By now, you should be more than familiar with our series of regularly updating leaderboards for various Marquette Golden Eagles sports accomplishments. Keep checking back to that link in the previous sentence for our charts as the seasons continue to churn through history and MU’s various teams continue to create new memories and accomplishments.
This time around, we’re going to look at the all-time leaders in goals for Marquette men’s soccer.
Let’s be clear before we get too into this: Jose Itarte
and Hayden Knight both scored 52 goals in their collegiate careers, and that record is probably never being broken. Knight set the record in 1979 and Itarte tied it in 1985. One year later, Tom Comiskey reached 38 goals, and since then, no one else has come closer than 35.
Chris Lee (35 goals) and C. Nortey (30 goals) are the only two men to break into the top six since the turn of the century. It seems that lower scoring games is just part of the nature of college soccer at this point, so barring an absurdly amazing player willing to spend four years at Marquette, I don’t think anyone is ever going to clear 40 goals ever again, much less 50.
Take Lukas Sunesson for example. Because of the pandemic, he got a fifth season of eligibility and the three-time all-Big East honoree added seven goals to his total….. to get to 27 and tie for the 10th most goals in Marquette history. Five seasons, tied for the fourth most matches played in MU history….. only got about halfway to the goals record.
Beyond the part where perhaps the trendline of men’s college soccer in general is perhaps putting this record out of reach, we have to acknowledge the current realities of Marquette’s team. In David Korn’s first two seasons in charge, the Golden Eagles have scored just 21 and 25 goals as a team. That’s not even 1.6 goals per match in either year, so until which point Marquette starts scoring goals in bunches — MU had 36 in the season when Sunesson had a career high seven goals — it’s going to be very hard to get anyone to even challenge for 30 goals in a Marquette career.
Here’s what the chart looks like at the end of the 2025 season.
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