Eastern Connecticut State University

Jason W. Brasher was a prolific scorer and playmaker who today stands as one of only four players in the program’s 50-year history to have totalled as many as 100 career points. Brasher led or shared the team lead in goals and points in each of his final three seasons, with the forward/midfielder netting career-highs of 17 goals and 41 points as a senior that brought his 79-game career total to 105 points. The 5-foot-11 inch, 150 pound Rowayton native, who missed only one match in his career, either scored or assisted on nearly 40 percent of the team’s 173 goals in four years.  As a senior, the second-year captain repeated as a selection to the New England All-Star Game, was named second-team All-New England by the National Soccer Coaches’ Association of America, Player-of-the-Year by the Little East Conference as its runaway scoring champion, repeated as a first-team all-conference selection, was second in the state in scoring, and was voted team MVP. After the team went winless in conference play in 1990, the Warriors were unbeaten in Brasher’s final season and shared first place in the conference.  The final week of Brasher’s career was memorable. In his final conference game, he contributed to all four goals by scoring two and assisting on two when the Warriors routed UMass Boston to clinch a share of the regular-season conference title. He reached and exceeded the 100-point plateau in that game with his second goal. In the final match of his career four days later, he scored the only goal with a 20-yard blast that capped a season-ending four-game winning streak and propelled the team to the .500 mark. In those final four matches, Brasher contributed to seven of the team’s ten goals by scoring five and assisting on two.