The Loyola men’s soccer team (9-5-2, 3-1-2) has seven international players on its roster, including one key piece from Australia: junior goalkeeper Josh Lagudah.
Lagudah, 23, started attending Loyola during the spring semester of 2018. Head coach Neil Jones said he hadn’t started looking at Lagudah until he received an email in November 2017.
“At the time, we had just come off a below-standard season for our program,” Jones said. “We felt like we needed to upgrade that position. We watched some film. Coaches and people that I respected and knew [from Australia] gave an evaluation of him to get a better feel for his skill set.