LOOKING BACK: The Hustlin' Owls had another banner season, finishing 2023 with an 11-5-3 record, qualifying for their seventh straight Cascade Conference Tournament – advancing to the league semifinals. Tech had three banner results early in the season – a scoreless draw at Menlo (a team that qualified for the NAIA Championships), a 3-1 road decision at OUAZ and a 1-0 road win at defending CCC champ, Warner Pacific. The Owls posted a big come-from-behind home win over Rocky Mountain, scoring two goals inside the final five minutes, to claim a 3-2 victory, while scoring two goals inside the final 15 minutes to earn a draw at Carroll. OIT ended the year with 47 goals scored and 37 assists – each the No. 3 mark in a single-season in program history.
 
10-WIN SEASONS: The 11-win season marked the third-straight year OIT has posted double-digit wins, with the Owls logging their fifth-straight winning campaign.
 
POSTSEASON RECAP: OIT finished the regular-season in a tie for fourth-place in the final CCC standings – earning a quarterfinal match-up with Carroll College. Tied 1-1 after 90 minutes, the Owls recorded back-to-back goals in extra time to advance to their third-straight CCC semifinal – a match OIT dropped to regular-season champ, Southern Oregon, 4-2. Both SOU and College of Idaho earned bids to the NAIA Championships, but each of the CCC squads bowed out in the first-round of the tournament.
 
RIDEOUT MAKES HISTORY: Outside back Brock Rideout capped a remarkable OIT career by earning his fourth All-CCC award – the first 4-time all-conference player in program history. The fifth-year senior established career school records with 27 goals, 20 assists, 74 points and 10 game-winning goals, while playing in a record 85 matches.
 
PASANG BREAKS SCORING RECORD: The Owls had a second first-team All-CCC pick, as Andrew Pasang was honored by the league coaches. The junior set a new single-season points record, finishing the year with 32 points – with his 12 goals and eight assists both No. 2 on the single-season list. Pasang is poised to break the all-time scoring marks – as the midfielder will enter 2024 with 24 career goals and 18 career assists.
 
OTHER CCC PICKS: Two other players were recognized by the league office – as keeper Ryan Solis was named a second-team All-CCC pick and midfielder Dylan Nakagawa earned honorable mention accolades. Solis recorded a 1.24 goals against average during his first season with the squad, while ranking No. 2 in the CCC with seven shutouts. Nakagawa had a banner senior season, scoring one goal and posting a career-high six assists.
 
THANK YOU SENIORS: A total of 13 senior student-athletes were honored prior to the Nov. 29 match vs. Northwest – including Brock Rideout and Rosendo Juarez-Flores, who saw their eligibility run out at the conclusion of the season. The 11 other seniors - Ian Bermudez, Matthew Shirley, Sebastian Brunk, Joshua Morgan, Ellis Harwood, Ryan Pearson, Brandon Donat, Hunter Hoogerwerf, Dylan Nakagawa, Sean Burcin and Connor Caslin - have the option to utilize their COVID redshirt season given to all student-athletes that competed during the shortened 2021 spring season.
 
LOOKING AHEAD: Despite losing a large senior class, Tech will have loads of experience back for the 2024 season. Both Andrew Pasang (12 goals, 8 assists) and Dalton Rideout (6 goals) will anchor the attack, supported in the midfield by Kevin Rodriguez (1 goal, 3 assists), Yuki Enomoto (2 goals, 3 assists) and Lennyn Solis (1 goal). Multi-year starters Cooper Hunt (3 goals, 2 assists) and DeShone Myles (1 goal, 1 assist) will anchor the back line, along with keeper Ryan Solis (1.24 GAA, 7 ShO).
 
RECORD IN REACH: With the November win over Carroll, head coach Sean McManamon moved his all-time record to 24-8-7 at the helm of the Owls – tying for second on the all-time wins list. McManamon is seven wins from tying Matt Munhall's all-time wins mark of 31 established from 2012-18.
 
ACADEMIC AWARDS: Ten OIT men's soccer players were named to the Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete Team (3.50+ GPA) - Andrew Pasang, Arthur Proost, Brandon Donat, Cooper Hunt, Dylan Nakagawa, Hunter Hoogerwerf, Ian Bermudez, Kevin Rodriguez, Ryan Pearson and Sebastian Brunk. The 10 athletes, along with Ben Bradshaw, Ellis Harwood, DeShone Myles, Brock Rideout and Britton Ullan, were named the Cascade Conference All-Academic Team (3.20+ GPA), while Pearson and Pasang were named to the College Sports Communicators NAIA Academic All-District 4 Team.