Jon Busch

2012: MLS: Played 90 minutes and earned the shutout in a 1-0 home win over NE on 3/10 … Played 90 minutes vs. HOU on 3/17 and became just the second player on the current Quakes roster to make his 200th MLS appearance, joining team captain Ramiro Corrales in the 200 Club … Kept his second shutout of 2012 in the 3-0 win at TFC on 3/24, needing to make just one save in drawing start No. 200 for his MLS career … Third shutout came at SEA on 3/31 with a season-high five saves, after which he was nominated for Save of the Week: Week 4 … Played 90 minutes vs. VAN on 4/7, making five more saves … Played 90 minutes at NY on 4/14, vs. RSL on 4/21 and at PHI on 4/28, called upon for four saves combined … Played 90 minutes vs. DC on 5/2, making four saves, including a sprawling reflex stop to his right on a 35th-minute bicycle-kick effort from Dwayne De Rosario which earned him a second Save of the Week nomination … Played 90 minutes at VAN on 5/5, vs. CHV on 5/13, vs. CLB on 5/19, at LA on 5/23 and at SKC on 5/27 … Missed first match of season on 6/20 at COL due to suspension … Played 90 minutes at RSL on 6/23, recording five saves … Started and played 45 minutes vs. LA on 6/30, making one save before leaving with a left corneal abrasion at halftime … DNP at POR due to left corneal abrasion … Posted fourth shutout of season at FCD on 7/7 … Earned fifth shutout of year on 7/14 vs. RSL … Started and played 90 minutes vs. FCD on 7/18, at VAN 7/22 … Started and played 90 minutes vs. CHI on 7/28, making 6 saves … Started and played 90 minutes vs. SEA on 8/11, at MTL on 8/18 … Started and played 90 minutes vs. COL on 8/25, making 3 saves … Started and played 90 minutes on 9/2 vs. CHV, recording a clean sheet … Started and played 90 minutes at CHV on 9/15, recording 2 saves …Started and played 90 minutes vs. POR on 9/19 … Started and played 90 minutes on 9/23 at SEA, vs. FCD on 9/29 at COL on 10/6, vs. LA on 10/21, at POR on 10/27 … MLS Cup Playoffs: Started and played 90 minutes against LA in the second leg of the Western Conference Semifinals on 11/1, recorded two saves … Started and played 90 minutes on 11/4 at LA in the first leg of the Western Conference Semifinals …Open Cup: On bench but DNP vs. SEA on 6/26 … Exhibition: --.

2011: MLS:  Named team’s Defensive Player of the Year … Led the league in saves with 113 … Played in the most games and most minutes in a single season of any player in club history with 33 games and 2,970 minutes … Played 90 minutes in every match, except at NE on 10/8 … Recorded shutouts at DAL on 3/26, vs. CLB on 5/14, vs. NE on 5/21, vs. LA on 6/25, vs. PHI on 7/9, and vs. CHI on 9/10 … Received a yellow card vs. NY on 7/2 … Exhibition: -- … Open Cup: --.

2010: MLS: Signed with the Earthquakes on 3/30 … Made his San Jose debut at RSL on 6/25 and recorded a shutout … Named Earthquakes Defensive MVP … Made 18 appearances, all starts … Made 81 saves and posted a 1.06 goals-against average … Posted seven shutouts vs. LA on 8/21, vs. FCD on 9/11, vs. PHI on 9/15, at CLB on 10/2, at DC on 10/9 and vs. CHV on 10/20 … Exhibition: Shut out CHV on 6/12 and saved penalty from Dan Kennedy to help SJ win the Sacramento Cup on penalties … Played 45 minutes vs. Tottenham Hotspur on 7/17 … Open Cup: Made Earthquakes debut vs. RSL on 4/14 and played 120 minutes … MLS Cup Playoffs: Made six saves vs. NY on 10/30 … Made three saves and earned the win at NY on 11/4 … Made five saves at COL on 11/13.

2009: MLS: Only Fire player to start and play 90 minutes in every MLS game … Made 103 saves on 136 shots faced … Shares a Fire single-season shutout record of 10 shutouts with Matt Pickens in 2007 … Recorded shutouts vs. NY on 4/5, at TFC on 5/16, at NY on 5/24, vs. COL on 7/11, vs. CLB on 7/18, at SEA on 7/25, vs. RSL on 8/1, at KC on 8/16, at NE on 10/17, and vs. CHV on 10/22.

2008: MLS: Named 2008 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year … 2008 Fire MVP … Started and played 90 minutes in every game … Second-best goals-against average with 1.1, allowing 33 goals in 30 games … Tied for a league-best 10 shutouts … Made 122 saves on 156 shots faced for the league’s best save percentage with 78.2 percent … Saved a penalty kick vs. TOR on 10/18 … Recorded shutouts at DC on 5/8, vs. NE on 4/3, at SJ on 4/12, at NE on 5/3, vs. SJ on 6/28, vs. RSL on 7/19, at KC on 7/27, vs. CHV on 8/2, at LA on 8/22, and vs. NY on 9/6 … Exhibition: Played first 45 minutes vs. Everton in 2-0 win … Open Cup: Played 120 minutes at DC in 2-1 USOC quarterfinal loss on 7/8 … Played 120 minutes vs. CLB in 3-2 USOC win on 6/10 … MLS Cup Playoffs: Posted shutouts in both games against NE in the Eastern Conference Final.

2007: MLS: Started and played 90 minutes in three first team matches … Made 2007 debut in 2-0 loss at LA on 7/4 … Exhibition: Recorded a 1-0 shutout in first team debut vs. Cracovia in an international friendly on 6/22 … Reserves: Started and played in 11 matches … Posted a goals-against average of 1.53 and record of 2-6-3.

2006: MLS: Started and played eight games with Columbus … Posted a 3-3-2 record with a 1.13 goals-against average and three shutouts … Suffered knee injury vs. DC on 5/26 … Open Cup: DNP … Reserves: DNP.

2005: MLS: Started and played nine games with Columbus … Posted a 3-5-1 record with a 1.65 GAA and three shutouts … MLS Player of the Week for week ending on 4/18 … Crew’s US Soccer Federation Humanitarian of the Year honoree … Tore his right ACL at LA on 5/25.

2004: MLS: Started 29 games … Posted a 12-5-12 record with a 1.07 GAA and 10 shutouts … Eastern Conference All-Star … Set an MLS record for catches/punches in a game with 16 at DAL on 7/10 … MLS Player of the Month for September … Open Cup: Started both games, a 2-1 win over Syracuse on 6/30 and a 2-1 OT loss to Chicago on 7/20 … MLS Cup Playoffs: Started both matches of Eastern Conference Semifinal Series vs. NE, going 0-1-1 with a 1.00 GAA.

2003: MLS: Started 24 games … Posted a 9-8-6 record with a 1.44 GAA and four shutouts … Missed five games with a severely sprained ankle injury at SJ on 6/21 … CONCACAF Champions Cup: Started three of the four matches … Posted a 1-2-0 record with a 2.67 GAA and one shutout … Defeated Deportivo Arabe Unido 3-0 on 3/23.

2002: MLS: Started 13 of 14 matches … Posted a 8-3-2 record with a 1.09 GAA and five shutouts … Defender of the Year award … Second in the league in GAA … Made his MLS debut vs. NE on 4/20 … Earned a shutout in his first MLS start in a 1-0 win over DC on 4/27 … Saved two penalty kicks, at NY on 7/31 and vs. CHI on 9/14 … Exhibition: Played 90 minutes in 7-2 win over FC Nurnberg on 5/15 … Open Cup: Played every minute in the Crew’s run to the Open Cup title … Posted a 4-0 record with a 0.71 GAA and two shutouts … MLS Cup Playoffs: Played every minute of five matches … Posted a 2-1-2 record with a 0.96 GAA as the Crew advanced to the MLS Cup Semifinals … Earned his first MLS postseason shutout in semifinal Game 1 at NE on 10/6.

Other Professional Experience: Spent five seasons in the A-League, from 1997-2001 … 2001: Led the Hershey Wildcats to the A-League National Championship match which resulted in a 2-0 loss to Rochester … Named A-League Goalkeeper of the Year and was selected the Division II circuit’s first-team All-League keeper … Posted a 14-7-2 record with a 0.60 GAA and 13 shutouts … Made the A-League Team of the Week twice … Posted a 3-1 record in the playoffs, allowing only two goals in the final after three successive shutouts … 2000: Finished his final season with Hampton Roads with a 0.94 GAA in 14 games … 1999: Posted a 13-10-0 record with a 1.38 GAA … Named team MVP … A-League Team of the Week once … 1998: Posted a 15-12-0 record with eight shutouts … A-League Team of the Week once … 1997: Rookie professional season was split between the Worcester Wildfire and the Carolina Dynamo of the A-League, after being drafted No. 2 overall by the Nashville Metros in the first round of the 1997 A-League draft.

International: Earned his first cap with the U.S. Men’s National Team in 2005 on 3/9, shutting out Colombia, 3-0, in a friendly in Fullerton, Calif. … Trained with the U.S. MNT in the first camp of 2009 … Named to the 18-man roster for U.S. MNT friendly against Sweden but DNP … Represented the U.S. at the U-17 and U-20 levels … Played in the 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Japan, helping the U.S. to a quarterfinal appearance and a 1-2-1 record at the event.

College: Attended the University of North Carolina-Charlotte … Played three seasons for the 49ers from 1994-96, leading them to the program’s first NCAA Men’s College Cup in 1996, where they fell in the National Semifinals … NSCAA First Team All-America selection in 1996.

Personal: The son of Madeline and Robert Busch … His father is a Lutheran Pastor … Has an older brother, Matthew, and a younger sister, Jaime … Obtained his “B” coaching license in 2008 … Avid hockey fan of the New York Rangers … Married to Nikki Busch.