2024:
- All-Ivy Honorable Mention
- United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-Region
- Started 15 games, tallying 59 saves
- Recorded three wins and one shutout
- Tallied a career-high 10 saves against Rutgers (Sept. 17)
2023:
- All-Ivy League Second Team selection.
- Started all 20 games, tallying 54 saves.
- Recorded 11 wins and eight shutouts.
- Tallied a career-high eight saves against UConn (Sept. 8).
2022:
- Made two saves and posted first career shutout in victory over UMass Lowell.
2021:
- First career start came against University of New Hampshire.
2020: Season canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic
High School: Played two years of soccer at Fort Worth Country Day School… Two-time all-conference selection… 2017-18 boys soccer MVP… Also ran track, swam and played football… Holds the swimming 50 freestyle school record… Part of the 4x200 track relay school record… Earned all-conference recognition in football… Recipient of school’s Bill Curtis Award for best junior athlete… Captain of football team as senior.
Club: Played for Solar Soccer Club, which won U17 DA championship and was awarded the Golden Glove as the best Goalkeeper in the playoffs… Helped club finish third in the U16 USYS national championship… U16 USYS National League champion.
ODP: Played ODP in sixth and eighth grade.
Personal: Son of Quincy Edwards and Rachel Wittich… Volunteer at Wedgwood Academy, a small private school for children with learning disabilities… Hobby is ceramics, has made coffee mugs for his grandparents and has given hand-made to his family as Christmas presents.
3 QUESTIONS FOR EDWARDS
Biggest soccer influence? “Tim Howard. When I was younger, I didn’t really know who he was. I made some really good saves in a game and someone was like `oh you’re like Tim Howard.’ From that point on I loved watching him play goalkeeper and loved watching what he did.”
Do you have an idol or hero? “My parents. They work so hard to provide for me everything that I need. They give and expect nothing in return, they never complain.”
Why Yale? “Yale is such an amazing opportunity. When I got on campus and met the coaches and the guys, I felt at home. It was just an amazing fit for me to allow myself to better myself athletically and academically because soccer is not forever but getting a degree from Yale is.”
Stannard on Edwards: “Chris is one of the most positive young men I’ve ever met and constantly radiates joy and happiness which makes us all better. He’s also a natural competitor and excels in four different sports…soccer, track, swimming, and as a wide receiver and defensive back on his high school football team. He helped lead his team to a USSDA National Championship during his junior year and he’s only just scratched the surface with his soccer potential.
“Chris is immediately going to make our goalkeeping core better and will push Elian and Tom every day which is just going to improve everyone. He will have great mentors to learn from with Elian and Tom and great coaching from Coach Schmid. His raw potential is off the charts and once he dedicates himself to learning the intricacies of the position, he not only has the potential to be a starting GK at Yale, but he can be one of the best in the country.”
