Luis Green, Texas Lutheran University, Men's Soccer - Character & Community

Luis Green, Texas Lutheran University, Men's Soccer - Character & Community

LUIS GREEN OF TEXAS LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY, a junior forward on the men’s soccer team from Monterrey, Mexico, has been selected the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Character and Community Male Student Athlete of the Week for the week beginning March 8.

The SCAC Character & Community award honors the efforts of student-athletes who excel in the field of athletics, and also serve their campus and community.



Green is a two-time SCAC Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Year and a two-time All-American. This semester he was selected to the SCAC’s 30th Anniversary Team for Men’s Soccer.

Green’s on-field accomplishments are matched by his off-field and in-classroom achievements. He is a team captain for TLU’s award-winning Bulldog Investment Company.

With his investment teammates Auriana Bird, Esam Hijazi, and Dillan Wendel, Green and the Bulldogs were crowned champions of the Texas Investments Portfolio Managers Symposium’s 2020 Portfolio Management Finals Competition. The Bulldog Investment Company defeated teams from Rice, Baylor, Texas State, and the University of North Texas. TLU won the competition for a third consecutive year.

“Apart from just learning how to read and interpret financial statements and how to value and buy publicly-traded businesses, we learn those critical thinking skills, those presentation skills,” said Green. “Over the last three years we have won consistently No. 1 place. And it’s not just because of our returns – we average 18 percent over the last 10 years, which is impressive – but it is also the quality of the presentations and the amount of work that we put in.”

Green credits his soccer competitiveness and collegiate soccer experiences with helping him in the world of business investments.

“So what I’ve taken the most out of soccer is being a team player and then taking that into BIC (Bulldog Investment Company) and the competition aspect,” said Green. “There are some individuals that have not been in a team sport, or they have not been in sports so they don’t get that competition. So I bring that to the table. I make it competitive. I try pushing. I try to be better than the last presentation that we had. I try to be better every single time.”

“I always ask for feedback. I am never satisfied with: ‘Okay we won. Okay we won. We are going to do the same thing. No, we won; let’s not let the other team win next time. What can we do to get better?’"

In his first two collegiate seasons on the soccer pitch, Green has scored 40 goals (18 in 2018, 20 in 2019, and two so far in 2021), and he has assisted on five others for a career point total of 85 points. He led the SCAC in points, points per game, goals and goals scored per game in both his freshman and sophomore seasons.

After guiding the Bulldogs to their first-ever SCAC Tournament title and a trip to the 2019 NCAA Tournament, Green was elevated to Second Team All-America status after earning Third Team honors as a freshman in 2018.

The NCAA Tournament berth was the second in TLU Men's Soccer history, following the university’s 2002 tournament appearance, then led by a central defender named Eddie Salazar, the Bulldogs’ current coach.

“(Coach Salazar) feared that we were like, ‘Oh we beat Trinity (in the tournament semifinal) so now we are going to kind of rest, we are going to take things slow.’ But no, if you saw everybody’s eyes on the team, no, this is ours. This is going to be ours. We just had that confidence and that drive that nothing is going to stop us, and we were very focused. We kept the same mentality – consistency, hard work, work as a team.”

Green was named the SCAC Tournament’s Offensive MVP after scoring a pair of goals – one in the semifinal victory over Trinity and one in the championship final against Colorado College.

In 2019, Green set new TLU DIII-era records for goals scored (20) and total points (43). In just two seasons, he ranks fourth on TLU's career list for goals and for total points.

Green already has 12 game-winning goals to his credit.

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