Wisconsin Soccer Central

Marquette senior goalkeeper Charlie Lyon was selected by the Seattle Sounders in the fourth round of the Major League Soccer SuperDraft on Tuesday, marking the first time that two Golden Eagles players have been drafted in the same year.

Lyon was chosen No. 75 overall by the Sounders, who return starting keeper Stefan Frei and signed MLS veteran Troy Perkins as a backup earlier this month.

Seattle will operate a reserve team, called Seattle Sounders 2, in the third-tier USL PRO for the first time this season. The Sounders drafted Northwestern keeper Tyler Miller with the No. 33 overall choice in the second round last Thursday, but he reportedly signed with German fourth-division club SVN Zweibrücken.

The 22-year-old Lyon was a standout for Marquette over the past three seasons, playing every minute in goal. He established program records with 29 career shutouts, a 0.83 goals-against average and an .811 save percentage over his 63 appearances (61 starts).

Last season, Lyon put together a scoreless streak of 804 minutes, 58 seconds, also a school record and the 10th-longest such streak in NCAA Division I history. He finished the year with a 0.74 goals-against average and nine clean sheets.

The Illinois native also excelled in the classroom, recording a 3.887 grade-point average in biomedical sciences. He was a second-team selection on the Senior CLASS All-American team – also on that team was West Virginia forward Andy Bevin, whom the Sounders chose with the No. 80 pick in the final round of the draft Tuesday.

"Charlie Lyon is another excellent goalkeeper who can fit our needs moving forward, and Andy Bevin is a player who had a very productive career at West Virginia," Sounders coach Sigi Schmid said in a news release. "We look forward to them coming into camp and seeing what they can do."

Lyon is the fourth Marquette player drafted by an MLS team: midfielder Calum Mallace was taken by the Montreal Impact in the second round in 2012, the Chicago Fire picked midfielder Bryan Ciesiulka in the fourth round last year and defender Axel Sjoberg was a first-round pick by the Colorado Rapids on Thursday.

"We are extremely proud to have two players drafted in one year and it's a real benchmark for our program," Golden Eagles coach Louis Bennett said in a news release.

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Editor's note: This article has been edited from its original version to reflect information that became available after posting.