Casper Svendby

Position:
Defender
Height:
5-10
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Drammen, Norway
High School:
Drammen Videregaende Skole

Career Highlights
2024 ACC Defensive Player of the Year
2024 MAC Hermann Semifinalist
2024 First Team All-American
2024 First Team All-ACC

2024: Tabbed ACC Defensive Player of the Year and a MAC Hermann semifinalist, while garnering First Team All-American and First Team All-ACC accolades … Anchored the Panthers’ back line to seven clean sheets and a 0.90 GAA … Appeared in 19 matches, including 17 starts … Tallied 1518 minutes … Registered three goals and four assists for 10 points … Logged a .467 SOG% … Netted two game-winning-goals.

2023 (at Dayton): Appeared in all 20 matches and earned 19 starts on defense for the Flyers… Received Ohio State Wolstein Classic All-Tournament Team honors after his strong play against UC Davis (8/24) and CSUN (8/27)… Finished the season with one goal, three assists and five points while ranking fifth on the team with 1,741 minutes played… Netted his lone goal of the season in the NCAA Tournament First Round against Louisville (11/16)… Recorded an assist in games against IUPUI (9/1), Rhode Island (9/16) and George Mason (10/14)… Posted a season-high four shots in the 1-0 win over St. Bonaventure (9/30).

2022 (at Dayton): Appeared and started in all 17 games during his freshman season… Earned A-10 All-Rookie Team honors… Finished the season with two goals, three assists and seven points on 15 shots… Scored the first goal of his career in his first game against Cal Poly (8/25)… Notched his first career assist in the win over St. Thomas (9/2)… Scored and had three shots in the win over Kansas City (9/10)… Named to the Ohio State Wolstein Classic All-Tournament Team after his strong play against Cal Poly (8/25) and South Carolina (8/28)… Was No. 66 in the Top Drawer Soccer Postseason Freshman Top-100 List.

High School: Graduated from Drammen Videregaende Skole in Norway where he played as a defender… Appeared for Strømsgodset first team in a Norwegian Cup match and was on the bench for several matches in the top division in Norway while featuring regularly for the reserves and the Norway under 19s.

Personal: Son of Ole Eivind Svendby and Lisa Bottolfs… Has two siblings, Lykke and Lilje… Lists his favorite athletes as Trent Alexander-Arnold and Usain Bolt… His favorite movie of all-time is Good Will Hunting… Majoring in finance at Pitt.