SAN BRUNO, Calif. — Taj Eagleston, Tobias Polz and Steven Ramirez earned All-WCC First Team honors to lead seven San Diego men's soccer selections, the West Coast Conference announced Tuesday.
Iain Wagner was named to the Second Team and Matteo Salcedo to the All-Freshman Team, while Lucca Adams and Oliver Rhoades earned Honorable Mention. San Diego's three first-team selections are second only to regular-season champion Portland's five.
The Toreros (10-4-3, 5-1-2 WCC) closed the regular season with four straight league wins, outscoring Pacific, Santa Clara, Seattle U and Saint Mary's 14-3, and finished second in the conference with 17 points.
Ramirez, a senior forward from Garden Grove, Calif., leads San Diego with career highs of nine goals and 21 points this season and is 3-for-3 on penalty kicks. He has been named All-WCC in each of his four seasons, climbing from the All-Freshman Team in 2023 to Honorable Mention in 2024, the Second Team in 2025 and now the First Team. Ramirez scored twice in 91 seconds to put the Toreros ahead for good in a 3-1 comeback win over Liberty, and he had two goals and an assist in the 4-2 win at Seattle U that clinched San Diego's tournament berth. He was named WCC Offensive Player of the Week on Aug. 24.
Eagleston, a junior midfielder from Hermosa Beach, Calif., has scored six goals this season, all in wins, and leads the team with four game-winners. He scored San Diego's first goal of the season in a 2-1 win at then-No. 1 Washington and was named WCC Offensive Player of the Week on Sept. 14 after scoring the winners at UC Irvine and against San Diego State. His 79th-minute goal at LMU gave the Toreros their first WCC win of the season. It is the first All-WCC honor for Eagleston, who came off the bench in 18 of his 19 appearances as a sophomore and still led San Diego with five assists.
Polz, a 6-foot-3 graduate student defender from Graz, Austria, transferred to San Diego from England's University of Derby. All three of the Toreros' clean sheets this season came in matches he played, against Denver, at Pacific and against Saint Mary's, and he headed a Matteo Salcedo free kick back across the goal mouth to set up Ramirez's equalizer against Portland.
Wagner, a junior midfielder from San Diego, adds Second Team honors to the First Team selection he earned as a sophomore in 2025. He has four goals and four assists for 12 points this season, and his 17 shots on goal are tied with Ramirez for the team lead. Wagner opened the scoring from 25 yards in a 2-1 win over San Diego State and scored in the 88th minute at Pacific, 77 seconds after the Toreros went down to 10 men.
Salcedo, a redshirt freshman midfielder from Dana Point, Calif., leads the Toreros with five assists this season. He set up Wagner's 25-yard opener against San Diego State and delivered the corner for Devin Dillon's 80th-minute winner against Santa Clara.
Adams, a redshirt sophomore goalkeeper from São Paulo, Brazil, has played every minute in goal this season, going 10-4-3 with 38 saves and three clean sheets. His 89th-minute stop preserved the last of them in Friday's 4-0 Senior Night win over Saint Mary's. Adams was named the 2025 WCC Goalkeeper of the Year, as well as to the All-WCC First Team and All-Freshman Team, in his first season at San Diego after transferring from UCLA.
Rhoades, a senior midfielder from Huntington Beach, Calif., earns Honorable Mention for the second time after also making the list as a sophomore in 2024. He has two goals and three assists this season, including the assists on Ramirez's goals in road wins at LMU and Seattle U.
San Diego, the No. 2 seed, opens the inaugural WCC Men's Soccer Tournament against No. 3 seed Denver on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at Merlo Field in Portland, Ore. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m. PT on ESPN+, and the teams played to a 0-0 draw in the WCC opener for both at Torero Stadium on Sept. 26. The winner advances to the championship match on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. PT against top seed Portland or No. 4 seed San Francisco, with the WCC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament on the line.
2026 WEST COAST CONFERENCE MEN'S SOCCER AWARD WINNERS
Offensive Player of the Year: David Ajagbe, Portland
Midfielder of the Year: Joe Highfield, Portland
Defensive Player of the Year: Nikos Clarke-Tosczak, Portland
Goalkeeper of the Year: Miguel-Angel Hernandez, Portland
Freshman of the Year: Xavier Cisneros, Pacific
Coach of the Year: Nick Carlin-Voigt, Portland
2026 ALL-WCC FIRST TEAM
David Ajagbe, F, Portland
Nikos Clarke-Tosczak, D, Portland
Taj Eagleston, M, San Diego
Miguel-Angel Hernandez, GK, Portland
Joe Highfield, M, Portland
Will King, D, Denver
Tobias Polz, D, San Diego
Steven Ramirez, F, San Diego
David Raphael, F, San Francisco
Diego Rosas, F, Portland
Luke Schultz, M, Denver
2026 ALL-WCC SECOND TEAM
Efetobo Aror, M, Portland
Brayden Beason, F, San Francisco
Erik Collins, M, Denver
Ky Mani Dade, GK, LMU
Isaac Emojong, M, Portland
Massimo Erfani, F, Pacific
Ben Norris, M, San Francisco
Alex Notzka, F, Seattle U
Alex Waggoner, F, Portland
Iain Wagner, M, San Diego
Will Wiersdorf, M, Santa Clara
2026 WCC ALL-FRESHMAN TEAM
Xavier Cisneros, F, Pacific
Felix Contreras, D, LMU
Leonardo Flores, F, Seattle U
Alex Hohl, GK, Denver
Diego Jalleau, M, Santa Clara
Braylon Jernigan, D, San Francisco
Axel Uriostegui Lopez, M, LMU
Ryan Mackay, D, Denver
Ethan Orchard, F, Denver
Matteo Salcedo, M, San Diego
Hudson Tate, M, Denver
2026 ALL-WCC HONORABLE MENTION
Lucca Adams, San Diego
Alejandro Arenas, Santa Clara
Felix Contreras, LMU
Diego Jalleau, Santa Clara
Lucas Jones, San Francisco
Cameron Kobey, Saint Mary's
Alejandro Caracheo Luna, Pacific
Ismail Nieves, LMU
Olayinka Ogunleye, Portland
Jackson Ozburn, Santa Clara
Oliver Rhoades, San Diego
Talan Rochelle, Saint Mary's
Luke Schaefer, Saint Mary's
Rylan Smith, San Francisco
Skyler Wright, LMU
