Logan Dorsey, senior forward at Kentucky from Evergreen, Colorado, ended his season with 14 goals and six assists while being named Sun Belt Conference Offensive Player of the Week twice.

Dorsey was also named to the All Sun Belt Conference First Team.

He boasts two career hat tricks against Coastal Carolina (5-0) and Georgia State (7-4) to end his senior season with the Wildcats.

The success he’s found at the collegiate level is hardly a surprise as Dorsey started playing soccer from a young age.

“Started playing soccer as long as I could remember,” he said. “Grew up playing with my dad as the coach, ended up moving to a team called Colorado Rush. Played in their academy and then eventually they lost their academy, so I played with the (Colorado) Rapids for my last four years of academy before I went to school.”

Ever since he started playing soccer, he had always played center forward, though he has recently been playing out wide and been able to get some crosses in.

“I liked playing out wide last year as a winger. I think it was beneficial to me to learn another position, especially because I’ve played center forward my whole life,” he said. “So, playing out wide as a winger, I think was great for me. I think I learned a lot from that. I like playing both positions. They’re both all good.”

Logan, at the age of 16, played in the USL Championship — on loan to maintain his amateur status — before he got recruited to play for Gonzaga. Dorsey was injured during the recruiting process, which was during COVID-19, but Gonzaga stayed committed to his ability to have him on the team while he was recovering.

“I mean, COVID alone was absolutely brutal for everyone, and having an injury on top of that, not being able to play the one thing I love, was detrimental,” he said. “Not only are you a freshman in college trying to get used to everything and your first time living alone away from your parents, but also having to get ankle surgery during preseason was absolutely brutal.”

In spite of that, Dorsey said the experience made him a stronger player.

“I learned a lot from that experience and, honestly, I would do it all again, because I knew how much I learned from going forward,” he said. “I think it was crucial to my development.”

Then, after two seasons with the Bulldogs, Dorsey transferred from Gonzaga to play for the Kentucky Wildcats for his junior and senior seasons.

Dorsey said he wanted to play at a higher professional level with players that wanted that same drive as him.

Surprisingly, moving teams and conferences wasn’t difficult, but there is always something that is different whether it’s playing style, coaching style and content chemistry with new teammates.

“I knew that this was a place that played against the best and had the best players, so I wanted to come here and take a shot at that,” Dorsey said. “Everything is a little different at the end of the day, it’s 11-versus-11 and you’re trying to win a game. It’s a lot more tactile, tactically structured here. Coaching styles I think are great at both places, (I have) the most respect for both coaches that I had in my college career. I think it’s more tactically challenging here, which I think is a good thing, because I think that translates more to the next.”

For his time at UK, Dorsey was awarded with many different honorable mentions. He has had five game winning goals and a successful penalty kick shot.

For Dorsey, being named Offensive Player of the Week twice was an honor for him.

“I think those last couple games when I got that award twice was when our front four kind of started clicking and started playing well together,” he said. “All the work we put in on the training fields and being able to score a good amount of goals as a group… when it came to game time, it was great. It was exactly what we were working for all year, so it was awesome.”

Dorsey, with his senior year complete, has the option of another year of college, though his ambitions are to return to the ranks of the pros.

“Getting drafted would be the ultimate dream,” he said. “If not, then finding a way to go Pro from there.”