2025 Men's Soccer Roster
Roster
Tarun Karumanchi
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Height:
- 5-11
- Weight:
- 150
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- San Ramon, Calif.
Career Highlights
2025 All-Big Ten Academic Honors
UCLA Director's Honor Roll 9 Times
2025 Big Ten Tournament Champion
2024 Fall Academic All-Big Ten
2023 Pac-12 Regular Season Champion
2025
Appeared in and started all 19 matches as a senior, and wore the captains armband all season … Played primarily as a holding midfielder throughout the season … Recorded the most minutes on the team with 1,699 minutes played … Played the full 90 minutes in 16 games and at least 75 minutes in three games … Recorded an assist against Michigan in the Big Ten Championship game … Earned All-Big Ten Academic Honors … Had three shots, two against Northwestern … Helped the Bruins earn their first Big Ten Championship Title by leading the backline to shutouts over No. 1 in the nation Maryland in the Big Ten semifinal before recording another shutout against Michigan in the final.
2024
Appeared in 19 matches as a junior, starting 18 … Played primarily in a holding midfield role during the season … Played a total of 1,454 minutes, the fourth most minutes on the team … Played at least 80 minutes 12 times, and played 90 or more minutes eight times … Helped lead the backline to seven shutouts, including six against ranked opposition No. 11 LM (2-0), No. 18 James Madison (0-0), No. 8 Portland (2-0), No. 3 Denver (0-0) at No. 14 Northwestern (1-0), vs. RV Maryland (6-0) … Had 10 shots on the year with four coming on frame.
2023
Appeared in a then career-high 18 games as a sophomore, starting 16 … Tallied one assist on the season while primarily playing in a holding midfield role … Of the 18 games he appeared in he played at least 80 minutes seven times and completed the full 90 minutes five times … Had four shots on the year, with all four coming on frame including a season-high three shots on goal in the opening day 4-1 win over Virginia Tech … His lone assist of the campaign came in a 4-2 win at Washington in which he assisted Sebastian Rincon’s strike … Contributed to five Bruins’ shutouts over the course of the season against Rutgers, at UC Irvine, Washington, at Oregon State and at San Diego State … Helped the Bruins to a Pac-12 conference title for the first time since 2012.
2022
Appeared in 11 games as a true freshman, starting seven … Was an opening day starter for UCLA in a holding midfield role, but missed time after suffering an injury at Portland on Sept. 10 … Made his NCAA debut on Aug. 25 against UC Irvine, playing the full 90 and helping the Bruins keep a clean sheet in a 1-0 win … Recorded one assist, helping set up Jose Contell’s 81st minute game-winner against Virginia Tech on Aug. 28 … Played 344 of 360 possible minutes over the first four games of the season … Contributed to four UCLA shutouts … Named to TopDrawerSoccer's Preseason Freshman Best XI ... Enrolled at UCLA in spring, making the UCLA Director's Roll for that quarter (3.0+ GPA, 12+ units passed).
High School/Club
Played club soccer with the San Jose Earthquakes Academy ... Played for San Jose's U-23 squad and was also part of an elite group of former academy player to train with the Earthquakes' first team ... Called up to the USYNT U-20 team for their training camp in Carson in Apr. 2022.
