Luke Adams Named to Hermann Trophy Player to Watch List

ST. LOUIS – Saint Louis junior defender Luke Adams has been named to the United Soccer Coaches Hermann Trophy Player to Watch List for defenders.

The Hermann Trophy is offered yearly by the Missouri Athletic Club in downtown St. Louis and is taken into account essentially the most prestigious particular person honor in NCAA Division I males’s soccer. 

The Player to Watch Lists are compiled and launched by the Division I All-America Committees to advertise faculty soccer main as much as the official begin date for the common season later this month. The lists embody United Soccer Coaches All-Americans and All-Region choices from 2025 who’re scheduled to return for the 2026 season.

Adams transferred to Saint Louis from Tulsa and begins his first season with the Billikens this fall. Last season, he was named the American Conference Defender of the Year, earned first-team All-American Conference honors and was chosen second-team United Soccer Coaches All-Region.

A second-round choice (52nd total) by Charlotte FC within the 2026 MLS SuperDraft, Adams began all 28 matches he appeared in throughout his Tulsa profession. As a redshirt sophomore in 2025, he began all 13 matches, anchored one of many convention’s prime defensive items and scored the primary aim of his collegiate profession, a game-winning strike in a 1-0 victory over Temple.

During his redshirt freshman marketing campaign in 2024, Adams began all 15 contests and led all Tulsa discipline gamers with 1,350 minutes performed.

Saint Louis has produced 5 Hermann Trophy winners: Al Trost (1969, 1970), Mike Seerey (1971, 1972) and Dan Counce (1973). Matt McKeon was named the Missouri Athletic Club National Player of the Year in 1995 earlier than that award merged with the Hermann Trophy.