Zenon Snylyk (Ukrainian: Зенон Снилик, November 14, 1933 in Putyatyntsi, now Ukraine – January 21, 2002 in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey) was a former Ukrainian-American soccer player.

He played for numerous ethnic Ukrainian amateur and professional clubs in both the U.S. and Canada over a twenty-year career.

[1] Although he was born in Putyatyntsi, Snylyk's family moved to the city of Lviv, where they lived until World War II.

After the war, the Snylyk family fled to Mittenwald, West Germany, where they lived in a displaced persons camp from 1945 to 1949.

While there, Snylyk attended a Ukrainian secondary school and played several sports, becoming noted for his skill at table tennis.

Snylyk graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1955 and was inducted into the University of Rochester Hall of Fame in 2005.

After graduating from Chicago, he taught political science at McGill University in Montreal, Canada in the 1959–1960 school year.

[2] Over the years, he played for multiple teams, at time traveling by plane to make games in both Canada and the United States.

In 1964, Snylyk was called into his third consecutive Olympic soccer team, but again the U.S. failed to qualify for the tournament with a 1–2 record in qualifications.

This allowed them to play both in full internationals and in the Olympics and Pan American Games which were fully amateur at the time.

He played the game, then drove, along with his teammates, to the church where he married Yara Matura, a native of Chicago.

Zenon had no size or strength, but skills and speed of thought would compensate for duels and tackles other players would get into.