Mike Giffin Class: Senior Hometown: St. Charles, Ill. High School: Burlington Central Last College: New Mexico Height / Weight: 6-1 / 170 Position: Back Club Team: Sockers FC Chicago

2006 HORIZON LEAGUE ALL-NEWCOMER TEAM

2007: One of just two players to start in all 25 of UIC's matches...recorded a single-season best seven points with two goals and three assists...scored the equalizer in the second half of the NCAA quarterfinal contest at UMass on Dec. 9...tabbed a pair of assists in UIC's Horizon League Tournament title game win over Green Bay on Nov. 18...scored his first goal in a UIC kit and tallied an assist at Florida Gulf Coast on Sept. 23...member of UIC backline that recorded school record 14 shutouts and finished tops in the Horizon League and 10th in the nation in goals-against average (0.60).

2006: Horizon League All-Newcomer Team honoree...appeared in 20 matches...part of the nation's top-rated defense, which surrendered just eight goals on the year for an NCAA-best 0.36 GAA and turned in a school-record 13 shutouts...tallied three points on the year with a trio of assists...tabbed the assist on Eric Cervantes' game-winning goal in the 90th minute at then-No. 7 UC Santa Barbara on Sept. 8...credited with the assist on the game-winning goal sent in by Tonci Skroce in the Flames' victory at then-No. 25 Saint Louis on Aug. 26...served in the corner kick that was re-directed into the back of the net by Cesar Zambrano for UIC's first goal in its NCAA Tournament win over Western Illinois on Nov. 11.

Prior to UIC: Played one season at 2005 NCAA College Cup runner-up New Mexico...appeared in seven matches, starting two for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation champion Lobos.

Prep/Personal: Lettered as a midfielder on the varsity soccer team during his freshman and sophomore years at Burlington Central...earned all-conference and all-area accolades both seasons...played on the club level for Sockers FC Chicago under coach Dave Richardson for four years...member of the Sockers Top Talent program as a junior and senior...won seven state championships while with Sockers FC...also part of a Jefferson Cup title-winning team (2004) and a Dallas Cup Super Group championship (2005)...played on the Illinois State Select ODP team from 2000-2004...born December 14, 1986...son of Kenneth and Debbie Peterson...majoring in industrial design.

                        GP    G    A  Pts Shots Shot%  SOG  SOG%  GW
  2006................  20    0    3    3    13  .000    3  .231   0
  2007................  25    2    3    7    32  .062   10  .312   0
  TOTAL...............  45    2    6   10    45  .044   13  .289   0