Missouri State men’s soccer standout Justin Douglass has been invited to participate in the 2007 adidas Major League Soccer Player Combine, which will take place Jan. 5-8, 2007, at Lockhart Stadium in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Douglass is an addition to the initial list of 58 college senior invitees announced on Nov. 29, and becomes the seventh player from the Missouri State program to be invited to the MLS combine.

Douglass earned First Team All-MVC honors for the second consecutive season and was named to the NSCAA/adidas All-Midwest Region Second Team in 2006. The senior from Spring, Texas, started all 19 matches for Missouri State this season and tallied 69 starts in his career. The Strake Jesuit High grad scored three goals and added three assists on offense and anchored the Bears’ backline on defense, which helped record seven shutouts. Douglass was also named to the 2006 MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team for the second-consecutive season and was named the MVC Scholar-Athlete of the Week on Sept. 13. Last season as a junior, Douglass was named a Second Team NSCAA/Adidas Men’s Scholar All-American and Third Team CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American, as he became only the second player in school history to earn both awards. Douglass maintains a 3.18 grade-point average in cell and molecular biology.

The combine will be scouted by the coaching staffs and general managers from all 13 MLS teams, which concludes four days before the 2007 MLS SuperDraft. The 2007 MLS SuperDraft will be held on Friday, Jan. 12, 2007 in Indianapolis, Ind., in conjunction with the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Convention.

Missouri State finished the season with an 8-8-3 record, which included a 3-2-1 MVC mark, and ended with a 3-1 loss to Eastern Illinois in the quarterfinals of the State Farm MVC Tournament.