SAN BRUNO, Calif. – Unbeaten and untied regular-season champion Portland picked up five major awards and five spots on the First Team as the West Coast Conference announced its 2026 Men’s Soccer All-Conference and major awards on Tuesday.
All six individual awards and the All-Conference Teams were voted on solely by the Conference’s nine coaches.
The All-Conference First Team is comprised of a specific position format of three forwards, three midfielders, three defenders, one goalkeeper and one "wildcard" spot given to the student-athlete remaining with the most votes regardless of position.
Portland became the first team in WCC history to reach 8-0-0 in league play en route to earning the No. 1 seed and host duties for this week's WCC Men's Soccer Championship. As such, the Pilots nearly swept the annual major awards: Nick Carlin-Voigt as Coach of the Year, David Ajagbe as Offensive Player of the Year, Nikos Clarke-Tosczak as Defensive Player of the Year, Joe Highfield at Midfielder of the Year, and Miguel-Angel Hernandez as Goalkeeper of the Year. Pacific's Xavier Cisneros was voted Freshman of the Year.
Ajagbe (12g/27p in all matches, 10g/23p in WCC) and Highfield (11g/33p in all matches, 8g/24p in WCC) set a torrid scoring pace for the Pilots as the duo led the WCC in both goals and points overall and in league play.
Clarke-Tosczak and Hernandez anchored a Pilots’ defense that allowed league lows of nine goals in WCC play and 19 during the regular season. Hernandez tops the WCC in shutouts (seven overall, four in WCC) and goals-against average (1.15 overall, 1.01 in WCC), with Clarke-Tosczak guiding a backline which surrendered the fewest total shots (149) and second-fewest shots on goal (63) of any WCC program.
All combined, Portland posted a +22 goal differential (31-9) in sweeping through the WCC regular season.
Cisneros paced Pacific and led all Conference freshmen with six goals and 15 points in the regular season, including three goals and eight points in WCC action.
2026 WEST COAST CONFERENCE MEN'S SOCCER AWARD WINNERS
| COACH OF THE YEAR |
| Nick Carlin-Voigt |
Portland |
| OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR |
| David Ajagbe |
Portland |
Jr. |
| DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR |
| Nikos Clarke-Tosczak |
Portland |
Sr. |
| MIDFIELDER OF THE YEAR |
| Joe Highfield |
Portland |
Sr. |
| GOALKEEPER OF THE YEAR |
| Miguel-Angel Hernandez |
Portland |
5th |
| FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR |
| Xavier Cisneros |
Pacific |
F |
ALL-WCC FIRST TEAM
| NAME |
SCHOOL |
POSITION |
YEAR |
| David Ajagbe |
Portland |
F |
Jr. |
| Nikos Clarke-Tosczak |
Portland |
D |
Sr. |
| Taj Eagleston |
San Diego |
M |
Jr. |
| Miguel-Angel Hernandez |
Portland |
GK |
5th |
| Joe Highfield |
Portland |
M |
Sr. |
| Will King |
Denver |
D |
Jr. |
| Tobias Polz |
San Diego |
D |
Gr. |
| Steven Ramirez |
San Diego |
F |
Sr. |
| David Raphael |
San Francisco |
F |
Jr. |
| Diego Rosas |
Portland |
F |
Sr. |
| Luke Schultz |
Denver |
M |
Sr. |
ALL-WCC SECOND TEAM
| NAME |
SCHOOL |
POSITION |
YEAR |
| Efetobo Aror |
Portland |
M |
Sr. |
| Brayden Beason |
San Francisco |
F |
Jr. |
| Erik Collins |
Denver |
M |
So. |
| Ky Mani Dade |
LMU |
GK |
R-Sr. |
| Isaac Emojong |
Portland |
M |
Jr. |
| Massimo Erfani |
Pacific |
F |
Sr. |
| Ben Norris |
San Francisco |
M |
So. |
| Alex Notzka |
Seattle U |
F |
Jr. |
| Alex Waggoner |
Portland |
F |
Sr. |
| Iain Wagner |
San Diego |
M |
Jr. |
| Will Wiersdorf |
Santa Clara |
M |
Sr. |
ALL-WCC FRESHMAN TEAM
| NAME |
SCHOOL |
POSITION |
| Xavier Cisneros |
Pacific |
F |
| Felix Contreras |
LMU |
D |
| Leonardo Flores |
Seattle U |
F |
| Alex Hohl |
Denver |
GK |
| Diego Jalleau |
Santa Clara |
M |
| Braylon Jernigan |
San Francisco |
D |
| Axel Uriostegui Lopez |
LMU |
M |
| Ryan Mackay |
Denver |
D |
| Ethan Orchard |
Denver |
F |
| Matteo Salcedo |
San Diego |
M |
| Hudson Tate |
Denver |
M |
ALL-WCC HONORABLE MENTION
| NAME |
SCHOOL |
| Lucca Adams |
San Diego |
| Alejandro Arenas |
Santa Clara |
| Felix Contreras |
LMU |
| Diego Jalleau |
Santa Clara |
| Lucas Jones |
San Francisco |
| Cameron Kobey |
Saint Mary's |
| Alejandro Caracheo Luna |
Pacific |
| Ismail Nieves |
LMU |
| Olayinka Ogunleye |
Portland |
| Jackson Ozburn |
Santa Clara |
| Oliver Rhoades |
San Diego |
| Talan Rochelle |
Saint Mary's |
| Luke Schaefer |
Saint Mary's |
| Rylan Smith |
San Francisco |
| Skyler Wright |
LMU |