Kyle Morton

HOW ACQUIRED: Signed for 2021 season with club options for 2022 and 2023 on Jan. 27, 2021

Morton spent 2020 with Saint Louis FC in the USL Championship and is a two-time finalist for USL Championship Goalkeeper of the Year. He spent time with Rochester and Pittsburgh before Saint Louis. 

OUTSIDE MLS: Morton was a finalist for the 2020 USL Championship Goalkeeper of the Year, his second appearance as a finalist for the award. The 6-4 goalkeeper finished with three clean sheets, and posted seven victories in 2020, while leading Saint Louis FC to the postseason in an abbreviated season and reached the Eastern Conference semifinals. He joined Saint Louis FC after two seasons with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC. He finished with 14 shutouts in 2019, tied for the most in the USL Championship and led the Riverhounds to the Eastern Conference semifinals in his last season with the club. Morton finished with three cleans sheets in the three games he started for Pittsburgh in 2018. Morton signed his first professional contract with the Rochester Rhinos in 2017. He previously also played with Reading United AC, Lehigh Valley United and the U-23 OKC Energy FC team in the Premier Development League from 2015-2016.

COLLEGE: Morton finished with 1.13 goals against average and 19 career shutouts at James Madison while earning Third Team All-CAA honors in his junior and senior seasons after developing in the Philadelphia Union youth system.