Yuri Lavrynenko
Ukrainian footballer
Yuriy Lavrynenko is a Ukrainian retired association football midfielder who played professionally in the USL First Division and Major League Soccer. Lavrynenko is currently the associate head coach for the RIT Tigers men's team.
Player
Youth
Lavrynenko began playing in the Dynamo Kyiv youth system when he was seven. In 1991, Lavrynenko's youth team played in a tournament in Rochester, New York. Several players were invited to move to Rochester. In 1992, Lavrynenko took the offer and moved to Chili, New York. During his four years attending Gates-Chili High School, he was an All State soccer player on a team which was the 1995 New York high school co-champion. Lavrynenko attended Indiana University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1996 to 1999. In both 1998 and 1999, Lavrynenko scored the game-winning goal as the Hoosiers took back to back NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championships. He was a 1999 NCAA All American.
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