| Darby Kehoe
Position: Midfielder/Forward
Class: Junior
Hometown: St. Charles, IL
High School: St. Charles East
2009: Kehoe played in all 17 games and started all 16 contests against Division I competition… assisted on Jonathan Hinds’ goal in the win at Missouri State… ranked fourth among the EIU field players in minutes played… logged 90-plus minutes four times, including a season-high 103 minutes in the draw with Creighton… will enter his senior season having played in all 57 EIU games during his career… has started 14 consecutive Valley games dating back to 2008.
2008: Kehoe played in all 19 games and started the final 16 games of the year… scored his first goal away from Lakeside Field, and second in Valley play, in the loss at Bradley… assisted on goals by Alex Harrison at IPFW and vs. second-ranked Creighton, and Brad Peters at Western Illinois… one of three EIU field players that was not issued a yellow card… one of five Panthers to play in every game and one of three Panthers to play every minute of the MVC season… played 642 consecutive minutes to close the season, going the distance in each of the final seven games of the year… went the distance 10 times total, logging a season-high 110 minutes in the draw at Northern Illinois... ranked fifth on the team in minutes played (1,415), averaging 74 per game… Eastern is 2-1 in the games in which he has scored.
2007: Kehoe played in all 21 games and started the Western Illinois match… scored goals in EIU wins against Valparaiso and Missouri State… assisted on goals by Brad Peters against IPFW and Mick Galeski at Western Kentucky… beginning with the home opener, logged double-figure minutes in every game the rest of the season… played a season-high 67 minutes in the win at WKU… logged 20-plus minutes in both MVC Tournament contests… for the season, scored with two of his three shots on goal.
HIGH SCHOOL: Kehoe was a four-year varsity letter-winner for coach Jorge Ortiz… three-time team captain… Chicago Tribune Preseason Top 50 Players in the State as a senior… earned Daily Herald all-area, NHSCA all-sectional and All-Upstate Eight Conference honors in each of his two upperclassman seasons… St. Charles East was state runner-up in 2005 and his club team captured the Dallas Cup his sophomore season… also played for the Strikers FV, Chicago Magic and Schwaben AC club teams.
PERSONAL: No. 1 sports highlight was scoring the game-winning goal in the state finals for Schwaben AC... his father has been a major influence on his sports career because “he has taught me all that I know about the game, and he pushed me to be my best at all times”… most admires French great Zinedine Zidane because “I have tried to play like him all my life, and to me he’s the greatest”… his brother Mike played soccer at EIU during the 2004 season and remains a student… his cousins Robert and Andrew played soccer at Wheaton College and led their team to the NCAA Division III Final Four… another cousin, Brian, played soccer at St. Olaf College… son of Bernie and Val Kehoe… MAJOR: Kinesiology and Sports Studies.
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