Benjamin Burton

Position:
Defender
Height:
5-11
Weight:
170
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Minneapolis, Minn.
High School:
Benilde-St. Margaret's

2010: Named second-team All-Ivy ... earned third-team All-Region honors ... started all 18 games at center back ... has scored four goals and three assists for 11 points ... scored his first goal of the season against American on Sept. 10 ... earned an assist in the 3-1 win over Richmond on Sept. 24 ... tallied a goal in a 3-2 victory over Columbia on Oct. 16 ... earned an assist on the game winner in a 2-1 win over Harvard on Oct. 24 ... recorded an assist in a 3-1 win at Colgate on Nov. 2 ... scored the opening goal in a 2-1 win over No. 13 Penn to give Princeton the league's automatic NCAA bid ... named the Ivy League Player of the Week on Nov. 8 after his games against Penn and Colgate ... named to the College Soccer News National Team of the Week on Nov. 8 ... scored first in a 2-1 win over Yale on Nov. 12 to seals Prineton's Ivy League crown outright ... part of the defense that has held teams to 1.06 goals per game and allowed just 37.8 percent of shots to make it on goal ... has had 12 shots, 10 on goal.

2009: Earned second-team All-Ivy League honors ... started in all 18 games ... scored in a 4-2 loss to Dartmouth on Oct. 3 ... made a team save in a 1-1 tie with Cornell on Oct. 31 ... had two shots on goal and four total shots ... part of the defense that allowed just 4.61 shots and 1.17 goals per game.

2008: Named second-team All-Ivy ... played in 12 games and started in all 12 ... scored one goal and one assist for three points ... had four total shots and one on goal ... scored his first collegiate goal at FDU on Sept. 28, the game winner, and also added an assist.

2007: Played in 12 games and earned seven starts ... recorded his first collegiate point with an assist in a 4-3 win over Adelphi on Oct. 3 ... had three shots on goal and five total.

Before Princeton: Originally accepted as a member of Princeton’s Class of 2010 but deferred admission in order to study in Ecuador for the past year ... attended Benilde-St. Margaret’s, the 2003 state champions ... team captain as a senior ... named first-team all-state by both the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press ... earned NSCAA all-Midwest region honors ... two-time team MVP ... played club soccer for Wings National in Minnesota and for the Federation of Manabi while in Ecuador ... member of the Region II ODP team that traveled abroad to Spain.

Personal: Full name is Benjamin Ross Burton ... born January 15, 1988 ... parents are Michael and Joanne Hager ... has two younger sisters, Katherine (North Carolina ’12) and Amelia ... majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology.