RailHawks Defender Tolleson Retires
February 8, 2010 - North American Soccer League (NASL)
North Carolina FC News Release
CARY, N.C. (Feb. 8, 2009) - Carolina RailHawks defender Jeremy Tolleson has retired from professional soccer in order to pursue mission work in Honduras.
Tolleson, 27, enjoyed three standout seasons of professional soccer, all three of them under Carolina RailHawks coach Martin Rennie.
"Since I've started coaching Jeremy - I had him with a PDL team in Oregon, a championship team in Cleveland and last year with the RailHawks - I hardly ever saw him play a bad game," Rennie said. "He is consistently a very good player you can always rely on. We'll definitely miss having him, but we wish him all the best and we're excited about what he's going on to do."
Tolleson enjoyed arguably his best season in 2009, his first with Carolina. Tolleson missed the RailHawks' first six matches while recovering from a preseason foot injury. But after making his debut on May 16, he played all but 38 minutes the remainder of the regular season. He was vital to a defense that finished the year with a league-leading 17 shutouts and a 0.63 goals against average.
In all competitions in 2009, Tolleson appeared in 31 matches for the RailHawks, logging 2,721 minutes and one assist. He was voted by his teammates as the RailHawks 2009 Defensive Player of the Year.
Prior to joining the RailHawks, Tolleson played two seasons for Rennie at the Cleveland City Stars. In 2007, Tolleson appeared in 19 matches and played 1,710 minutes, anchoring a defense that posted 10 shutouts and a 0.75 goals against average. In 2008, when Cleveland won the USL-2 championship, Tolleson appeared in all 20 City Stars matches and played 1,761 minutes for a defense that had 11 shutouts and a 0.95 goals against average.
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