. “I love to get into the box and finish. I like to play a lot of one-touch, because I’m not a very big guy. If I get the ball off quickly, I won’t get hit too hard. I’m 5-foot-10 and 145 pounds, so there’s not a lot in me.”

That’s if you don’t count skill and speed, and a checklist of intangibles that includes superior vision, an off-the-charts work rate, and a whole lot of guts.

While several schools at the U.S.’s NCAA Div. 1 level showed their interest, Jacques says they were worried about his lack of physical stature. Alan Koch, who coaches the Simon Fraser Clan’s NCAA Div. 2 team, had no such misgivings.

“The way that coach Koch came to me and convinced me 100 per cent, I knew it was the right choice,” Jacques says of joining a Clan program which last season was ranked No. 1 in Div. 2, and in April, blanked the Div. 1 Washington Huskies 3-0 in a friendly. “SFU has shown that a Div. 2 team can compete against anyone. I am super-excited. It’s going to be a whole new level of play and I can’t wait.”

He’s more than willing to listen if the prospect of a professional soccer career presents itself after his four-year run at Simon Fraser is over, and by  that time, he’s hoping to be close to attaining a business degree.

That’s all too fitting, because Colin Jacques has always been in the business of scoring goals.



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