Jim Stamatis (born Kiriaki, Greece) is a retired U.S.-Greek soccer forward and the chief executive officer of The Louis Berger Group.
[1] After high school, he was recruited by many top colleges but elected to play at Penn State because of Coach Bahr's honesty that Stamatis would need to earn a place on the team.
The following year, Stamatis was selected as the 1979 winner of the Hermann Trophy, awarded annually to the most outstanding player in all of American college soccer.
Penn State also made it to the NCAA championship semifinals that year before losing to eventual winners SIU-E. His outstanding play with Penn State brought him to the attention of the national team and he was called up to the U-23 national team at the 1979 Pan American Games and for preparations for the 1980 Summer Olympics.
[1] Stamatis became a civil engineer for the Louis Berger Group and rose to the position of President and chief executive officer.