Peter Lowry
Peter Lowry ( born October 2, 1985 in Missoula, Montana) is an American football player at the position of midfielder and striker. Since 2011 he is the franchise Portland Timbers game with operating in Major League Soccer ( MLS), the top division in the North American Soccer, under contract.
Career
Career start in California
Peter Lowry was born in 1985 in the city of Missoula in the U.S. state of Montana, the son of Tom and Colleen Lowry. With his parents, his older sister Lisa and his younger brother Dan Peter Lowry drew even at a young age to Fair Oaks in the state of California, where he also grew up. In 2001 came Lowry, who was among others in the youth training clubs Irvine Strikers Soccer Club and San Juan Soccer Club in use and especially during his high school days with these amateur clubs played, the Bella Vista High School in Fair Oaks. Already in 2001 he was allowed to call U-16 National Champion and still scoring and the game -winning goal in the season finals. Besides, he was already this year as team captain of the San Juan SC in use. During his junior season at the Bella Vista High Lowry was elected to the All- Orange County team and evolved until his senior season at a very strong offensive player. After further successes with the team, as numerous individual honors (including election to the NSCAA All-American in 2002 ), he celebrated in his senior year of high school again numerous successes. He won with the team four League titles and a Section title and was also named to McDonald 's All- American Game MVP. In this game, he led his team as captain to a sovereign 5-2 win. Due to his achievements Lowry was brought to the U.S. U-18 selection, where he mostly just stood in the extended squad. He also stood from 2001 to 2004 four times in the All- League selection. In his senior year, he came up with a score of 29 goals and 20 assists.
Inclusion in the Santa Clara University
In the same year he graduated at the Bella Vista High School moved Lowry at the Santa Clara University, where he majored in Finance chose and was used from the start in the football team of the university's sports department, the Santa Clara Broncos. In his freshman year, Lowry came as a midfielder in 20 league games for use, scoring four goals and put another two for his teammates before. At the end of the season he was admitted to the All- WCC Freshman Team and also the Commissioner of the West Coast Conference (WCC ) in the honor roll or the roll of honor. In his year as a sophomore he was employed in 22 games as a central midfielder and so came to a score of four goals and as many assists. At season's end Lowry was the TDS Second Team National Team of the Season, elected to the All- WCC Second Team and into Maryland adidas Classic All- Classic Team. His junior year spent the young offensive player already half as midfielder and half as a striker. It was used in 23 league games in which he scored six goals and contributed two assists. Due to his offensive performance, he was employed in his senior year in 2007 increased as a striker and on other offensive positions. After elections to the All- WCC Second Team and the All- Far West Region First Team in 2006, followed in 2007 numerous other awards. He was in his 22 missions, in which he scored eight goals and seven more prepared, frequently honored as WCC Player of the Week and even elected in September 2007 Player of the Month throughout the Conference. In that year he came to the U.S. U -23 is used, for which he completed two games on a tour of Japan, among others, in February. There he played against the Japanese U -22 national team and the men's team of Roasso Kumamoto. Awards and honors for Lowry this season election to the All- WCC First Team, the Brown adidas Classic All -Tournament Team, the College Soccer News All- American First Team NSCAA All- or the Far West Region First Team. In addition, he was elected to the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award All- Senior All-America Second Team and was also WCC Player of the Year and a semi-finalist on obtaining the MAC Hermann Trophy. In the years 2005 and 2006, Lowry was one of the PDL Team Boulder Rapids Reserve and came up with a balance of eleven appearances and one goal. Also in 2004, the offensive player has been used in the North American Viertklassigkeit when he completed three scoreless league games for the San Jose Frogs.
Draft for Chicago Fire SC
About the MLS SuperDraft 2008 finally made it to the Lowry in 2008 MLS franchise Chicago Fire SC, to which he was drafted as the 26th pick in the second round. From the successes Lowry had at the university, was at the MLS team suddenly not much noticeable. His first and only mandatory bet for the first team, he completed during the third round game in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 2008 against the Cleveland City Stars, where he played in a 4-1 victory over the full 90 minutes. His team debut came on 21 May when he was employed in the friendly match against Wisła Kraków over the full duration. Even in a 2-0 win over Everton Lowry was a mid-term in use. Most of the time in the 2008 season but spent the offensive player in the MLS Reserve Division, where he came into existence as a dangerous goal scorer of the team. During his twelve championship stakes, he went to five goals and three assists. The following season, the game in 2009, the trained midfielder could enforce something, but was still far from a regular player to be. His MLS debut was on July 18 in a 2-0 home win over the San Jose Earthquakes. His first match over the full period he completed on August 9, in the 2:3 defeat against Houston Dynamo. He had in a 2-2 draw against the Columbus Crew, when he scored both goals in his team on September 20, His arguably the best performance of the season. By the end of the season, where the team already emerged once again as a master of the Eastern Conference regular season, it brought Lowry in nine league operations, of which he stood in eight from the start on the lawn, and three gates. In 2010 he came to his most season appearances for the club from the Greater Chicago ( Bridgeview ). He was employed in 15 league games in which he scored two goals. In addition, he was also used this year in various other competitions and friendly matches. While he was in 2009 with the team in the North American SuperLiga in use and thereby to the finals, he was employed in 2010 in this tournament.
Change to the Timbers
In MLS Expansion Draft 2010 Lowry was, as previously expected due to a few uses in the course of the season, not "protected" by his franchise and was thus released or issued for a change. He was selected on 24 November 2010, the new MLS franchise, the Portland Timbers, about the draft system. There Lowry, who taught it to Chicago Fire on a total of 24 league bets and five hits hoped for, but until the end did not want to stay with the team, his breakthrough as a professional football player. In the still young season 2011 Peter Lowry has already been used in two championship games (as of 22 April 2011).
Achievements
- U-16 National Champion: 2001
- 1x NSCAA All-American: 2002
- National Champion: 2003
- 4x in the All -League selection: 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004
- 1x League MVP: 2003
- Numerous other titles and honors
- All- WCC Freshman Team: 2004
- All- WCC Honorable Mention: 2004
- TDS Second Team National Team of the Season: 2005
- All- WCC Second Team: 2005
- Maryland adidas Classic All- Classic Team: 2005
- All- WCC Second Team: 2006
- All- Far West Region First Team: 2006
- All- WCC First Team: 2007
- WCC Player of the Year: 2007
- Brown adidas Classic All -Tournament Team: 2007
- M.A.C. Hermann Trophy semi-finalist: 2007
- NSCAA All- Far West Region First Team: 2007
- College Soccer News All- American First Team: 2007
- Lowe's Senior CLASS Award All- Senior All-America Second Team: 2007
- As well as numerous honors as a player of the week, the month, etc.