It’s been 580 days since Dane Jacomen last suited up in a competitive game for Penn — a 2-0 win against Harvard in November 2019 — but that hasn’t stopped him from continuing to make a name for himself in the amateur ranks.
With Ivy League soccer still shut down from the pandemic, Jacomen has spent the past year playing in multiple competitions for West Chester United, suiting up about three dozen times while garnering the kind of attention that doesn’t always come easily during a hectic college season.
“Dane is playing lights out,” West Chester United head coach Blaise Santangelo said after Jacomen recorded his eighth clean sheet of the season in USL League Two earlier this week.