Connor Rutz (born April 9, 1997) is an American

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player who plays for Detroit City in the

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Career

Early career

Rutz played high school soccer at

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in 2016. Rutz scored five goals in 19 appearances in his single season with the Ocelots, before transferring to

Saginaw Valley State University Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) is a public university in University Center, Michigan in Saginaw County. It was founded in 1963 as Saginaw Valley College. It is located on in Saginaw County's Kochville Township, approximately north of ...

in 2017. With the Cardinals, Rutz scored 17 goals and tallied eight assists in 39 appearances, missing the entire 2018 season. In 2017, he was named All-GLIAC First Team midfielder, earned United Soccer Coaches First Team and D2CCA All-Midwest Region Second Team honors. In his senior year, Rutz was earned GLIAC Offensive Player of the Year and All-GLIAC First-Team honors, D2CCA All-Midwest Region Second-Team honors, was named to the United Soccer Coaches All-Midwest Region First-Team, and the United Soccer Coaches All-America Second-Team. In 2018 and 2019, Rutz also appeared for

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side

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, making 26 appearances and scoring three goals.

Detroit City

Rutz joined

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club

Detroit City FC Detroit City FC (DCFC) is an American professional soccer club based in Detroit, Michigan, that competes in the USL Championship. The club played in the National Premier Soccer League from 2012 to 2019 and the National Independent Soccer Associ ...

for their 2020 season, scoring two goals in seven games, helping the team to become the Great Lakes Region champions. He stayed with the club in 2021, where the team was Great Lakes Champions, regular season champions and won the Legends Cup. He continued with the team in 2022 as the club made the move to the

, helping the team make the playoffs in both the '22 and '23 seasons and being recognized as a "City Centurion", along with teammates Nate Steinwascher,

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, and captain

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. Ahead of the 2024 season, it was announced that Connor Rutz was resigning with DCFC.

Honors

Team

*Season Championship **Champions (2):

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*Fall Championship **Champions (1):

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*Legends Cup **Champions (1):

*NISA Independent Cup **Great Lakes Region ***Champions (2):

Individual

*NISA All-League first team:

References

External links

NISA bioSVSU bio
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rutz, Connor 1997 births Living people American men's soccer players Men's association football midfielders Cincinnati Dutch Lions players Detroit City FC players National Independent Soccer Association players People from Commerce, Michigan Soccer players from Oakland County, Michigan Saginaw Valley State Cardinals men's soccer players USL Championship players USL League Two players Soccer players from Michigan