University of California, Santa Barbara

UC SANTA BARBARA
2011: Played in four contests for theGauchos: wins over Seattle University (Aug. 27), Sacramento State(Sept. 25), and UC Davis (Oct. 8)…Suffered an injury thatlimited his playing time. 

2010: Redshirted his first season at UCSB.

UCLA
2009: Played in two games for the Bruins: againstUC Davis (Sept. 10) and UNLV (Sept. 27)...UCLA won the Pac-10title.

2008: Played in 14 games and recorded starts againstMaryland (Aug. 29) in the season-opener and at San Diego (Sept.25)...Recorded an assist in the 1-1 tie at San Diego...Played aseason-high 97 minutes against Maryland...UCLA won the Pac-10title.

NATIONAL/CLUB
Played club soccer for Real SoCal for four years and won twoconsecutive national titles...Was a member of the Region IV ODPteam for four years and traveled to Argentina and Italy with theteam...Also played for the Cal South State ODP team for fouryears.

HIGH SCHOOL
Was a three-year letterwinner at Santa Barbara High School undercoach Todd Heil...Led his team to three Channel League titles andearned First Team All-CIF honors as a junior.

PERSONAL
Christian Elias Vazquez was born on August 14, 1990 in SantaBarbara, Calif....Parents are Jose Elias and Noemi Vazquez...Has anolder sister, Jacqueline...Is majoring in sociology atUCSB...Aspires to one day play professional soccer and pursue acareer as a sports psychologist...When he is not playing soccer heis usually studying...Says he can't do without his car...Before agame he listens to music...Can best be described as "calm andcollected"...Names winning consecutive national championships withReal SoCal as his most memorable sporting moments...Is fluent inseveral languages...He would love to play with Xavi Hernandez ofBarcelona FC, which is his favorite sports team...His favoriteathlete is Kobe Bryant...Names "Original Kings of Comedy" as hisfavorite movie while "Family Guy" is his favorite show..."GreatExpectations" is his favorite book.

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