Ray Goodlett is a retired American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

defender who spent one season in

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with

D.C. United D.C. United is an American professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. Domestically, the club has won four MLS Cups (league championships), four Supp ...

. Goodlett graduated from Sherwood High School. He attended

Howard University Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and accredited by the Mid ...

, playing on the men's soccer team from 1994 to 1997. On April 12, 1999, Goodlett signed with the

Hershey Wildcats Hershey Wildcats were a professional soccer team, based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, that played in the USL A-League between 1997 and 2001. The team was owned by Hershey Entertainment and Resorts Company. The team played in Hershey ...

of the

USL A-League The USL First Division (USL-1) was a professional men's soccer league in the second tier of the United States league system. It was organized by the United Soccer League as its premier league for men from 1996 to 2010, above the USL Second Di ...

. On July 25, 1999, he went on loan to

, but was an unused substitute. In 2000, Goodlett began the season with the Wildcats, but D.C. United signed him on July 12, 2000. He played four games that season. United waived Goodlett on May 4, 2001. On May 18, 2001, the

Richmond Kickers Richmond Kickers is an American professional soccer club based in Richmond, Virginia. The Kickers compete as a member of USL League One (USL1). The club was established in 1993, and began play that same year as a United States Interregional S ...

signed Goodlett. Following the 2003 season, Goodlett retired in order to attend

Fuller Theological Seminary Fuller Theological Seminary is an Evangelical seminary in Pasadena, California, with regional campuses in the western United States. It is egalitarian in nature. Fuller has a student body of approximately 2,300 students from 90 countries and ...

. He graduated in June 2004 and became the Director of Every Nation Campus Ministries at the University of Richmond. This led to his return to the Kickers, now playing in the

USL Second Division The USL Second Division (commonly referred to as USL-2) was a professional men's soccer league in the United States, operated by United Soccer Leagues (USL). It was at the third tier of soccer in the United States, behind Major League Soccer ...

, on March 21, 2006, for a single season. He is now a pastor at Redemption Hill Church. His wife, Heather, is the executive director of the Darrell Green Youth Life Foundation of Richmond.https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-goodlett-a67b983/ He is a cousin of Gregory Simmonds.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Goodlett, Ray Living people 1977 births American men's soccer players D.C. United players Hershey Wildcats players Howard Bison men's soccer players Major League Soccer players Richmond Kickers players A-League (1995–2004) players USL Second Division players Sportspeople from Olney, Maryland Soccer players from Montgomery County, Maryland Men's association football defenders