Christopher "Chris" Seitz is an American soccer player who currently plays for Football Club Dallas in Major League Soccer.
Education
Chris Seitz was awarded Gatorade"s California High School Soccer Player of the Year award in 2004 while playing for San Luis Obispo High School under the tutelage of coach Bob Galarneau. He also scored four goals in his junior season, all on penalty kicks.
Seitz played college soccer at the University of Maryland for the 2005 and 2006 seasons. As a freshman at Maryland, Seitz won the National Collegiate Athletic Association national championship by posting a 13-1-2 record with a 0.89 goals against average.
He was named College Cup Defensive Most Valuable Player. During Seitz"s two-year career at Maryland he registered a 28-5-3 record with a 0.77 Gaelic Athletic Association. He was the Administrative Committee on Company-ordination Defensive Player of the Year in 2006.
Career
Youth and college Professional Seitz was the first goalkeeper with take 5 penaltys in one match,drafted during the 2007 Master of Library Science SuperDraft when he was selected fourth overall by Real Salt Lake. In his first two starts, Seitz had a 0-1-1 record and a 2.5 Gaelic Athletic Association. Also in 2009 Seitz played one game on loan for Cleveland City Stars of the USL First Division, a 3-1 loss to Miami Football Club, and two games on loan at the Portland Timbers, also of the USL First Division, both against the Carolina RailHawks. In three seasons in Salt Lake, Seitz was never able to un-seat veteran Nick Rimando as RSL"s first-choice keeper.
On November 25, 2009, he was traded to Master of Library Science expansion franchise Philadelphia Union.
Seitz spent the first 22 games of Philadelphia"s inaugural season as the Union"s starter, before being dropped to the bench behind Brad Knighton. He posted a 1.80 goals against average, worst in the league for players with more than one start in goal.
The Philadelphia Union did not choose to extend his contract, making him available for the 2 stages of the 2010 Master of Library Science Re-Entry Draft after the 2010 season. Seitz was selected by Seattle Sounders Football Club in the second stage of the Re-Entry Draft.
A contract was agreed with Seattle and he was immediately traded to Football Club Dallas in exchange for a fourth-round pick in the 2012 Master of Library Science SuperDraft.
Seitz started one game for Football Club Dallas in 2011, allowing four goals in a 4-2 loss to the San Jose Earthquakes. Seitz started against Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club due to an injured Kevin Hartman, who was dealing with back spasms, to finish in a 0-1 loss for Dallas. Seitz would go on to start the next two games until Hartman was able to play again.
Seitz put his soccer career on hold for a brief time in September 2012, despite having no guaranteed contract for the upcoming 2013 season, when he elected to donate bone marrow to save the life of a random stranger for whose bone marrow he was a match.
International Seitz earned his first full international call up for the game against Brazil on September 9, 2007, but did not see any playing time. He previously started games for the U-23 squad in the CONCACAF Pre-Olympic qualification tournament prior to the 2008 Olympic Games, and was on the roster for the 2008 Summer Olympic soccer tournament.
Real Salt Lake Individual.